Entry. So you did not tested prior to october 1 . No, sir. Again that hearing you can see in its entirety tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. And yesterday the house energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and Technology Held a hearing on wired communications and internet protocolbased networks. Some of the topics discussed include the telecommunication laws surrounding those networks as well as the impact of Communications Advancements on consumers and businesses. This is a little more than two hours. [inaudible conversations] we will call the subcommitsubcommit tee on communications and technology to order and begin our hearing on the evolution of wired Communications Networks. Wired Communications Networks have come a long way since the days of the telegraph or the rotary phone. It is getting harder and harder to remember at a time when you wanted to reach out and touch someone ma bell twisted copper wires were the only option. Todays consumers have so many more optio
We will continue to update you as more details become available. The senate is out this week so on cspan2 we are going to bring live coverage of a number of events including a house hearing at 10 30 that examines the future of why your Communication Networks and how Technological Advancements could impact consumers and businesses. Host host welcome back. We are joined by congressman joe barton, a republican member of the house energy and commerce committee. Thank you for joining us. Later this week the committee will have the first hearing on the web site healthcare. Gov. Tell us what are your biggest questions . Guest my biggest question is why they put that much money into something that flat out doesnt work. Theres been lots of socalled which is over the years and other web sites in the private sector, but weve never had a website that almost no one gets through the first time without any problems. So we have the contractors this their stay and the next thursday the secretary Kathle
And foreclose shures were mounting. When president came into office our economy was shrinking at an. 3 annual rate. The American People fought their way back from the brink. Cause of our nations resill resilience, we have seen our deficit shrink. Businesses have added more than two million jobs over the last year alone. Manufacturing has expanded while to Housing Market continues improve. At the same time our deficits are half what they were a few years ago. Even though progress has been made, our economy is not erforming at full steam. The pace of growth in hiring has ot been consistent enough, and the Government Shutdown and the debt ceiling impasse were examples of that brinksmanship. A manufactured crisis, but a crisis nonetheless. Even though we do not know the full exfent of the damage, we know it slowed Economic Growth and job creation in this quarter. What we should learn from this searing experience is that washington politics should not hurt workers and our economy nor be use
Important because it is about more than just handing out dollars and vests. It ensures all vests are compliant with National Institute of justice safety standards. Only the federal government has the resources to do that level of analytical work. Its no more reasonable for us to expect every state to have their own National Institutes of health to do Cancer Research or for every state to have a National Institute of highway traffic safety. Having one coordinated National Program to ensure that these bulletproof vests are as effective as possible as saving the lives of the men and women of Law Enforcement just makes sense. In my view, the denial of a federal role where it is necessary and efficient would take us back to the articles of confederation, a very cramped nairnd roand narrow view of ours government. The truth is plain. Without this program, we leave Police Officers without lifesaving vests in the line of fire, in the line of duty. And for us to fail to stand up for them when t
Do they enroll their children in the school where they are now or assume theyll be confirmed by then and look at enrolling them in the country in which theyll be serving . Why are we putting people who are serving their country through that type of uncertainty and anxiety . But we are. We are, by failing to move in a timely way the nominations that have been brought forward to us. Ill just mention one other example. I started with the hearing that i chaired today on behalf of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee dealing with four nominees. One was the ambassador to vietnam. I was just recently in vietnam. I met with our current ambassador, ambassador scher. I mention that because hes been nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for asia so hes leaving vietnam. We had a hearing today on the next ambassador to vietnam, a wellqualified career diplomat. The question is, are we going to have the orderly change of command in vietnam, a country critically important to u. S. Interests