that's what's being sold. >> host: gary shapiro, you talked about innovation. just kicking off is international ces which is what? >> guest: it's the world's largest innovation event, it's a hands-on experience. 3300 companies con eventualing for a week in las vegas -- converging for a week in las vegas where you are seeing the future, and you are seeing where innovation actually can come to market, and anyone with a good idea can expose it to investors, to retailers, to media. and they'll make it or break it. some investors are life savings, some companies their entire marketing budget. but the point is, this is where the world's innovators come together. we get 35,000 people from outside the united states. we have a big portion of washington which comes there, legislators, government people, all the commissioners of the fcc, many others from other countries as well in government, and they're all there for one purpose, because they know that's where innovation is going to be a real-life experience where they can see, feel, hear, touch, listen, meet people, lea

on theing us communicators is gary shapiro, president and ceo of the consumer electronic association. who do you represent in that association? >> 2000 u.s. technology companies paid everybody who is involved innovation. >> water issues were concerned about? >> issues you would expect. innovation. innovation is a national strategy. keepcan companies could introducing the coolest products in the world. we dominate in many areas. it is a global phenomenon of innovation. the u.s. is the world leader. we want to keep it that way. the best and the brightest. a patent policy. it requires free trade. >> we will talk about those issues. i want to talk about the issue the fcc is hatching a. the unlocking of cell phones. >> we don't have a position. we are free market. we like consumer choice. we think that products with -- that consumers buy, they should establish a contraption will -- contractual relations. the government has decided that if you buy a phone in the contract runs out you should be able to have it unlocked. we have no problem with that. >> how important is the fcc to your member

and so there is no way to look at it other than how gary shapiro put it, this is extortion. and it has become an ever increasing storage sites. one of the worst examples we have found is, in fact -- well, actually, maybe is that even the worst. they're bad ones every day since. that may ring a bell for some of the folks here. but the thousands of demand others were sent. and oftentimes when you do sell you have a confidentiality clause associated with it. so you cannot talk about it. you cannot share, and it becomes hard to know that thousand newsletters without him maybe everybody settled for a couple hundred bucks six, but that adds up. >> do you find that is a deterrent for the rest of the panel to an entrepreneur and how urgent is bad reform? >> a have not actually paid any attention to the issue. i do know a little bit of litigation. and costs my experience is that the structural problem that i think we face is the court system, not necessarily just was the problem is that most of us cannot afford the typical litigation that will run you 15, 20 million, somewhere and th

. >> gary shapiro, tonight on the at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2. but the deadline is approaching for c-span student cam video competition, open to middle and high school students, answering the question, what is the most important issue congress should address this year? that includestary c-span programming. there's 100,000 dollars in total prizes with the grand prize of $5,000. injuries are due by january 20. -- entries are due by january 20. is back from winter recess today, kicking off its 2014 session with a vote on whether to approve janet yellen as the first woman to approve the that oral reserve. she has been as chair of the fed since 2010. the vote is set for 5:30 eastern, about an hour and a half from now, which you can see live on c-span2. -- they arejohnson required to obtain coverage through the new health care law state exchanges. the wisconsin republican filed a suit today in u.s. district ,ourt in green bay, wisconsin saying the lawsuit is about ensuring congress received no special treatment. a discussion now on implementing the aff

of the consumer electronics association, gary shapiro, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the deadline is approaching for c-span's student cam video competition. what is the most important issue congress should address this year? with a five minute to seven minute documentary. $100,000 in total prizes and a grand prize of $5,000. and trees are due by january 20. get more information at studentcam.org. >> immigration policy -- possible action in congress. jack barton spoke about this at american university last week. his group advocates for reduction in the tide of illegal immigrants. this last about one hour. good afternoon, i am pleased to see all of you made it through the snow today. let me first of all give you a little background, personal background and a little bit of background on my organization before we get started. i am a retired foreign service officer. i had 28 years in the u.s. department of state as the u.s. diplomat. i've served in england. i've served in morocco and in sudan, in mexico, i've served in nicaragua, in paraguay. and as part of that i was trai

and gary shapiro and sca and manufactures recognizing that car companies are now largest car companieswe really aren't technology companies because they're is a convergence. with convergences possibility an opportunity in terms of where we are, all we have seen, and where we will go so, i am incredibly happy to see this as many partners are now talking to each other which was in the case of that long ago where you have wireless providers and hand-held manufactures and automakers and system platform providers, android, windows, i/o s, actually now in strategic partnerships in figuring out ops fcc waste board. speaking of which -- [laughter] i wish i said i had planned that, but i really did not. that is all good. i will tell you that from the part of the agency as it deregulated and other regulatory bodies that will be a part of the space in partnership since become a federal communications commission, federal trade commission, we have only one chance to get this right. so i implore all of the to continue in their path of another only communicating at the level you're talking, but, fran

. >> host: gary shapiro is president and ceo of the consumer electronics association which sponsors ces every year in vegas, and alex byers is a technology reporter with politico. he puts out their "morning tech" newsletter. gentlemen, thank you. >> guest: thank you. >> thank you very much. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> coming up next, supreme court oral argument from last month on the epa's rule regulating air pollution that crosses state lines. then the outgoing chair of the federal reserve, ben bernanke, giving one of his last policy speeches as head of the u.s. central bank. after that, the senate banking committee's conty mission hearing of president obama's nominee to succeed ben bernanke, fed vice chair janet yellen. and the senate returns at 2:00 eastern to consider a bill to expend insurance benefits followed by a confirmation vote for janet yellen to be the next chair of the federal reserve. >> last hospital the supreme court heard -- month the supreme court heard oral argument on the