meek are pushing to try to savet the post office.ext that shou ald be the next thing and what is after that? we need to address our fiscal of and financial issues so we caney come out of this recession and a lean and mean manner to be ato a better country, to be able to compete in a global basis. we need to stop putting the american people's interest first instead of everybody else. get it's critically important to let people know one good deed begets another good deeds begets another good deed. this is the stirs step in this 234u calendar year to do just that. thank you and i yield the floor. mr. lieberman: thank you, senator brown. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. i'm pleased to report that i just received notice that within the hour the administration put out the statement of administration policy, the so-called s.a.p. strongly

so-called s.a.p. strongly strongly endorsing legislation s. 2038 and appreciate that verg much. it's a very strong statement ofo support for the principles and exactly the kinds of things that senator collins, senator brown, senator gillibrand and senator tester and i have been saying here so as the president said on, in his state of the unionet speech, this bill hits, but can get this bill to his desk the sooner the better, he will sign it as soon as he possibly can. t if there is no one else who wishes to speak at this time i will suggest the absence of a quorum.

you are going to find more and more people to recognize the massive opportunities for exchange and trade. if i'm present of the united states one of the things i will do in my first 100 days is to begin an economic initiative of drawing latin american businesses and american businesses closer together. this is a massive opportunity not of charity but of opportunity. it will help lift both parts of the world. >> this is about building a new grand coalition of americans who come together because they want to create a country where we unleash the spirit of the merrick and people and rebuild the country that we love. that is what 2012 is all about. [applause]

[inaudible conversations] >> host: you are watching "the communicators" on c-span. we are at the consumer electronic show in las vegas at the convention center. this week, we caught up with two ftc commissioners who are taking to ers of the exhibits here at the consumer electronics show. first up, mignon clyburn. >> we have new products, we have new promotions, we have new mascots, we have got new web sites. we have got new everything.

you put us in any one room and we put these little guys and the other room. what you will see is you take it to the next level in terms of performance and in terms of features. you will see high-definition issues. it will be really fast. you will see the guide, high-definition guide, channel logos, goes back and forth. really fast, again. this is a dvr. we made it really easy to find what you are looking for. one of the cool things we did was we created a feature called find time anytime and what it does when you look at the statistics of how people watch tv within hours of 8:00 and 11:00, the primetime hours about half of the people are watching abc, cbs, nbc and fox.

it says once a customer enables a feature it automatically records all the four networks using only one satellite tuner so there is a lot of technology that runs behind it. you can see all your primetime shows for eight days. anything that airs over the last eight days like i said i can go and watch -- . we have sling technology that enables you to watch tv on your ipod or laptop in with the hopper you can do all of these things. all of these tv shows and movies you can watch on any of your mobile devices. >> did you hear from consumers? y. eight days? why this? >> a couple of things. one is the number of high-definition tvs in the homes are increasing. three years ago people had one tv, one high-def and arrest -- now people, the minute you watch one tv and high-definition you

want to change out every tv in your home. so there is high-definition on every tv. we know consumers want primetime because that is what they spend at the time watching so we made it easy for them to do it and three video propulsion on tablets and mobile phones. we see it is still a small portion of total video consumption but it's definitely growing. is people want content and they want to watch it on their own devices, so -- so you go back one we get a time. if you want to go longer than eight days you can do that. >> you have that option, okay. >> or eight days you basically get all the shows. i have been discovering new shows which i would not have watched otherwise. >> there was a pretty interesting one called my teenage daughter hates me. it was really funny.

so alike in the morning i always have something to watch now and i never have to worry if i miss something. we also do a lot of work with broadband streaming sophia connects this to the internet you get access to thousands of movies, and some of them are available for $10 a month so if i pay $10 a month you get access to about 10,000 tv shows and some of them are new release titles that you pay $6.99 to watch. >> would the improvement of energy -- >> also what happens is because these are what we called -- they don't have a tuner or satellite tuner so when that television is off this box is doing nothing. it's just sitting there and not receiving any energy so an atypical for tv home you have four boxes like this, each of

them always on, consuming a lot of energy so you have only one of these lightweight boxes. typically i will be sitting on 50% energy in a for tv home. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> host: let me start with smart tv. the concept of smart tv is something that actually her company help pioneer about three years ago. we were the first one bug to put to put netflix into a blu-ray device so it was the first thing connected to the internet that was not a computer. now you see everybody has hard tv. that means you connect to the internet. we have wifi built into all of our new screens but you know smart only works if it's simple enough to access and there's so much content out there we want to make sure that consumers are able to access it simply. let me show you how we do that. we developed a special device that we call the magic remote.

