Form in rural and underserved areas. Cms recognizes challenges faced by beneficiaries and providers in rural areas. I look forward to working with hrsa and the congress delivering quality care to Medicare Beneficiaries regardless of their location. Thank you again and im happy to answer your questions. Thank you both. Let me answer a couple of questions and well do fiveminute rounds here. Mr. Morris, the department the budget the administration submitted would have cut your budget by 20 million. Did you ask for that cut . Mr. Chairman, we support the president s budget and the request that came forward. We think it supports the key programs for our office. Includes continued funding for the outreach program, the rural hospital flexibility program. For our policy and Research Activities and we think those are the programs that can be most effective meeting the needs. Where are you going to spend 20 million less than you are spending this year . The president s budget there is a decrease
Disagree with the majority of this panel on the socalled open internet rule. And i appreciate you doing it cheerfully but also forcefully. And i want you to help us understand the reasons that you have given procedurally and substantively under the statute. As to why this decision is violative of requirements and violative of the Communications Act. Senator, thank you for the question. I could go through all 67 pages but ill abbreviate it for the sake of the panel and for everyone watching. In short there are problems with process and substance. My view is the agency failed to comply with the administrative procedure act. In terms of giving public fair notice and an opportunity to comment on the proposal it adopted. Heres the indisputable truth. The fcc never proposed title 2. It adopted a proposal in may of 2014 that was based on section 706. Through the course of the summer it was wide reported that section 706 was the lead proposal. Tlart was reported that the hybrid proposal based
World is because the fcc was relatively retrained in 2010 compared to what it did now. Time will tell. The best example is europe where europeans have significantly less access to high speed broad band than we do. 82 of americans it only 48 of europeans. And when it comes to wireless in particular, the u. S. Has 50 of the worlds 4g lte subscribers. The reason is because till february 26th, we were relatively retrained and a bipartisan consensus that served so well since the clinton administration. Mr. Chairman, im out of time. I have additional questions id like to submit for the record. Senator sullivan, thank you. Well make sure those questions get submitted for the record. Since i cant see anybody else z coming in senator manchins turn. The chair recognizes the senator from West Virginia. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I appreciate that so much. This is such an interesting topic. I keep thinking back to those who are old enough or grew up basically before there was mobile phones. Cell pho
Of return carriers that would encourage broadband adoption. I know senator thune, senator coveture, led and i wanted to can i make a commercial just 30 seconds . Will it have the same unity your answer did earlier . Yes, sir. The answer is yes, sir, we are going to do that. We needd, the best in their job is worthy of Henry Kissinger and i hope we can have the help of you and senator thune and the committee to help send a message that says, hey folks, its time to quit bickering over details lets have a common approach. Because were going to move, and well make that decision if we have to make that decision. But it sure would be good if we understood that the various segments of the industry could pull together and say, hey this is the kind of north star youve got to be guiding to. Thank you, and i appreciate that. Were so close to each other i feel like we ought to be having a cup of coffee. Want a beer . Ill take that. Commissioner clyburn, this is something senator heller talked abou
Rural schools who currently dont get a fair shake out of the program to get funding for that program and connect kids with digital opportunities. Control of how thats delivered, correct . Im sorry. Its a possibility of losing control of how its delivered . Who is going to make the decision how i get that . All of us would set the Regulatory Framework in the private sector and have maximum incentive. I understand. Im not objecting to this. I want the best of both worlds i guess. I got a pretty good world right now. Can i make it better without throwing the baby out with the bath water and losing the protections ive got. Thats what im looking for. Senator you raise an excellent point. I have to say that the in this hearing room i keep hearing the echo of years ago sitting at this table when senator hollings was sitting up there in the chair and he kept saying in his great South Carolina draw im a born again deregulator. Because he learned as you said what are the realities when you say t