commissioner rosenworcel,? spent i've issued the is a report sometime last year but had to go back and check. >> commissioner pai? >> if you are referring to the task force the chairman announced this morning, is that the one? >> right. he asked about he spoke about in his opening testimony. >> and i learned about it this morning when he announced it. >> commissioner o'reilly? >> i appreciate the kind words from the chairman. i just heard about it this morning spent my time has expired and the chair now recognizes mr. doyle. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to take a moment and recognize along with my colleague ms. eshoo the historic step forward from the order on municipal broadband. taken together these actions by the commission represent incredible wins for consumers entrepreneurs and millions of americans who called on the commission to take action. innovators should need to ask permission or pay gatekeepers to deploy new products and services and the fcc's actions will ensure that this remains true. i wa

. >> thank you commissioner rosenworcel. as much as we can, trying to adhere to the five-minute rule, it will be hard because we have a lot of interest in the subject. let me start by -- talking a little about an issue important to me and my state, and i'll start by saying laws and policies that are outdated often leads to rules that are are arbitrary which ultimately limits consumer choice and raises cost. and the current universal service fund rules require a rural consumer to buy voice service from a small rural telephone company in order for that carrier to are eligible for consumer support. if they -- the carrier is no longer eligible to receive u.s. support for that subscriber's line. this contradiction undermines the mission of the new broadband centric usf. it makes broadband more expensive. last year senators gardner and i led letters to the commission to urged the fcc to propose rules to solve this issue nearly a year later that issue remains unsolved. and so i want to ask each of you a question. i'm going to take

then perhaps either commissioner rosenworcel and commissioner clyburn can respond. thank you for that answer. my time is up. we always say that before we ask the next question. we have a great appeal that's been on file for four years. we'd ask you to respond. it has not been responded to. and i would ask your commitment that you would get the details from us. >> i'm sorry, what is it -- there is an appeal? >> can ed. yes. on appeal. four years. for rates that were established -- they filed -- i'm sorry, they filed in 2011. it is a case dealing back to the funding of 2005. >> yes. >> so we'll follow up. mr. chairman, thank you very much. i'll submit the rest of my questions for the record. >> thank you senator moran. senator cruz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. commissioners, thank you for being here. the internet has proven to be an incredible haven for innovation and for opportunity. and i believe the commission's order imposes a profound threat to continued innovation on the internet and in time will hurt small content providers and favor large corporations with inf

commissioner rosenworcel? >> i agree. >> thank you, i'm 99.99% sure that there will be a legal -- >> so this is purer than ivory soap? >>ly go better than my colleague. the big dogs have promised their going to -- i take them at their word. >> i do think that we need certainty going forward, and i'm deeply concerned regarding that. dr. clyburn, would you have supported reclassification under title 2 without forebearanence? >> i think one thing we did right was recognize the dynamics of the day. this is not your father or mother's forebearance. i'm very comfortable in seeing this is looking as a current construct. >> i think you should have compared it to bogart and mccall, myself. >>> thank you, the chairman yields back and the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. >>> thank you, commissionerings, for your hard work on this. regarding the litigation issue, is there any decision you could make on net neutrality that would not involve significant litigation. >> i any you have hit the nail on the head,

that you have taken, strong and again emphatic action on cramming particularly to commission a rosenworcel for coming to connecticut about the pernicious effects of cramming and the attention that they need to pay for it but this action on stopping cramming through the settlements that you reached with at&t and t-mobile i hope will lead to rules that go beyond those settlements. as important as they were i think there need to be rules established and embodying the conditions that were expressed in those settlements that require express consent for any third-party wireless company and a wireless carrier allows third-party access to their customers bills. ensures third-party bills and provide free service to block third-party charges should they choose to do so and i would like to know from each of you, you can say it's simply yes or no whether you commit to updating the fcc's rules to apply these forms to hold industry and make sure industry protects their subscribers from all of these deceitful practices rather than profiting from them. i'm assuming that you would agree and you can indicat

then perhaps either commissioner rosenworcel and commissioner clyburn can respond. thank you for that answer. my time is up. we always say that before we ask the next question. we have a great appeal that's been on file for four years. we'd ask you to respond. it has not been responded to. and i would ask your commitment that you would get the details from us. >> i'm sorry, what is it -- there is an appeal? >> can ed. yes. on appeal. four years. for rates that were established -- they filed -- i'm sorry, they filed in 2011. it is a case dealing back to the funding of 2005. >> yes. >> so we'll follow up. mr. chairman, thank you very much. i'll submit the rest of my questions for the record. >> thank you senator moran. senator cruz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. commissioners, thank you for being here. the internet has proven to be an incredible haven for innovation and for opportunity. and i believe the commission's order imposes a profound threat to continued innovation on the internet and in time will hurt small content providers and favor large corporations with inf

