.. >> our guest is assistant commerce secretary lawrence strickling. he heads the national telecommunications and information administration which advises the president on communications and information policy. >> host: lawrence strickling as administrator of the national telecommunications and information administration, in a broad sense what is the role of the ntia when it comes to advising the president on telecommunications and in implementing telecommunications policiesome. >> guest: right. we're not that well known an agency, but we think we're a very important one even though we're tiny. we are the statutorily the adviser to the president on communications and information issues. right now our focus is in three major areas. first is spectrum. we handle all the spectrum assignments, the federal agencies such as the department of defense, the department of justice and so we spend a lot of time focusing on spectrum. we also by the recovery act were assigned the task of putting out $4 billion of grants to expand broadband access and adoption across

our guest is dan lawrence strickling, of the national telecommunications and information administration. lynn stanton, senior editor telecommunications report. thank you both. >> thank you. corker >>> in december the u.s. supreme court will take a case involving a 2007 arizonan law concerning businesses who knowingly hire undocumented workers. this law is different from arizona 2010 statute that requires local law enforcement to check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants. hosted by the american constitution society, this is over an hour. >> good afternoon. thank you for joining. welcome to the briefing on chamber of commerce which is a case currently pending before the supreme court and argued in a few weeks on december 8th. on the and this is the director of programs of the american constitution society for the law and policy. for those of you not familiar, we are a network of lawyers, law professors, policy makers and promote the vitality of the constitution and the fundamental values it expresses. individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice,

lawrence strickling talks about his department's plan to free up wireless spectrum and what happens iffail. "the communicators" tonight on c-span2. >> every weekend on c-span3, experience "american history tv" starting saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern, 48 hours of people and events telling the american stories. hear historic speeches by national leaders and eyewitness accounts of events that shaped our nation. visits museums, historical sights, and college campuses as top history proffersors and leading historians -- history professors and historians delve into america's past. "american history tv" on c-span2 c-span. -- on c-span3. host: gary schmidt is the director of the advanced strategic studies. thank you for being with us. the president has just returned from the nato meeting over the weekend in lisbon. what came out of that, that stuck out to you? guest: well, generally i would say that it's probably been the president's most successful summit. think he's had some rough times in recent trips. but lisbon summit produced quite a few positives. the first one is the alliance agreed to

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. >> host: this is "the communicators," our guest has been lawrence strickling who is the administrator of the national telecommunications and information administration. lynn stand on the, senior editor, "telecommunications reports." thank you both. >> guest: thank you. >> from barack obama to george washington, learn more about the nation's presidents online at the c-span video library. biographies, interviews, historical perspectives and more. searchable and all free. it's washington your way. >> major mortgage loan lenders admitted to improper documentation practices during a recent house subcommittee hearing. representatives from bank of america, jpmorgan, wells fargo and citibank testified before a panel investigating the mishandling of mortgages and foreclosures. here's a portion of the hearing that runs about 45 minutes. >> next we will have ms. stephanie mudick, executive vice president, office of consumer practices jpmorgan chase. >> thank you, madam chair. congresswoman and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. my name is stephanie mu

lawrence strickling talks about his department's rigid attempt to free up wireless spectrum and what will happen if they fail. hear the program ceased and is airing thursday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, jeff bridges talking about his work to reduce youth hunger, chief justice john roberts and the role of the supreme court, and lawyers discussing the retirement of john paul stevens. bill clinton presents the liberty award metal to tony blair. they skipping day on c-span. >> now british secretary kenneth clarke talked about the guantanamo bay civil litigation settlement involving british citizens. he also took questions from members of parliament. this is about 40 minutes. >> the statement from the justice secretary. mr kenneth clarke. >> i like to make a statement. on the sixth of july, the prime minister tell the house that the legacy issues the government had inherited around the treatment of detainees held by other countries needed to be addressed. our reputation as a country that believes in human rights, justice, fairness, and the role of law otherwise risked being tarnished.

. >> the fcc reports with the growing popularity of wireless products, lawrence strickling talks aboutit and what happens if they fail on communicators tonight on c-span2. >> our cove rang of the education's department continues now with the scope of the problem in schools. a panel of child development researchers talk about scientific research available on solving the problem. it's just over an hour. >> this collaborates hard work across federal agencies. we have not only joined forces, but more important, we are committed to using this summit to launch a sustained commit to dray massically reduce bull bullying across the country. every educator and school leader has to ask what can we do to sustain that commitment to sustain bullying? to answer that question, we start with another leading question that the summit itself raise, and why have not the agencies come together for a federal summit on bullying before today? the answers are many, but they start and end with the fact that the problem of bullying has been shrouded in myth and myth in understanding for far too long. officials an