Very important podcast and author of the new book american oligarch. I found it incredibly detailed and informative. One of the first things that struck me reading the book is it like youre the perfect person for this because yo they have immersed yourself in a dork new jersey politics for a career and now we have not only trump and kushner with so many others running for president. Theres cory booker, rudy giuliani. Right now why do you think there are so many news workers and folks at the upper levels of power in american politics . Guest it is such an interesting question because for so many years but i was covering in the politics is new york and in the cold. Not of course people like Harvey Clinton who ran for president but somehow because new york was iowa or New Hampshire really wasnt in important states except for fundraising purposes and one of the things that happened when trump is elected president has to she was so of this world i have been covering, a world of the new York
What is he proposing, and what do you think . Patrick a lot of the principles of this regulatory policy come from the 20th century and even the 19th century. We are talking about overly prescriptive government regulation managing the minutia of the policies of technology companies. He is talking about very prescriptive regulations in terms of how these Companies Use data. There are good things about the policy, i would say, things like reempowering congress through the office of technology analysis. So there are good parts of the proposal in terms of wanting to create more education, more knowledge, out of the companys work and how the digital economies work. But there are also things in this plan that resemble what we see in a lot of plans coming from both sides of the aisle. I would say this plan shares a lot of similarities with things proposed by senator josh hawley and other senators in terms of regulating how you interact with platforms, the amount of time you spend on the platfo
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More relevant than others. On television and online, cspan is your unfillerred view of unfiltered view of government so you can make up your own mind. Brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Now, the Senate Finance Committee Examines the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement. Former agriculture secretary tom vilsack, along with a panel of trade and industry representatives, testified on how the usmca could impact the average american as well as how it differs from the 1994 north American Free trade agreement. Meeting will come to order. We welcome our witnesses. Were here to have testimony from a range of industries to tell us about the importance of the United Statesmexicocanada agreement, and we soon are referring that to always as usmca. We look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the significance of the agreement to american businesses, both small and large, the workers, the farmers that we all represent. Thank you for being here. Mexico and can