our guests are former staffers patricia paoletta and catherine mccullough. >> well, with the new concourse in place and new leadership in power, we thought we would take this opportunity on "the communicators" to look at telecommunications policy and the 112, chris. joining us are two former congressional staff members, patricia paoletta was a majority counsel in the house of representatives for the republicans in the 1990's and catherine mccullough was the former senate council on the democratic side. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. joining also is juliana grenwald, technical daily dose of the national turtle. catherine, if i could start with you, you wrote in a recent blog comlawblog.com did you look for two things, high degree in the upcoming congress and a high degree of cooperation. why did you write that? >> i think there is going to be a high degree of cooperation on certain issues. for instance, tv spectrum allocation. when it comes to the idea of deciding on the authority for incentive options and who's going to get what slice of the pie, i think there's a lot of in

our guest, trisha paoletta on the house side from 2003 to 2006, and catherine mccullough, former senate commerce committee counsel on the democratic side in the 1990's. juliana grunwald is the editor of "tech daily dose." >> a former congressman said yesterday that his firm would like to see congress revisit the 1996 telecom act. do you see that happening? could some of these net neutrality, f.c.c. issues be clarified, with a rewrite of the telecom act? >> last year there was a lot of talk about rewriting the act. i don't think that's going to happen too early on in this congress, because you have a lot of new members who don't have the decades of experience that some of the departing members had. so i think you might, toward the second half of the year, get to hearings educating those members. but i don't see that happening early on balls of the other priorities, including net neutrality they'll want to get through. >> i agree. i think that because of the factors that were just mentioned here and also because you have this situation where nobody is fully in the majority, i think that t

. >> catherine mccullough and patricia paoletta have been our guests on "the communicators." juliana grenwald from tech daily dose, thank you as well. >>> .. >> next, a conference analyzing airport security. you'll hear from new jersey representative rush hot on increasing oversight of tsa. after that, a look at body scanners and pat-down procedures in u.s. airports. this is two hours and 25 minutes. >> good morning, and welcome, everyone. my name is mark ruthenberg, president of the u.s. privacy information center. emic is a public research organization established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberty issues, and behalf of epic, the organizers, and speakers at this conference, it is my pleasure to welcome you this morning. i think we have without question a controversial topic, for for those here in the room following us on c-span or twitter, i encourage you go to the website epic.org/events/tsa, participate in the discussion. i think it's scan tsa. we welcome your comments and your engagement it is also my pleasure today too welcome as our