Monday night on the communicators, three Technology Reporters reveal the big issues of 2014 and Key Communications issues facing the new year. Brian fung, and political. It gives an opening for republicans in congress to introduce a bill about neutrality of their own. What will the chairman do in response to that . Is that going to force him to move more quickly or is it going to put him in a position where he will have to do some negotiation with Congressional Republicans . That is not clear yet. That is something we will be watching it early in the year. Im expecting the sec will come out with final rules on that reality. President obama came out in support of reclassifying Broadband Service under title ii of the medications act, which would treat it like a utility. Broadband Industry Groups are fiercely opposed to this. There is a lot of pressure on chairman wheeler to go that route. We will see what happens there. The fight is not necessarily over. There is going to be lawsuits almost certainly from verizon and comcast. Especially if chairman wheeler does what the president wants. We are talking about Net Neutrality against the backdrop of the Communications Act update which republicans in the house have undertaken. Now that republicans control the senate, we will see it there too. They have said they want to get pen to paper starting in january. We could see something on that very soon. That is a tool for Congressional Republicans to use. Monday night at 8 00 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Coming up on cspan, members of the British Youth Parliament meet for their annual session. And a Senate Hearing on how americans are financially preparing for retirement. And a discussion on the possible top economic stories of 2015. The British Parliament is in recess for the holidays. Tonight, we are showing portions of the u. K. Youth parliament. In november, more than 300 young people ages 11 to 18 gather in the house of commons for the policy debate. It consisted of five topics for consideration for their 2015 national campaign. They began the session with a tribute to the 100 anniversary of world war i. Please take your seats. First of all, welcome. I hope you have a great day. This is the sixth annual sitting of the u. K. Youth parliament here in chamber of the house of commons. I have had the pleasure and privilege of chairing your proceedings each time, and i hugely look forward to doing so again today. I think i can say with confidence that you will have fun and find the whole experience very, very rewarding indeed. Certainly, we are grateful to you for taking an interest, for treating this place with respect, and for wanting to be here. We want you to be here. The issues to be debated today were, of course, as you know chosen by the annual make your mark ballot. Last year, i remember reporting with some pride on your behalf that the number of votes cast had almost doubled from the previous year. The British Youth Council reports that, this year, the number has almost doubled again with 875,000 young people casting a vote. We say the words thank you and the word congratulations too rarely, so i want to be the first here in the chamber to say thank you and congratulations for everything you have done not only showing your own interest, but engendering interest among other young people. It is enormously to your credit and you ought to give yourself a big round of applause. [applause] im glad you are getting into the spirit of the thing at a very early stage. I said you would choose and have chosen the topics to debate. In doing so, you are choosing what are to be your priority campaigns for 2015. There is another element to the proceedings today. This years Youth Parliament marks the introduction of the paul boskett memorial award. This will go to someone who makes the speech as debate lead that is thought to be the best and the speech from another will also be recognized. Paul boskett very sadly died very suddenly this year at age 59. As many will know, paul was one of the driving forces behind the u. K. Youth parliament at the British Youth Council. He was passionate about the organization. He was full of enthusiasm. He was an example for others to follow, and he is very much missed. Todays proceedings will be broadcast live on the internet. I know you have had some preliminaries and i will keep them to an absolute minimum. I just want to say two things. Myps who wish to speak should stand in their place. Members of parliament stand constantly because they are trying to catch the speakers eye, thats what i ask you to do as well. I hope you wont mind when i say please speak only once. Once you have spoken, although your enthusiasm is respected please dont try to get called again because i might accidentally call you again. And thats a bit unfair. You may have to stand a great deal before getting called, and its not possible to accommodate everybody, but i will try to get as many contributors as possible. But once only for each person, please. Second, you should always say your name and region at the beginning. Otherwise, those taking the official report will not know who they are. Perhaps you can remember just to pause for a moment before starting to enable the microphone to be activated. Without further ado and with huge appreciation from me and from you, i call someone who has served in this house for 25 years who has previously led his party, who served as foreign secretary of our country, and is now a hugely respected leader of the house of commons. Please give a warm and appreciative welcome to the right honorable william hague. [applause] thank you. Mr. Speaker, im delighted to add my welcome to members of the Youth Parliament, and i thank you and all the officials and offices of the house who have well as the many staff who have volunteered their time to welcome members of the Youth Parliament this morning. I think they all deserve a round of applause as well. [applause] it is my absolute