the f.c.c. to and i look forward to hearing more about the development of these auctions we are moving forward. andn today's technological comparative landscape, my interest in seeing a leaner more and more transparent f.c.c. has not diminished. you can wheeler, i hope take seriously the committee's request to review your organizational structure to reform and reorganize the f.c.c. to more appropriately reflect current rolen's and to keep up with the pace of technology. youhe industries that regulate. this committee is committed to fiscal responsibility and we that chore seriously. we expect all the agencies that jurisdiction to operate as efficiently and effectively as you can. includes the f.c.c. so the industries and services f.c.c. regulates are crucial, critical to american businesses.ns and these technologist are advancing at an ever quickening pace, and the f.c.c. must keep up while not deterring or stifling innovation.and overregulation hurts american businesses and markets. the f.c.c. sh

the f.c.c. has been clear that they support the open internet that they want to support an open innovative creative in their internet where we can all share ideas this is going to make it harder for the next you to it's going to make it harder for the next now that was my that was my antitrust argue and political organizing i mean this is the grass green political movement they're not going to be able to finish because of it you know if that flexes is able to pass a couple million bucks to comcast to get high speed you know passage on here the next start up in their garage they're going to have that to three million it's it's going to cause consumers and i'd like to really get back to the revolving door because the abuse of the revolving door is just remarkable when it comes to the f.c.c. you've got the biggest lobbying and cities comcast for instance of arisan who have hired over one hundred lobbyists an army of one hundred lobbyists each and eighty percent of those lobbyists have come from gov

coming up thanks to the f.c.c. the other internet as we know it is on the ropes how can we get back the answer right after the break. because of. the problem it was terrible a problem very hard to take out a little once again a little longer here a plan why haven't you ever had sex with that hurt their feelings. about what you want. to keep going to. want. to. play. what's. going to be a. bit of a. this was in the washington well as submissive. is being suggested in the latest numbers among the many candidates for the prophecy of current issues actually back to a new doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer based in india is fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a great america so largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly it all turned to the status quo but one night the real alternatives points to working for t

was this a division on the f.c.c. sf and going forward what does the future look like in terms of the objectedives originally attempted to be achieved? are those going to be achieved in a different way? i think what we all want on either side of the aisle is protection of free speech and ensure that our federal government isn't in a position where they may be putting pressure on our media entities to portray the news in a certain way which we certainly would hope would not be the aim or goal. >> and we identify entirely with that. >> great. do o the act requires us to occasional studies on the critical information needs of various segments of the economy. it is something that commissions have done whether they're republicans or democrats sitting at the head. when i came in, i discovered that there had been a decision made to move ahead on one of these. and that there had been some concerns raised about some of he specific questions that eemed to tend towards asking for news judgments. and i raised questions about that.

the f.c.c. passed rules the open internet rules which prevented iowa speeds from discriminating against content online in january of this year a d.c. court shut down those rules saying they didn't have the authority to regulate internet service providers in such a way so the f.c.c. now has a very clear way to deal with this problem which is to reclassify internet service providers as common carriers just as they were in the past but instead we've seen chairman wheeler try to come up with new rules and new ways of doing things and what he's basically open the door allegedly according to media publications is to allow i asked to use the find creative ways to find to get more money out of content providers and for people who don't really understand what net neutrality is or what it means to average internet users can you break down an example of how this would affect the average internet user so new. he basically sets up principles that prevent network discrimination so i asked because internet serv

why exactly did the f.c.c. just flip its stance. i can't possibly imagine why the f.c.c. ot too long ago argued in court that it was very important to protect to protect the virtuous cycle in a way and if they should and free expression that happens on the internet by preserving that neutrality rules and not allowing companies like arisan who by the way admitted in court that it would be seeking commercial agreements to provide wealthy corporations with a fast lane thereby creating second class digital citizenship for the rest of us and there's about face is disappointing and surprising well the f.c.c. argues they really didn't have a choice per se because of the court ruling that forced the commission to loosen its definition of what constitutes an open and our net what do you make of that response was there an alternative. absolutely the court actually laid it out pretty clearly for the f.c.c. it said f.c.c. what you've done here in the last round of net neutrality rules is you've tried to treat these broadband access providers like utility and you can't do that unless y

