mr. stearns: i thank the gentleman. to you folks when you hold up that glass, there's another glass in texas that is willing to take this lower radioactive waste. you should know that-- mr. gordon: reclaiming my time. has that site been certified? mr. stearns: i think it's in the process of being certified. mr. gordon: it hasn't been certified. mr. stearns: if you don't mind i'm going to yield to your colleague from tennessee. he has a question for you. mr. gordon: i'll be happy to yield. mr. roe: just one question. thank you for yielding. is it a problem to have the waste brought into this country and then shipped out? back to the country of origin or wherever it's disposed of. we have a country -- mr. gordon: i understand that. i'm sympathetic to the company and talked to them. the difficult -- difficulty is whether that waste has been separated. i talked with them personally and they have said they don't ship it all back. they keep some of it here. and once you combine an a level with a b or c level there are addition

mr. stearns: madam speaker, how much time do i have left? the speaker pro tempore: 7 1/2 minutes. mr. stearns: ok. i yield such time as she may consume, the gentlelady from wyoming, mrs. lummis. lum lum -- mrs. lummis: thank you, madam speaker. i ask to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. lummis: i'd like to thank the chairman and ranking member of the judiciary committee for inclusion of language from my bill on statewide public television. passage of this language will remove the legal obstacles for satellite carriers to offer statewide public television in wyoming and other states. i don't care whether it's in high def or not. i just want public television carried in wyoming and other states. and that has been achieved. so thank you kindly. i also thank the gentleman from georgia, mr. deal, who worked diligently to address the problem of local television market areas. despite his good work, i rise today to express regret for the missed opportunity the passage of this bill represents. the decision to put off for another five years any real r

mr. stearns: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: mr. speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 2221, the data accountability and trust act, and i am very pleased and gratified that we're considering this bill today. i've taken an active part and interest in data privacy, i'm happy that the house members will now finally have an opportunity to vote on this important legislation which frankly i introduced in its original form in the 109th congress. as former chairman of the subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection, ctcp, the energy commerce committee held two hearings in 2005 on identity theft. and security breaches involving personal information. these hearings led me to introduce the data accountability and trust act which would require any entity that experiences a simple breach of security such as a business to notify all those folks in the united states whose information was acquired by an unauthorized pe

mr. stearns: mr. speaker, i yield such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: let me just perhaps move a little forward. the gentlelady from california mentioned several people said, well, why does congress need to get involved? that has been brought before me before. and i would say -- and this is the compliment to the gentlelady from california, what she did with her bill, a bill originally directed the f.c.c. to write its own rules. but she reached out to industry and engaged them, which is a commendation for her, and asked them, well, how can we solve this? for those people that says, why can't industry solve this? she was an impetus to do this. now industry developed a subgroup. the subgroup came up with the technology to be able to solve the problem. and now she's saying basically, let industry solve the problem and let the f.c.c. adopt what they've come up with. another thing that i think came through the process, which is also, i think, a compliment to her that she was willing to realize

mr. stearns. the speaker pro tempore: chair recognizes the gentleman for two minutes. mr. starns: let me say to my colleague from massachusetts, we came in together, back in 1988, we were both elected. he was mayor of springfield, as i recollect you balanced your budget as mayor. you had to balance the budget. we've been up here trying to balance the budget for 21 years. i supported a balanced budget, both a constitutional amendment as well as a legislative budget. i don't believe you or your colleagues did. i say this because, frankly, we have been talking about deficit as long as you and i have been in congress. we can blame republicans, we can blame democrats. but let's look at the record. remember the deficits of $250 million and we lamented about it, complained about it. well, that's what happens. it exploded now. now we're looking at deficits that are a lot larger. as my colleagues mentioned $1.4 trillion. when you look at bush 2, george w. bush, he had deficits of $1. df orb $600 billion. now we're talking two or three times that. when you look at when ronald reagan

mr. stearns. the gentleman from new york, mr. wiener, is recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you.e developing crumb, which is your -- research -- chrome, your browser. wouldn't it be possible through that vehicle so that when you download it, your first page is to tell us what information you would like to know about the pages you are visiting and what information's that you would like to share, and maybe a collection of boxes you can check or not check? it is similar to what facebook tries to do, although they do not do it right in your face. that seems to be an even better place to think about the true gateway for the experience. if i wanted to do that through chrome, would not be able to do that in some way? i know i can erase the cookies and i can erase my browser history, but cannot do something like that? >> thank you for that question. i am at a disadvantage because i am not an engineer, just a lawyer, and our engineers do amazing things. i do not know if there is any limitation on what they can do. i know they are working hard to build privacy controls. >> maybe mr. felten

mr. stearns. the gentleman from california, mr. max -- mr.man, is recognized for five minutes predominant thank you, mr. chairman. -- >> thank you, mr. chairman. this will enhance our ability to develop forward-looking spectrum policies. ongoing developments in wireless broadband technology, along with increased consumer demand have raised questions about the sufficiency of current spectrum allocations for wireless communications services. some experts estimate that the wireless industry in the u.s. needs an additional 150 megahertz of spectrum to simply keep up with the explosion in wireless data usage and to remain competitive with other nations. before we can start identifying bands of spectrum that might be made available, for these new services, however, we need to understand how existing spectrum is allocated and utilized. in simple terms, we need better information about spectrum usage by federal and non-federal entities. in july of this year, a bipartisan group introduced h.r.-3145, the radio spectrum inventory act. this legislation r

mr. lorenzo, our next witness. he is a sports promoter he has got degrees from san diego university, and the stearns school of business you. welcome to our hearing, sir. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you chairman conyers. thank you ranking member smith and distinguished members of the committee. i would like to thank you for inviting me to appear to discuss on lange screening including pirated live sporting events, to true honor for me to be here and i am pleased to explain how unlawful streaming of our pay-per-view events adversely impacts our business. the piracy of live sporting events is illegal and kills jobs and threatens the expansion of u.s. based companies. in 20001 my brother and i along with their friend dana white purchased the ufc. we saw great potential in ufc when many thought we were crazy. we took a great risk but today the ufc is a phenomenal success creating an impacting thousands of jobs for athletes licensees partners and affiliates. that success is threatened by the retransmission of our live pay-per-view events which account for nearly half of our revenues. our copyright production works are