mr. pryor: madam chairman. the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. pryor: i will speak here in morning business for 10 minutes or less. thank you very much, madam chairman. let me just talk about a couple of things this morning. first, i want to talk about something my state has been going through since mid march and has continued to present day, and that is we have been battered by tornadoes and high winds, and now flooding. you see this photo that was just taken a few days ago. i think it was taken late last week of just one of our areas in the state that's underwater. we have had many, many towns that have been evacuated. many, many counties have been declared disaster areas. in fact, the corps of engineers showed me a map on friday when i met with them, and they have this map and it's a large oval that goes -- that starts down near dallas, texas, goes pretty much all across the state of arkansas and into a little bit of missouri and tennessee and illinois and even i think a little bit into kentucky, and in that oval, the folks in those areas have

mr. pryor: madam president, are we in morning business now? the presiding officer: we are. mr. pryor: thank you, madam president. i'd like to speak for ten minutes or maybe even less on an issue that's very important to not just my state, but really important to the country, and that is we know this flooding is going on around the country. this is a picture from arkansas. clearly there are people all over the country or all over the south that are under waugt. you can see -- under water. you can see a lone mother sticking -- a lawn mower sticking up under the water in east arkansas. we certainly say our prayers and any sort of assistance we can to people in my state, louisiana, mississippi, other places, missouri. obviously in missouri they have had lots of water up there and tennessee, other places that are under water right now. what i want to talk about today, though, madam president, is not this flood that the country is experiencing right now, but a flood in my state that happened three years ago. we had a situation three years ago where we had some flooding on the white ri

mr. reed? >> thank you, chairman pryor, ranking member toomey and distinguished members for the opportunity to speak with you today. as executive director ira present over 3,000 developers and small business entrepreneur as many human rights apps for smart phones and towelettes. often when we consider the issues in this setting, we do it to look at the impact it will have on the country at large and we talk in broad themes and big ideas but today i would like to start off differently. breaking it down to the smallest of the small specifically my point size to five-year-old. my daughter is learning to speak chinese, granted she's doing it because doud wants her to the oil and let her use an old smart phone, i floated on the chinese language learning apps and she has gained that help recognition and even one that let her take pictures of a character and gives her a translation. i recently have seen a demo of an application that will allow her to take a picture of an object and get a translation audibly. these are the applications that won't make the cut on the desktop computer if for no other re

pryor. >> thank you on mr. chairman. when you start with your family. the poster regulatory commission made some recommendations last year about some things you should do is your closing post office is. one of the recommendations is people in the area should receive actual notice, which i assume would be like a postcard notice and apparently your current practice is just to notify your p.o. box customers and carrier delivery customers about the affected facility. the site recommendation would be that the postal service would expand methods available for providing and receiving customer input. the third recommendation they made is they would expand the contents of the public notice and include better information about alternatives for customers. my understanding is he didn't implement those recommendations? do you know why you didn't? >> were having some post offices closed in our state and the people in our state at least feel like they are not notified of this adequately. they don't have opportunities for input. whether opportunities for input it seems

pryor. >> thank you on mr. chairman. when you start with your family. the poster regulatory commission made some recommendations last year about some things you should do is your closing post office is. one of the recommendations is people in the area should receive actual notice, which i assume would be like a postcard notice and apparently your current practice is just to notify your p.o. box customers and carrier delivery customers about the affected facility. the site recommendation would be that the postal service would expand methods available for providing and receiving customer input. the third recommendation they made is they would expand the contents of the public notice and include better information about alternatives for customers. my understanding is he didn't implement those recommendations? do you know why you didn't? >> were having some post offices closed in our state and the people in our state at least feel like they are not notified of this adequately. they don't have opportunities for input. whether opportunities for input it seems

pryor. >> thank you on mr. chairman. when you start with your family. the poster regulatory commission made some recommendations last year about some things you should do is your closing post office is. one of the recommendations is people in the area should receive actual notice, which i assume would be like a postcard notice and apparently your current practice is just to notify your p.o. box customers and carrier delivery customers about the affected facility. the site recommendation would be that the postal service would expand methods available for providing and receiving customer input. the third recommendation they made is they would expand the contents of the public notice and include better information about alternatives for customers. my understanding is he didn't implement those recommendations? do you know why you didn't? >> were having some post offices closed in our state and the people in our state at least feel like they are not notified of this adequately. they don't have opportunities for input. whether opportunities for input it seems

mr. taylor. if everyone can keep it to five minutes or less, that would be great. >> thank you, chairman. chairman rockefeller, chairman pryor, ranking member to me, and members of the comomomee, ttank you for inviting me to testify today. i just a decade ago, most online content was dedic and accessed through desktops. today -- was static and accessed through desktops. today, the online community is very mobile. and thanks to the applications of smart phones, kibo can access the web whenever and wherever they want -- people can access the web whenever and wherever they want. we are grateful for the opportunity to discuss these issues with other stakeholders today. everyone has a key role to play in keeping things saben secure online. facebook works hard to -- safe and secure online. facebook works hard to make sure that people are securing the connections that they make. we understand that trust is the foundation of the social web. people will stop using facebook if they lose trust in our services. at the same time, overly restrictive policies can interfere with the policies toward the public to a direct. getting this bounc