Students,0 4, 2018, survivors will march on washington. They will be joined by students from around the country who want nothing more than to be safe in their schools. When i ask what i ask of President Trump and my colleagues and especially speaker of the house paul ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is this meet with these students. Let them share their stories. Facetoface with you. In theat this can happen hometowns in your own districts. Know that gun violence is an everyday tragedy in our country. What if these were your kids or your grandchildren . What would you do then . We know what we need to do to safer from guny violence can we know the solutions. We just need the courage to act. It is time. It is time for republicans in congress to show just a shred of the courage of the Stoneman Douglas students. It is time for speaker ryan to let the house vote, to require background checks on a resale and transfer, to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists, to o
Cspan is brought to you by youe or satellite provider. The communicators looked at technology and its impact on voting and democracy recently with speakers at the state of the net Conference Held in washington d. C. Heres a look. Host katie harbath, is the Global Politics director for facebook. What does that entail . Guest being the Global Politics and government outreach director means that myself and my team who are situated across the world work with governments, elected officials, candidates on how to best use facebook to communicate with citizens. And then we also help to work on facebooks overall efforts in elections which includes protecting the integrity of elections on our platform whether thats through preventing foreign interference, fake accounts, etc. , but then also helping to teach people how to use their Civic Engagement tools so more people can have a voice in the political process. Host people heard you say what you did, and theyre going you didnt do a very good job
The man that we always count on to put place democracy front and center of everything. You know so well that since citizens united, the last two election cycles that have set records for money spent, including hundreds of millions of dollars from undisclosed sources, the bulk of this socalled dark money spend iingy outside groups that hide their donors go toward negative tv ads. We all know that. Would you recommend changes to the Communications Act to ensure that voters are informed about who exactly is behind these anonymous tv ads . And is there anything in your view that the fcc can do on its own without congressional intervention . I would recommend them enforcing the statute that we already have. If you take a close look at section 317, which has to do with sponsorship identification and which goes back even before the teleCommunications Act of 1934 was written, goes back to 1927, ensuring that listeners and viewers more recently know by whom they are trying to be persuaded wheth
Data security, the way the virtual marketplace is used, and the way our constituents want to have a tool box to protect, as i call it, their virtual you online. So, we appreciate your time, your willingness to be with us this morning, and i yield back to the chair of the committee. Yield back. Gentleman from texas mr. Barton want to use some of that time . Thank you mr. Chairman. Ive served on this committee since 1986. Ive served with three of the four former chairman, mr. Wiley preceded me. Weve had some agreements, weve had some disagreements. So its good to have all four of you gentlemen here today. When i was chairman of the full committee, back in 1996, my commutety introduced a bill we call the coke bill, the communication opportunity promotion enhancement act of 2006. It dealt with national franchising, Net Neutrality, public educational and governmental access, e911 and what we now call void. It passed the house 321101, but it didnt come up for a vote in the senate. I voted fo
Now, thats a problem that the fcc really does need to think about in conjunction with the industry that michael represents so ably and in particular, not to touch too many other buttons, the recent increases in the prices of the content have a disproportional impact in Rural America. They are taking a lot of money out of the wallets of the people in those areas and those are same areas where broadband is expensive so as people pay more for broadcast content and cable channel content, they have less available to purchase broadband. This is a problem thats real. And existing right now. It gives me a chance to pass the solution over to chairman powell. Congressman, i think you make a couple of important points that we should put top of mind which is the challenge of reaching that last 5 to 7 is because under Traditional Market fundamentals theyre uneconomic and if theyre uneconomic the only way to cure something is change the economic equation. This is why i had no problem understanding a