the f.c.c. has worked to repeal these protections over the last two years, the roadblocks in front case for ne neutrality has grown even stronger. the f.c.c. claimed that repealing net neutrality wouldn't pose any problems and would instead unlock investment and competition in the telecom industry. but here's what we've actually seen over the last two years. we've seen verizon slow connections of california firefighters as they battle the blaze and research from northern university and the university of massachusetts reports providers are slowing internet traffic to and from popular video streaming services like youtube and netflix. did the repeal unlock massive i.s.p. investment as promised? no. the data says major i.s.p. infrastructure investment has in fact declined. this shouldn't be surprising because, remember, after the 2015 rules were adopted, major i.s.p. executives in quarterly earnings calls told their shareholders that their f.c.c.'s actions would not impact their investments. simila

well i don't think the f.c.c. has a grazer fact it's very interesting you should say that i think the f.c.c. has taken and aggressive view of how it i'm not sure that just because people expect profits to secondary market trading that really does satisfy the four corners of how we and the to and the cases thereafter but that c.s.c. sees view so i think that anybody who who gets into this space and takes an aggressive view that something is not a security is certainly risking the s.c.c.s. wrath and let's be frank as much of a bargain as i am it's still expensive to retain somebody like me to fight your cause you know again there's an inhibiting factor going on right now there are european countries malta for example has come up with a very very intelligent scheme very clearly delineating between the different types of tokens and saying what you have to do to comply comply with the kind of rules or regulations we need that from the f.c.c. we need some greater clarity we need some greater. insight as to what to what

you know, whether they can convince the f.c.c. to turn down this merger, i don't know. >> you said that at&t wireless the wireless component of at&t has a pretty good record on unionization. what other company is c.w.a. happiest with? which other companies have the best record on unionization? >> frontier communications is one. in the communications field. verizon in the wireline portion of verizon is very good. we've represented tens of thousands of people at verizon for a long, long time. that's where i actually came from a long time ago, long before it was called verizon. but those are two that i would have to say are very good when it comes to unionization. >> mr. shelton began his career with new york telephone in 1968. in what position? >> i was an outside technician. >> what does that mean? lineman? >> no, i worked in manhattan, there are no telephone poles t no, i was a repairman in manhattan. p.b.x. repairman. >> you mentioned 5g. is it important in your view that the u.s. be the leader in 5 it is g? >> absolutely. >> why

s repeal of net neutrality rules with testimony from two former f.c.c. chairs. ive coverage here on c-span. >> what our colleagues have talked about all along. i'm once again asking our friends across the aisle to work with us on a bipartisan solution. let me close with this. i want to read from a letter that is from 2010. it says, and i quote, internet broadband access as telecommunication services that are subject to the provisions of title 2 of the communications act may have far reaching implications. to reclassify these services is to create uncertainty, internet access something that's sure to adversely affect job creation, both of which are in short supply right now. this is a job for congress. chairman pallone, i couldn't agree more with you. this was your letter from 2010. i look forward to reaching across the aisle to find a solution here that will give certainty to the market and protection to consumers and with that i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back. ll remind my friend that the past efforts of both democratic and repu

h.r. 583 would give the f.c.c. stronger tools to continue their enforcement sweeps and find violators in order to better protect americans. i thank my colleagues on the energy and commerce committee for their leadership on this bipartisan legislation, and i urge its passage today. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from ohio. mr. latta: -- mr. latta: thank you, mr. speaker. we have no other speakers on our side and i'm ready to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. tonko: mr. speaker, we have no further members choosing to speak. so if the gentleman is ready to close, we will do so. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. latta: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i again, for all the matter distribute reasons that we've stated here today -- the reasons that we've stated here today on the pirate act, i believe this bill is going to get passed today and i ask the house t

