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Their willingness to serve. The nomination of Jessica Rosenworcel to be commissioner and chair of the federal Communications Commission. Senator blumenthal will be providing a formal introduction. But ill say a few words. The pandemic has mag need the deep Digital Divide in our country and if confirmed chairman rosenworcel will be responsible for leading broadband for all americans. All schools transition students to learning at home last year, 20 of students in Washington State did not have a reliable Internet Connection that would have allowed them to participate in remote learning. Over 16 million k12 students in the United States did not have access to reliable broadband at the beginning of the pandemic and over the past several years ive heard many stories about students sitting in parking lots to access their wifi, do their homework and concerned teachers whose dont students dont have the connectite. The pandemic made clear the broadband is no longer a luxury but necessity to par
MontanaUnited-statesLouisianaAlabamaNevadaAlaskaChinaMinnesotaCaliforniaNew-mexicoRichmondVirginiaNew Global Markets. I thank all the nominees for before the committee today. I understand mr. Bedoya is not ill but quarantined, perhaps exposed to covid, and we look forward to a robust hearing. Thank you madam chair. Thank you senator wicker. Senator blumenthal. Thanks very much madam chair and thanks for your leadership on these nominations and thank you to the nominees for your willingness to serve. The diversity attests to the greatness of our country. And at a time difficulty pronouncing blumenthal as a nominee. So weve welcomed you here and celebrate your nominations, i am particularly delighted and honored to introduce Jessica Rosenworcel as the president s nominee and first female chair of the federal Communications Commission, equally importantly. As a daughter of connecticut, specifically West Hartford and wesleyan although she went to New York University for law school, but ive worked with her closely as have many members of our committee over the years. And i know that we
MontanaUnited-statesLouisianaAlabamaNevadaAlaskaChinaMinnesotaCaliforniaNew-mexicoRichmondVirginiaGood morning. Were only in executive session to mark up three bills and vote on nominations. This morning we are considering the antispoofing penalties modernization act. This legislation would amend the Communications Act, fines and penalties for caller id spoofing when a caller deliberately disguises their true identity behind a false caller id information. Forfeiture and fines would increase. I want to thank senator collins, peter, sinema and warnock for their work on this important issue. The bill would allow scientists engineers and others in the private sector ak demmia to weather and climate modelling. This legislation would require no public or open source the code and data used in these models and would include exemptions for models that would pose a risk to national security, trade secrets or that violate intellectual property contracts. Would provide no administrator or authority authorize ten million over the next five years. Also requires report to congress with two how th
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