. >> this week on "the communicators" federal communications commission robert mcdowell on cell phone security issues, service charges on consumers phone bills and issues before the fcc. >> host: we welcome back to "the communicators" robert mcdowell, the lone republican commission on the federal communications commission at this point. also joining us for this half-hour discussion is amy schatz who covers telecommunications issues for "the wall street journal." commissioner, let's start there, what's it like to be the lone republican on the fcc? >> guest: over 90% of what the fcc does is not only bipartisan but unanimous. so it's probably one of the least partisan pieces of washington, d.c., you can find. so the party label doesn't always mean a whole lot. i've been there i guess the second longest with commissioner copps having been almost 10 years. i've been there over five years. that you choose some institutional memory to work with, but i think commissioner baker left, i don't member when. >> host: is their movement for another republican commissioner? >> guest: i don't know. al

. >> commissioner mcdowell, the fcc this week forwarded rules to the omb toward net neutrality to codify net neutrality. where do you stand? omb being the office of management and budget. the white house department. there's a whole review called the paper reduction act, the pra, not to be confused with the professional radio association. they review what the effect of our rules might be on businesses of all kind. how much paper work is this producing? by the fcc own estimate, the net neutrality rules against, which i dissented last december 21st, will generate three times more paperwork than the fcc estimated. and that number seems to be going up. this is just tier 1, i think, of the undiscerneddeddeddeddeddeddd consequences. the review that has been happened that required more notice and public comment. the last round of that or the latest round of that is commencing now. so it could be those rules or those net neutrality rules don't become effective maybe until mid to late october. and then they could be appealed. they can't be appealed by the court or overturned by the senate under st

. >> and we welcome back to "the communicators" robert mcdowell, the lone republican commissioner on the federal communications commission. also joining us of this half hour is amy schatz who covers telecommunication issues for "the wall street journal." commissioner, let's start there. what's it like to be the lone republican on the fcc at this point? has it made a difference? >> well, first of all, over 90% of what the fcc does is not only bipartisan but unanimous, so it's probably one of the least partisan pieces of washington, d.c., that you can find. so the party label doesn't mean a whole lot. i've been there, i guess, the second longest out of all the commissioners with commissioner cox having been there almost 10 years. i've been there a little over 5. so that gives you some institutional memory to work with, but i think since commissioner baker left, i'm trying to think if i've cast a dissenting vote, maybe i have, but i don't remember what it was at this point. >> has there been movement for another republican commissioner? >> i don't know. all i know is what i've read in t

commissioner mcdowell? >> i think statutory action is the best way to cut through this cord and not regulation and statutory provision that have built up through the years. i would be happy to work with you through something like that. >> chairman stearns, as a indicated to congressman, i don't have a specific recommendation for you. however, certainly anything that the committee decided to draft, weed be happy to work with new any way. >> commissioner mueller? >> mr. chairman, i jernly -- generally think the government of legislative and regulatory body should periodically review legislation and regulation. so if that's in order, i certainly endorse that. and as our chairman said, i had a specific example about hydropower relicensing. i'd be happy to provide it to you. it would be quite complicated given the number of federal laws involved. but any help that we can provide, i'd be happy to do so. >> also happy to work with you. though as pointed out, i think only four rules that we have actually are within

write it down your mcdowell from the university of virginia thank you very much indeed for you all right thank you. well beyond our financial crisis for some is an opportunity for others with money in short supply for companies in the west they're taking their operations and dollars to the cheaper east ortiz preassure looks at how the american downturn is great news for india. it's the great recession of the twenty first century what started as a collapse in the housing market in the united states has led to unemployment hunger and debt crises around the world and while countries are struggling to protect their interests increasingly western businesses are shifting their work east to cut costs welcome to guard down a modern suburb of new delhi everywhere you look there offices of american companies at the sign of the importance the united states has placed on this country during the financial crisis according to recent outsourcing reports american companies have been free production in that country as much as seven times in the past three year. carrier corporations is a multi-billion dol

thank you. >> commissioner mcdowell? >> braking member degette and having me today. during nine years of the -- during my years of the ftc i supported policies that promote consumer choice through abundance and competition and in lieu of regulation whenever possible. i welcome today's dialogue on the regulatory reform. 50 years ago there were only 463 pages in the fcc's portion of the code as the federal regulations. during this program americans only had a choice of three tv networks and one phone company. today over the air to become a cable tv, satellite and radio and the millions of contant suppliers and the internet offer consumers with an abundance of choices. in other words the american communications economy was far less competitive in 1961 than it is today that it operated under fewer rules. in contrast by late 1995 the portion of the sesir had grown to 2,933 pages of 4634 years earlier. as of the most recent printing of the csrl last october, it contained a mind-numbing 3,695 pages of rules. even after the congress codified the regulatory mandates with a la