open internet and other wheelers man advisors an attorney by the name of daniel alvarez pressed the f.c.c. to abandon net neutrality is reason is two thousand and ten while representing comcast for the law firm willkie far and gallagher and at the same time matthew bell narrow who according to leaf on was brought into the f.c.c. specifically to work on net neutrality used to represent t.d.'s telecom and net neutrality internet service provider in the list doesn't stop there c.c. commissioner i used to work as general counsel for verizon as one of wheeler's advisors running car used to work as a lawyer for verizon century link and comcast and advisors will if the f.c.c. does not end up killing net neutrality we should if they if they end up killing net neutrality we should not be surprised after all this point the agency is essentially a lobbying firm for the telecom industry. crazy alert brownlow's gone wild batting winkle is eighty six years old lives in williams town kentucky is no ordinary grandma she's an internet superstar who's become a digital celebrity of sorts for her when he pos

. >> this past monday the f.c.c. ruled that owners could not control more than one station in local markets. find out more monday on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> next, a discussion about this weekend's alexeis in afghanistan. after that, a conversation on the financial brokering practice known as high frequency trading. at 11:00 p.m., "q & a" with arthur matt taibbi, talking about his book, "the divide." >> next a discussion about the future of afghanistan and this weekend's presidential alexei. from "washington journal," this is 45 minutes. at c-span.org. michael e. o'hanlon is a seniors -- senior fellow at the brookings institute. us talk about the voting in afghanistan. it is gone smoothly. guest: it looks good. there is a long way to go. as you are aware, you have to get 50% of the vote in afghanistan to win. there will be a runoff almost for sure. ran.ate candidates who chances are nobody got more than 35 or 40%. there will have to be a runoff. whoever does not make the runoff will have

well i mean if it isn't it's also something that the f.c.c. could push for to regulate in general i mean these are situations where where public stocks are potentially being manipulated and transactions into the stocks are being manipulated and technically the f.c.c. has jurisdiction over the public integrity of the markets and so you could argue that they could step up and consider this part of their umbrella mediately and regulate that practice but yes there does have to be a technical law or just the changing in the interpretation you can change an interpretation of the law without changing the law and as you said before the interpretation here is very connected to what's actually going on i'm not i'm not telling you i have information about apple and then you're trading on it i am telling i'm going to buy apple and you're trading on that it's a very fine line it's a so it's a subtle inflection so here we have the f.c.c. the new york a.g.'s office and i was office and now the department of justice looking into all this stuff these were the s

well now the security and exchange commission has stepped in to take a closer look at the matter the f.c.c. is considering a requirement that would make brokers tell investors exactly where their stocks go to be executed a requirement that i personally think must become law why is the finance world talking about this at all well we can thank michael lewis for that his latest book flash boys made the claim that high frequency traders hurt other investors by learning which shares investors plan to buy purchasing them and then selling them back at a higher price that's called front running and wall i was reading lewis's book which is excellent by the way i kept asking myself why the hell are brokers messing around in dark pools in the first place in fact it made me go so far as to call my personal financial advisor to find out where my money was going needless to say he had no idea sorry evan now today brokers interested with orders in the u.s. stock market can choose from dozens of exchanges and private venues and this new proposal would give investors more insight into whether they're getti

notice email says she hopes the f.c.c. will save the day from anonymous donors giving to republican senate candidates. why would the fcc save the day from lawful donors giving to candidates for office? i support the resolution to hold mrs. lerner in contempt of congress for her refusal to testify before this committee. as an institution, and as the representative of the american people, we must hold her to account and continue to insist that she provide all information about the irs targeting. the committee's extensive investigation shows mrs. lerner was a central figure in the i.r.s. targeting, as we have heard her directed the tea party application to be put through a multitier review and delay. she specifically asked by name r the tax exempt file by a prominent conservative 401 c-4 applicant, and the ways and means committee released documentation showing how she subjected conservative groups to extraordinary scrutiny. beyond these facts, we must hear from ms. lerner. she viewed tea party groups as fundamentally differen