thank you. a very intuitive thing. i will let you run it. you see it as sort of like a wei comptroller. it's very intuitive the way you move it around the screen. for the first time we have also integrated voice control so if you want to instead of having to type in a webpage to go to find it all you have to do is speak into the remote and it will find it automatically for you. >> i can do that? >> you can't do it here but it actually works with american english, spanish, french and so is pretty amazing. but there is so much content out there now we want to help consumers find easy ways to access it and the magic remote is a big part of that. from a policy stampler and we are also looking at how this is

going to affect cable operators and you know over the top tv so we are working mostly with mts pd on how they will deliver their content through this platform and in fact we are showing somewhere here, can't find it that the first application with fios and our friends from bryson so we actually have an app so you can actually instead of having a box for fios you can give a three-year smart smart tv. >> that's great for consumers. >> i heard you talk about energy. it will help reduce energy use in your home. the new l.e.d. sets are very energy efficient. lg was the first to support the new energy star most efficient category. we have a tvs currently more than anybody else in in the most efficient category and in 2012 we will have even more. i want to show you the most energy-efficient products in the world. you may have heard about organic

light emitting dials. this is a 55-inch oled and we have been showing l.e.d. for a couple of years. 15-inch two years, 20-inch last year. it's really big and it's a real product. >> it's really thin. >> it's really thin, four millimeters. less than three sixteenths of an inch. if you look at another tv screen at this angle you would not be able to even see the picture but it has such high contrast, high-resolution and color saturation you get really the ultimate high-definition experience. >> again you talk about energy efficiency. when i'm seeing this and seeing the resolution i'm automatically thinking that we are going to consume more in terms of, as opposed to -- >> is really the opposite. you think about those big old sets we replace, the first ac tv

sets were energy hogs. i don't have the energy rating on this yet but i can tell you a 55-inch l.e.d. or lcd is about 8 cents a day to operate. >> wow. >> lg has been revolutionary sing the 3-d experience. conventional tv uses -- which means you have to plug them in. these are the same kinds of glasses you would get in the movie theater, light lightweight and inexpensive. >> compared to you -- two years ago these are extremely light weight. >> very light weight. this is an altar definition screen so this is four times the resolution of conventional ac tv so 1080p times for this is what you get. a very large screen from 84-inch, a phenomenal 3-d experience. as you turn around and look at, don't have room for this one in my house but i have taken out my

new set and set this right on top of it. the first thing you'll notice is that we call this cinema screen. the border is pretty much disappeared so it's all picture now of all of these smart tv capability 3-d and we enhance the 3-d capability this year to allow you to adjust the 3-d effect so if you were watching a sporting event and you want to see more 3-d you can dial it up and if you're watching a movie that might have too much for you you can dial it down so it's really more for your personal preferences. >> that's good to know because it's my first year here and i felt scared. [laughter] >> in fact i want to give you an ultimate 3-d experience as we walk out. the other cool thing we have done with 3-d, we have a 3-d app now on the smart tv so you get more 3-d content.

so i mentioned 2-d and 3-d conversion. i wasn't a believer in this commission or a year ago. it really didn't look this year but the new technology is fantastic. if you can envision watching, if you're in -- and you want to watch m*a s*h and 3-d, turn on the 3-d converter and you would be able to watch television and 3-d now. >> wow. i guess i'm showing my age. i don't think i could do this for long. >> when you were watching it in your living room and you are able to actually adjusted, you will watch everything and 3-d of course but a special movie are that special sporting event, it's really a phenomenal experience. >> thank you so much. >> great to see you. >> you might have to watch me

next year when you get to the prototype on the floor. >> so glad you came by. >> take care. >> host: what is the importance of showing you 3-d tv? >> i think we need to stay in touch with the consumer experience. we need to know constantly that this is where the demand, this is where the consumption is and we need to make sure that our policies, the decision that we make, the things that we consider are in line with the consumer interest. that is important. just as you see these incredible inventions on the floor. >> host: thank you for letting us take part in your two or. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: that was democratic commissioner mignon clyburn as she took a tour of some of the exhibits here at the consumer electronics show. on your screen is the lobby of the las vegas convention center which is where the show is held.

