[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] take your seats, and our friends in the audience would like to take a seat, we will get going with our hearing. Ill call to order subcommittee on Communications Director technology and thank our witnesses for being here. Subcom for this worst of what will be many hearings as we look to update the king occasions act. K few sectors of our economy ors. Equal to the communications and Technology Sec atorre when it ci to innovation, investment in the american economy, and jobinveste creation. In these tough Economic Times we as policymakers should begh ecoc committed to fostering this economy. Tering of the yet the loss the regular the industry are outdated at besthat and some are affirmatively regul damaging. Indu this is whystry chairman upton b i, along with members of the subcommittee, have decided to undertake the difficult task of updating the key medications act of 1934. Cmunica in the eight decades since itsht Passage Congress have
Chairman, thank you. Speaking of cops on the beat, well now go to michael copps, served as acting chairman of the federal Communications Commission from january to june of 2009, and served as commissioner from 2001 to 2011. Prior to joining the commission, commissioner copps worked right here on capitol hill, and the u. S. Department of commerce. Commissioner copps, chairman copps, thank you for being with us, and we look forward to your comments to round out our panel. Thank you chairman walden, chairman upton, miss eshoo and mr. Waxman, vice chairman, former chairman, all the members of the committee, im delighted to be here. Were here today to review whether the Communications Act needs to be updated or otherwise reformed. Ive heard some say that simply because the act is old it must be obsolete. That no matter how well it has served us an act written 18 years ago cannot have relevance in todays altered world. As someone only a little younger than the original act of 19 34r, i would
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Men, women and children after warning them of an assad attack. Did they really heed the president s threat. And blaming obama. After accusing the former president of spying on him and other criminal acts, President Trumps relationship with him has become so toxic, the two have not spoken since na inauguration day. Its the first time two neighboring president s have ended their relationship. Were following breaking news. Deep concern inside the white house about the Nuclear Threat posed by north korea. National security adviser general h. R. Mcmaster saying, and im quoting, the threat is much more immediate now. He revealed President Trump has asked for a range of options, including military action, to deal with the kim jongun regime. Were also following the scramble right now by Senate Republican leaders to overcome deep division inside the Republican Party over its bill to repeal and replace obamacare. After postponing a vote on the measure, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell now trying
a television package, you don t see the bits that we haven t shown. you don t see the conversations that we have away from the cameras. we don t see when we withdraw the request of people on the ground. i think that incident really, truly showed the full horror of this crisis. and as i said, you know, that has been an important part of ourjob as reporters on the ground. some viewers concerned about this coverage would say they don t think the bbc would everfilm british families caught in a disaster in the uk this way. they ve got a point, haven t they? no, i don t think so. i think when we have covered disasters in the uk, we have also adopted the same principles which is showing respect, respecting privacy, but also being faithful to what we re witnessing, showing what s actually going on. and it s not ourjob to sanitise the reality of situations that sometimes frankly are really terrible.