fraud office the sea and the f.c.c. . and. recently i've been in leasing with the american authorities so it's certainly advanced since we last ok so you did mention the you're talking to the america thirty's waiting the f.c.c. yeah because royal bank of scotland as. part of their company trades on an on exchange in the us also. one of the misnomers of the thomson report is that it was just a sameas and in fact the medium enterprise and in fact a number of the companies affected by this would actually launch some of them were quoted in the london stock exchange and more in new york stock and they were also quoted in the new york stock exchange i'll put it on that for a second let's just talk a little bit more about remind. audience about global restructuring group what what they've what they're accused you've been accusing them of. specifically what they did to your company what they did to my company in one fight they do is a system to every company that goes through. is to have the business relationship banking manager tip th

. >> the f.c.c. proposal would prohibit brad band companies from blocking sites from customers, but the regulations could drastically change how content is delivered. not only will this force cost to say rise. if a fall? gaming site cannot afford to pay for the fast track, players might lose interest and the company go under. the proposed rules guides are expected to go to vote next month. >> thank you. >> republican state lawmakers in missouri deciding whether to impeach the states governor, upset with the governor over his decision to allow same sex couples married in other states to file joint tax returns in missouri. one representative calling that move a serious violation of missouri's constitution, saying that nixon should be rem >> the government looking to crack down now on e cigarettes, the smokeless devices growing in popularity. until now, they've been under the regulatory radar. critics say there's no way to know what's in them for whether they are dangerous. we are live in washington now.

money out of politics to close the revolving door to say i mean today we've got this thing about the f.c.cis going to they're going to report on net neutrality i think that's because the guys working on the f.c.c. are looking forward to two million dollars your jobs when they leave that's wrong and shouldn't happen you've got you've got you know we've got for the first time in history the republican more than half of the members of the house of representatives are millionaires that's wrong it shouldn't be we've got to get money out of politics or you might actually be surprised you and i have agreement lived in washington all my life in people always say be living in washington how do you guys get a lick cola watch with bases in the cheap seats here's something siegel coming washy in that years lead to believe in a bill you did they have they put an exemption into the law that allows members of congress to do insider trading but that's one of the incredible as it washington is the only only tenable in the world you could claim to. even leave well you do when you believe they. are gone you

break both of those strictures literally every second of every day why can they do it if i can't and the f.c.c and they want brokers to disclose where their trains are sent so that people can know who is on the other side of battens action given this is a good idea yes but i think insists it's a dance around the real issue which is to regen m.-s. which came out of all the games that were played during the dot com era with the smaller system a no of various shielding transaction games that were played at that time says that we're supposed to have it consolidated feed of quotations that is the best bit on offer that's and b b o or national best been offer. there shouldn't be any way to get data from a market center that is faster than other words what i see in it you know that national best been offer or to be the national best bid and offer across the all these exchanges if that was the case what would be the point of killing your own wine to an exchange near i mean that makes a lot of sense i guess what economists my next question do you think that there is a way opposed to just making more tr

have left one is monopoly and corporate monopoly the larger issue and the second is why doesn't the f.c.c and i get i think this is regulatory capture i think this is people hoping that they get a job you know well paid job when they leave why doesn't the f.c.c. declare broadband a common carrier so that you know reestablished a trial if it's within their power you know in the u.s. circuit when the d.c. circuit court ruled on this thing this is what they say it's up to if they say well we're not whenever we start talking antitrust laws and monopolies you know what i what i worry about is who's making the determination of what's booz to be in this situation i think that there you know that we talked about some of that the fact that we do have local competition that that is true so i don't know if this is necessarily the rules of monopoly unfair choice well actually what i say i think you're right this is a discussion that we need to have in america and we haven't had frankly this discussion since the one nine hundred eighty s. or so that we have here in. a sweet target letter thank you ver