about 140,000 people attend the show every year, 3000 plus exhibitors. we also caught up with republican ftc commissioner robert mcdowell as he toured the samsung. commission mcdowell what do you hope to learn here at ces? >> at the consumer electronics show what i try to learn is what is the latest technology and what we find here is everything is going wireless so the tvs are communicating wirelessly broadband and cable or dsl or fiber or whatever. this underscores the need to bring more spectrum to the airwaves for consumers to be able to use and probably more unlicensed -- so that is one of the takeaways from this year show. >> host: hoddy make that happen? >> guest: wienie congresses help for starters. we have spectrum lying around that we can send to auction.

but, congress right now as we speak is working on what we call incentive auction legislation where we have broadcasters relinquish some of their channels to use for things like this and that type of spectrum, that neighborhood or the dial is great for high-bandwidth, high-resolution videos such as what you are seeing now. >> one of the themes here is tv everywhere and how does that affect what you do at the fcc? >> cs is sensory overload but it will present a lot of interesting public policy and real issues but again is there enough spectrum to feed it as we are getting tablets and devices and my kids at christmas got a bunch of devices themselves so we want to watch video there and a lot of public policy issues.

there is a -- yesterday. doesn't apply to images being fed through let's say wifi versus over the air broadcasts and of course the law says no at this point i'd what will the future that be? >> host: great. >> samsung we are looking at the various technology here. this is super oled tv. >> what the's that stand for? >> you have stumped me there. >> okay. >> optical l.e.d. light dialogue. >> see, you knew. >> what this allows you to do is turn on and off each pixel by celso each pixel has its own light source which allows you to provide better energy efficiency and brighter pictures so this is our 55-inch oled tv. >> 55-inch might have how many

pixels? >> this is high-def which is about 1 million pixels or in the corner what we will look at next is the superhigh deaf or 4k television that essentially puts four times the number of pixels in the same picture. >> when you say each one gets turned on and off, if i see black does that mean it's off? >> each pixel is l.e.d. that has three colors and each caller can be turned on individually. that allows you to have deep blacks and very bright rights so if you look at the picture it's a very vivid picture. >> so the black -- >> the of black is all off. >> i learned something. let's go see the 4k. >> how long do you spend at samsung putting a display like this together? >> this is a year-long effort. they spend the entire time developing the technology to

planning and acquiring space. we are in the process of acquiring next year space. [inaudible conversations] >> we are going to the 4k. how many pixels does this have? >> this is four times the pixels that we just saw. this is still a developing said but as you see you start to see the 3-d because of the higher resolution of the image and the vivid colors that come through. >> as a matter of physics and engineering would you be able to achieve a full 3-d effect just by packing in more pixels so five or 10 years from now you won't need the other 3-d technology? >> that's a potential application. this is an early development where you start to see the 3-d effect. 3-d as you may know his

depending on the user. some users cannot process the 3-d content very well. it depends if you have a dominant eye you may not be up the see it clearly so. >> some people get motion sickness depending on the technology of the glass is being used. better for some people and worse for others. so you say sunday that might help get rid of that. >> i will let you see. you see the constant moving around on the screen and you see the vivid colors. you see the affects of 3-d without having the multiple images being sent to your brain several times. >> it's getting there but maybe we call it two and a quartered d. right now. there is an image of a football coming towards me i'm not going to -- >> you are not going to dodge it or catch it. this certainly has promised that it has a long way to go because of the technology and producing the higher resolution screens,

producing the content that is 4k. >> how many years did it take to develop the 4k technology? >> this has been developing for quite a few years. i can give you the exact number but it is at least 45 years. >> how much might this retail for now? >> this is a one-off so this is many years. >> so it's not going to be in the market anytime soon. okay. >> we are innovating and the next steps in tv will be the higher definition television. >> how many engineers does it take to produce something like this over four or five years. >> we have thousands of engineers working on how you do the image processing to how you increase the dosing of the pixels within the screen itself. >> the screen is very thin, is that right? >> i can't confirm that. it is generated very --