host: when it comes to the f.c.c., do you deal with that wireless carriers and location services, is that part of your jurisdiction? >> it is. we have a recent issue on that intoc and it kind of blends that issue that i just spoke of and something that is an ongoing investigation, so i can't speak too much it. t gets to the question of what information can be available and have a unters who quasi-legal component and they have a consent usually given by up the on who has put bail and the bail bondsman in some regards. so it's a thorny issue. clear-cut. we have an investigation on that and it's probably as much as i should talk about. joining us here on the communicators this week is our from reporter john politico, thanks for being with us. peter.thank you, commissioner, i want to talk about 5g and specifically talk hat president trump might be signing an executive order soon anning the use of certain chinese telecome equipment from networks.ess what are some of the big issues implicated in that, do you think? it's important to highlight the benefits of 5g and i t may come from it and

about five hundred thousand cars this year in a court filing before a federal court in new york the f.c.c. says the number is wrong to resign as chairman of tesla and pay a twenty million dollars by to settle another social media infraction must. now u.s. singer jennifer lopez is the latest celebrity to hop on top of the short form video app owned by a chinese internet giant buy to dance within just a few years the app has reached a huge market with more than five hundred million users around the world most of them teenagers will use it to become internet celebrities that was so much fun on if you consider issues such as data security. the pictures fly into one another photo push calls it magic the social media personality from hamburg has more than five million followers worldwide on take talk to him the apps a lot of fun comedy radio comedy videos action videos something exciting something so apps like this that just really addictive. it takes no time at all to produce a simple video a few movements a few clicks done more complicated ones can take a few days effects can be added and con

twenty it's part of a report published by the beijing based foreign correspondents club of china or f.c.c. see some chilling accounts from correspondents matthew carney of the australian broadcasting corporation says in my phone i have actually seen them in my g. mail opening and closing files. deathy long from the b.b.c. says on two separate occasions my phone call was interrupted and i heard a recording of my call being played back down the line to me one hundred nine members of the two hundred four who responded to that survey but it isn't just china where journalists are facing dangers doing their work i mean much journalists why alone and jews are all have been imprisoned for a little over one year for allegedly violating the country's official secrets act they have been sentenced to seven years in prison their continued incarceration comes in the midst of what human rights watch has described as a climate of fear among journalists in me and mom in a report the rights group accuses the civilian government led by nobel laureate aung san suu chief of failing to revise or oppressive law

about five hundred thousand cars this year in a court filing before a federal court in new york the f.c.c. says the number is wrong must count to resign as chairman of tesla last year and pay a twenty million dollars fine to settle another social media infraction last year. the perils of twitter north korea and the u.s. are gearing up for their second summit in vietnam's comfortable annoy the thaw in relations not only between north korea and the us but also with. south korea has sparked an unlikely boom so course demilitarized zone between north and south korea which is in reality is one of the most heavily armed places in the world is becoming prime real estate more and more investors are moving in. it may not look like there's much here but kim ensue is convinced he's walking on a gold mine. and over there behind those hills is the thirty eighth parallel from here it's about five kilometers to the demilitarized zone and then another four kilometers to north korea. the village of hammer who lies in the civilian control zone a buffer strip south of the demilitarized zone that separates n

he wants regulators from the fcc f.c.c. to take a deep look at it. lots of ways to justify the price after, saying that you got a lower price considering what you got. it is not trusted right now by some in washington. emily: gigi, is this a promise that legere would actually be held to? gigi: this is interesting -- t-mobile has made a three-year pricing commitment promising not to change the prices of rate plans. now, there are so many loopholes in that you could drive a truck through it. they could change their data caps, they could increase network quality and increased charges there. they could increase party challenges -- third-party charges. so that pricing commitment is no commitment at all. but there is a more important point. particularly in this of ministration, the assistant attorney general has already bed -- we don't want to overseeing merger commitments, we don't want to be acting as a regulator and looking at whether companies are abiding by their behavioral commitments. so there is no appetite for behavioral merger conditions, and fra