alphabetical order of that with commissioner clyburn, o'rielly and commissioner pai and commissioner rosenworcel. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a privilege to be here with my colleagues. we're five type a individuals who have been working together for the public interest. let me make three quick observations in keeping with your three-minute rule. one the open internet decision, as you indicated is a watershed. your leadership, mr. chairman, has illustrated that there really aren't any differences about this need to do something, as you said today. we need clear rules. there are different approaches to be sure. >> wireless is causing cancer and the fcc has been hiding it from everyone. suffering with brain injuries, breast cancer. >> you're subject to arrest! >> cancer. world health organizations classify -- >> order in the hearing room. >> world health organizations classify all of the wireless as the class 2 b cancer again. these aren't safety standards. >> sorry, mr. chairman. please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i said, there are different approaches that we take to be sure and

we are going to go now to commissioner rosenworcel. look forward to your comments as well. thank you for being here. >> good morning -- >> i don't think that microphone state on. >> i've got it now. good morning, chairman walden ranking member eshoo, and distinguished members of the committee. today, communications technologies the count for one-sixth of the economy, and they are changing at a breathtaking pace. how fast? well, consider this. it took the telephone 75 years before it reached 50 million users. to reach the same number of users, it took television 13 years, and the internet four years. more recently to reach the same number of users it took angry bird 35 days. so we know the future is coming at us faster than ever before. we also know the future involves the internet. our internet economy is the envy of the world. it was built on a foundation of openness. that is why open internet policies matter and that is why i support network neutrality. as you've undoubtedly heard, 4 million americans wrote the fcc to make known thei

rosenworcel. >> so there has been a little noise on the way to this decision today. i'm going to do something radical. i'm going to be brief. our internet economy is the envy of the world. we invented it. the application's economy began right here on our shores. the broadband below us and the airwaves all around us deliver its collective might into our homes and businesses all across the country. what produced this dynamic engine of entrepreneurship and experimentation is a foundation of openness. and sustaining what has made us innovative, fierce and creative should not be a choice. it should be an obligation. we also have a duty a duty to protect what has made the internet the most dynamic platform for free speech ever invented. it is our printing press it is our town square it is our our individual soapbox and our shared platform for opportunity. that is why open internet policies matter. that is why i support network neutrality. we cannot have a two-tiered internet with fast lanes that speed the traffic of the privileged and leave the rest of us lagging behind. w

commissioner rosenworcel? >> american enterprise and self-sufficiency are the stuff of legend. but when we really thrive is when we find common cause and come together to get things done. for our forbearers, this meant everything from holding barn-raisings to building bridges to setting up cooperatives to bring electricity to our nation's farms. but infrastructure challenges like these are not limited to the past. we have communities that face them today. with broadband. broadband, after all, is more than a technology it's a platform for opportunity. in urban areas, rural areas, and everything in between, high-speed service is now necessary to attract and sustain businesses, expand civic services, and secure a viable future. without it no community has a fair shot in the digital age. i learned this firsthand last year, when i visited lafayette, louisiana. deep in the heart of the area where acadia was born, i got to sit down over some awfully good gumbo with parrish president joey durel. i learned about the struggle to bring high-speed service to his community. it took time, an

alphabetical order of that with commissioner clyburn, o'rielly and commissioner pai and commissioner rosenworcel>> thank you, mr. chairman. it's a privilege to be here with my colleagues. we're five type a individuals who have been working together for the public interest. let me make three quick observations in keeping with your three-minute rule. one the open internet decision, as you indicated is a watershed. your leadership, mr. chairman, has illustrated that there really aren't any differences about this need to do something, as you said today. we need clear rules. there are different approaches to be sure. >> wireless is causing cancer and the fcc has been hiding it from everyone. suffering with brain injuries, breast cancer. >> you're subject to arrest! >> cancer. world health organizations classify -- >> world health organizations classify all the ways of wireless -- you can hide it in the fcc guidelines. these aren't safety standards. >> sorry, mr. chairman. please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i said, there are different approaches that we take to be sure and no doubt we'll b

i'm inches in hearing from commissioner rosenworcel on the innovative potential of unlicensed spectrum and i'm also excited to hear from a former public utility commissioner colleague of mine as well commissioner clyburn clyburn said is to modernize a lifetime program in the broadband era and i want to hear from all commissioners on how we can work with the fcc including strengthening information technology systems that collapse under the weight of congress when a friend of ours john oliver filed, to the fcc which crashed its servers. surely the agency that is charged with overseeing the internet should be able to handle the traffic. with that mr. chairman i want to thank everyone for being here and i look forward to this important conversation today. >> i i think the jumpers, tomiko to the chairman of the fcc for an opening statement. mr. wheeler thank you for being here. we know you have a tough job and we look forward to your comments. >> thank you very much mr. chairman, ranking member eshoo it's a privet should be here with all of my colleagues. there has been some reference appea