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Jerusalem and beer sheva. The us said it had made the order out of an abundance of caution due to fears about a possible attack by iran. Earlier the Israel Defence minister yoav gallant told his us counterpart that israel would respond appropriately if it is directly attacked by iran. Washington continues to try to dissuade iran from launching a retaliatory strike following an attack on the iranian consulate in syria last week. I spoke to hugo bachega earlier. For days we have been talking about those warnings that have come from american officials saying the iranian response is a matter of when and not if. I think the most dramatic warning came from President Biden who said a day ago that the iranians were preparing a significant attack. With that warning came also a threat that the americans would respond if there was an attack from iran on israel. And i think there have b ....
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Cspan audience, and i want to welcome them again. We are grateful that cspan is here. Im sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here, chairman pai, but we are glad all of you are here. So in keeping, 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. And for those of you that are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website, on the homepage of the website. Its got sec chairman ajit pai bio in it. So i commend that to you but i would just say, state what everyone here knows that chairman pai serve as a commissioner prior to assuming the chairmanship of the sec. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . It was on a monday, january 233. So about three days after. Three days he was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. What i will say about chairman pai is this, with ....
Able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. The fcc has not been reauthorize since 1990 and its current appropriation is over 400 30 million. It is charged with the administration of the Communications Act and of the statutes by to the functioning of our key medications policy. We must reexamine the Core Functions of the commission and Research Culture of humility that was lacking under the regulatory cloud left by chairman wheeler picked the sec plays a vital role in our increasingly Technology Dependence society. The subcommittee has never released a discussion draft for consideration. I would be remiss in not discussing Net Neutrality, the commissions decision in 2153 reclassify internet a ....
Tennessee. The subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. And i want to welcome you all to the subcommittees hearing titled oversight and reauthorization of the federal communications commission. I appreciate the commissioners appearing to offer their testimony today. And we appreciate that we have been able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. The fcc has not been rethorsoned since 1990 appear its current appropriation is over 430 million its charged with the administration of the Communications Act and other statutes vital to the functioning of the communications policy. We must reexamine the Core Functions of the commission and restore a culture of hul humility. The fcc plays a vital rode in the increa ....