the federal communications commission's communications security, reliability, and interoperability council, or sisric is made up of government leaders at the federal, state, and local levels and also includes leaders from industry and it provides the partly cloudy f.c.c. on best practices and actions the agency can take to make sure that our communication is available. this has been available since 2009 and was recently recharted by acting f.c.c. chairwoman rosenworcel for another four years. they have operated in a collaborative manner with representatives from private industry, government, and our key stakeholders. this year the council will be co-chaired by the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency and will include greater participation from the public interest community. we should not allow it to -- under this bill, the f.c.c. would be require to establish a permanent council to advise the agency on the security, reliability, and interoperability of communications networks within 90 days. the council would include representatives from trusted communication companies, public

that is the federal communications commission.ect some kind of retaliation to come from beijing? there is a few things that i think beijing made it to send a message. it could, for example, slow down the process of certain export licences for us companies with manufacturing capabilities. may be a snap inspection, production facility to down production but ultimately most us firms operating in china are already, they face challenges just in their day—to—day operations but don't forget most firms that are still operating their have some value to the chinese state in the sense that there is something the chinese i so by and large their work will be unimpeded for now. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: protests across ecuador — as the indigenous movement fights petrol price rises — and fuel subsidy cuts. indira gandhi, ruler of the world's largest democracy, died today. only yesterday, she had spoken of dying in the service of her country and said, "i would be proud of it. "every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of

that is the federal communicationsj the federal communications commission.some kind of retaliation to come from beijing?- some kind of retaliation to come from beijing? come from bei'ing? there is a few things — come from beijing? there is a few things that _ come from beijing? there is a few things that i _ come from beijing? there is a few things that i think - come from beijing? there is a few things that i think beijing | few things that i think beijing made it to send a message. it could, for example, slow down the process of certain export licences for us companies with manufacturing capabilities. may be a snap inspection, production facility to down production facility to down production but ultimately most us firms operating in china are already, they face challenges just in their day—to—day operations but don't forget most firms that are still operating their have some value to the chinese state in the sense that there is something the chinese i so by and large their work will be unimpeded for now. here in the uk, the queen's pulled out of attending

the law you are referring to is the 1954 communications act, the provision set up the federal communications commission as a regulator. i've spent some of my career working at the fcc. there's a robust debate still going on among scholars and researchers in the community about how to approach the internet as a whole. not just more traditional feelings at this point, like communications companies, but all of the emerging technology. from my perspective i think there are three options and i don't have a particular preference. one of them is to regulate internet companies, especially those that feel a little bit more like communication services including social network services. there are many calls for regulating those under traditional communication clause -- munication laws paradigms. in united kingdom the regulator has been chosen to implement a duty of care law to try to govern online content and limit the harms. they have chosen their equivalent to the fcc. that is the government body to look at an implement this creed united states went more towards the federal trade commission, a general competiti

not be too surprised, because this harks back to the administration with the fcc, the federal communications commissiont this company was possibly facing being shut down because the us authorities feared that its technology could used for espionage and spying purposes. it's not alone in terms of this kind of treatment, certainly china mobile has also had its licence revoked a couple of years ago. so there is a theme there, which as you imply has been continued from the trump administration to that ofjoe biden. administration to that of joe biden. ., , , biden. certainly the chinese company — biden. certainly the chinese company and _ biden. certainly the chinese company and the _ biden. certainly the chinese company and the chinese i biden. certainly the chinese i company and the chinese state have consistently denied all of these allegations. they say it's not an issue of national security, they say it is an issue of competition. but do you see this as a further strengthening of the biden administration's stance on china, and they will be more of this to come?— this to come? quite possibly. it's inter

