I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony and i would like to welcome the second panel of witnesses before the committee. First we have ms. Botts, executive director for agriculture and rule of element, position which she was named in 2013, she has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual sentors i would imagine. She pent ten years working in agriculture at federal level as policy staffer in the house of representatives. She grew up in a farm in kentucky. We see her ms and currently live on a small farm with husband and two children. We look forward to your testimony. General manager, kansas america, he is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career who has spent five decades has been focused to ensure all of kansas Rural Communities have access to affordable water. Critical
He talked about the Legal Marijuana and Recreational Use and jobs, education and health care. [ applause ] thank you and good morning. It is great to be back in the peoples state capital. To the four members walking in, i offer you my sympathy. Just kidding. Luckily for you and all of us who will have the leadership of morgan carol and House Speaker and Senate Minority leader and House Minority leader. Another veteran hand [ applause ] another veteran hand is our great Lieutenant Governor joe garcia. Thanks to joe and his wife claire for sharing so much of his time. We are honored to have the Vice President of the southern indian tribe. [ applause ] and the vice chairman of the mountain youth trial. Welcome to you both. I want to thank you awesome cabinet and senior staff who are with us and along with all of the state employees who have worked so hard. Especially this year. Thanks to everyone who has been dedicated to the flood efforts, the Florida National guard, department of transp
Best call and to say this ase Information Service or this is a Telecommunications Service and then say okay under the congress rules here is what applies to it. And there is something to me that says well, we didnt get to you the thing that we want by giving our best shot and applying the statute in the first time. So in order to get into the Regulatory Authority that we want to be in, we are going to change our mind. It seems to be the exact kind of outcome oriented Decision Making that the components of the Net Neutrality would get aggravated about and very angry about as if it were pursued in the pursuit of some of their ends. So im very reluctant to promote or to account the regime in which the fcc to fit into the scheme. Lets see the fcc were to do this and i have to agree with mark that we like it to need it least one last comment. The issues in the order lets say the best case is the last third or fourth quarter. I dont think that this would be a good case. That would lead to a
Robert 20012011 and mcdowell served 2006 until just this year, 2013. And both have appeared on cspans Communicators Program on a regular basis. This weekend, current fcc. Ommissioner senior republican heres what he had to say about the decision on the open internet rules. [video clip] to be sure, there are some who argue there should be invested back to the future solution to internet regulation. That and looking at this innovative dynamic, broadband industry, we should apply the outdated, in my opinion, 19thcentury Railroad Style regulation. But i think the key for us if we really want to incentivize broadband deployment and greater investment in broadband infrastructure is to have an approach that leaves behind a heavyhanded economic regulations of the pass and recognizes the marketplace for what it is today, which is one of intramodal competition, telephone companies, cable, satellite, wireless and other Companies Competing to provide the same service. If we do that, i am confident