delbene, mr. farenthold, mr. sanford, mr. butterfield, this is all over this house of representatives, right to left, saying, yes, we need to protect our country but we also need to honor our constitution. and especially the fourth amendment. we started this congress by reading the constitution of the

delbene. ms. delbene, mr. gibson and mr. vargas are all hardworking members, democrats and bun republicans on the ag committee. this shows you how wonderful the legislative process can be. i earncy tissue i certainly want to recognize our ranking member who brought this concern in her opening remarks. and this helps to tighten and i think make a better bill because what it will do is that it will address the concerns that ms. waters raised and that would be that improved cost benefits provision would lead to unnecessary lit gation. what -- litigation. what ms. delbene and mr. vargas and mr. gibson have done, it narrows the potential avenues for lit gigs on the cftc's cost benefit analysis but still allows the consideration of the points of analysis to take place. i want to commend ms. delbene and mr. gibson and mr. vargas for a very good amendment and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from washington yields back. all time having been yielded back, the question is on the a

the first question i have to you, commissioner wright, to follow up on congresswoman's delbene's point or question which i don't think you answered. you said vertical contraction arrangements between broad band providers panned content providers are beneficial for innovation and for consumers because they create certain efficiencies. tell me, tell my constituents, what benefits you believe would arise from those contractual arrangements. >> okay. so to give an example. a broadband provider and a content provider can have an arrangement where they are going to jointly, through their contract, offer a service to some group of consumers. for example, we kang have the sale of a, excuse me a service, metropcs had this, this was a couple years ago where they were going to offer a service at a reduced price but because of concerns about congestion on the network, take off the use of video downloads. i think they had youtube off of it. they would offer a lower price. there was significant demand for that product t was at a lower price to a consumer group that maybe couldn't buy services that w

delbene, mr. farenthold, mr. sanford, mr. butterfield, this is all over this house of representatives, right to left, saying, yes, we need to protect our country but we also need to honor our constitution. and especially the fourth amendment. we started this congress by reading the constitution of the united states allowed -- aloud in these chambers. let's finish this bill by making sure that we honor that constitution by adopting this amendment. i would yield become to mr. massie so he may yield further to other members. mr. massie: thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman is recognized. mr. massie spb i ask unanimous consent to submit for the record the letter from the director of national intelligence that my colleague from california referred to. the chair: that question has been covered under general leave. mr. massie: at this point, i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves his time. does any member rise in pposition to this amendment? mr. frelinghuysen: i claim time in opposition. the

. -- delbene. >> we appreciate how essential it is to innovation and economic growth.i appreciate there are very different views how we get there i believe it is critical for the fcc to implement strong, enforceable rules that will protect consumers and make clear there are protections and blocking and discriminatings on content. commissioner wright, your testimony suggests that you believe that the fears that network discrimination by broadband providers could lead to competitive harm are unwarranted and i'm not sure i agree with but can you please talk more about what you see as the potential, you know, benefits or efficiencies that these type of contracts will create for consumers? and how consumers are actually boeing to see that -- going to see that? >> sure. the idea of discriminatory what we call vertical contracts for example, between broadband providers and contract providers here's types of contracts have been focus of antitrust inquiries and economics for a century. sometimes what they do when we have close relationships between folks in different parts of t