the pcc had -- the fcc had two choices here. the copyright industry and the cable industry and the rest of the providers were onboard with it which would eliminate the box for all practical purposes or this other approach that is very complex and is going to experience significant resistance. and the fcc's always saying the reason the cable card didn't work by significant resistance by the industry. what the heck do you think they're going to do now? not only are they going to do it, but the copyright people are going -- what if the copyright industry says you can't give this information to a third party? you can't. okay? what is the fcc's program going to do, mandate that you can give it to a third party as a video provider? i mean, is that really legal to do that? i don't think it is. you're going to run into that. on the other hand, we could have just gone the other -- the chairman could have gone the other route and done it. but at a time when we're trying to just eliminate the set-top backs, if you read the nprm, it's almos

and now chairman of the fccs fcc. how is this different from your previous positions? >> guest: what i was lucky enough to do in the cable and wireless industry is be involved while they were bringing great change to the economy and the way people live their lives. we are in the middle of the greatest revolutions of all time and the job of the fcc is to say how do we deal with the changes happening all around us. so to answer your question i think it is a continuation. >> host: let's bring brian fung into. he is a technology reporter with the "washington post." >> thank you. mr. chairman, you said you understand how the lobby playbook works because you have been there. you said when you worked for industry they were different times and the industries were different. you sit here as the chairman of communication now and how have those industries changed in terms of their approach to washington? how has their strategy and tactics change as the industries have grown and matured? >> guest: as i was saying before, it was truly a privilege to be president of the cellular ind

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formerly worked at the fcc in the cable bureau. marc cooper is the research director for the consumer federation of america. he is also a fellow at stanford law school center for internet and society. lydia beyoud is with bloomberg. this is "the communicators." [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> this month we showcase the student can winners. this year's theme is road to the white house. what issuese asked do you want presidential candidates to discuss. one of our second prize high school central winners is from oklahoma. grader,burnett, a 12th once presidential candidates to discuss the cost of medication in his video titled "the price is not right. >> every morning my dad wakes up dressed in his work attire had begins his one-hour drive. i thought my dad just sat around all day counting out pills and dealing with customers. the i learned about dissensions that arise with

and that's an entirely different approach to what the fcc used to be. and i think that's the kind of approach that encouragings in this kind of permissionless innovation that i was talking about a minute ago. >> well, some of your republican colleagues have pointed out that some of -- you know, this approach could lead to uneven enforcement and the sort of, kind of ambiguity surrounding regulation that creates business uncertainty. >> so every company in the world would like to have certainty and a monopoly. you have got the telephone business used to be run. markets are inherently uncertain. we are engaging in an activity that allows markets to be markets. yes, that's uncertainty. but what we want to make sure happens is that, as i say, there's a ref rue, there's somebody -- referee, there's somebody in a striped shirt that knows, no, that's not right. >> so with one of these issues that you've been looking at on a case-by-case basis has been zero rating and data caps. i wonder, you met with companies such as comcast and at&t on these programs. did tho

but the fcc -- if what you want is the same rules everywhere, the fcc can't give you that. they have title 1 authority over commercial broadband internet access providers. they don't have authority over starbucks when they provide me internet access. the only way to get that is legislation. so are you calling, the congressional staff in this room, are you calling for broad-based privacy regulation across awful these -- legislation across all these providers? >> so do you want to opt in for privacy legislation from congress or do you want to just be opted out of this fcc rule? >> i think to be clear the previous fcc requirements with opt -- which can be placed into regulation under the fcc's own framework, there was a proposal that was submitted to do that. there is nothing to stop the fcc if it's going to, as it's proposing in its -- talk about regulating all information, not just cpni that's received by an internet access provider. if it has the authority to do that, it certainly has the authority to go beyond the structure of cpni and to replicate essentially the fcc fram

