[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] well, good morning pete the subcommittee will come to order the chair recognizes himself an Opening Statement. Good morning welcome back before the subcommittee. Assistant secretary davidson the National Telecommunication Information Administration has been very busy since the last time you appeared for us and may. In a june nci or allocated the money for the broadbent equity access to the states. This amounts to 42. 5 billion dollars. Since then states have submitted their fiveyear action plan the infrastructure at law strict requirements such as ensuring funding achieves universal connectivity and prohibiting great regulations. I am concerned some of the state plans are calls for more federal funding required by the law and blatant efforts by states to engage in rate regulation of broadband services. Thankfully and cia has rejectedt his and his attempt including for my home state of ohio. Though it overrode existing networks in opti
Were going to continue to challenge states to hold universities accountability. Were going to get much more information out to young people and their families to make good choices. We hope theyll go places that are not just serious about creating access, but about completion. Theres a number of things were going to do to help people make choices and to get more resources to places that are doing the right thing by their young people. This questioner suggests that the administration has pulled back a little bit on that effort to evaluate and rate colleges and universities wondering if the administration was bowing to from Higher Education institutions or what happened there. We can be accused of lots of things. It was an interesting process that was we learned as we were going through it. Its almost like an old school versus newschool approach and the idea of having a federal government do an annual report card and come out with a seal of approval, that used to maybe make some sense. It
When it comes to the Auto Industry and expanding u. S. Auto exports, we have quite a strong case to make when it comes to the tpp. According to the agreement, we will this agreement will cut the 30 car tariff in malaysia and 70 car tariff in vietnam. Those are two countries where you have a large and growing middle class. That makes them good markets for selling automobiles. The United States and the negotiators who represented our interests at the table are keenly aware of that and thats why there is the priority that was placed on trying to cut the tariff so is that u. S. Automakers would have better access to those markets. And if youre going to be able to cut the 30 car tariff in malaysia and 70 in vietnam, youll be able to sell more cars and thats ultimately the goal. It will expand Economic Opportunity for american businesses and create significant opportunity for American Workers for making those cars. Thats been the goal of this particular agreement and thats the case that well
Published in 1906. A year after his bought his ranch property. The valley of the moon was published while he was living here. Jack london claimed that he worked two hours a day writing thousand words a day before breakfast. But i think a lot of his time was spent because he was trying to build the beauty ranch so it could be a model and that took a lot of his time. See all of our programs saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. And a house Science Space Technology hearing. Discussing the potential of life on other planets and the recent discovery of liquid water on mars. Lamar smith chairs this hour and 40 minute hearing. Science space and technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is ordered to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, astrobiology and the search for life beyond earth in the neck decade. Let me make a couple of announcements. One is to say we expect more
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