-- congressman, jim clyburn. your outstanding mayor, steve engine and. -- benjamin. the president of this great institution, dr. david swinton. go tigers. now. it has been a while since i was in south carolina. and act, it has -- in fact it has been too long. i am not going to lie. you know, i love you, and i have been loving you, it's just that i've had a lot of depth to do since i last year. -- last saw you. but it was wonderful to be backstage because i got a chance to see so many of the wonderful people i work with act in 2008. if it were not for this great state and all the people who, at a grassroots level, went door to door talked to folks, got everybody fired up and ready to go, if it had not been for all of you, i might not be president, and i am truly grateful for that. i hope that you don't mind i also brought another good friend, the attorney general of the united states, eric holder. we decided to take a friday road trip together because eric has not only been a great friend but an extraordinary atto

we significantly expanded the pell grant program with the help of people like jim clyburn. [applause] president obama it used to be : that the student loan program was run throughout banks and the banks take a cut. they were making billions dollars on student loans. we said let's just give it directly to the students and save the money and give to more students and increase the size of the pell grant. and we initiated a program that many of you still take advantage of and that is we capped the percentage of your income that you have to pay in repaying your student loans so that if you decide to become a teacher or you decide to become a social worker or get a job just starting of that is not paying you a lot of money but is in the field that you want, you don't have to say no because you can't afford it. it is only going to be 10% of your income. so it makes your debt payments manageable. but what we still have to do is to deal with the question you pointed out, which is how do we just keep tuition lower , generally? the big proposal that i put forward this year is let's ma

with us now from columbia south carolina, we've got representative jim clyburn. what a big weekend going on in selma. tell us what it means, especially in the shadow of this justice department report that came out this week. >> well, thank you so much for having me, joe. this going to be a great weekend, i think. it begins today. here in south carolina. the president is going to be here at benedict college. he will be talking to youth leaders. and he will be talking to them about the challenges that they face and getting them to understand hopefully that 50 years ago in selma mart lynn luther king jr. led the march but john lewis and james are foreman and other young people just out of college are the ones who made that march a successful -- a success. and then we will be going into tomorrow there on the bridge which will be the exact date of bloody sunday though this year fall on a saturday. and hopefully there will be 98 or 99 members of congress there. >> yeah. >> democrats and republicans. i hope that when we leave that bridge on saturday that we can go back t

we significantly expanded the pell grant program takes the people like jim clyburn.applause] it used to be that the student loan program was run through the banks and the banks would take a cut. they were making billions of dollars on student loans. i we said, why do we have to go through the banks, why don't we give it directly to the students save that money, and given directly to the students. increase the size of the program. -- tpell grant. we initiated a program that many of you can take advantage of which is we cap the amount percentage of income that you have to pay in repaying your loans. if you decide to become a teacher or a social worker, you don't have to say no because you can't afford it. it's only going to be 10% of your income. so, it makes your debt payments manageable. but what we still have to do is deal with the question that you pointed out which is how do we keep tuition lord generally? the proposal that i put for this year is let's make community college is free. for those who -- [applause] now, it would be condition. you would have to keep up

as someone concerned about health care and our dysfunctional health care system, i worked with jim clyburnto put some $12 billion into federally qualified community health centers which resulted in some 4 million lower income americans gaining access to health care, dental care, low-cost description prescription drugs, and mental health counseling. we also significantly expanded the national health services board. the president was very supportive of these efforts, and in my view, this program has been one of the success stories of the affordable care act. as one of the leaders in the senate trying to combat the global crisis of climate change. i helped create the block grant program that put billions into energy efficiency and sustainable energy. several years ago, working with several of my colleagues, i found it the defending social security caucus and we were successful in beating back massive efforts to cut programs social security, and benefits from some of the most powerful people in this country and that is an effort i will continue to make. [applause] ? now, that is a very brief d

concerned about health care and our dysfunctional health care system, i work hard with represented jim clyburnto put some $12 billion into federally qualified community health centers which resulted in some 4 million lower income americans any excess to health care dental care low-cost prescription drugs, and mental health counseling. we also significantly expanded national health service called to provide -- debt forgiveness to new primary physician. this program is one has been one of the success stories of the affordable care act. as one of the leaders of the senate trying to combat the global crisis of climate change, along with senator bob menendez i helped pass the block grant program which could billions of dollars into energy efficiency and sustainable energy. several years ago working with several of my colleagues i found the defending social security talk is and we were successful in beating back massive efforts to try to cut programs, to cut social security and benefits with disabled veterans from some of the most powerful people in this country. and that's an effort i will continue

as a matter of record the president said to jim clyburn we have an an american nexus to this to that?is this only about the middle east and jim because of this program because we were tracking the program through phone numbers was able to jam those phone numbers up against the metadata program came up empty and said no mr. president we have no evidence this is a north american nexus which is very useful for security but you realize it's also very useful for liberty because the person was generally concerned he had a north american nexus what were his other options to give him confidence that he could keep you safe? >> a couple of comments. you only talked about the first half of general general alexander's testimony in which he testified under oath in response to either the house and senate intelligence committee i don't remember which that it was 54 or 57 plots that were stopped as a result of nsa spying. the next day general alexander when asked to identify the free he declined to identify them. i could list the half a dozen plots that have gone through. the shoe bomber, the boston

as someone concerned about health care and our dysfunctional health care system, i worked with jim clyburn to put some $12 billion into qualified community health centers which resulted in some 4 million lower income americans gaining access to health care, dental care, low-cost ascription drugs, and mental health counseling. we also significantly expanded the national health services core. the president was very supportive of these efforts, and in my view, this program has been one of the success stories of the affordable care act. as one of the leaders in the senate trying to combat the crisis of climate change. i helped create the block grant program that put billions into energy efficiency and sustainable energy. several years ago, working with several of my colleagues, i formed the social security caucus and we were successful in beating back massive efforts to cut programs, social security, and benefits from some of the most powerful people in this country and that is an effort i will continue to make. [applause] now, that is a very brief description of my life and political history.

the table are john sallet and stephanie roger sherman and jim schlichting of the wireless telecommunications bureau and claude aiken mignon clyburn and melissa droller kinkel. melissa will present the -- >> good morning. at the outset the order before you set forth three bright line rules to ban conduct that we now threatens the open internet. first broadband providers may not block access to legal content application services or non--- devices. second they may not impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of content applications services or any classes thereof. third they may not favor some internet traffic over other internet traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind. in other words no fast lanes. today's order adopts a standard for judging concerns with any future practices on a case-by-case basis. that standard will prohibit broadband providers from unreasonably interfering with or disadvantaging the ability of consumers and edge providers to reach one another. all of these rules other than the ban on paid prior decision are subject to a commonsense exception a reasonable network management. the order mak