commissioner chair tom wheeler tells open internet advocates that the fcc vote on internet rules was the proudest moment in his public life. the event focused on the recent vote and work with the fcc s spectrum office. it runs 20 minutes. good evening, everybody. so great to see all of you. i think we have more here tonight than last year. the gentlemen i am about to talk to and introduce also needs no introduction he is the man of the hour as someone at my table said. i think he is a man of courage and we all applaud this service and creativeity and the inspiration he has brought to the federal communication system. we are excited to hear what you have to say and grateful for your time tonight. please join me in welcoming chairman tom wheeler. [applause] hello. how are you doing? nice party you are having. just having a couple friends over. it is great to be here. thank you for joining us. we are so grateful. you have been busy. every day at the fcc is like s
the environmental rules cannot unduly compromised their reliability. no matter how great the environmental cost? there is a balance that needs to be struck. how do you strike that balance if you don t know whether climate change is happening and whether human activity plays a huge role whether the consequences of doing nothing could be dire and expensive which i assume expensive is a word they would fit into that calculus. we look at what the impact on our ratepayers would be in the benefits to the environment under the proposed rule. but the impact on your ratepayers could be felt through climate change as well as through the rates that they pay could they not? and that s not part of what you looked at them part of your analysis? the benefits have been put forth by the epa in their plan and we are weighing the costs against the benefits that the epa has proposed. for what it s worth the executive director of the wisconsin business alliance has called energy
exclusively into honduras from, dead strips or bits of that land, offload and then take off again or just destroy the airplane. the hondurans with no military help from us some advice and encouragement and started to occupy and move their military command these are very remote areas of honduras moving their military out there. drug traffickers no that they are there. a a civilian. a us pilot, and chances i am guessing he was on his way i don t know what he was doing. but all of the drug flights come out of venezuela. you alluded you said that the policies are a clear return to cold war tactics. how could that translate into account plantation. bomber patrols if in fact they happened. confrontation could escalate not in the midst of an october type of scale another jfk idealist, but on the lower level. i don t think much of all. i think just a nuisance. we watch them come and go. very little possibility of them having a confrontation with us ships and airplanes becau
religious function including professors, teachers and even a cemetery personnel. additional exemptions are not only necessary but could lead to adverse consequences for discrimination protection. if nondiscrimination provisions protecting the workers from discrimination on the job will not infringe upon the religious beliefs of employers. employers already have these ample protections under the first amendment and explicit statutory exemptions. the courts have also not been shy of playing bees in the rights liberally. the supreme court noted that the u.s. constitution gives a special solitude to the rights of religious organizations. the supreme court has also recognized that the government has a unique and compelling interest in protecting against employment discrimination. writing for the majority in hobby lobby, justice alito rejected the possibility that discrimination and hiring might be a religious practice to a scapegoat legal sanction. he wrote the decision today prov
i believe i can to the extent it s not privileged. i would imagine it shouldn t be privileged but i d be surprised if a document like that would be privileged. i m sure we can work out a situation where you can provide that to us. okay. but it may well be in terms we don t need filled out one, just blank one to see what kind of questions you are asking. i would ask, have a moment hcr working with ice reviewing the form. i don t know where that process is but i know the form has been subject people have had a look at it. i think it s googleable even if the government doesn t release it. it is a public form. i can t remember the number. i appreciate that. recently received here at the commission a number of complaints, copies of complaints that were submitted involving religious freedom submitted by arab american american arab anti-discrimination committee involving religious freedom at the stewart facility. are any of you aware of these complaints? it s ver