And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the whole issue of performance rights, performance tax, whatever you want to tribe it as, is an ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive when both the digital and the terrestrial platform can come up with a model that actually gr
[captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] all right now. This is my go ahead and have a seat, guys. This is the 115th, by our count, Community Dinner that i have held since i first start running for the senate back now, what, seven years ago. We do them steadily. We have kind of got routine down. Everybody gets something to eat. I speak very briefly and then it is just a discussion. If you a question, if you have a comment, this is rhode island, we even accept rude remarks. The whole package. Please put your hand up and give us a chance to get the microphone to you. Who is running the microphones ere . The hand mics. All right. These gentlemen will get the hand mics around. One other thing that ill say is i know everybody doesnt love public speaking. And whether it is because you dont love public speaking or whether it is because what you want to talk about is more personal than that, or whether we simply
It. You do not have the same director or deputy there have multiple people. People under investigation right now. There will be laws. If you look at the Financial Services bill that has gone through appropriations. Not only is the irs defunded for but they have cut the budget. I think the same thing needs to happen with the possible examination of the nsa. But i do not think we ought to immediately toss out a program until we think about it and look at it, you know, and the Homeland Security people on both sides of the aisle tell us it has done the job. Ok. One thing i would like to point out though if the program were abused, we would not know. Let me rephrase that. We would not know it until it was too late. Know or have i read that the way this deal was supposed to work was when the controversy first kind of started, they were going to monitor these phone calls to find terrorists outside the United States. When that person contacted someone within the United States, they were going
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