joining me with the questioning is paul kirby. and we are delighted to have you. earlier this spring we covered you at a panel and you were asked about what the number one privacy priority was in telecommunication and your response was spectrum, spectrum, spectrum and talked about the three institutions that have responsibility for that. i am going to ask you were the audience to briefly give a report card on how the institutions are doing and why it is so important. >> guest: the reason it is important is spectrum is a fundamental input going on in the investments. we are all carrying multiple wireless devices and they require spectrum and more and more of the airwaves to connect up and communicate so it is necessary to find ways to make more spectrum available to continue the invasinovatioinnov. as far as how we are doing, i think all three of the government entities are doing a good job within the constraints in which they operate in. we are constructual issues. there is no one responsible for managing the spectrum. nitia does a great job but they don't have th

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kirby. tomorrow, live coverage of the iowa state republican party convention in des moines with bobby jindal,ding rand paul and rick santorum at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. also comment on the event as it and twitter.cebook >> when i started covering congress, you had people like senator russell long, wilbur rostenkowski, howard vapor, people who were giants in their own way. a couple of those guys got themselves into trouble. but overall these were people they were all- very intelligent. they knew how to craft legislation. deal and how to do a they all worked with whoever the president was. whether it was their party or the other party. was politics, but at the end of the tay they usually-- day they found a way to come together and make decisions for the good of the country. you just don't see that anymore. first of all, i think the quality of members of congress and senate in terms of their intelligence and their diminished.as i mean there are still great shouldn't mal ibm, there are wonderful members on both sides. think there are is minority. people are triben by the and their own self-survival and i