the fcc as i could let that. they let somebody else in each of course is the problem the copper industry people have because they should be up to charge when somebody makes money with a product. there's nothing illegal or wrongheaded about that. it is their property. there is a software solution that can be implemented. what is that not good enough? why can't we get rid of the set-top box already? i already have. i get rid of two cable boxes because charge mitigations provides an apt that i can use. >> host: let's get the next question from lydia beyoud. >> guest: if you oppose that, i'd be fine with it. >> guest: that's not what the fcc is saying to do. >> guest: you guys didn't. >> guest: you did not offer a. guess but i don't offer anything but i don't provide internet. is exact reports it is the app, open your rope to box, hit on the comcast out and watch whatever you want. they say you can do that. but you cannot, what you cannot do -- >> host: let's get lydia beyoud in your. manipulate the signal. >> here's

he talks about issues facing the fcc. including that neutrality. regulation of the internet and privacy. the spectrum incentive auction that is just beginning. how he views the future of telecom and the internet. he is joined by the technology reporter for the washington post. wheeler: i was able to be involved as they were bringing great change to the american economy and the way people live their lives. and that is what we're dealing with it the fcc. -- middlethe bidding of one of the great revolutions of all time. had we deal with the problems all around us in the communications industry. this year c-span is touring cities across the country exploring american history. next a look at our recent visit to long beach california. you are watching american history tv. >> we're at the port of long beach. sitting in the middle of the port complex. approximately 3200 acres in size. seaporthe most modern in the united states. we are a department of the city of long beach. we consider ourselves part of the community. economiche largest engine for the city

fcc, if you want to do a study going forward, that's fine, but it didn't tell the fcc to start a new rulemaking. even so, with the rulemaking we as an industry have come to the commission and have said we have other proposals that we would like you to consider in addition to this set-top box proposal. however, that's not part of the rulemaking. it's really the one-way set-top box rulemaking that we have from the commission that's talking about gateway dices and these vague -- devices and these vague standards which would impose hundreds of millions be not billions of dollars. and we think it's time for chairman wheeler to embrace the issues that we as an industry and something he encouraged at the beginning of his chairmanship where he said i hope i can have industry collaboration. we're here to collaborate if the fcc would just listen. >> bob, who's your competition? >> guest: wow. today, directv, dish network, a little bit of time warner as well as at&t u-verse in a fairly large portion of my service area. we also have centurylink and frontier as internet be and phone competitors a

we tried, just to become utah has the fcc changed.volved at the fcc, it was very directional and detailed. you will do this. we will look at your books for this. you will have these kinds of directors. it was a very, very specific in terms of what it did. and in the open internet order, we have a very different kind of approach where, instead of saying we know best, we have said you want to the couple of concepts. you want an internet where there is no blocking, no throttling, no paid privatization and consumers to litigating. transparency. and then you put a referee on the field, and the referee has the ability to look at circumstances and throw the flag, if necessary. that's an entirely different approach to what the fcc used to be. i think that's the kind of approach that encourages this kind of permission was innovation that i was talking about a minute to go spend some of your republican colleagues have pointed out this approach could lead to uneven enforcement and the sort of kind of ambiguity surrounding regulation that creates

congress is very interested in the work of the fcc. i'm not the guy that can make the decision about a rewrite. you need to speak to the chairman about that. can remember my days representing the industry, congress was interested then and today. let's talk about something in your control, something that you dealt with early on as chairman, should consumers be allowed to use settler telephones on airplanes? mr. wheeler: that is a question that gets divided. the first part is we have for how thety networks operate. a rule in place that said you could not use a device on a plane because it would interfere with the terrestrial networks downstairs on the ground. new technology came along that captured the signal on the plane , which is why you can do wi-fi on the plane. therefore it was not interfering on the ground. that andf you've got it is not interfering, that's fine. that does not have anything to do with whether you can make a phone call. don't want to be at 35,000 feet and listen to some person next to me on the phone. that is not o

that is what the sec has noticed -- fcc has noticed. for the first time they're asking questions about how are these programs bundled? what are the requirements that operators deal with. how can independent programmers have more of an impact eating their channels -- programming on the channels. bob: consumer choice and being able to pay for what you want is probably the number one consumer client or question about television. they say, i cannot afford this much. i don't watch most of these channels, why can i not just by what i want, pay for what i want , and take the rest of the stuff away for me? as cable operators and local operators who really are concerned about consumers, we would be fine to deliver that. we simply cannot do that because of the restrictive contracts required by the content providers. espn and youere an said, no we will not carry, we cannot afford it. i would say, some of the big guys can. i will say goodbye to those 40,000 customers and not worry bob: there have been cases where a number of our members have droppe