graham mcdowell opened last year at pebble beach. rory mcilroy won this year's u.s.pen now darren clark has a chance to break through. not exactly a picture-perfect summer day in england. barring a record comeback tomorrow rory mcilroy won't be winning back-to-back majors. he shoots a four over 74 and is nine shots off the lead. >> ricky fowler made his way up the leaderboard with three birdies. he came within an inch. 4th. he is three shots back. >>> phil mickelson has never won an open championship and he has his work cut out for him tomorrow after shooting a one over 71 to leave him four back. >>> dustin johnson. briefly with a share of the lead and will head into the final round one shot back. darren clark played the front nine even but would get back to five under after the birdie on number 12. the 42-year-old shoots a 59 and is 18 holes away from his first ever major title. >> i thought in the open it would be my lifetime dream if i was to win it. it is that sort of thing. all players are judged on their majors. we are not judged on what tournaments we win. >>

the broadway and southbound at ashland in the city, also an accident baltimore county mcdowell at songbird and 95 southbound slow between white marsh and the 895 split. >>> we want to know what your 4th of july plans are. hit us up on the wmar facebook fan page and let us know how you are celebrating and if we can go. >> share your thoughts throughout the course of the morning. these guys are back 579:25 for your update. time to -- back at 7:at that -- 7:25 for your update.

to ben stein, dagen mcdowell, charlie gasperino, daying, this gets to the idea of of serious spending cuts? >> it does, but you need-- the devil's in the detail, charles. and we will he be getting more details on the plan, and plans in the coming days, but if you want to have a really serious debt reduction plan, you're going to have to tackle medicare and social security and medicaid and that's just the fact of the matter. and they are trying to-- one thing that's really important in this, they're trying to cap spending as a percentage of our economy, when it got to 25% of gross domestic product under president obama. this tries to take it down in about seven years, below that mark, back to where we've been since world war ii, that's a huge step in the right direction. >> what's interesting, is that the president says everything is on the table, but he already accumulate out on friday and said that this wasn't on the trouble and this seems like a logical step. >> well, you know, i listened to what he said and i thought he was basically talking compromise here. listen, this deal i don

what if i was to ask you which northern irishman is leading the open you might say a royal graeme mcdowell but it is not it's a mom who hasn't been seen for a while darren clarke we'll have a look at his score all the rest of the sport in just a second great thanks jeanne. great to have you with us this is sports today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes including. courting hardship on her twenty second birthday russian tennis star. reveals she's fighting cancer. capital clash the top two squads in world beach volleyball buckle are for supremacy in moscow with the clock ticking down ahead of next year's london olympics. and taking the plunge one man's quest to tackle the most extreme treks in the world takes him among other destinations to siberia. but let's start with some sad news russian tennis player. has revealed she has cancer the world number twenty eight choosing to make the announcement on her twenty second birthday. and played a match since may missing both the french open and wimbledon in a message on the w t a website the muscovite said she's being treated for hodgkin's lymp

here saving par on the fourteenth from the rough they expect tackler around the trains while graeme mcdowell is nine shots back and patrick harrington is ten of late has been more successful rusher at the world aquatic championships the country which dominated the synchronized section last week claiming his first gold in the swim discipline at the games and to see winning the women's fifty meter backstroke fastest qualifiers they were carrying his speed into the final to see off the nearest challenge of power japan and surveyed. european champion in the fifteen hundred meters touched the warning the time the twenty seven point seven nine seconds american missy franklin took the problems meanwhile before that ryan lost his own world record in the winning of the two hundred eighteen to individual medley the american moving ahead of compadres michael phelps. butterfly leg powering to victory in fifty four seconds and proving. tenth of a second felt right behind him in second with another big nine hundred. twelve record since i take. care. of the upcoming world championships in paris is also an

seeing both going up for american royalty here six shots back along with fellow argument graeme mcdowell finally ice hockey blue skull of became the n.h.l.'s highest paid goaltender when he joined the philadelphia flyers this summer the russian is currently on holiday in his home country and. reports the thirty one year old still found time to pass on his skills to a new generation of net minus. it isn't very often that you get to see either because gallup in russia and this is unlikely to change him in a future after he signed a nine year fifty one million dollar contract with the philadelphia flyers in the u.s. saying the pressure will certainly be on the russian but he says he'll be up to the task we have a great team that went to a team that have experienced guys who have a great line of defense who are defensive players. i hope are missing that piece i hope that's why i came to feel like to help this team win the stanley cup because they are long. since the seventy four yeah so why are all over thirty years probably thirty one but it's gollop should be entering his prime he has no i