pleasure to welcome you all to parliament as leader of the house of commons. As leader of the house, im both a representative of the government in the house, but importantly, i also represent house to the government. I will make sure the relevant government ministers are sent your debate and everything you have said today so they can read it, and they are going to whether they like it or not, i can assure you. [laughter] this chamber has a unique atmosphere and an extraordinary history. You will become part of that history today. We often hear people are bored or disenchanted with politics in our country, and many people are. But it is here that laws are passed that affect every aspect of our lives and will do so throughout your lives. How much students pay when they go to university. What sort of National Health service we have. How we meet our future energy needs and what effect that has on our countryside and planet. These are issues debated and decided here and we need some of the best and brightest minds among us to be attracted into politics for the common good. We deal with fundamental questions of our identity, our rights and responsibilities, the nature of our society, and the future of our country and the world. I am standing down from the house of commons in a few months time. I will have served 26 years as a member of parliament by then. I started off in politics, as some of you know as a 16yearold, giving a speech at the conservative conference, which is still, rather embarrassingly to me, played on television from time to time. [laughter] you have seen it, i can tell. I did have hair in those days. With clothes that went out of fashion 30 or so years ago. But i got involved as a young person as you are doing. If somebody asked me today, 37 years later, would i do it again, i would say yes. My experience here in the last quarter of a century shows to me you can achieve things in parliament and in politics that you cannot achieve in any other way. In 1995, i took through this house the disability discrimination act. I wrote it and i passed it through parliament, which, over the last 19 years, has helped improve the lives of tens of thousands of disabled people in this country. I am proud of having been able to do that, but i could not have done it if i had not been a member of parliament. Those people who tell you not to bother, not to vote or not to take part can never achieve anything like it or achieve any positive change of any kind without getting involved. The other thing i want to tell you is you would think from media comments that you would have to go to a particular school or come from a particular part of the country to succeed in politics. Take no notice of that whatsoever. I came from a comprehensive school from rotherham in south yorkshire. I just met one of your members that came from rotherham. There he is on the back row, where the members from rotherham often sit. I came from a comprehensive school in rotherham, and i have been leader of the opposition, foreign secretary, and i have never found any door closed to me or any barrier placed in my way. You can go to the top, and dont let anybody ever tell you that you cant. In this chamber, many of the great advances in human rights and democratic governance have been made. It was in the then house of commons sitting in the chapel as it went sat which you have probably come through this morning, that the bill of rights was passed in 1689, the Foundation Stone of parliamentary sovereignty and the freedom of british citizens. It was here and house of commons that the slave trade was abolished in 1807 after 20 years of efforts and campaigning. It was here that all women in our country finally won the right to vote when the equal franchise act was adopted in 1928. Today, you will debate the principle of whether suffrage should be extended to 16 and 17yearolds in our country. More recently, we passed the marriage samesex couple act so marriage is open to everyone equally. And it is here, as you will recall in a moment, the house suddenly raised the case for war on the eve of the First World War. More than 800,000 of our countrymen perished in battle. Matters of war and peace continue to be one of the serious areas of debate in the house of commons. During my time as foreign secretary, we won the support of the house for military intervention in libya but lost the vote on responding to chemical weapons in syria. These democratic decisions of the highest importance are made in here. The issues i have mentioned are just a few of the reasons why politics matter and why your involvement in the Youth Parliament today is so important. The fact 865,000 young people voted to choose the subject for debate today is a testament to how much you have to say. This chamber must be just as relevant today as at any time in the past. These days, we have topical questions, more urgent questions, the Backbench Committee chair all helped to keep this house at the center of debate in our country. Parliament continues to evolve and democracy evolves also. During Parliament Week is the campaign to do democracy and i encourage you all to be involved in that and the many events running up and down the country over the next few days. Some of my many colleagues and members of parliament will be in and out of the chamber during the day. One or two will be able to stay for out the proceedings. I will be here for a little while, that i had to go to my constituency in yorkshire, as mps usually do on friday afternoon. Today, the floor of the house is yours. You will be debating the issues that have been debated many times before the constitution, education, mental health. You will bring your own views and own experience and own ideas. As edmund burke, one of the greatest parliamentarians in our history said 200 years ago parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different , hostile interests, but a Deliberative Assembly of one nation with one interest that