so the fcc had notice of proposal of rule making. they want to make a rule update privacy rules for telephone providers. now what they call broadband service providers. our panel debates that and debates pros and cons of that. we go through a lot of material very quickly. rules governing privacy for broadband service providers, they include folks that provide cellular service, not the phone itself but the service i get here which is t-mobile, over your laptop or desktop which in my case at home is verizon fios. here is on the house public wi-fi. and so those are the types of services we're talking about, broadband service providers and these rules are covering them. let'slet's go to my first quest. jim arrived just in time for the people out there who, gnawing question is like, that name sounds really familiar, jim halpert where you know that from. you're giggling jim halpert, and first comes up is the guy from "the office." jim is actually named, he is inspiration for jim halpert from the office. >> that's right. much less exciting

offices that makeup the fcc.e've heard training from directors of investment management divisions that fcc. they've allowed us to take a more thorough look, enforcement practices so that we can better understand whether the fcc is appropriately carrying out its three-fold mission to maintain fair and orderly markets and last but certainly not least facilitate capital fornlatimati. i look forward to testimony and hope between the four of you here on the panel that we are able to cover a lot of ground in the time we have. if you go back in the year 2000, the fcc's operating budget was about $369 million. today, it's a little over $1.6 billion. the fcc has recently submitted requests for the budget coming up of $1.8 billion. so, during much of the time when congress has been accused of starving congress, its budget has actually quadrupled and done so in a little less than a dozen years. and funding co insided with an agency that has become four times more effective. instead we're likely to see this time as the fcc w

this should be a priority for the fcc. citizens united open the floodgates for a deluge of dark system.to the political undisclosed, anonymous, unaccountable. the proposed rule would compel corporations to disclose if and when they are making political donations. ,t would introduce a small important degree of accountability into a system that is broken. position,ed about the they demure. to think about it and the answer was gobbledygook. i think that is false equivalency. shareholders have a right to know how corporations spend their money. it is simple. it may factor into the decision to invest. 1.2 million commenters urged the fcc to move forward with the role. i would rather get rid of citizens united. can indicate to me that they believe the fcc has to play a role in making corporate transparent,nding i cannot support their nominations. thank you. >> thank you. believe transparency and disclosure of the shareholders is of the utmost importance. of governance and investor protection. is material tong how shareholders de

together with that order, the president weighed in on a proceeding at the fcc and asked the fcc to opentop boxes. something we all have sitting living room. 99% of us use the cable box that we rent from our cable company. people pay an average of $230 a year. after four years, you've paid $1,000 and still rented, don't own it. the price of cable boxes have gone up while the components have gotten cheaper. we asked the fcc to open up box so you can buy your own, have greater diversity and choice which we think would lead to innovation. that's just an example. we've done many things like this before whether it's cell phone unlocking, requiring airlines to free up slots at airports for competitors, or improving competition in defense procurement and agencies will have 60 days to report back with additional ideas along these lines and the reason we think this is important is because of a range of evidence that the council of economic advisers collected and issued a brief last week by a number of different measures there's less competition in the economy today than there was selveral decades

this should be a priority for the fcc.he citizens united open the floodgates for a deluge of dark money into the political system. undisclosed, anonymous, unaccountable. the proposed rule would compel corporations to disclose if and when they are making political donations. it would introduce a small, important degree of accountability into a system that is broken. when i asked about the position, they demure. i asked them to think about it and the answer was gobbledygook. i think that is false equivalency. shareholders have a right to know how corporations spend their money. it is simple. it may factor into the decision to invest. 1.2 million commenters urged the fcc to move forward with the rule. i would rather get rid of citizens united. until they can indicate to me that they believe the fcc has to play a role in making corporate political spending transparent, i cannot support their nominations. thank you. >> thank you. i believe transparency and disclosure of the shareholders is of the utmost importance. as a matter

