the blocking section of the roposal, we asked the question should there be a ban on paid prioritization as an example of blocking? question. and the non-discrimination portion of the proposal, we asked the question should there be a ban on paid priority accusation? question. talk to me after we get the input on those questions. but there is nothing in the rule that authorizes fast lanes or paid priority accusation. -- prioritization. >> would you consider comcast or netflix a form of paid priority sedation and is that something that you would ban? > so ed, as i said, that's a hearing question. so, let's make sure we get all our language straight here. -- applies ernet is to the service that the consumer uys to get from their computer where that pipe interconnects with the greater network. that's a peering point. that's a connection issue. that is the issue in comcast and net flicks. -- netflix. and i say that's an entirely different issue from this transmission. it's an issue that we are investigating. it's an issue we're very interested in, but it's not the issue that's here today. >>

the fda regulation should fit the product and the risk .roposed by that product throughout the proposed regulations, fda talks about a somewhat controversial idea of harm reduction. for the 42 million americans who currently smoke, fda should enable companies to find creative ways to reduce the negative health effects of nicotine addiction, not regulate that innovation out of existence. most of the discussion around the gaming regulation and tobacco seems to be about understands, and i there are competing points of view. , suchublic health experts as the largest nonprofit public-health charity in the nation, to tobacco control, has said, "this could be the single biggest opportunity that has come along in a century to make the cigarette obsolete." that's one view. on the other hand, the director of the cdc has been quoted as stating that "many kids are starting out with e-cigarettes and then going on to smoke conventional cigarettes." i would like to understand what research we have done to answer those questions. there are reports from countries overseas that some of these new products

acknowledge and respond to the great tide of public commentary that followed in the wake of the chairman's roposal. even now, the phone calls continue, the e-mails pour in, and the web itself is ablaze with commentary on how this commission should proceed. it is no wonder. our internet economy is the envy of the world. we invented it. the broadband beneath us and the airwaves all around us deliver its collective might to our homes and businesses in communities across the country. the applications economy began here on our shores. it produced this dynamic engine of entrepreneurship and experimentation is a foundation of openness. sustaining what has made us innovative and creative should not be a choice. it should be an obligation. as we proceed, we are also obligated to protect what has made the internet the most dynamic platform for free speech ever invented. it is our modern town square. it is our printing press. it is our shared platform for opportunity. online, we are sovereign. we can choose, create, and consume content unimpeded by the preferences of our broadband providers. sustaining this

for in roposed paid part by closing some of the wasteful special interest tax loopholes in the code. we think the r&d tax credit is a pro-growth policy. but subsidies to big oil companies, no. so because our republican colleagues don't want to pay for it in the bill they are going to increase the deficit. if fact, the rule yesterday, it waived the rules of the house because the r&d tax credit bill was inconsistent with the republicans' own budget. the budget that was passed three or four weeks ago. it's inconsistent with it. end running it throes it out of the balance. you are putting it on the credit card. at the end of the day that means if you're not going to ask medicare to pay for it, which apparently had been the original plan, you're going to be cutting our kids' education, you're going to be cutting research at places like the national institutes of health to try and find cures and treatments for diseases, you're going to be letting the infrastructure of this country come to a halt. in fact, the budget calls for allowing the transportation trust fund to go insolvent. but that