stations and they have public airwaves that are owned by the public and licensed by the f.c.c. they were to take all or most of their programming off of those broadcast networks which are free over the air services, using that spectrum, the airwaves and just put it on cable, there would be a real question as to whether they should continue to own those licenses, so it wouldn't be an easy thing to do. that would be a major transformation of their industry and they'd lose the free coverage. they'd lose those eyeballs, so they could -- >> we're going to have to leave it there. thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> my pleasure. >> netflix is opposing the proposed merger between comcast and time warner, the service said the deal would create an unfair monopoly over the brad band internet market. netflix agreed to pay a premium to comcast for smoother streaming, it says the merger would cause higher fees. >> netflix is looking to raise its prices, the new rate one or $2 more per month. the hike will take effect before the summer and the company said only new customers

the way it is tonight friday april twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen by the way on wednesday the f.c.c. proposed a new set of rules that have put into effect could kill that and tragedy for good we can't let this happen again for the internet is our information commons go to free press dot net to sign the petition and tell the f.c.c. what that means to you and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active take your. i marinate join me on her team get impartial and financial reporting commentary in from news and much much. only on bombast and only on. that. i think. mind. and the bankers and all that all about money and other families take for politicians writing the laws and regulations. coming up. here is just too much is it a. little you're going to come up with a lot of these new policies i'm sure you know you. are going to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm really sushi. coming up on our team john kerry took aim at our team over our ukraine coverage this was while he blamed russia for events in eastern ukraine more on that just ahead the fallout grows over a

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they are serious about relinquishing control over the iana contract while simultaneously having the f.c.c. work to promote net neutrality is disingenuous. while we know russia's got a land grab going on, we also see the u.n. and the i.t.u. trying to carry forth this space grab. a lot of our colleagues come to us, mr. speaker, and they say so what are we going to do about this? i want to highlight two different pieces of legislation with you. irst, h.r. 4342, this is the domain openness through continued oversight matters act. dot-com act. congressman shimkus and rokita have joined me in this effort. and what we would do is to make certain that there is a prohibition against the tent of commerce's national telecommunications information add madam speaker. we call it ntia here, from turning over its domaincies testimony, oversight responsibilities pending a g.a.o. report to congress. let's put this report in front of the action. let's have a great discussion about what taking that action of relinquishing oversight would mean. to each eafer -- and every person that is asimbled in this -- ass

house and senate, my democrat -- some of my democratic friends, that want even more control through the f.c.c. and other government entities, to control people's thoughts and what they can put out on the air. let the government control all of that. it really is outrageous what is happening. in any event, it appears that the road we are traveling, written in 1942 by stewart chase, setting out what he called x, because socialism, communism were not as popular, are the road that we have traveled and it's time to give people their power back. and with that i will yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the chair recognizes the gentleman from owa, mr. king, for 30 minutes. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate very much the honor and privilege to address you here on the floor of the united states house of representatives and to follow my good friend, the gentleman from texas, judge gohmert, in this presentation here tonight. i have been watching forward with increasing concern about some of the potential decisions that might be made he

darn it we're too late we were reporting on this for five years and we get detailed analysis for the f.c.c. of the c f t c or the f c any regulatory authority to look at exactly exactly the fraud being committed they looked the other way because they're being told they take bribes they're crooks but the cycle is that now we'll have a new series of fraudulent transactions a new industry will take its place it'll be different in high frequency trading it will be a new type of fraud we'll start reporting on it on this show and we'll report on it for two or three years and then suddenly somebody will wake up or michael lewis write a book about it and then they'll move the fraud game on to and it's like a mistake all salesman of them from town to town to town committing and one step ahead of the loss of life masters she's one step ahead of the jail she'll be upgraded to an i.m.f. executive and the cycle repeats itself every five to six years now i might say that last year may two thousand and thirteen. john vonnegut who wrote the book life monsters said that she would be ousted that she would b