but the fcc -- if what you want is the same rules everywhere, the fcc can't give you that. they have title i authority over commercial internet providers, they don't have authority over starbucks. the only way to get that is legislation. are you calling -- the staff in this room, are you calling for broad based privacy regulation across all of these legislation all these providers? >> do you want to opt in for privacy legislation from congress or do you want to be opt out of this fcc rule? >> i think to be clear, the previous fcc requirements which can be placed into regulations under the fcc's own framework there's a proposal that was submitted to do that. there is nothing to stop the fcc if it's going to as is proposing in its -- talking about regulating all information, not just cp&i that's received by an internet access provider. if it has the authority to do that, it certainly has the authority to go beyond the structure of cp&i. and to replicate essentially the fcc framework with opt ins for use of sensitive data, opt ins for prohibitions against disclosing any inform

that is what we are dealing with at the fcc. we are in one of the great network revolutions of all-time. say,ob of the fcc is to how do we deal with kinds of changes happening all around us? >> watch "the communicators" monday night at a met on c-span2 -- at 8:00 p.m. et on c-span2. recent, i look at our visit to montgomery, alabama. american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. >> if you think about the timeline of the modern-day civil rights movement, the beginning being brown versus the board of education and the apex being the assassination of dr. king, the freedom rise is right in the middle. at the halfway point between those events. the happened here on streets of montgomery became a turning point for the movement. was a civilride rights campaign to trap -- challenge the segregation laws and interstate travel in the south. they were traveling to the deep south to test whether the facilities and modes of transportation were complying with the recent supreme court ruling where the supreme court outlawed segreg

that is what we're dealing with in the fcc. we are now in the middle of one of the great network revolutions of all times. to say ok,the sec is had we do with the kind of changes that are happening all around us as a result of the new technology. >> watch monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span2.

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so the fcc had a notice of proposed rule making. they want to do a rule to update the rules for the providers. then we'll explain that and debate the pros and cons. so we'll go through a lot of material very quickly. the rules governing privacy for broadband service providers they include folks that provide your cellular service. not the phone itself. but the service that i get here which is t-mobile. your -- over your laptop or desktop. at home it's verizon fios. and broadband service providers are what we're talking about and the rules are covering them. let's go to the first question and jim arrived just in time for the people out there who, you know, the gnawing question is like that name sounds really familiar. jim halpert, where do i know that from? you're probably googling jim halpert and the first thing that comes up is that guy from "the office." so we get that out of the way, so you're not bugged all throughout the meeting, he's the inspiration for jim halpert from "the office." >> that's right. you'll find that much less

together with that order, the president weighed in on the proceeding at the fcc and asked the fcc to open up set-top boxes , something we all have sitting in our living room 99 percent of us use the cable box we rent from our cable companies. people pay an average of $230 a year . after four years you paid $1000 and you still just rented it, you don't own it. the price of cable boxes has gone up even while the components have gotten cheaper . that's why we passed the fcc to open up tabletop boxes so that you could buy your own, have greater diversity and choice which we think would lead to innovation. that's just an example. we've done many things like this before whether it's cell phone unlocking , requiring airlines to free up slots at airports for competitors or improving competition in defense procurement . agencies will have 60 days to report back with additional ideas along these lines and the reason we think this is important is because of a range of evidence that the council of economic advisers collected an issue brief last week that by a number of different measures, there

the fcc has to say, how do we deal with the changes are happening all around? >> watch the communicators on monday night. >> on march 22, the house of representatives passed a bill to allow world war ii women airforce service pilots, also to be interred at arlington. officials said that under existing rules, they do not qualify. next, the floor debate on the bill. i moved to suspend the rules as amended. >> of the clerk will report the title of the bill. floridaentleman from will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. >> all members will have five days with which to revise remarks or add extraneous material. >> without objection. >> yield myself time. >> thank you. i rise to urge all members to .upport this bill this bill was introduced by our , ensuringin arizona that active-duty designees including women air force pilots are eligible for internment with full military honors at arlington military ceremony -- cemetery. they are members who served alongside the regular armed forces during world war i and world war ii. they were ofte