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hundred two they were illegal to buy back your own shares and then in one thousand nine hundred two the f.c.c. safe harbor rule ten b. eighteen. overturned that so they allowed basically share buybacks and it has gone crazy since hundreds of trillions of dollars has been bought back so last year more than one trillion buybacks were announced by large companies after corporate tax cut pushed through washington late twenty seventeen left companies with a lot of extra cash to spend but instead of significantly raising worker pay or investing in equipment companies mostly use the cash to buy back their stock and some large companies are buying back billions of dollars of shares while announcing layoffs and factory and store closings the senators wrote in a new york times opinion piece you know they want to have trillion dollars in tax cuts last year all these big corporations and primarily they used it to either give them shareholders dividends or share buybacks which especially benefited the stock the executives at these companies because they get stock options that they get to print themselves

hundred two they were illegal to buy back your own shares and then in one thousand nine hundred two the f.c.c. safe harbor rule ten b. eighteen overturned that so they allowed basically share buybacks and it has gone crazy since hundreds of trillions of dollars has been bought back so last year more than one trillion buybacks were announced by large companies after corporate tax cut pushed through washington late twenty seventeen left companies with a lot of extra cash to spend but instead of significantly raising worker pay or investing in equipment companies mostly use the cash to buy back their stock and some large companies are buying back billions of dollars of shares while announcing layoffs and factory and store closings the senators wrote in a new york times opinion piece you know they want to have trillion dollars in tax cuts last year all these big corporations and primarily used it to either give them .

more of a derivatives that they're you know that would be their regulatory regime rather than say the f.c.c. or any sort of. should they ever determine that they want some sort of regulatory oversight this is more of a. chicago sort of product not to diminish the power of this product in any way but they have in fact game of global stocks bonds commodities currencies to make it available to anybody with. dollars on a dream and this app and on the backend they're using bit coin which is invisible to the user another huge point here and i talked to bill bright about this is that the adoption of bitcoin people perceive that it would be driven by payments but he believes it'll be driven by bitcoin as collateral coyness settlement layer bitcoin a smart contract which i wouldn't the market for this product is literally in the trillions literally in the trillions and if that's all backed by bitcoin the demand for a big point just one up by a hundred x. that's what i was saying previously about gold being actually the settlement layer of our system is whether or not you know our leaders like to bas

. >> the f.c.c. has rulemaking authority that's much more expansive than the f.t.c.'s rulemaking authority. so they can say to industry, here are the rules of the road. here's how you have to treat traffic over the internet. here's how you have to treat privacy. they had a privacy rule under title two. we just don't have the ability to do that across the board when it comes to consumer protection issues. we have much more limited rulemaking authority. and right now we have sector-specific laws that will protect some data, some of the time. but data isn't housed in sector-specific sile osaka anymore. >> people -- silos anymore. >> people mean so many different things when they talk about privacy. that it's hard to see how congress does anything that specific. because people haven't yet agreed on what the problem is. now, i think there is a lot of areas that people could agree on, that these are the types of injuries that we're trying to stop consumers from suffering. and i think we could get there, but right now the conversation is very vegas and it talks about -- vagu

the f.c.c. put o earlier in this decade a list of eight topics that thedey cond to be critical information needs for comunies. as we've looked at newspapers and the content that comes out of newspapers as well as diital startup sites, we often find that some essential information that we need as citizens and just residents to make wise decisions we don't have acess to anymore. >> woodruff: and steve cavendish, how do you see that playing out in tennessee? what are people missing now >> well, so, take for example, the nashville banner which was the afternoon paper here and where i goty start in the early '90s was sold to theh gannett papee in town. they took about a third of the news room and combined itin the tennesseans staff, so you had about 180 journalists. that number is now less than 70. what does that mean? it means that, you know, large swaths of what was once covered of crts, of institutions, of major kind of stories just don't get covered, and it afects everything from the cover of hea