Cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Joining us this week on the communicators is senator marsha blackburn, a member of the commerce and science subcommittee on communications and technology. Senator blackburn appeared often on this program as a member of the house but this is her first appearance as a senator. Welcome back. I wanted to ask you about some of the issues you work on in the house when it comes to technology. Were you able to bring that over to the senate, such as data privacy and things like that . Sen. Blackburn indeed. Visited think we last when i was finishing work on the raybons act. Fcc,eauthorization of the sincehad not been done 1990. Some of those components that items ine foundational our internet ecosystem. Getting those provisions finished was important and expertise to the senate where we are dealing with the privacy and Data Security issues not only of commerce but also judiciary committ
I wanted to ask you about some of the issues you worked on in the house when it comes to technology. Were you able to bring that over to the senate, such as data privacy and things like that . Sen. Blackburn indeed. Peter, i think we last visited when i was finishing work on the reauthorization of the fcc, which had not been done since 1990. And of course the precision agriculture deal. Some of those components that really are foundational items in our internet ecosystem. Getting those provisions finished was important and bringing that expertise to the senate where we are dealing with the privacy and Data Security issues not only of commerce but also judiciary committee. One thing i have found so interesting about being in the senate is how you take one issue set and you work crossplatform on it. I am also on the Armed Services committee and the Veterans Committee and at veterans, we are working to get everybodys records in the cloud. We are doing the same thing at Armed Services so t
Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host joining us this week on the communicators is senator marsha blackburn, a member of the commerce and scientist subcommittee on communications and technology. Senator blackburn appeared off and on this program as a member of the house that this is her first appearance as a senator. Welcome back. Guest thank you so much. Did you join once again. Host i wanted to ask you about some of the issues you worked on in the house when it comes to technology. Were you able to bring that over to the senate, such as data privacy and things like that . Guest indeed. I have brought those issues with me. I think we last visited when i was finishing work on the ray bonds act, which was the reauthorization of the fcc which had not been done since 1990, and, of course, the mobile now, the old precision agriculture bill and some of those components that are really foundational items in our internet ecosystem. So getting those predations finished was important
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Thatdominated yesterdays action, that along with chinas currency move. Overnight Chinas Central Bank setting the yuan mid point firmer than many expected. That happened at 9 00. We saw a turnaround in u. S. Equity futures which were down overnight as much as 600 points at the lows. Right now a positive open across the board. S p looking to be up by 11 points dow jones up by 102. The nasdaq looking to recoup 44 points as for u. S. Treasury yields, we saw a 2016 low also. We had the tenyear note at 1. 758 overnight we breached that 1. 7 level. A key level here. We have cnbc reporters everywhere this morning covering the Market Reaction to this escalating trade war willem marx is in london well get to him in a moment, but across the world to china. Eunice yoon is on the ground in beijing. Reporter china strongly opposes being labeled a currency manipulator. The central bank, which manages a floating currentry cy exchang rate called the move unilateral protectionist behavior that violates