we did not know previously about the fcc investigation. this is more scrutiny on theranos.ompany says they have been complying so far. it had just asked to see documents and the company is cooperating. some serious allegations being leveled at theranos. i know this is something that you will continue to follow, and we will bring you new developments as we have them. coming up, the online education udacityyou density -- launches in china. my interview with the founder later this hour. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio. ♪ >> i am mark crumpton, you are watching "bloomberg west." in japan, a series of earthquakes that struck on thursday are the nation's worst in five years. more than 110,000 had to flee their homes. the uss is delivering bread, water, and ready-to-eat food and other supplies to those cut off by the quakes. rescue crews are continuing their search for those reported missing. in ecuador, hundreds of aid workers are joining search and rescue efforts following the saturday earthquake. it was the heaviest earthquake in ecuador in decades. expert

a developing investigation, theranos is under investigation by the fcc.oline, what is it that you know? it looks like we are having technical difficulties. can you here me? >> i can hear you. emily: what is the latest that we know? >> right now, we have just seen a document from theranos, where they told us they are informing their business partners of a number of investigations, some of which are new to us, including investigations by the fcc and the attorney general's office in northern california. emily: how does this ramp up what we were speaking about with regard to cms? is this a separate story? >> it is a separate story. they are different investigations. we did not know previously about the fcc investigation. this is more scrutiny on theranos. the company says they have been complying so far. it had just asked to see documents and the company is cooperating. emily: some serious allegations being leveled at theranos. i know this is something that you will continue to follow, and we will bring you new developments as we have them. coming up, the onl

the deal needs fcc approval and the okay of california's utility regulator. that's what's happening in the news right now. it is monday, starting off a nice week. it's a nice day out there. nick: very nice. very comfortable. we've been in the upper 60s, somebody hitting 70 today. we like that. this week, kind of up and down. good days, bad days. ernie: a little variety coming up. rain tomorrow. >> reporter: there will be showers tomorrow, most in the afternoon into the first part of tomorrow night. i can't rule out a shower or two in the morning. get into showers, even a couple of thunderstorms. some of those might have a little hail with them. today not bad. 68 and 50 for the high and the low. a bit above average two for this time of year. no real extremes coming our way in temperatures. 91 and 29 in the records. sunrise 6:00. down at 7:46. won't see a lot tomorrow. 66 now. high clouds in the sky. humidity increasing at 45 percent. winds southeast. the pressure is falling off a bit at 29.89. let's take a look at the highs for the day. we found readings that

. >> the fcc has regulations on all of those things. >> i checked with my sources, you can offer planeickets, hotel rooms, you can take delegates out to expensive dinners. that's troubling to me. i don't know if you knew that before now. you're reaction? >> well, i did know it and it's troubling not only troubling it should be illegal. you shouldn't be able to do it. in theory you could take somebody who never comes in first place, as an example with cruz, i'm winning by millions of votes and i'm also 300 delegates up, but i'm winning by millions and millions of votes and we're voting for delegates and what they're doing is take a look. they're traveling them around, they're taking them out to dinner. you could actually take a couple of hundred million dollars and buy an election and never win a race because all you have to do is take them out to dinner and send them to paris for the evening. i would say i think it's a disgrace and we should not be -- this it is not our system and this should not be the republican party. i'm so proud of myself -- i exposed this. this was going on for a

. >> and we were chatting before break that we were surprised that we were talking about the new fccwhere the set top box makers are going to be required or the cable companies are going to be required to let boxes connect into cable, and comcast, our parent company is not in favor of this, and i think you are opposed to it? >> right. we are opposed to fcc and the op-ed in the "wall street journal," because there are so many ways to get the cable on the box that is not cable. you can buy a roku for under $50 and get time warner cable as an app, and espn, and every major piece of content on the cable, and in fact, we signed a deal with x finity to roku app. so tons of competition with the set boxtop tv station, and there are a lot of the unintended consequences to the rule. we believe it is going to be driving up the prices of the video services for consumers, and it distracts from the real i issue. the e real issue is that there is a revolution happening in tv right now, and really the only thing to stop it is broadband access or, you know, so it is require requires that free access

