. >> host: andrew noyes. >> guest: i'd also like to place a bet on the satellite home viewer act which portions of which are expiring at the end of the year. so it's essentially a statute that lets, that lets people get out of, that lets people in one community see via satellite content from another, from outside their area. and it's an issue that both chambers are looking at and bills are moving forward, and they could punt this and just kind of extend the statute that we have on the books, but i think both the senate and house commerce committees have indicated that they want to get, push ts forward. so reauthorization of the satellite home viewer is where i think a lot of the action's going to be on capitol hill. >> guest: and i have heard there is quite a bit of lobbying going on in that space right now, so that probably will heat up once ssion begins. another thing that i don't necessarily see action on in the near future but is going to be an interesting battle to watch is on online privacy. and some of the, a lot of the consumer groups and privacy groups have just called on cong

we're joined by three working reporters, kim hart of the hill, fawn johnson of dow jones, and andrew noyes of congressdaily. kim hart, what is the main legislative item or the main regulatory item on the fcc's agenda in your view? >> guest: well, i guess mr. the fcc's perspective they're splitting the time between a couple of things. the main piece of their time is being spent on broadband stimulus orhe national broadband plan they're putting together that is due in february. so right now i think they're finishing up thiseek, i think. about 23 or so workshops pulling in industry players, anyone who ha anything to say about broadband and the state of that service in the u.s. and how it can be made better and expanded to more eople. so that' a big focus of theirs. and i would say another one is really drilling into the wireless industry and trying to get a better sense of the state of competition there. who the main players are, what kind of information that they make available to consumers, and what the commission can do to make that a more consumer-friendly industry. >> host: let's start a