Provide arms to youukraine. Later pakistan terrorist plans. The Senate Subcommittee looked at free online music streaming and what it means for copyright law. Well hear from executives from pandora and a company that owns radio station. Representatives of singers and songwriters testified as well. Utah senator maclee chairs the judiciary subcommittee on antitrust and competition. Welcome. This is the first hear on antitrust policy and consumer rights. I want to thank my friend and colleague senator klobuchar in chairing this committee before me. Weve always had a good work relationship and we share the same basic goals for this subcommittee which involves ensuring first and foremost that consumers are protected from those who would abuse the marketplace and second that we form effective oversight of the department of justices antitrust division and of the competition side of the federal trade commission. I look forward to continue that bipartisan work in this congress and i would like
People can get by without power for a while but not water. I called the association, and they found an emergency generator for me and delivered them to the communities at no charge. Since the circuit riders know everybody in the state they were able to borrow some again ators from northern communities not impacted by the hurricane. And have the generators delivered to get the Drinking Water and sanitation restored immediately. The circuit riders also had the technical know how to size the right voltage and drive a backhoe if needed to clear the streets and dig up ruptured lines. All of this type of assistance is essential to restore water supply in an emergency. I called the separator out to help me. A community of about 1,000 homes to find the line break, causing a loss of water from any homes. The circuit rider came with advanced radar equipment that can precisely identify the location of the break which on this day happened to be in the woods. Congress shares this technical resource
Actually it is. Its under water. Youll see a bunker sticking up out of the water about 500 feet out. It used to be about 500 feet on the land. Now its 500 feet out in the water. Something is going on here. We dont make this stuff up. The key is for us how can we have cleaner air, how can we address the issues of rising waters . Delaware is the lowest lying state in the country. Its a real problem for us. In order for us to address this, we need to figure out how to do it together. And im not interested in seeing epg jam anything down your throats, but we need to figure this out together. It seems like you export a lot of electricity. Any understanding of the rules being contemplated here, you dont get a lot of credit for that. The credit goes to california and those other states. We have to be able to figure out how to deal with that. I want to ask you a question of the lady from california. It sounds to me like youre doing pretty well and you possibly have a cleaner environment and a
Inconsistencies and injustices is our performing artists receive absolutely no compensation when their music is played over the air on terrestrial, meaning a. M. fm radio. Congress required payment when sound recordings are transmitted digitally and 95 but have yet to extend its basic protection to artists when their songs are played down after more a. M. Radio. This is incredibly on just. The bottom line is that terrestrial radio profits from intellectual property of recording on this for free. I am aware of no other instance in the United States for this is allowed, and it needs to be remedied. I agree and i plan to take up their charge. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle by developing legislation to address the various problems in existing law and one unified bill. Bringing fairness and efficiency to her music licensing system and ensuring no particular reason enjoys a special advantage against new and innovative technologies. Consumers dont know the button i pushed on a car dash
Great necessity for global Food Security given out more than 3 billion people, 50 of the people on this planet at every corner of the world depend on fish as a significant source of protein. The connection between a healthy ocean and life itself for every Single Person on earth cannot be overstated. And we will hear from scientists and we will talk about that relationship in the course of the next hours and days. Share nothing so completely as the ocean that covers nearly three quarters of our planet. And i remember the first time i really grasped that notion. It was in the early 1970s when the first color pictures of earth from space were released, the famous blue marble photographs. And when you look at those images, you dont see borders or markers separating one nation from another. You just see big masses of green and sometimes brown surrounded by blue. For me, that image shaped the realization that what has become cliched and perhaps even taken for granted not perhaps, is taken fo