fines thethink the fcc up -- imposes are enough of a deterrent?> i think they are an important deterrent. it is important that the agency does play a significant role in monitoring and making sure people that violate the law are held accountable. we have seen challenges in that regard. >> if -- are you working to stop the breakers? >> i think this agency has works and can work. think it needs to be restructured, six commissioners, by law no more than three can work for one party. some people think it is designed to gridlock, i think it is designed for compromise. unfortunately, remise is in short supply around here. the sluggishness should concern you, candidates are raising a ton of money. 2016 presidential candidate jeb has already raised four times more than every candidate in 2012 combined. lessig professor, larry ran his campaign on this issue. when i talk to him, he had harsh things to say about the current system. you often say that money is corrupt to government, house of? -- how so? >> i think the corrupting candidateis the spends 30% of

the fcc is pursuing new regulations that would give consumers more options to buy those somewhere else. now, today president obama is making it very clear he supports these efforts saying the potential is for cheaper and more effective services. in an interview with yahoo!, president obama said, now, across the board if we have more players that can potentially participate, then you get more people trying to get your business and you get better products at cheaper prices. but cable industry officials tell news4 they oppose the fcc's plan and believe the marketplace is already competitive. in a statement they said the fcc proposed regulations would decimate the creative industry, rip up licensing protections, tear down the value of content, and strip away consumer privacy protections. nbc, as you may know, is owned by come cast, one of the cab now, the push is part of an effort to bring more competition into the marketplace. in fact, the president signed an executive order calling on all federal agencies to explore areas in which they could promote more competition. now, the agencies ha

. >> indeed and finally the head of the fcc warning the tech community to be war ri of unicorns. concern is whether the prestige associated with reaching a sky high valuation fast drives companies to appear more valuable than they actually are. i mean, this is not a surprising statement in general. but coming from mary joe white as opposed to some of the choices we heard say it before, do you think it holds any special significance? >> oh, i do. i was surprised she said it and it's a really important statement. she is saying buyer be ware. not just of the companies but in secondary markets and all kind of things and she was signaling that they'll have a lot more scrutiny of the valuation and investors. a lot of the unicorns are aren't going public on purpose. they're operating like quasi public companies without any regulation or scrutiny and it's really important. she made a joke about these unicorns not being extingt and everything else but what everybody realizes is that the valuations are either out of line or they're different. there's one example of one valuation being so d

furman: the law makes it clear that the administration can comment on fcc proceedings.re is a procedure for that which is filing a comment. that is the procedure that previous administrations have used on numerous occasions and this administration has used on numerous occasions. we had a very serious policy issue.ation about this we thought it was an issue that mattered a lot to consumers and also to innovation and economic growth more broadly and wanted to share those views and did it in a fully transparent way. we think this is important both because of this but it their case. -- both in the particular case. the typical household over four years will spend about $1000, not get the improvements in their cable set-top box that we see in lots of other areas of our technological economy. won't even own the box at the end of the process. it is a fact that income industries want to -- incumbent industries want to defend that product to the tying of the delivery of the cable services when those are two very different products. we wanted to weigh in on that. we wanted to use

that's what were dealing with at the fcc. we are now in the middle of one of the great revolution of all time and the job the fcc is to say, how do we

in the fcc's plan to open the market for companies to build set-top boxes and the regulation of the internetnetworksd all of their will require that they be carried on the most widely distributed level of service and so does everybody else. we had up with a bundle of bundles that everybody has to take. disaggregate the bundle and 70 people as they wish. most consumers do not recognize that if that happens, the price of the individual channels or the bundle of channels is going to skyrocket. >> do you agree with the commissioner? >> the fact is that our members are provided choice through competitive set-top boxes, apps, choices for consumers, and really, the imported, again, coming back to the customer, being part of that relationship with the customer to determine what is it that they want most and how can we provided? announcer: watch the communicators on monday night on c-span2. solving in, american history tv features long beach, california. it was named in 1888 after the length of its beaches. c-span city tour visited many sites, showcasing the city's history. learn more about long beac