saving power on the fourteenth from the rough with the spectacular hawk around the trees while graeme mcdowell is nine shots back and are preparing to tell you all their lives. well how to be more successful rusher at the world aquatic championships the country which dominated the synchronized section last week in its first gold in the swim discipline at the games and the sea is winning the women's fifty meter backstroke fastest qualifies you are carrying his speed into the final to see off the nearest challenge of. power of japan the world for european champion in the fifteen hundred meters touching the wall in the time of twenty seven point seven nine seconds american missy franklin took the bronze. before that ryan lochte broke his own world record in winning the two hundred meter individual medley the american moving ahead of compacted michael phelps after the golden butterfly leg powering to victory in fifty four seconds in proving his own mark by a tenth of a second phelps right behind in the second with another big name john kerry laszlo chat. logs getting the first world record inciden

also absolute a whole host of other people and the mcdowell had a few interesting comments to make about the the green card of course the color you color for the carpet these type of events usually read the. festival go into green she was saying it's caused some problems when it comes to picking up perfect outfits i had a wonderful stylist that lives here in russia helped me pick out the dress and she brought me many dresses to choose from and i particularly liked this one because it was like a piece of sculpture and it fit me perfect so i was happy to have it and she was lovely and lovely lady well it's not just on the macdonald of course it had problems picking out what she was going to wear i agonized but i was a nose this morning about what i was going to put on to make sure i looked right for this i'm sure you can sell. any style maria sharapova and they know how won wimbledon this year but she still remains an inspiration for many players worldwide she won the tournament when she was just seventeen when her striking looks as well as her athleticism has won her both on and off the c

first time you're saying at the moscow film festival and also whole host of other people and the mcdowell but a few interesting comments to make about the green carpets of course the color you color for the carpet these type of in the red the most. first of all going for green she was saying it's caused some problems when it comes to picking up perfect outfits i had a wonderful stylist that lives here in russia helped me pick out the dress and she brought me many dresses to choose from and i particularly like this one because it was like a piece of sculpture and it fit me perfect so i was happy to have it and she was lovely lovely lady well it's not just on the mcdonald of course it had problems picking out what she was going to wear i agonized for hours and hours this morning about what i was going to put on to make sure i looked right for this i'm sure you can sell. that despite a great a final in that final russian from the star body shop may not have won the cup this year but she's still an inspiration for an entire generation of young players tennis is a twenty four year old players

first time you're saying at the moscow film festival also absolute a whole host of other people andy mcdowell had a few interesting comments to make about the the green carpet of course the color you color for the carpet these type of events usually read the most. personal going for green she was saying it's caused some problems when it comes to picking up perfect outfits. i had a wonderful stylist that lives here in russia helped me pick out the dress and she brought me many dresses to choose from and i particularly like this one because it was like a piece of sculpture and it fit me perfect so i was happy to have it and she was lovely and lovely lady. well it's not just on him it doesn't of course it had problems picking out what she was going to wear i organized but i was a nose this morning about what i was going to put on to make sure i looked right for this i'm sure you can so i can indeed why you that fantastic that piece you know my profession that nicely matching because i just well peter all of the reporting from the first international mustang film possible. now saw the world press

daniel mcdowell from the university of the genie is says america's reputation has already been damaged. china is not going to be pleased with the united states has to do really interest payments for so everybody is a resort already to take in your bags the august second deadline reaching for the leaders in washington to agree to the biggest again because cause you are. the best of the united states has never defaulted on its debt is something that. is the reason people are attracted to buy u.s. debt in the first place and it's what's in the book which it will be so it's to deficit spend good decades now because there's a insatiable appetite for it step depending on it so it would be like i said it will be the third strike against us in three years it would be responsible it's going to be hard to be met it seems to go to china and say you need to. be a currency to appreciate charitable to say well you know maybe you should not have developed about your debt it's sort of like throwing stones and we're going to graft house as the saying goes once the united states took that it's pretty ha

