copps has done a fine job in an acting capacity. but, you know, we need more transparency, more openness in policy development. you're going to have to develop a national broadband plan, which is a big, big issue and has so many important considerations. poll soins spectrum, what spectrum lies fallow, sfwhie how much of it. why is it not used? what can we do about that? the forebearance petitions. we have a debate on net neutrality. you can remove that burden by taking a very significant step in solving that issue and restoring net neutrality provisions. and then the interest of public interest obligations and substantial concentration of broadcast properties around the country and the fact that many of us think that concentration has been very unhealthy. so that's a very significant, sizable menu of great importance to the entire country. and again, i'm pleased when we have nominees that come before us who are extraordinarily well qualified. i'm pleased to support your nomination and senator mcdowell as well. >> thank you, mr. chai

and i want to thank acting chair copps because he's done that. i understand you near a comment period right now. maybe even the second round of a comment period. given your background and all the things you've done, do you think it's time we review the v-chirp and not just the technology but the v-chip system that's in place. >> it's something that i've been concerned about. it's a challenging thing to think about. i believe in the power of technology to help drive solutions here. this is a set of issues that shouldn't be ideological. this is about being sure that parents are empowered to make decisions about what their children see. and i have great hope for what technology can do to help parents here. exactly what the ideas are should come out of a healthy process out of the fcc. i hope it's creating great ideas. i would like to see what kind of incentives we should survive. >> mr. chairman, thank you. >> senator begich. >> thank you very much. i will also be very interest ed in how you proceed. zo someone asked me what kind of shows have i wat

cops, commissioner copps is done a fine job and an acting capacity but we need him more transparency, more openness in policy development. >> host: andrew feinberg for coburn. >> guest: transparency, great, openness great. these are all buzzwords of the obama administration and i will believe it when i see it. anew web site will be wonderful. i think it is worth noting that the new administration has talked a lot about open government and transparency and made it sort of their mantle and taken this on, and open government directive but it is limited to a small number of groups and solutions. it has really been a lot of the foundation does great working people like that, and very limited notion of what open government means. it is more technology center then people-centered. i think there's a sense that anything could be better than the fcc under former chairman martin, but how much better again, we don't know. we are going to have to see what happens. >> guest: it is worth noting also that the former fcc chairman kevin martin had made some efforts in this area as well. it is true that

copse, commissioner copps has, i think, done a fine job in an acting capacity, but, you know, we needmore transparency, more openness in policy development. >> host: andrew feinberg. >> guest: well, transparency, great, openness great. these are all buzz words of the obama administration, and i'll believe it when i see it. again, new web site. that will be wonderful. i think it's worth noting that the administration has talked a lot about open government and transparency and made it sort of their mantle and taking this on, they had an open government directive, but it's really been limited to a small number of groups and solutions. it's really been a lot of the sunlight foundation, they do great work, and people like that. a very limited notion of what open government means. it's more technology-centered than people-centered. i think there's a sense that anything could be better than the fcc under former chairman martin, but how much better, again, we don't know. we're going to have to see what happens. >> guest: it's worth noting, also, that the former fcc chairman, kevin martin, had

any metrics from any dealership and shoot holes and everyone of them, and i don't believe it was -- copps pumas i appreciate your testimony. thank you khan -- >> general motors even mr. press, i guess i'm concerned as i see the opening areas about the rural areas where i live have any of you talked about 100,000, 80,000, i don't have a county in my district that house 70,000. i am a vast rural leary and i think we have got six chrysler dealerships being closed, maybe four or five, maybe more than that in my district of general motors. heil or people going to get service? if i bought a car this year at general motors or chrysler and my dealer is closed how do i get surface on my car? am i going to have to drive two hours somewhere else when might service light comes on? i mean, how do you do it and especially when you talk about the loyalty and of rural areas you've got him% greater loyalty base but we are getting hard hit. >> mr. chairman i appreciate the concern especially with the customers and that is a very fair question, customer size is important. after the case of the reorganizatio

before cloagz, i would like to salute the work of acting chairman michael copps and commissioner jonathan adelstein and robert mcdowell. i'd like to congratulate commissioner mcdowell on his renomination. i'd like to salute the commission for the hard work they've done in connection with the digital television transition. our country has benefited greatly from their service. thank you again, mr. chairman, for the opportunity to appear before you. i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you very much, mr. genachowski. [laughter] i was governor, if you remember, back in 1981, and i appointed the first person to head the consumer advocate division of the west virginia public service commission. i did not know what that was going to turn out to be. the person is still a force, and he is literally changed the face of west virginia, a single person. on a sometimes weak, sometimes strong commission. in comparison, critics have argued that the fcc has become captured by industry. not everybody says that, but critics do say that. and more of a referee of corporate disputes than of wha

a lot of this as pointed out in lectures is the loneliness of society because the individual just copps all others but i throw that out for something for folks to think about, but you can't underestimate the indoctrination going on as far as the industry and they started this with advertising, promoting smoking, the was calculated but i want to ask on your tenure at the food and drug administration, because in to this issue of obesity, etc., etc., surprised you never mentioned the other profiteers in the drug and is a drug pushing industry, let's call it what it is, is the other drugs as much as you seafood advertise on television is a big forma product and i am thinking specifically about the one that killed tens of thousands primarily women in the country. no one went to jail but if it was an inner city or some person hillbilly shooting thousands of people as this american home product did no one was held accountable and people are still dying as a consequence primarily due to pulmonary hypertension. you were at the fda at the time of this fall out and i would like to hear what you ha

and i want to thank acting chair copps because he's done that. i understand you're in a comment period right now, maybe in the second round of a comment period. my question for you is, given your background and all the things that you've done, do you think it's time that we revisit v chip and not just the technology but the v chip system that's in place? >> senator, first of all, i admire your leadership in this area. it's very important and it's something that i've been concerned about some time. you mentioned grandparents and imagining my grandparents and my kids watching tv together sometimes it's a challenging thing to think about. i believe in the power of technology to help drive solutions here. it shouldn't be ideological. making sure that parents are empowered to make decisions about what their children see. and i have great hope for what technology can do to help parents here. exactly what the ideas are, i think should come out of healthy process at the fcc. i know that process has begun. i hope it's generating great creative ideas. i'd