Probably muchs better than i am at getting everyones attention so we can do that again if need be. Thank all of you again for coming. It is a terrific turnout. You know, earlier i welcomed our cspan audience. I want to welcome them again. We are grateful cspan is here. Aim sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here. We are glad all of you are here. The chairman knows i do this because he has been here before. Illustriousn photography i could go on and on and on about it. We have it in the brochure. For those of you that are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website. Fcc chairmans bio in it. Just stayed what chairmanhere knows, pie served as a commissioner. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . A monday, january 23. Three days after. He was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. This, withouty is going to the offices you can read about. I think it is important. He has served in all three branches of government, spent a lot of ti
Earlier i welcomed our cspan audience and i want to welcome them again. Were grateful that cspan is here. Im sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here, chairman pai, but were glad all of you are here. So, in keeping and chairman pai knows that i do this because hes been here before. Hes got an illustrious biography. I could go on and on and on about it, but weve got it in the brochure. For those of you who are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website, on the home page of the website. Its got fcc chairman ajit pais bio in it. I commend that to you but i would just state what everyone here knows, that chairman pai served as a commissioner prior to assuming the chairmanship of the fcc. How soon after the inauguration . Was that two days later . It was on a monday, january 23rd. So about three days after. About three days he was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. What i will say about chairman pai is this, without going over each of the particula
Of course, we are ready to provide information that Congress Needs to evaluate the feds Decision Making in Monetary Policy and elsewhere. With respect to Monetary Policy rules, they can be useful and i find them useful and long have as a kind of benchmark for thinking about what might be the appropriate stance of policy. But to chain a central bank to follow a simple mathematical rule that fails to take account of many things that are very important in making Monetary Policy, for example i was earlier asked about being against the euro lower bound which is an important special consideration, that would be a very foolish thing to do, and i oppose it. With respect to proposals having to do with voting and the structure of the fed that you mentioned, a lot of ideas have been mentioned. I would say for my part i think the Federal Reserve works well. The system we have was put into place by congress decades ago. I dont think its a system thats broken. Of course, congress can revisit decisio
Government will be with who controls internet traffic. Then the communicators, on Telecommunications Issues including marsha blackburn. Colorado democrat jared polis and Louisiana Republican steve police. A look at a new initiative to help veterans get Mental Health services. What we are seeing right now, embedding computational capabilities more and more into our environment. Some technologists disagree, but i personally consider the smartphones that we carry around with us are 70 of the American Population carries to be a trademark example of the internet of things. We are becoming human sensors because we are carrying around an extremely powerful computer in our pocket. It takes the form of different sensors that exist in the physical world. It takes the form of radio frequency leaders that we pass underneath when we access e zpass on the new jersey turnpike. It takes the form of sensors all around us. Certainly surveillance and cameras that collect data and send that somewhere else
But it is particular was a benefit required to add to the cause . Is there enough money to allow for the less merrill networks . Go back to this section of the love with the benefit requirements. Hospital doctor lab them Prescription Drug benefit for each. He did have the Prescription Drug benefit or a hospital benefit that pays 7 of the first 30 days then 100 percent. Not that you take any benefits away but that you do a different co pay and with what can be delivered with those benefits to restrict generic drugs if there are alternatives available. There is flexibility how to provide those benefits. Employers provide a 70 percent actuarial benefits but they do it efficiently for a much lower cost. There is a number of variables the way you packaged the benefit. Dont get me wrong. It is a zero sum game. You take something away when you do that. But the difference is Healthy People want Different Things than six people. Everybody wants catastrophic insurance because the healthy person