narrator: here on c-span, "the communicators" is next with republican senator marsha blackburn of tennessee. then we will show you an interview with a former national security adviser who died yesterday at the age of 89. at 8:00, a look at some recent commencement speeches from colleges and universities around the country, beginning with actor and former governor arnold schwarzenegger, and former vice president joe biden. narrator: c-span -- where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. peter: representative marsha blackburn is the chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology as our guest this week on "the communicators." what is your reaction to the vote on net neutrality last

people are wanting to see more efficiencies and greater transparency, greater access. >> host: marsha blackburn, share on communications and technology, lydia covers telecom and tech for event driven news. well, the howrnts called for votes and chairman blackburn had to leave just a few minutes early but we kept lydia just to kind of put a period on our conversation that we had with her. lydia, the committee, subcommittee that she's chairing, are they pursuing a lot of different avenues right now when it comes to tech policy? >> i certainly think the congresswoman described activity in terms of individual members looking at some really important issues, cybersecurity, privacy, in terms of what legislation, she mentioned the ntia and fcc reauthorization bills an those are important, i think, for both the agencies and the industry but beyond that, i don't know how much legislation we are going to see when all of congress right now is focused on health care, taxation, maybe the next big thing would be the infrastructure package we discussed which, again, may include some broadband provisions that

peter: marsha blackburn is the subcommitteehouse on energy and technology. the house of representatives called for a vote and chairman blackburn had to leave a few minutes early, but we kept lydia onoud around to put a period the conversation we had with her. the subcommittee she is chairing -- are they pursuing a lot of different avenues when it comes to tech policy? think the congressman described quite a bit of activity in terms of individual members and their offices looking at really important issues -- cyber security, privacy. in terms of legislation, she fbctioned the ntia and reauthorizations, and those are important for the industry, but i do not know how much legislation we will see when all of congress right now is focused .n health care and taxation maybe the next thing we see will be the infrastructure bill we discussed, which will be very sectornt for the telecom . after that is what happens with net neutrality. will there be legislation? won't there be legislation? with that privacy bill, will that add pressure to the situation? perhaps. she in

monday night, on the communicators, marsha blackburn, the new chair of the subcommittee on medication and technology talks about the fcc vote to change internet regulation rules and congress's efforts to change internet privacy rules. she is interviewed by reporter lidia. >> can you tell us about the bill and also what drove you to introduce it? >> people are ready to see something come forward from us on the issues of privacy and data security. and certainly now, we are beginning to have not only states, but cities look at privacy regulation, and they are doing it because the federal government, because congress, has not taken an action, and now that the privacy issue will not have to regulators, which is a good thing, we're going to have one, and the ftc has historically been the regulator of privacy in both the visible space and the virtual space. and we think it is important to have one set of rules for the entire ecosystem and one regulator for the entire ecosystem. >>

congresswoman, marsha blackburn, thank you so much. hope to have you back and get an answer to that question. we do appreciate it. >> i gave you one. >> coming up, we are awaiting the white house press briefing. as the president takes a victory lap on health care, is he ready for a bigger fight ahead in the senate? we'll have our panel with us next weighing in. start your day with the number one choice of dentists. philips sonicare removes significantly more plaque versus oral-b 7000. experience this amazing feel of clean. innovation and you. philips sonicare. save now when you buy philips sonicare. philips sonicare. as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i asked my doctor. and he recommended eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clo

. >> monday night on the communicators, tennessee presented at marsha blackburn. vote --k about the sec fcc vote to change internet regulations. miss blackburn is edited by the telecom reporter. >> i would like to turn to your online privacy bill. can you tells a little bit about that and what drove you to introduce it? >> people are ready to see something come forward from us. on the issues of privacy and data security, certainly now, we are beginning to have not only states that -- but cities look at privacy. >> they are doing it because the federal government -- congress has not taken an action. issue wille privacy have two regulators -- will not have to regulators, that is a good thing. we will have one. the fcc has been historically the regulator of privacy in both the physical space and the virtual space. we think it is important to have one set of rules for the entire echo system and one regulator for the entire echo system. watch the communicators on monday night at 8:00, eastern on c-span two. administration released its $575 billion event budget this wee

marsha blackburn, mike doyle over on the house side, greg walden is the new enc chair, greg thune oner side. what's been your interaction with this group? >> guest: so i have been very excited about working with this new leadership. senator thune has been where he's been for a while. he's south dakota. if you look at a map and i showed you where my carriers provide service, south dakota is a very big state for us. so here we have someone who's the chairman of the senate commerce committee who gets it. he understands these are his constituents, and he's wired to think about what's happening for rural consumers and making sure that his state has the same access that minnesota next door has. so he has really been just a joy to work with. congresswoman blackburn has been very engaged. she actually spent a lot of time working with the trump administration through the transition so was very behind the scenes in terms of some of their priorities. she's already invited some of our folks to partake in a summit she held in january, some folks in tennessee who are doing some interesting telemed