the day yesterday saving on the fourteenth from the rough with a spectacular i ran the tree graeme mcdowell is nine shots back and public parenting ten of them in. the upcoming world today championships in paris is an important event paralympic hopefuls ahead of the london games and russia's bitter caldwell is hoping to accumulate enough points in order to travel next year but only cos would have caught up with her and her home town of smolensk. when did i call that it was just a child her mother wanted her to go to a dancing school or take up knitting and then broidery but by her own admission she's always been a sort of its own boy and lots of fight it was already all the is though that she would become a professional athlete mam'selle wanted her daughter to have nothing to do with combat sports and send her to track and field instead. of them to a chunk of business when i was sixteen i met a girl who was a wrestler and she took me to a wrestling club for the first time i went there secretly for a month and my parents had no idea my mom was shocked when she found out she thought this can

or one of the problems it's caused being green in just a few moments but yes we've seen and the mcdowell coming down here also john martin the director of the movie that is closing out the festival that's the debt it's a spy thriller a set around the israeli spy network very very highly anticipated movie i'm going to be able to see that myself also dame helen mirren the star of that movie as well as a whole host of russian celebrities from stage screen and this world of sports as well now i mentioned this green carpet they might be able to see people walking past me don't know if i was the organizers when i was speaking to you last week at the opening ceremony why it was green i couldn't get an answer then i finally being told announcer unfortunately answer is terribly boring one thing that isn't boring is some of the problems that apparently it's been causing for for women trying to get ready because they're. putting on costumes for the the red carpet walk as it were apparently green is a terrible color you have. picture taken again so a lot of stressing inforcing is going into making s

saving power on the fourteenth from the rough with a spectacular ork around the tree as well graeme mcdowellis nine shots back and patrick harrington is ten off the lead. but has been more successful rusher at the world aquatic championships the country which dominated this synchronized section last week claiming its first gold in this win discipline at the gangs and the season were winning the women's fifty meter backstroke the fastest qualifies you were carrying on her speed into the final to see off the nearest challenge of i had a coward and drove a european champions in the fifties and hundred metres touching the wall in a time of twenty seven point nine seconds american missy franklin took the brunt of the wall ryan lochte broke his own world record to win the two hundred meter individual medley the american moving ahead of compadres michael phelps after the butterfly legs to victory in fifty four seconds improving his own mark by a tenth of a second to drop behind the second i would. getting the first record since high tech party sings the band. while the upcoming world championships

. >> tonight on "the communicators, "robert mcdowell on the fcc's actions this week to crack down on offer a service charges on consumers' phone bills. that and other issues in front of the fcc tonight on "the communicators." on c-span 2. now an update on the progress between president obama and congressional leaders on the debt ceiling from this morning's "washington journal." we will get to that and the answer. first we have a congressional editor for politico that is on the phone. good monday morning. many talks occurred over the weekend. what is on tap for today? guest: no serious talks over the weekend and nothing specific on the schedule. when they sit down publicly, it is a little bit more feeder. there will be action this week as you indicate. there will be votes on the house floor and maybe even the senate floor. this is not the actual vote. the package is something that the conservatives want to check up on but has no chance of passing the senate. host: explain it for us. guest: a vow to cut spending and balance the budget. it sounds like common sense on the surface. the pr

commissioner mcdowell, it's nice for me to be able to say that in a formal setting in my new role.i look at the fcc merger review process under republican and democrat administrations, i see a process that appears to be broken. xm and series merger took away too long, comcast in b.c. merger to wait too long. there's simply too much discretion for the commission to hold the timeline of the review, for the review of the transfer of control licenses in an expeditious manner. is their something we can do to provide applicants with certainty regarding the timing of the fcc review process? and congressman chris if it's good to say that on my first time saying that publicly so congratulations. >> yes. there's a 188 day clock in the breach and in the rule to get the mergers done. i read yesterday also that of the assistant attorney general for the antitrust christine varney is stepping down and there's a big merger in the at&t t-mobile merger that needs a thorough and expeditious review, and i would hope that her stepping down doesn't believe that. i think we could get that done by the end

graeme mcdowell and rory mcilroy are the last two us winners.ow it's clarke one stroke in front of johnson and then fowler and bjorn tied three stroke back. miguel angel jimenez and gloved to a four strokes back and the last two players in the tournament under par. >>> it's been rough going in this year's tour de france and we'll show you how things went in [ bell ringing ] ♪ [ bleats ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] bring the fresh flavors of the world right to your table. ♪ discover sabra dips. adventure awaits. >>> it's been an injure-plagued tour de france and today's 14th stage was no exception of the crashes were a big part of the 105 miles through the pyrenees. germany's jen voight went down a hill and later went down again and not to thrilled that a camera was there to record his troubles. he will go down. and then get that camera out of here. the stage winner was jelle vanendert of belgium who came in 21 seconds of spain's sanchez. the overall leader is thomas voeckler of france, 1:49 in front of the lux embourg's frank schleck. >>> you might n