the federal communications commission announced today that it will look at a proposal to block them.146% increase in complaints for unwanted text messages between 2019 and 2020. they'll need to vote to move ahead to block those robo texts. it would require wireless providers to find a way to block the illegal text messages and potentially apply the same standards for authorizing phone calls to approving text messages. however, some critics have said this standard isn't enough. >>> toyota is about to get a little more electric. the car maker will build a multi billion dollar battery plant here in the united states. that battery plant is estimated to cost $1.2 billion. it will be used to manufacture batteries for toyota's hybrid and fully electric cars. the big question now, where's it going to be? toyota has not released the location yet or announced it yet, but the company says it will hire and create 1,700 new jobs when it opens. >>> okay, wow, this weekend, it was so warm on saturday and all of a sudden sunday i look outside and it's like pouring rain, jeff. we had a bit of everyth

well, think again, in fact, the federal communications commission has now voted to block china telecom americas from the u. s. market saying the u. s. subsidiary of china. chinese state on enterprise is, quote, subject to exploitation, influence and control by the chinese government. so what does this vote by the fcc mean and what happens next? let's bring in, boom, boom, coast and investigative journalist, ben swan, to discuss been breakdown this really for us. what does this mean? yeah. why is central, what it means is that this company has 60 days to start up, stop operating in the united states. right. which is pretty interesting. so there's 2 republicans in 2 democrats on this committee and they voted unanimously with a 4 to 0 vote. and basically what they're doing is they're going to revoke, and then terminate china telecoms section $214.00 authority to operate inside the united states, which essentially means they can't operate at all. and you know, we've talked about this for some time. you guys mentioned in the later lead up here . this is something that happened with the trum

at the federal communications commission, including republicans and democrats, have voted to bar this telecom company. chairwoman rosenworcel said that the problem is, these chinese state owned telecommunication companies are suspected of mis-routing traffic , taking domestic u.s. traffic and taking it through chinese servers for no good reason. politicians in washington think for nefarious reasons. misrouting traffic or surveillance. those suspicions persist on the tech front and may only grow. rosenworcel says that the fcc will put forward its consideration against two other chinese telik medication companies, and a drone maker being under suspicion from a republican member of the fcc. meanwhile, the fcc is also looking -- there is more to come is what i'm saying. francine: thank you so much. we will have more on that interview later in the hour and on david rubenstein's show tonight at 9:00. strength in business investment, orders placed with factories rose in september or the seventh straight month. michael mckee has all of the details. michael: the good news is business investmen

much like the federal communications commission overseas telecoms and media. rm section 230 of the communications decency act, requiring platforms to remove harmful, legal content. and require companies like facebook to demonstrate they comply with best practices for countering illegal content to earn the law's protection. i mean, what do you say to lawmakers? facebook says they are asking for this regulation. caller: well, what i say is the same thing senator lee said. host: which is? caller: senator lee is bringing to the attention and senator cruz was bringing to the attention the facts that all these technology, the ai that is copying the face recognition of these children using these apps, the voice recognition, and then it is being recorded, all that data is being recorded overseas in the hands of whom? of whom? host: i want to show you another moment from the hearing. this is wyoming republican cynthia lewis questioning the youtube vice president. [video clip] >> youtube implemented several features like autoplay that have been proven to make the platfor

they have been issuing reports over the last couple of years that the federal communications commissionook under consideration. the chairwoman of the f.c.c. said there is a risk of miss routed communications and surveillance. she indicated some other companies may be in for similar treatment. kathleen: all right, rachel, evergrande, a great bloomberg school about the government telling the billionaire founder that he has got to dip into his own pockets. are they deep enough to bailout or at least keep the debt payments going? rachel: that is a great question. we have no insight into whether he has enough wealth to help repay the company's that it has more. than $300 billion in liability. the developer has also started some residential projects in southern china over the past weekend social media postings, and local governments are closely keeping an eye on evergrande's account to see if the company is using its cash towards the unfinished housing projects, rather than paying their creditors. overall, the chinese regulators are asking companies across the board to prepare actively to mee