of the whole, the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole. In that spirit, i wish you a day of debate and i look forward to your contributions here and we all look forward to the contribution you will all make in the future. Thank you very much indeed. [applause] thank you very much indeed. Next, i call as chair of the Backbench Business Committee and representing the opposition, natascha engel. [applause] thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I would like to start with thanking you very sincerely not just for chairing this but actually making this possible because those six years we have had with the u. K. Youth parliament, the privilege we have had to hear the Youth Parliament and the chamber would not have been possible without the work you have done and without enabling this kind of assembly once a year that we are all so privileged to take a part in. Thank you very much, mister speaker. I would also like to say a thank you to robin the speech you made at the beginning is so deeply moving and i think we will all miss it. The person who follows you has large boots to fill. Thank you very much. I would also like to say i normally do the wind up at the end. It makes it easier. I get the chance to listen to you and distill all your best ideas and use them. But this time i am standing in fr for angela eagle. And im glad to be starting at the beginning because at the end, we have heard your fabulous speeches and even though it is your first time, you will be stunned by the contributions. They are short, they are polite, they are to the point. They are always a pleasure to listen to. We are looking forward to a very High Standard of debate. I would also like to say a few words about the scottish referendum. We have seen, just like in the chamber, we have seen 16 and 17yearolds taking very seriously their franchise. The door has been opened and cannot be closed. I think it is unfortunate we will be going into the next general election without 16 and 17yearolds. I hope sincerely it is the last time we do so. William spoke of his conference speech. While william was wowing his party conference, i was busy Parting Company with my school on not very good terms. These days, people call it a difficult transition to adulthood. In those days, we just called it being expelled from school. [laughter] william and i have taken opp0site paths to getting here but both of us know what a privilege it is to be here and to serve our constituents in the best way we can. I am saying this because every year i come here, and every year im struck by how different you all are, what different walks of life you represent. It does not matter what school you come from. You come from all sorts of different schools and backgrounds. But over the last few years, the types of people who have become politicians have narrowed significantly. We have a lot of people who come from a background where they went to school, studied politics and become advisors to mps before becoming mps and ministers themselves. I think having some people in parliament who know what they are doing is a very good thing. But i think it would be very nice to widen the spectrum just a little bit. I think we need to widen the field of candidates and widen the kind of Life Experiences people have. Politics is more than just about making speeches. Its about people we meet and the people who influence our lives. I hope when you go back to your constituencies and you use the experience you have gained here today that you use it to enrich the lives of not just yourself but all the people around you. I wish you good luck and hope you can live up to the High Standard the u. K. Youth parliament has set in previous years, so i will sit down and listen to your speeches. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much indeed for what you said. During the day, i will alert you to the presence of members of parliament and a moment ago, i think she slipped out of the chamber, we were joined by a liberal democrat member of parliament for wells. But i want at this stage to mention the present in the officials box, which we dont normally referred to of stephen bend, the son of the late and great tony bend who served in parliament for the best part of half a century. Stephen is regularly in and out of this place, campaigning on courses dear to him and he loves parliament. His father served parliament with great distinction and without fear or favor. It is a pleasure to be joined by you. Thank you for coming and sharing your interest in and respect for the young people. Now i call ellie endersen to read a messge from the prime minister. [applause] welcome to the house of commons and congratulations to you all. This year, he have engaged a Record Number of young people to debate a topic youre today. Over 870,000 votes were cast, a a clear demonstration that young people want a say on the matter that to them. 2014 is a particularly historic year as we commemorate the centennial of the First World War. It is right you have chosen to pay respect and mark the occasion. It is our duty to honor those who have given up their lives for our freedom. It is right that your voices are heard. Its an excellent opportunity to make your voices heard and the parliamentarians to listen. We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. I wish you all the very best for a great day in parliament and i hope the experience will inspire you to become a permanent resident of this house in the future. [applause] thank you very much indeed for those words. We have also been joined by a conservative member of the parliament up there in the gallery. Thank you for showing your support. Members will now make speeches to commemorate the centenary of the start of the First World War. At the end of all of the speeches, i think there are 13 of them, i think there will be appropriately a minute silence. First, call from the east midlands, mr. Eddie fenwick. [applause] without a doubt, w