>> okay. what is next? >> we are going over to the family share. the family shares a way to share content with your family through pictures. >> through wireless technology. >> through streaming pictures to camera videos of your family. >> let's go see it. >> what we are seeing is what we call family story. family story allows you to take a picture or take a video and share it with your family. it will be shared or whatever device they are on. if you are on on a tablet for example and you want to share it with grandma in new jersey and she is after tv you can send a page and say grandma here is some content i would like to share with you and that content would be then shared with her and as you see right now we are sharing a picture and you see your i am and your texting back and forth about that protection at -- picture. what is great about this is this

will allow you to do new things like i met my daughter's ballgame and i want to send the video to grandma and say look at this great basketball shot she has got. you will stream that video in the future dreck lee to grandma. >> at all travels to the internet. >> at all travels through the internet. it could be in hd video being sent to grandma so you are using the latest technology like lte played on for eisen, at&t. is going to increase because now you have that data connection they are persistently so it's very important. >> so a mobile device, from their mobile device to send her image and then you pull this up and this is in your family room or living room. this is your tv but it's acting as a fancy high-powered computed -- computer monitor as well. >> you consented to your tablet or send it to your phone or your computer.

we may not know what laptop or device you are sending it on that it will go out to wherever you are at find where you are at and say hey, and mr. mcdowell, here's his picture i would like to share with you. do you want to share then you say yes. you start to interact and associate with that picture of video. >> so this unit has a camera on it? you can use this for -- >> the these are new tvs and in 2012 we are putting video cameras on the tv and audio cameras on the tv so yes you will be able to do two-way videoconferencing. >> in nebraska and grandma in new jersey? >> you are from nebraska? >> i'm not that i they get i'd pick someplace far away from new jersey. >> the new interface we are having with a camera on tv. you can talk to the tv, tv turn

on, tv channel 2, tv channel 5. you can also have gestures in way that the tv and you can grab that menu so you now have a new way to interact to control your tv or to control content. >> how does that work with a malfunction? you are watching a game or a presidential debate and you go -- >> there are certain key gestures that they will be on. you have to bring up the menu. you waive and go like that in yeah you will probably see the menu or say channel of. >> this is -- >> this is built within our own app store. we have an app store that runs within the smart tv platform that we currently have over 500 developers developing apps for samsung tv and it's a very robust applications. >> a mobile app for any device?

>> for the family store, yes. the apple run on any of our devices and it will run on any device or pc and it will also run on our tablets or her cell phones. >> so more feature rich applications in you need more spectrum to carry those applications. >> especially when you start talking about video. video will probably be the video application. >> hopefully it won't kill the wireless applications. we will see what we can do to help you out on that. >> spectrum efficiency, what can you do to use the spectrum we have more efficiently and innovation will come about. >> great. >> thank you. >> thank you. next week and go on to paul share which which is another distributing content. all share is the fundamental, another fundamental transport

mechanism to get content throughout your home. currently it works only within your home network so what we are adding in this year is the ability to take content from your laptop. you have a video stored on your laptop and you want to share it with your mother's home while you are visiting so with your phone you can pull up that content and show it on her tv through her enabled tv. >> we have come a long way from those tube tvs with rabbit ears, haven't we? >> we are bringing tubes back in our sound systems. tubes have been very robust, very rich sounds, vacuum tubes. >> we are making news right now. >> this next device is a device to just announced with at&t called the galaxy. this is a device that bridges between a cell phone and a tablet. >> so the name galaxy, that's very ambitious. there's a big market in the galaxy. >> the galaxy has been our

flagship branding for a while with cell phones. this is an lte enabled device that is running on an android platform. is 5.3 inches in size it was a little bit bigger than a cell phone but not a small, big as a tablet. >> and its wifi enabled? >> wifi enabled and lte enabled so you have the latest high-speed and with. >> do i take this overseas, is there a gsm chip in there? >> it has gsm and atk. >> with all those chips in it how much of a battery life is at? >> gets a larger size than the device. battery life is about eight to 10 hours. when you are using it all the time. >> so what makes this device different from some of the competitors out there? >> one of the things we have added to this is the s pen. the s pen, you see