The communications and technology subcommittee. Representative shimkus, thanks for joining us. Guest its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Host and also joining us, david mccabe of the hill, thank you for joining us. Pleasure to be here. Host theres an effort in congress about who controls the internet, internet dominance, and you have a piece of legislation that deals specifically with this. Could you set up our audience and let them know what the issue is and what your bill addresses . Guest well, its called the dill the bill was originally called the dot. Com act, and it was about icanns transition of the eye january that functions, who is the keeper of the addresses, how the internet operates. And there is kind of an international struggle, and the u. N. And some people saying, you know, the United States should not be the keeper of the final vestiges of a contract, and we should have a multistakeholder approach. The Tech Community has gathered support for that, and we go
There is very big serious each is to be addressed. Also a reluctance to confront these issues in the congress. Not only do they have a lot to do, but they as you may have noticed have a hard time doing anything these days, they disagree about so much. We argued to say it is time to stop kicking the can down the road and start having an intelligent conversation about these big issues. To start s off today i am going to call on four people who know about this, and they will speak in turn and open up for questions from the audience. To my left is robert taub dermott designated acting chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission by president obama on december 4th, 2014. He is new to the job but he was also sworn in as the commissioner in 2011 and elected vice chair in 2013. He came to the post office from the army where he was special assistant to the secretary of the army john mcyou and served as chief of staff to u. S. Congressman john mccue for a whole decade. To his left is dr. Robert
Misdemeanors and those convicted of three or more misdemeanors. So heres my ask. We want to work with you to restore this relationship. Weve replaced secure communities with a new program for the benefit of Public Safety. But i need a partner. In those in this room, in governors and mayors county commissions, and so forth. Weve done our part to end the controversial secure communities program. Now i ask that you and others get with your city attorney, your city council, your police commissioner, your chief get a hold of the policy document that i issued in november to see how weve replaced the secure communities program. For the benefit of all of toes we serve. And if youre one of those 177 jurisdictions, you will get a knock on the door from me. Because we want to work with you to rebuild this relationship. In my view it is a Public Safety imperative. Elsewhere in our department were moving forward on our Cyber Security mission. We had legislation passed late last year. The administra
It is different from the private pilot requirements because of course, they will not have to actually manipulate the aircraft. In order to pass the the test, it will be necessary to receive some education in the standards of operating in the airspace. So we believe that the testing requirements will assure that people are competent for the purposes of operating their system. Weve asked for comment. Well be interesting to see what well get back from the community to see if we need to adjust those proposals in any way. Thank you very much. Mr. Morris, let me change topics. In the discussing of developing a system of control over uas long distances using existing Cellular Telephone Networks or at least existing cell towers that conversation, recognizing considerable technological hurdles out there and are Telecommunication Companies prepared for this task . Senator, we really are at the beginning of the development of kind of the commercial aviation. Im honestly not thoroughly familiar wi
Screeria nigeria. The sea because because next a discussion on the future of the u. S. Postal service. Then u. S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner talks about security on the north and south u. S. Borders. After that a house hearing on recent secret Service Incidents with director joseph clancy. Now the Brookings Institution hosted a special on the future of the u. S. Postal service. Panelists include acting chairman and current specter general of the u. S. Postal service. They address the Current Health of the Postal Service and what changes are needed in order to modernize and improve the Financial Condition of this Government Institution. This is an hour and 25 minutes. Good morning everyone. I am the director of the center for Public Management here at brookings. One of the perhaps oldest, along with the United States army, organizations in the u. S. Government. And about which theres been much written, and even a movie made. Okay . Or two or three. And the post office is