Fcc chairman tom wheeler commented. Joining us on the communicators this week to discuss this, craig aaron, who is president and ceo of free press, and former fcc commissioner rocket Mcdowell Robert mcdowell. Commissioner mcdowell, can the fcc put the kibosh on comcast Time Warner Cable mergersome. Guest oh, it could, absolutely. And the department of justice could try to do so as well. Sometime in the past when mergers have been proposed not necessarily at the announcement stage weve heard words such as unthinkable. They havent put the kibosh on it just yet, and the application, i dont think, has even been filed at the fcc. But, sure, as a matter of law, its ability, it could deny the merger if it wanted to. Host from what youve read about this, do you think the fcc should stop this merrier . Guest well, so, actually, i think the better question is will it. And i dont think it will. And, you know, im in a think tank now, the hudson institute, so i have in dog in the fight. So trying t
Extension of Unemployment Insurance for over one million americans whose benefits expired late last month. Later in the day, senators will continue debate on the nomination of janet yellen to be the Federal Reserve chair, and theyll hold a vote at 5 30. A simple majority is needed for her confirmation. Live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. And over in the house, members return tomorrow at 2 00 eastern for a pro forma session, no legislative business is scheduled, but the chamber will recess until 6 30 and then hold a vote to establish a quorum known as a call of the house to mark the start of the second session of the 113th congress. Later in the week members plan to vote on bills related to the federal Health Care Law including one to protect personal information used on the web site, healthcare. Gov. Live coverage of the house over on cspan. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and joining us th
On theing us communicators is gary shapiro, president and ceo of the consumer electronic association. Who do you represent in that association . 2000 u. S. Technology companies paid everybody who is involved innovation. Water issues were concerned about . Issues you would expect. Innovation. Innovation is a national strategy. Keepcan companies could introducing the coolest products in the world. We dominate in many areas. It is a global phenomenon of innovation. The u. S. Is the world leader. We want to keep it that way. The best and the brightest. A patent policy. It requires free trade. We will talk about those issues. I want to talk about the issue the fcc is hatching a. The unlocking of cell phones. We dont have a position. We are free market. We like consumer choice. We think that products with that consumers buy, they should establish a contraption will contractual relations. The government has decided that if you buy a phone in the contract runs out you should be able to have it
But, you know, without an american advisory effort and american units to partner with, theres no one there to oversee bad commanders, to say this guy needs to be relieved. When we were there, for instance, maliki removed every single bedivide commander in the Brigade Commander in the National Police and twothirds of the [inaudible] some of them twice. So we forced accountability on the state. But when we removed that check on malikis baser tendencies, he was able to do whatever he wanted to do starting with the attempted arrest of the Vice President of the state of iraq. And just to follow up on that , maliki has his own set of Political Considerations only some of which are to have an effective fighting force and some of which are to create Patronage Networks and all those sorts of things. One of the things that was interesting to me about your account of the charge of the knights is it wasnt clear to me whether maliki thought the u. S. Was actually vital in his inning. And maliki may
He ends up spending most of his time at a base just outside of her size. So it wasnt the hard punishment that perhaps joe thought it might be. She helped him through that and probably is what youre saying. I think she does. I think she does by being the supportive mother that she always was for her children and maybe not able to admit to herself the more Inconvenient Truth about his wife but she does talk free will in her oral history and in her journals about how the boys would misbehave and how they were in courage by the path to come telling the truth. The funny stories. But also telling the truth and then she would say, then my husband would take care of it. She didnt seem to see the conflict between her Victorian Gold of having all the children be responsible, the r. Word was often in her writings and her letters to the. She didnt seem to see the conflict between having joe at the head of the clan to take care of all the misbehaviors. So there were times in glasgow where teddy wou