polka, we spoke with congresswoman marsha blackburn earlier in the program, and she's a member of the house communications subcommittee as you know. >> guest: yep. >> host: she talked about a dearth of support for net neutrality or net management practices in the congress and especially with the house going republican. do you have a strategy for working with the congress on this issue? >> guest: we certainly will be more than happy, and we'll be spending a significant amount of time to help them to understand our position as smaller businesses. as we looked at this issue regarding net neutrality, the one thing that we were very concerned about the most was the imposition of a very heavy-handed regulation under title ii which from our perspective as small businesses would have been a very serious blow to our ability to provide broadband services in smaller markets, rural areas. we've looked at this, this this proceeding at the fcc, the notice of inquiry as a positive development to strike what is a very sound balance of appropriate regulation while at the same time allowing market forc

to business they should be tending to and the need to leave the internet alone. >> congress, marsha blackburn is a member of the house connections of committee. she joins us via phone from tennessee. thank you, representative blackburn. we appreciate it. >> to be with you. >> markham erickson is the director of the open internet question which we referred to earlier, it represents companies such as bull and ebay and netflix. you issued a press release in support of chairman genachowski's proposal. was i fair to use the word ted it? >> well we think it's a very strong proposal. it's a very good first step in the critical step to ensure the internet remains a platform for innovation, free-speech, for the development, for the continued development of the most revolutionary communications platform ever invented. we've got three weeks where the commissioners will work among themselves to fine-tune this rule. we want to support the commissioners as the work to fine-tune this rule. certainly it needs further work. but this is a strong will and a very good first step to ensure the internet doesn't tu

. >> marsha blackburn joined us via telephone from tennessee. thank you representatives of blackburn. the executive director of the open internet coalition is with us. he represents companies such as a google, ebay and netflix. you issued a press release in support of this proposal. was there to use the word tepid? >> we think it is a very strong proposal. it is a good first step. it is a critical step to ensure that the internet remains a platform for innovation, free speech, the continued development of the most revolutionary communication platforms ever invented. we have three weeks now where the commissioners will work among themselves to fine tune this. we want to support the commissioners as a fine tune this. it certainly needs a little bit of further work, but this is a very good first step to ensure that the internet does not turn into something that looks more like cable television, but remains a platform where users, consumers determine where we are going to go and what applications we want to use. >> you called it a first step. what w

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that's what marsha blackburn said. and i also think they're not going to fund it. they're not going to give them any money for it. this is just something that they've taken it upon themselves. host: ok. caller: they do this more and more and more. host: that was valerie, republican in michigan on her point about the constitution. we mentioned this at the top. the washington times reports this morning, we the people, to open next congress on january 6 do a full reading of the country's founding document on the floor. larry, independent line. good morning. caller: good morning, greta. would you please give me just a moment. prior to the washington journal there was a program on and various leaders were discussing financial concerns of our country. what i would like for the american people to give thought to is what they call the comprehensive annual financial report. every city, county, and state across the nation is a corporation. each corporation is very wealthy. our debt, our national debt could be paid off tomorrow from the money that every city, county, and stat