Auction task force. Mr. Epstein, what does that mean . Guest thank you, peter. Im happy to be here. I am the head of the task force at the fcc which is responsible for implementing the incentive auction which is a firsttimeever auction at the fcc for spectrum. Host and the incentive auction is the auction, the spectrum auctions involving the broadcasters, correct . Guest indeed, it is. It is whats called a twosided auction which for the very first time will acquire spectrum from broadcasters in a socalled reverse auction and then turn around, repackage it and make it available to the wirelessc carriers9jz a forward auction. So it is a backtoback auction, a reverse auction and a forwardq auction. Host well, two followups to that. The fcc has set march of 2016 as the date for the incentive auctions to happen. A, will that date hold and, b, how long have you been working on this . Guest the auction commences on march 29th, 2016, and we do intend to hold to that date. All the commissioner
Earlier today, astronauts mark kelly and terry virts discussed ongoing Nasa Missions and research, including the mars mission. Mr. Kelly talked about nasas study of himself and twin, scott kelly. This is about an hour. Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is john hughes. Im an editor at bloomberg first word. Thats bloombergs breaking news desk here in washington, and i am the president of the National Press club. We have a historic day here in the National Press club. Our guest live via video link from the nsInternational Space station is scott kelly. Here at the table is mark kelly and terry virts. From the audiences right, david shepardson, Washington Bureau chief for the detroit news. Robert kunz. Frank mooring jr. , senior editor. The Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news and current chairman of the speakers committee. Senior Vice President for business wires Public Policy wire and the press club member who organized this mornings breakf
Recognized for his questions. Okay. Thank you. Id like to welcome my fellow e coloradans to washington, d. C. , gentlemen, thank you for your testimony, all of you, thank you for your testimony today. T part of this is i feel like, you know, were in the early stages of litigation, and i, the chairman, i think, maybe a frustrated litigator wanting to figure out who was negligent, who wasnt negligent, whos responsible for this, what happened. Appreciate the fact that the epa got to the department of health in colorado quickly, who got to durango, quickly. To share this. There apparently was some breakdown in communication getting to the Navajo Nation. A court is going to figure out o exactly what happened, when it happened, should it have happened, dr. Williamson, but id like to ask some other questions, because i think dr. A benn, you suggested some things that the epa should consider inn the short term and in the long term, one was help you with some monitoring devices to keep an eye o
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Properly, they can be an advocate of Economic Freedom. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much. We will now open it to q a. Please wait to be called upon. Thats for the benefit of our viewers. Microphone will come to you. And would you please be so kind to make your question really short and in a form of a question so we can get through as many of them as possible. So are there any questions in the audience . The gentleman over here. Wonderful talks by everyone. My name is steven shore. I have a question that of a dog that didnt bark. A classic distinction between accidents and substance, and when the holy father talks about the capitalism, is he clear as to whether hes attacking unfortunate accidents or the very substance itself . So far as i can tell he tends not to make that distinction. Pope john paul did make that to capitalism. Id frankly love them to make the difference but Pope John Paul ii, st. John paul ii said if by capitalism we mean this then no. If by capitali