i heard ideas from my republican colleagues. still, there were disagreements. we disagree about whether insurance company should be held accountable. i believe they should. we disagree about giving tax credits to small businesses and individuals that would make health care affordable to those who do not have it. this would be the largest middle-class tax cut in history, and i believe we should do it. while we agreed that americans with existing conditions should get coverage, we disagree on how to do that. some of these disagreements, we may be able to resolve. some of them, we may not. not everyone will get everything they want. that is what compromise is. i am ready to move forward with both parties if the other side is genuine about wanting to resolve our differences. but we cannot lose the opportunity to meet this challenge.

for tens of millions of men and women who cannot afford their health insurance, they cannot wait another generation for us to act. state and federal budgets cannot sustain these rising costs. it is time for us to come together, to act, for those of us in washington to live up to our responsibility to the american people and future generations. let us get this done. thank you for listening. >> i am dr. tom coburn, a practicing physician from oklahoma and a member of the united states senate. i had the opportunity to join president obama and my colleagues for a summit on health care. we had a respectful and constructive discussion. i am concerned that the majority in congress is still not listening to the american people on the subject of health care reform. by an overwhelming margin, the people are telling us to scrap the current bills, which will lead to a government takeover

of health care. we should start over. unfortunately, even before the summit took place, the majority signaled its intent to reject our offers to work together. they want to use procedural tricks to ram through a new bill that combines the worst aspects of the bills passed last year. the american people have rejected the majority's plan for good reason. it includes half a trillion dollars in cuts and rationing. at its core, their plan is a government centered approach that will make health care more of -- more expensive. if more government spending and control was the answer, we could have fixed health care long ago. republicans in congress have a different vision for reform. we'll put together proposals that lay out a step by step path

to reform. our solutions are patient- centered, not government- centered. we believe in increasing access, not taxes. we believe in reducing cost, not quality. we believe no one has the right to step between you and your doctor. i introduced the patient's choice act last may. that includes several step-by- step ideas for reform. that and other republican plans accomplish all of the president's goals, including expanding coverage, without raising taxes, bankrupting the country, or rationing care. our ideas address the core problem in our health-care system, skyrocketing cost, by using the only force that ever loses cost -- competition and consumer choice. third parties have stepped between you and your doctor.

our solutions restore the doctor-patient relationship and put you, not your insurance company or the government, in charge of your health care dollars and decisions. it provides tax credits that let you buy and keep the plan of your choice. we also limit lawsuit abuse, which causes doctors to order costly tests to protect themselves rather than the patient. we want to rein in fraud, waste and duplication. one in $3 in our health-care system does not do anything to do anything -- does not do anything to help people get well. republicans and democrats agree that reducing inefficiencies would reduce costs and improve access. the majority has a choice. we can continue to make progress like at the summit, or they can ram through a partisan bill that

would bankrupt america. i wholeheartedly share president obama's desire for more civility and bipartisanship in washington, and i am proud of the work we did together when he was a member of the senate. true civility is measured by accidents -- is measured by actions, not words. last year, dozens of democrat- only summits were held in secret, behind closed doors, and produced many unsavory deals. has those meetings -- had those meetings been open and bipartisan, i believe we could have passed a health care bill months ago. democrats should continue this debate, not cut it off by rushing through a partisan bill the american people have already rejected. they will find many republicans ready to pursue our common goal of helping americans access

quality health care for themselves and their families. thank you so much for listening. >> this week, interviews from the congressional internet caucus. every year, this event highlights emerging internet technologies that shape congressional policy making. it took place in the senate office building in january. we will begin with your marks from senator patrick leahy of vermont, the caucus code-share. -- code-share. -- co-share. chair. >> i wish my granddaughter was

here. she has this computer program where you can draw pictures and play games. she had to take it over. it was very complicated. [laughter] we have senators who are not quite sure what the computer screen does. we actually showed them that they can do that. there are 200 vdiverse companies on the advisory board. i think that is great to protect our rights and freedoms -- the human rights of people everywhere. in some many countries were speech has been censored, the internet has allowed speech to

get through. the secretary of state reaffirmed our nation's commitment. and thank goodness that people can feel free to speak about what ever they want. american businesses have to do that. i hope businesses will work together to promote global internet freedom. when you promote global internet freedom, you are also promoting freedom itself. i think that is something we should never lose sight of. we have to figure out the best way to protect our nation's cyber security, not just for the security of our businesses but of our government. a lot of businesses here have to

