we've talked to both ctia and to verizon. both groups, both organizations said that wireless service particularly did well during sandy. what's your assessment? >> guest: my assessment here is some networks did well, some networks did less well, but we don't really have solid information about this because there are no reporting requirements on these networks, there are no standards by which we measure their performance, and it's entirely voluntary whether they want to talk to the fcc or not or talk to their state and local governments or not. so i take their word for it that they responded well. i also have an ec coatally heard that some of these guys maybe did less well, and i think a first step is we have to find out who did well, who didn't do well and how we make sure that everybody's doing well. >> and how do we get to, how do we make sure everybody's doing well? >> guest: well, back in the election mitt romney said in a primary that, you know, if you can delegate stuff like fema from the federal government to the state

he has talked to the ctia and verizon. both groups, wireless service, they particularly did well during hurricane sandy. what is your assessment? >> my assessment is some networks did well and others did less well. but we don't really have solid information because there is no reporting requirements of these requirements. there are no standards to measure performance. it is voluntary whether they want to talk to the fcc for their state and local governments are not. so i think that we take their word for it. they responded well and i had also heard that some of these guys, i think the first step is we have to find out who did well and who didn't and how we make sure that everybody is doing. >> host: how we make sure that everyone is doing well? >> guest: back during the election, mitt romney was in the primary and they can delegate stuff and then hurricane sandy hit and everyone said that in an emergency, having federal coordination is good. when you don't want to take the time to pick it up from scratch, that's good. we h

we have talked to ctia and horizon. both groups -- and verizon. both groups said that wireless services did well during sandy. >> my assessment is that some networks did well. we do not have solid information about this, there are no reporting requirements on these networks. there are no standards by which we measure their performance. it is entirely voluntary, whether they want to talk to the fcc or state and local governments or not. i take their word for it that they responded well. what i have anecdotally heard, some of these guys did less well. who did well, who did not do well, and how do we make sure that everyone is doing well? >> how do we make sure everyone is doing well? >> mitt romney said in a primary that if you can delegate stuff like fema from the federal government to the states or to the private sector, that is better. and then sandy hit, and everybody said, in an emergency, having federal coordination is good. having basic federal rules that tell everyone how to behave in a crisis, that is good. we have delegated to the private

telecom, national retail federation, financial services round-table, internet security alliance, and the ctia, the wireless association. we can come together to pass the areas of secure i.t. that would allow better cooperation and also a -- a reporting relationship that they understand and know they will be able to defend against the cyber attacks with. we believe it is a superior bill and would like the ability to amend the bill on the floor to perfect it so that we could send a bill to the house. if we are not able to get this bill this year, certainly i hope it will be started again with all of the relevant committees during the markups, doing the discussion that is required for a bill of this magnitude. many of the committees did not have markups, they did not have input into the bill until it was introduced. the committee process does work when we're able to use it, and i hope that we will be able to go back to the drawing boards or if the majority would allow amendments down the road, if we have the time later this year, we would love to continue working with the sponsors of the legisla