. >>> president biden will appoint this woman to chair the federal communications commission. the first woman to run the fcc, and she's running it now. bottom line, both sides like her. we'll watch for any progress today. that seems to be what we are doing lately. >> thank you, scott. >>> president biden is nominating a stanford law professor for the state department position. she's served in the past in the state department's war crimes issues office. she posted on twitter that she hopes to help shape atrocities and responses. >>> state lawmakers are getting an update on the employment department and its massive fraudulent claims since the start of the pandemic, which are somewhere around 10% of all benefits. there are nearly 140,000 backlogged claims. the edd said they made about 60% of the recommendations. >>> maybe the giants fell a little short but the stage is set tonight for baseball's fall classic. >> the first two games will be played in houston's minute maid park. maybe giants' fans can root for the prior giants manager, dusty baker. we know the astros have been ther

this hour as in-fighting between progressive and moderate democrats could lead to the federal communications commissiont, folks? net neutrality among other tough regulations. charlie gasparino, what's the lowdown? >> i hear you put me at this desk away, off the set -- liz: are you scared of mesome. >> -- because you can't stand being next to me. liz: oh, i heard that you were scared. >> one of your producers just told me this. [laughter] the same person who put embarking there. liz: listen we're batting a thousand. >> we're breaking news on "the claman countdown," as always. interesting developments at the fcc today, and we've been foreshadowing this. part of it comes as a surprise, meaning the appointment of gigi sohn who, in the past, was a telecom lawyer, she was art of a nonprofit that was funded by george soros, weighed in on internet matters. she's becoming the commissioner while jessica rosenworcel, the acting chair, remains chair. now, how does this thing happen? it's a fascinating coupling here. what we understand understand is that progressives like elizabeth warren were pushing sohn, the whi

federal communications commission from from issuing new licenses for electronic equipment deemed to be other words, we can't buy equipment from huawei, we can't buy from zte. will that ever pass the house? will they take that up? >> i don't see them taking it up. we're trying to get measures like that into the defense bill so that at least we can protect our military supply chains, and we can't have these chips or hardware made in china be intexted by the chinese so that -- infected so that later on they can take out our communication infrastructure. while we may be able to protect that in our military, if they can take fit out nationwide or even portions of it, that's a huge problem. we'll keep banging the drum, maria, but at this point i can't get the democrats to wake up to this threat. maria: well, i mean, finally somebody in the, this ba comes out with some -- nba comes out with some moral courage, enes kanter tweeted out the chinese government and the tyrants behind xi jinping, what's this going to mean for him, and what's your take out of what we saw out of enes kanter? let's sh

of invasive species by cargo ships, driving the country's wireless revolution at the federal communications commissioneefs as an oceanographer, and engineering data-collecting systems for the census. >> it's an extraordinary array of achievement and the arican people should be immensely proud in their workforce. >> woodruff: and because they've done so during such a challenging time, we salute them. >> woodruff: will jackson founded village of wisdom, a nonprofit that seeks to empower black students and families in durham, north carolina, advocating for more nurturing learning environments in their community. he says the knowledge black students and families bring into classrooms is often unrecognized and even punished in some schools. tonight, jackson offers his brief but spectacular take on protecting what he calls "black genius." >> learning is the action of connecting prior knowledge to neinformation. but what people seem to be missing is that prior knowledge is so much shaped by who we are and the culture that we've grown up in. and so then you ask all of these students to come into scol environm

the clerk: union calendar number 105, h.r. 4067, a bill to direct the federal communications commissiontablish a council to make recommendations on ways to increase the security, reliability, and interoperability of communications act and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended? members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote yea on h.r. 4067. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representat