do what the u.s. government does every day. we have criminals who know how easy it is to use the internet for crime. when i was a prosecutor and somebody would do a $20 thousand bank robbery, that was a big deal. we would usually catch them within a few miles of the bank. now, you steal much more and do it perhaps even from another country. in my home state of vermont, we established dimensional -- we established a national center for the investigation of cyber crime. if anybody is interested to go up there and see it, they can

help all of us. as a chairman of the senate judiciary committee, i advise congress and to enact the identity theft or restitution act. next month are our hearings on that and other ways to fight cyber crime. so there is a lot to be done. i realize i only touched on a couple of things. what i want is to keep the internet open, to keep it as a valuable tool. i also want to make sure that those who want to damage our country or industries, those who want to commit crimes -- that we are able to stop them comity 0. -- to stop them, too.

thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> why are points of light and causes on facebook here today? we have partnered to build an online volunteer center that is completely integrated with facebook that allows people who are searching for and signing up for volunteer opportunities to share that opportunity with all of their friends on facebook. >> how does it work? >> the basic concept is that when you are looking for a volunteer opportunity on the causes/hands of light volunteer center, you'll be immediately shown a list of all the volunteer opportunities in your location. we can tell from your ip address where you are logging

in. you will find all the opportunities in the local area. if you have friends who signed up, we can tell you that, because it is all based on your facebook networks. you can see what your friends are doing. if you want to sign up for a particular event, you will insert your information, which ties into a back-end system which hands on has already built for managing its volunteers. youth and share that opportunity with your friends -- you can share that opportunity with your friends so they can join you. the idea behind it is that this should increase the number of people doing volunteer work, should increase the actual turn out on the day the have signed up to do something because they know their friends will be with them. hopefully, it will increase repeat engagement, people coming

back to do more volunteer work, and make it a more social experience where people go as groups of friends to do important work. >> how did points of light get involved? >> points of light is an organization that encourages folks to volunteer. we inspire, equip, and mobilize folks to make a difference in their community. hands on network partnered with kazaa on facebook. this handles affiliate's throughout the country who have their own ways of recruiting volunteers -- this handles affiliates throughout the country who have their own ways of recruiting volunteers, and taps into the social networking that is going on anyway. it helps people sign up on facebook, recruit their friends, and make volunteering cool. >> why are you here

demonstrating this for members of congress and staffers? >> i can take that one. essentially, we want them to know their constituents are out there. they care about a lot of different issues. the want to volunteer and make a difference. just because they do not have a chance to come to the hill every day, or even once a week or a month, they are out there, making a difference. all the members have to do is check out facebook to see what their constituents are doing pre. it is pretty easy. >> is there federal money involved? >> not that we know of. there is a social innovation fund going on to help companies further their technology and make their communities bigger. there is a possibility later. >> thank you.

>> you are welcome. >> what is qme!.gov? >> is an application that is a one-stop shop for government questions. imagine that someone has a government-related question, health-care related or educated related -- or education related. right now, there is not one place to go. we pull data so that any question you have that is government-related is one place to go. which will give you the options. we will not give you pages to read. we will give you that direct option. >> how do you get from prototype

to reality? >> there are many components that have to come together to make it a reality. we actually partnered with a startup company called, cha cha- caha a few months back and made a consumer version of this on the iphone store. you can ask a question. you can type it or speak it. we use for this recognition technology. we use choctawa-cha's database. you can download a right now to play with. the government version is still a prototype. we are looking for government customers who are interested in the technology for helping to bring that sort of information out to their society. we are looking for partners to work with to bring something

like that out. >> what is: cancer? >> you can see how fast it was. i said that, and it gave me so many options. i don't know if you can see this on the screen. it walks through how you get colon cacencer, and related questions to that. what are the stages of colon cancer? let me try a couple of those to give you an idea of how fast it is. how do i apply for medicare? you can see a very similar thing. >> why bring it to the congressional internet caucus expo? >> there are several reasons for that. this is a place about how the

internet is revolutionizing the way we access information and interact with each other. this is truly an application where it really simplifies the way people access information, wherever they are. i could be in china and have a question about medicare part d, and i could ask that question and get the answer. that is one important aspect. the second part is to find the way consumers access that information. at the moment, there is not really one place for people to get information. there are many places to get information. to get one place -- is a very hard thing to do that. we brought it here as a way to expose it to the masses. how can we bring information together and allow our consumers -- people out there -- to have a one-stop place where they can access information? from an at&t point of view, we

believe in an open internet. we believe by exposing it to the masses, the technology does not all have to come from at&t. you could have a technology that could be made available to the masses. the idea of an open internet -- that is exactly what we are shooting for. >> what is the entertainment software in ministration? >> represent the computer and video game industry.