. >>> the fcc has voted to move forward with proposed rules that would require internet service providers to ask consumers whether they want their personal data shared with third parties. a group of legal and privacy analysts gave differing views on how the roles would affect consumers and businesses at a forum on capitol hill hosted by the congressional internet caucus committee. this is just over an hour. >> all right, folks. welcome to another congressional internet caucus advisory committee briefing. thanks, everyone, for coming to this recess ie

and the fcc's plan to open up the market companies to build or sell set-top boxes and the regulationf the internet. fox and all of the networks are be required that they carried on the most widely distributed level of service. what we end up with this this bundle of bundles that everybody has to take. operator i would love to sell it to people as they wish. most consumers do not recognize that if that happens the price of the individual channels is going to skyrocket. agree with what he said about what consumers say? our members are providing choice through competitive set-top boxes, asking that getting consumers choices about which books to purchase, and coming back to the customer, being part of that relationship customer to determine what is it that they want most and how can we provided. watch the communicators, monday night, and you you eastern on c-span2. liner queen mary ocean tickets made for each -- technically employment -- took voyage in long beach. learn more about long beach all weekend here on american history tv. >> we are at the port of long beach here in california w

canuncer: language when we the fcc ability to protect consumers. the measure now goes on to the senate and the white house and it will veto the bill. it was just over one hour. committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 2666 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to prohibit the federal communications commission from regulating rates charged for broadband internet access service. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from oregon, mr. walden, and the gentlewoman from california, ms. eshoo, each will control 30 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. walden: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for such time. mr. walden: mr. chairman, i rise in support of h.r. 2666. this is the no rate regulation of broadband internet access act. from the first indication of the federal communications commission intended to reclassify broadband intern

. >>> the fcc has voted to move forward with proposed rules that would require internet service providers to ask consumers whether they want their personal

that is what we are dealing with at the fcc. we are part of the greatest revolutions of all-time. of do we deal with the kinds changes that are happening all around us as a result of these technologies. i think it is a continuation. >> let us bring in brian to our conversation. he is a technology reporter with the washington post. thank you. you have said you understand how lobbying playbook works. you have been there. these, when you are working for industry, those are different times and the industries are very different. as you sit here now as the howrman of the commission, has those industries changed in terms of their approach to washington? how has their tactics changed as the industries have grown?

tax opinions letters, fcc opinion letters, ftc, or whatever. this program compares to those, and where you could draw a sensible line. mostly, we want government agencies to do these things. we think this helps people, to actually know what the government thinks about particular factual situations. how do we draw lines in this area in your view? part of the difficulty i have with your question is -- i think if you were drawing lines, the jurisdictional determination at issue here would be fairly far removed from anything that ought to be traditionally reviewable. in many of the instances, the informal advice that agencies are giving, it is specifically advice about the perceived legality or a legality of specific contemplative private conduct. someone may come to the agency and say i am thinking about doing x, without the legal or illegal? the agency might say we think that might be one or the other. the likelihood that an agency would say to someone that is legal and subsequently pursue enforcement action is -- >> underlying her question is th

that is what we are dealing with at the fcc. we are in one of the great network revolutions of all-time. say,ob of the fcc is to how do we deal with kinds of changes happening all around us? >> watch "the communicators" monday night at a met on c-span2 -- at 8:00 p.m. et on c-span2. >>

come and fcc commissioner object type. will you explain what happened?e whole idea 6 million free songs out there, et cetera, et cetera. there is fraud in that system. you were told to keep quiet about it in here and fcc commissioner. >> that's correct good march 31st the fcc voted to dramatically expand its program to cover internet access. however, a month before that we were told about a serious investigation with millions upon millions of dollars. we learned about the fraud back in october 2014 the investigation had wrapped up in the middle of 2015. but we were not going to be on to say anything about it until april 1st at the earliest. conveniently one day after we voted to expand. stuart: badness, hiding it from the public when there's a problem going on. doesn't the administration want to offer highly subsidized internet connection? would he say about that? >> that's basically where the program is going. they have other advanced communication services to be more affordable. and the american taxpayer money is hard on the line, we need to be respons