. >> the fcc, the federal communications commission regulates broadcasts. fec, the federal election commission, regulates campaign finance. i think the core difference is that with broadcast you have a limited amount of space, a limited amount of networks and they have 24 hours a day to but the information on. i'm not sure that you can effectively transport a lot of doctrines regulating broadcast media to the internet and social media. it raises different questions. >> brad smith, thanks so much for being with us this morning, brad smith. >> thank you, bill. >>> today admiral karl schultz testifies before a senate subcommittee. watch live at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org or video video app, c-span now. >> on thursday attorney general merrick garland testifies on the justice department's mission and policies before the house judiciary committee. we're covering it live at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3, online at c-span.org or new video app, c-span now. >>> get c-span on the go. watch the day's biggest

the law you are referring to is the 1954 communications act, the provision set up the federal communications commissions a regulator. i've spent some of my career working at the fcc. there's a robust debate still going on among scholars and researchers in the community about how to approach the internet as a whole. not just more traditional feelings at this point, like communications companies, but all of the emerging technology. from my perspective i think there are three options and i don't have a particular preference. one of them is to regulate internet companies, especially those that feel a little bit more like communication services including social network services. there are many calls for regulating those under traditional communication clause -- munication laws paradigms. in united kingdom the regulator has been chosen to implement a duty of care law to try to govern online content and limit the harms. they have chosen their equivalent to the fcc. that is the government body to look at an implement this creed united states went more towards the federal trade commission, a general competition

their son michael powell was the chairman of the federal communications commission, the fcc from 2001y it says he restored old volvo's and saab cars. brian: there he is giving his speech laying out the case in the united nations about need to go into iraq. brian: it's always important ainsley as you're doing to remember this is a human being who has a family as well. the family, by the way, has post ed on to facebook, where they revealed that collin powell was fully vaccinated and was treated at walter reed, so they are appreciated. ainsley: wow, fully vaccinated. will: this is what the family posted on facebook we can give it to you in their own words. former u.s. secretary of state and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff passed away this morning due to complications from covid-19. he was fully vaccinated. we want to thank the medical staff at walter reed national medical center for their caring treatment. we have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and great american signed from the powell family. ainsley: thoughts and prayers are with his children, and his w

federal sentence for black defendants was 49% higher than the average sentence for white defendants. i'm in the ensuing decades, the sentencing commission and many members of the law enforcement community strongly and repeatedly criticized the 100 to one ratio and urged congress to address this disparity. as early as 1995, the sentencing commission began urging congress to [inaudible] -- despised -- besides the troubling disparity, there was significance differences in punishment of street dealer levels of cocaine and the powdered cocaine suppliers who sold cocaine in the first instances. unfortunately, congress failed to act on the proposed amendment to the sentencing guidelines to equalize the gut -- sentencing for crack and powdered cocaine. from 1997 to 2007, the commission continue to warn congress about the unjustified ratio, noting that there is, quote, no legislative history that explains congresses rationale for selecting the 100 to one drug quantity ratio for powder cocaine and crack offenses. and quote. we provided evidence for its findings that the penalty is exaggerated the relative harming fullness of crack cocaine swept to broadly, most often apply to lower level defende

his life to serve his community as an orange county trustees and then as a federal probation officer for almost 30 years and a member of the anaheim parks and recreation commission. today, manny is looking to retire from his federal job as a federal probation officer. i congratulate him for him and i'm honored that he called me his friend. and with that, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. carter: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. carter: i rise today to congratulate the atlanta pwraeufbts for advancing to the world series for the first time since 1999. what the pwraeufbts have accomplished its nothing short of accomplished is nothing remarkable. through many at versussity, the braves were during the month of october. what this team has achieved is nothing short of special and we hope to shock the world. and did he praoeufbg the community of hundreds of millions of dollars, well, you may be able to move the all-star game. and this is going to be electric. i would like to congratulate

the clerk: h.r. 3919, an act to ensure that the federal communication commission prohibits authorization of radio frequent si devices that frequency devices that pose a national security risk. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the bill be considered read three times and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from ac -- from alaska s recognized. mr. sullivan: mr. president, it's thursday afternoon and it's one of my favorite times in the senate because it's the time i have the opportunity to come down on the senate floor and talk about an alaskan who is making a difference in their community or the state or maybe the country. you know, sometimes maybe the world. and i think we have one today. this is an individual we call our alaskan of the week. really enjoy doing this. and it's just really a good opportunity to recogniz