we have about 30 members. they are game publishers. three of them are game consul makers -- microsoft, sony, and nintendo. today, we are showing what our latest consoles are. these are the latest consoles out on the market. they also have hand-held devices, each of these companies. we did not bring them today, but we wanted you guys to see the latest consoles and what controllers you use with them. the wii is a great consoles. it has a motion sensitive controller. they are all wireless, encouraging movement and activity for gamers. we have been a member of the internet caucus for quite a few years now. we just like to show everyone

what our latest technology is, and also let them know how people are placing games in their daily lives. it is not just for entertainment purposes anymore. they are also being used for medical training, for fitness, education, rehabilitation. there are some really wonderful uses now. we try to encourage that. that is why we are here today.

>> what is this map we are looking at? >> for years, we have been mapping broadband, where broadband is available and where it is not. broadband statistics allows us to show the data in various formats based on what your needs are. for example, this is just a general map to give you an idea of -- the cursor is in nashville. this is an upper tennessee. anywhere you see the red color means broadband is available. briefly, you can look and see that broadband is available.

you can scroll across the state of tennessee and see the areas and pockets where broadband is, and more importantly, where it is not. what if we wanted to look at where is coverage with one provider and where is coverage with multiple providers? what now is showing -- anywhere in pink means that broadband is available by one provider. where is an orange means it is from multiple providers. that is another thing that a lot of folks have asked me. is broadband available from multiple providers? you can start to do more analysis. we can zoom into a particular area and start looking and seeing what is available. it will refresh every time you zoom in to show what is available and what is not

available. one of the other ways to look at it -- let me let it catch up with me. you can look at the density of the areas that are un served. providers and folks that are making funding decisions want to know the impact of a dollar spent. by looking at the density of the on-served areas -- and un- served areas show us where we can get the most bang for our buck. i am going to keep zooming in. you can continue to see how many homes are in that particular area. in this area right here, this represents over 85 homes per square mile. you can see there is a dense

area there. you want to learn as much as you can about that area. you can even switch to a satellite view and look at it from a satellite standpoint to see exactly where are those homes located. you can zoom down even further and look at those homes. let me switch that off. if you want to see what a large impact broadband would have, you can look at a particular area, select the tool, and highlight all the census blocks in a particular area you designate. if i build in this area, this is what i can expect in availability. this would be the number of homes that were already served and that are currently on served. >> how does this tie into the national broadband plan? >> in tennessee, we have been working on mapping for some

time. with the national broadband plan, it is asking for a number of factors we have not looked at yet. it will allow us to show those additional layers. it can also displayed the same data that is being displayed in tennessee for any state in the nation. so the areas where population is the lowest, or where income is the lowest, availability is the lowest. the data that the sec is collecting, the data of the census -- we can take all that data, piece it together, and try to figure out the best way to attack the and served -- the unserved areas. if you live in rural tennessee and broadband is unavailable, all of these great applications

are not usable. this allows us to know where those gaps are, where those areas are, and make the best decision we can about addressing those areas. >> what is yahoo! demonstrating today? >> today we are demonstrating our ad interested manager. congress has been looking at online privacy. last year, a testament -- i

testified on this issue. we're trying to do better notice about what kind of information is used for behavior all advertising and to give people a choice over which categories are used and whether they can opt out entirely. that is what we are demonstrating here today. >> you are making two different technologies. what does each of them do? >> 1 gives an icon and label that comes with the ads. with an ad will come a label the user can click on and find who is serving that add to them. they will find where they can opt out of that advertising. with that choice, they can go to our ad interest manager and city categories we have about them. they can either opt out of selected categories or out of all behavioral targeting categories on yahoo!.

we think that is the kind of choice that will give consumers more comfort. >> why bring it to the internet caucus? >> this is all of the members and the staffers who are really interested in technology issues. this is a key technology issue that the energy and commerce committee has looked at. we want people to know that this kind of regulation can work. industry is taking it very seriously. >> that is it from the congressional internet caucus event. if you want to watch this or other programs, go to our website, c-span.org. c-span[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010]