Policy this is good but we also need to give unlicensed services and wifi its proper due. After all, wifi is how we get on line in public and at home. Wifi is also how our wireless carriers managed their networks, in fact today nearly one half of all wireless data connections are at some point offloaded on to unlicensed spectrum. Wifi is how we foster innovation, because the low barriers to entry for unlicensed airwaves make them perfect sandboxes for experimentation. And wifi is a boone to the economy. The Economic Impact of unlicensed activity has been estimated at more than 140 billion annually. By any measure, thats big. So we need to make unlicensed Services Like wifi a priority in our spectrum policy, at the fcc, we are doing just that with our upcoming work. Its going to take more than this to keep up with demand. Thats why i think the time is right to explore greater unlicensed use in the upper portion of the five gigahertz band. I think goingforward were going to be on guard t
Global economy more than six times of tear rifls. Ariffs. I recognize my responsibility to serve all of you and appreciate the input, cooperation help, advice and assistance that you do. We really appreciate this robust dialogue with the clamham lerber and its members. We want to continue to fulfill or obligation operating as a strong Law Enforcement association while helping our businesses remain competitive in the global marketplace. Thank you all very much. Thank you commissioner. We have a few minutes for questions. If i could just ask you to state your name and who youre with to ask your question. Who would like to start it off . You did cover a lot of ground there, thank you, sir. I thought we had one back here but i will just lead off with questions while there is a vocal group up here so i know you guys will have one soon. So spencer, get up there. Commissioner, thank you again for addressing the clam berhamber and broader membership from other organizations as well. We appreci
In washington d. C. As part of the United States senate youth program, sunday night fa8 00 p. M. Pacific on e1cspans q a. On wednesday a panel looks at trends in Health Care Costs. Looking at the role of the Affordable Health care act in the slowdown of health care in the last few years. This was put together by the alliance for healthc reform and the kaiser foundation. Good afternoon. I am marilyn sarafeeney with the alliance of health reform. Along with senators carter and blunt, i would like to welcome you to todays briefing on the subject of Health Care Costs. I would also like to thankw3 our partner in this briefing, the Kaiser Family t foundation and we have with us today as my comoderator drew altman who is the founder of the kaiser foundation. Our Mission Today is to try to take some of the mystery out of Health Care Costs. Our experts are goingt to explain the trends, the prospects moving forward, what is driving Health Care Costs, and what policymakers and the Health Care Com
Or google or you want to hire real talent, you pay them more because you really need that talent, so that you pay them more to offset the employment tax. If youre working the lumberyard in oregon or somewhere, where theres a surplus of labor, the you dont pay them more to offset it, so the irony is that it ends up hitting the lower paid guy and the lower the struggling industry more than it hits the person whos in the consulting or technology industry. So reducing those employment taxes are have many benefits. For example, 24 Million People or 25 Million People working part time now could very well be brought into the workforce. You could find people that werent working to be brought into the workforce, so thats the good news. The question is, what are you going to use to provide the money to do that . And you know, i know the committee has looked at it. Its probably not possible. But who knows . They said tax reform wasnt possible in 86. You could take a dollar gasoline tax or you cou
When it comes to Severe Weather much like you are seeing in texas currently like the flooding in houston you have been seeing on television what do you think are the causes of the Severe Weather events . Are they naturally occurring or perhaps due to manmade causes . Does Climate Change push these along . Heres how you can let us know what you think. 2027488000 if you believe Natural Causes are the cause of Severe Weather events. 2027488001 if you think manmade causes have something to do with it. If you want to weigh in on twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. And journal cspan. Org is how you reach out to us on email. If you want to phone 2027488000 if you believe it is Natural Causes. 2027488001 if you think manmade causes have something to do with it. The president making a visit to florida yesterday at the National Hurricane center in miami. He not only talked about the upcoming Hurricane Season, the ability of the government to track these events as they occur, he o