companies 35 years ago and brought to you as by your local cable or service provider. >> host: john shimkus is here and representative shimkus thank you for joining us. >> guest: great to be with you. >> host: and david from the hill, their technology reporter, is here. to start, there is an effort in congress about who control the internet and you have a piece of legislation that deals with this. can you setup the audience what the issue is and what your bill addresses? >> guest: we had two bills. one last congress and one this congress. it was originally called the t dotcom act. there is an international struggle, with the u.n., and some people saying the united states shouldn't be the keeper of the final contract and we should have a multi stakeholder approach. the tech community gathered support for that. we got involved when the house went on record saying they support this approach and i got involved when i said what is this group? let's define ingrope. at first i was made one of. what is this guy on the subcommittee dealing with these tech issues. but as we started talking about the

pedro: joining us on "the communicators" this week, representative john shimkus, republican of illinois, a member of energy and commerce committee and also a member of the communications and technology subcommittee. representative shimkus, thank you for joining us. and also joining us for the conversation, david mccabe of "the hill." he is their technology reporter. thank you for joining us. to start, representative shimkus , there is a conversation in congress about who controls the internet. and you have a piece of legislation that deal specifically with this. could you set up our audience and let us know what the issue is and what your bill addresses? rep. shimkus: well, it is called the bill. we have had 2 bills. one last congress, one this congress. it was originally called the dot com act and was about the icann transition of the functions. to make a long story short, who is the keeper of the addresses? how the internet operates. and there is kind of an international struggle in the u.n. and some people saying the united states should not be the keeper of the final vestiges of a c

the multi-stakeholder approach. >> host: you're watching "the communicators" with representative john shimkus of the energy and commerce committee and representative of illinois on associated note, when it comes to the internet, the fcc has plans when it comes to net neutrality. mr. shimkus, where are we with the plan going forward, and does congress have a role at this point? >> guest: well, i think that the ship has left the port be -- port on net neutrality. i've never been a big supporter of it. the primary reason is i want more pipes, not less. and i think the assumption is, is that the holders of the pipes would restrict transmission of data. now there's other reports in current news about internet service providers, you know, might be doing that too. i would like to encourage fiber on the toic layouts -- fiber optic layouts than less, and i think net neutrality tries to force itself on the existing system to make sure that a traffic are, all traffic can flow, but how does it incentivize a buildout of more? >> you said kind of the ship has left the port be, but that hasn't stopped your

i served there ten years, and fred upton and john shimkus and frank pallone, they're all willing to work with us. i -- i feel that if we -- if we look at what our goal is here, is to protect the american public, to protect vulnerable populations, i think we can get this done. mr. whitehouse: while we have the floor and until senator vitter comes, might it be a good time to say a kind word about our staffs? i know that during our process, our staffs worked enormously hard, and yours have been at this for a longer time than just that intense period of negotiation where we moved the bill in our section, but i would defer to you to make those comments, but i would applaud your staff and senator vitter's who have really been doing a terrific job. mr. udall: i couldn't agree with you more, and i also want to talk a little bit about senator frank lautenberg also and have a picture here of him with his grandchildren. but let me first of all say -- and senator whitehouse, do you want to mention your staff member that worked on this that i know just spent time with jonathan black and with the whol

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. >> host: joining us on "the communicators" this week, representative john shimkus, republican of illinois, a member of the energy and commerce