right meanwhile a group of fifty public interest group sent a letter to the f.c.c. and the d.o.j. urging both to say no to the merger the leave the letter reads in part that given the complete lack of any tangible benefits it's clear that the union of the nation's number one and number two cable companies is not good for competition or in the public interest whatever happened to competition in america isn't it time for us to bring back the sherman antitrust act and let companies compete against each other rather than play monopoly and we just end up with one or two giant whales. well i don't know about the sherman antitrust act but the one thing i want to this is all about you know here's where here's where i can go and you and i could have both we both lived this one when i started radio you could have two two radio stations in a city you could have one one am one f.m. i think you'd have seven or eight in the entire country that change now we basically have two companies that run all the radio stations in america and it's not only affected the guys working in the business but als

we don't know but at least the supreme court cares only i mean as we know in mccutcheon there's the f.c.c. they really helped us out there they tried to make sure that there wasn't a you know. exactly apparently one of the like twenty five floodgates for money in polish. it was like halfway closed and so they wanted to make sure that i'm going to open because a because the because the worst is when you you know when you go to buy like a dozen congress people and you only get ten like that's horrible you're trying to buy all twelve and you only get ten because ninety percent of congress and ninety percent their house of representatives they win if they have the most money over ninety percent so that means there's still a home goal i mean that are winning amazingly thank you so much for she coming you guys that's our show have a great week and thanks for watching join me monday when i break the sat all over again. largest consumer of the season i see it with me in the country is the federal government simply say's property of the united states government. is the united states but it was pro

we don't have one of these the supreme court cares only i mean as we know in mccutcheon there's the f.c.c. they really helped us out there they tried to make sure that there wasn't much to regain you know i'm sure i mean exactly apparently one of the like twenty five floodgates for money in politics was like halfway closed and so they wanted to make sure that i'm going to open one because they don't because the worst is when you you know when you go to buy like a dozen congress people and you only get ten like that's horrible you're trying to buy all twelve and you only get ten because ninety percent of congress and ninety percent your house of representatives they win if they have the most money over ninety percent so that means there's a really humble me that are winning amazingly thank you so much man for she coming on you guys that's our show have a great weekend thanks for watching join me monday when i break the sat all over again. governments get involved i do dumb things and the people in the middle are always suffering so if they suspend anything it's the little guy that usually

making it easier for corporations to control what you have access to on the internet that's right the f.c.c. announced new regulations last week implementing a pay to play two tiered internet which allows giant companies to make deals with i as piece of their content is streamed faster according to huffington post the law is quote create two lanes on the internet fast super highways that big tech companies can afford in a bumpy back road or less fortunate websites to well and what a shock the corporate controlled media owned by just a few massive corporations that have cut deals with cable writers doesn't seem to think the internet monopolies in the death of a neutral internet is worth covering i wonder why because really and the grand scheme of things it's easier to talk about conspiracy theories regarding a missing airliner than to talk about the actual corporate conspiracy that has taken away our internet freedom and to that end what's more racist. remarks or the massacre of fifty five yemenis with zero trial and no due process just because they might be brown and of military age you tel

. >> the f.c.c. ruled that owners cannot control more than one station in the same local market.using joint sales agreements and shared services agreements. find out more tonight on "the communicators" at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> on the next "washington journal," ohio democratic congressman tim ryan discusses a debate over the federal budget on capitol hill. followed by senate public policy committee chairman, john barrasso, on energy and health care issues. and later, "los angeles times" correspondent brian bennett will talk about white house deportation policy under president obama. "washington journal" live every morning with your calls, tweets and facebook comments at 7:00 .m. eastern on c-span. >> during this month, c-span is pleased to present our winning entries in this year's student cam video documentary competition. student cam is c-span's annual competition that encourages middle and high school students to think critically about issues. this year students were asked to create their video based on the question -- what's the most important issue the u.s. congres