. >> host: also joining us is gautham nagesh from "the hill" newspaper, he's a technology reporter there. ma has been talking about his innovation -- president obama has been talking about his innovation agenda, and he's been referencing this in several speeches. here he is from last month at penn state. >> and anywhere you go in the country, you will find inventers and businesses that created products that are now sent all around the world. but innovation has also flourished because we as a nation have invested in the success of these individual entrepreneurs, these inventers, these scientists. in this country from the moment you have a new idea, you can explore it in the world's best labs and universities, you can develop it with a research grant, you can protect it with a patent, you can market it with a loan to start a new business. you have got a chain that takes a great idea all the way through, and that's something that we as a nation have always invested in. it's how we as a people have advanced ideas from the earliest stages of research to the point where you can hand it off and

. >> host: gautham nagesh gautham nagesh was chief of staff to senator dianne feinstein at one point in his career. do you have an ally and ways & means chairman dave camp? >> guest: he has done a terrific job on tax issues. we know him very well. he had some interesting ideas for comprehensive tax reform. we talked to him often and will continue to do so. he is a first-rate legislator. >> host: switching topics we recently heard commerce secretary gary locke is going to beheading to china to serve as u.s. ambassador. he has served as the administrations front man in terms of speaking to the technology industry and hearing their concerns. can you talk about what you would like to see or intel would like to see from the next commerce secretary and put their priority should be? >> guest: president obama's talked about a national export strategy doubling exports. the commerce department commerce department needs to drive hard on that goal. gary locke was terrific. he was a nuts and bolts governor. he understood how to push that forward and will be a terrific envoy to china given his bac

. >> host: peter cleveland is vice president of intel, gautham nagesh with "the hill" newspaper, thank> you've been watching "the communicators," c-span's weekly look at the issues and people affecting telecommunications policy. if if you missed any of this program with intel corporation vice president peter cleveland, watch "the communicators" again tonight and each monday night at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> next on c-span2, two panels from a recent aviation conference. first, airline ceos talk about the challenges facing their industry. and then a discussion on the industry's move toward alternative fuels and the reduction of carbon emissions. later, the senate returns from its two-week recess at 2 p.m. eastern for general speeches followed at 4:30 with debate on two judicial nominations. >> this morning house financial services committee chairman spencer bachus talks about the impact of the dodd-frank financial regulations law. it overhauled the regulation of the financial sector following the 2008 financial downturn. chairman bachus is among the speakers at a conference of