I strongly agree with senator mccaskill, and she is verywe aware of my views because we have discussed hers and mine at length and i know that you agree that consumer complaints about this intrusive, invasive practice are very well justified. The fact that Consumers Union conservatively estimates that 350 million are lost annually to phone scams, generally a lot of them the result of robocalls and the good news is advanced technologys available and affordable to stop these very intrusive and invasive machinedriven calls and Telephone Companies ought to make locking options available right away. Even in advance of the rule, the Telephone Companies have the ability to offer that service. And so, i agree with senator mccaskill about the inadvisability of the suggestion made in the budget agreement, but more broadly, i would like to ask what the next steps are that you would view as most likely and most achievable to address this scourge of robocalls that we both have seen across the count
We need them most. Second, universal access. No matter who you are or where you live in this country, for a fair shot at 21st century prosperity, you need accesccess firstrate modern communications. That means we need policies that foster deployment and adoption in urban areas, rural areas and in between. Third, competition. Competition increases innovation and lowers prices. Fourth, Consumer Protection. Communication services are multiplying, but the marketplace is also bewildering to navigate. So we should always be on guard for ways to help consumers make good choices. These values derive from the law and they have informed my work at the commission to date. In light of them, i am especially proud of Agency Efforts to strengthen 911 service, and i am proud of our work to increase access to broadband in schools and enhance opportunities for digital age education. I also believe our spectrum policies for licensed and unlicensed air waves have made our wireless markets competitive, inn
Your back, you scratch mine and we spend the money. But as a consequence were borrowing a Million Dollars a minute. I think we need to be very aware of where we are situated as a country. I think we need to be very aware of the consequences of continuing to borrow a Million Dollars a minute. I think as we go forward we have to understand what the founders intended for our country. We need to understand where our richness, where our greatness came from. Were the richest, greatest, most humanitarian country ever known in the history of man. In 2014 alone we gave away privately, through charity, nearly 3 400 billion. That doesnt happen in cuba, they dont make wealth. If you want to know why we won the cold war, we beat russia and all of communism because the engine of capitalism defeated the engine of communism. Because we produce great wealth is why we were able to defeat the soviet union. If you dont know how wealth is created and you dont realize where wealth come from, if we dont real
If we were here for the states, we are here to back them up, we more than back them up. We did a job that nobody thought was possible. Its a decision for the president of the United States. Sandra Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. David lee miller in new york city but we begin with john roberts from the north lawn this morning. Sandra, edit, good morning to you. One of the biggest events as the president is expected to announce the members of if not the entire membership of the new Advisory Group that will give him information and more data on how and when america can reopen. At the Coronavirus Briefing will be in the rose garden this afternoon and that is suggestive that may be of the members of the Advisory Board might be there but im not sure at this point. We will see if that how things develop throughout the day. We dont know all of the members who will be on this Advisory Board, but we do know, and we will put it up on the screen for you, that President Trump will take a le