next question. >> shannon: joining me now congresswoman marsha blackburn. the president has been confident he would be proven innocent of all these allegations. do you think the appointment of a special counsel is a positive or negative for the white house? >> it's a positive for the american people. what you need to do is go back into this russia relationship decades and see what all they've been up to. they have never wished us well. and let's go in and look at the obama administration and those ties and hillary clinton and the foundation, what was transpiring there as she was secretary of state? i think it's time to have that holistic look. this is what a special counsel will do as they oversee this. it is now on their plate. it probably will take two or three months to stand the office up but then they'll be ready to move forward. >> shannon: we took a look at special prosecutor investigations that took years and taken in directions that were never seen at the beginning. senator dianne feinstein, part of the briefing yesterday was asked on another netwo

announcer: monday night on "the communicators," tennessee representative marsha blackburn, the new chair of the key house subcommittee on communication and technology, talks about the fcc vote to change internet regulation rules and congress's efforts to change internet privacy rules. she is interviewed by a tech media telecom reporter. >> i'd like to turn to your new online privacy bill. can you tell us about the bill , and what drove you to introduce it? >> people are ready to see something come forward from us on the issues of privacy and data security, and certainly now, we are beginning to have not only states but cities look at privacy regulation, and they are doing it because the federal government, because congress, has not taken an action. now that the privacy issue will not have regulators, which is a good thing, it will have one, and the ftc has historically been the regulator of privacy in both the physical space and the virtual space. and we think it's important to have one set of rules for the entire ecosystem, and one regulator for the entire ecosystem. announcer: watch "t

[laughter] >> tonight on the communicators, tennessee were marsha blackburn, the chair of the key house subcommittee on communication and technology, talks about the fcc's to change internet regulation rules, and congresses effort to change international -- privacy rules. >> on privacy bill -- can you tell us about the bill, and also what drove you to introduce a question mark >> for ready to say something that comes forward from's on the issues of privacy and data security. in certainly now, going to have not only states, but citizens with privacy regulations. they're doing it because the federal government, congress has not taken an action. the courtesy issue -- will not have two regulators, which is a good thing. we are going to have one. and they have historically been, the regulator of privacy. in the physical space and virtual space. important to have one set of four entire ecosystem, and one regulator for the entire echo system. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> tomorrow on c-span, a look at the politics and security of the asia-pacific region,

with me now to discuss health care and more, bakari sellers, marsha blackburn, jen psaki and amanda carpenterstart with you. nobody dies because they don't have access to health care. true? >> we all know that individuals have and need access to health care and that is one of the reasons we're trying to get in this process and clean up what has happened through the affordable care act and the marketplace and the narrowed networks and lack of access because the stories that come into our office every single day will just rip your heart out. people that can't get access to the care. they have a card, an insurance card, but the product is too expensive to use. look of access to physicians who will take it. and that is why it is essential that we work to fix this issue. my hope is that our colleagues across the aisle will come work with us to get it fixed and they should. >> i agree with the part about the heart wrenching stories that we're hearing and that the affordable care act needs reformed. but i think it's almost perverted to say that somehow taking away insurance from 20 million to 24 mil

of worldwide taxing deferrals we are going a to talk more about that tennessee congresswoman marsha blackburn. >> so let's talk about this tax plan. do you think this can move through the regularly process get with 60 votes getting democrats involved voting on tax reform or do you think youo. maria: i tell you if you and other members your colleagues can get this done, this would be an extraordinary moment for the country. i know. >> it would. >> on the docket -- yeah this week i go want to ask about that let me stay on tax reform for a moment is it a debate won't the conversation battle be around deductions whether or not this plan needs to be revenue neutral or not. >> congresswoman would you vote without having some kind of a revenue raise within tax plan or do you think that look, the american people want tax cuts let's give them tax cuts, take away deductions, at . then the revenues will come. >> do you expect the gop health care plan on the docket this week we are hearing increasely you are close have votes in the house president trump telling cbs he hopes deal will happen will preexist

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marsha blackburn a few days ago introduced a bill that deals with privacy so one thing it does that would have the effect of doing is relocating or locating the authority to regulate privacy with the ftc or the internet players. let's assume you think that is a good thing but another thing that the bill does is it requires out in rather than opt out for activities that are assumed to be sensitive like web browsing and apps usage, history, things that the ftc has not considered to opt in and i think perhaps several of you, i am not sure, you can let us know, previously ahead of objections to opting in for that information. that is what i want to focus on, not the equality of treatment but specifically whether or not you agree with the opt in requirement and chairman blackburn's proposed bill. >> let's break it down and talk about where that came from. where all of that came from, chairwoman blackburn's bill, was i thought a disinformation campaign that happened after congress did the cr and donald trump signed into law, eliminating the privacy order that the fcc had enacted and the disinfo

. >>> tonight on "the communicators," tennessee representative marsha blackburn, the in you chair of the key house subcommittee on communications and technology, talks about the fcc vote to change internet regulation rules and congress' efforts to change internet privacy rules. miss blackburn is interviewed by event driven's tech and media telecom reporter, lydia beyoud. >> can you tell us a little bit about the bill and also what drove you to introduce it? >> people are ready to see something come forward from us on the issues of privacy and on data security. and certainly now we're beginning to have not only states but cities look at privacy regulation and they're doing it because the federal government, because congress, has not taken an action. and now that the privacy issue will not have two regulators, which is a good thing, we're going to have one. and the ftc has historically been the regulator of privacy in both the physical space and the virtual space. and we think it's important to have one set of rules for the entire ecosystem, and one regulator for the entire ecosystem.