it is worth taking a moment and reflect on how much of our modern regime of tillich negations governance is owed to the principles and to specific advocacy efforts as a freestate foundation and other such groups over the past 15 years. to date the carter phone lawsuits [inaudible] like the penny farthing or the handle bar mustache although that may make a modest comeback this tells us how far we come from the restrictive revelatory environments of the post world area. things were moving in a better direction by 1995 but spectrum options were in their infancy and innovation was frequently stifled by [inaudible]. the present date may not be perfect i don't think anyone disputes we have fulfilled the promise of the deregulatory era and prior to the telecom act was far from a foregone conclusion that you would graduate to a more efficient competitive system in a change in national direction to set us back to the miss mid century but we came together which is a free market and a red light regulatory touch at a quarter century speaks to the wisdom of this choice. the past decade has seen and c

tillich $1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief. the business inside is kimberly leonard on confirmation on hobby air, and present of the group america for prosperity talks about president biden and legislation. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at seven eastern wednesday morning pressure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> today the senate approved tom vilsack as to be agriculture secretary. and u.s. of that un general assembly for the senate will work on more nominations this week. watch live coverage of the senate when they return at noon eastern tomorrow, here on cspan2. now here's a look at some of the floor speeches from earlier today starting with the senate majority leader schumer. >> mr. president, today the senate will complete the confirmation of two key nominees, linda thomas greenfield to serve as the un ambassador and tom vilsack to service agriculture secretary right as i said yesterday the senate will also confirm to serve as the next energy secretary a

we are joined by two longtime watchers and researchers of tillich medications policy. he serves as senior vice president for that organization and randy may who is president of the free state foundation. mr. may, in a general sense what is the state of social media in america today? >> i think it is troublesome in a general sense and i expect gerald might agree with me on that in fact i expect we may have more agreement in this discussion than we do sometimes in other areas but i think a lot of people perceive that their problems you know and they come from the left and the right they don't always agree on what the problems are and i'm sure we will discuss that and a lot of people agree that there may be issues with the social media companies in the so-called giant platforms having too much market power so their competition issues i think that need to be at least thought about and perhaps addressed and therefore revelatory issues so it is a topic that is deserving of serious public discussion that ought to be thoughtful despite how high the emotions run at times when d

my name is paul tillich and then in the pharmaceutical industry for 30 years in the last position was a us president and chief executive officer of a company i am retired now and over the last 5 years i have been dealing with a 9 curable cancer. so car know what it's like to show us all the medications that i have to take in a day. this being the most important one just as my anti-cancer drug. this product is to take one of these capsules for a day the cost of those a $750.00 each and entrusting only enough they only cost $1.00 each to manufacture what do you think about the prize the 370000 swiss francs for camera it's ridiculous car it should never happen this is a product that was developed at the expense of the us taxpayer did you have a different view when you were still a former manager than you have now in your industry. the answer is. yes current and. for 2 reasons 1st i was not a patient i've been part of the system i've been a my family's been a beneficiary of that system. i really didn't know any better at the time you know you go to work at to get a perspective which is th

tillich we had to do and i was in the corporate start tearing out the floors . going from top to bottom. never did any of us imagine that we, our colleagues would face mortal peril by a mob rising up from the president of the united states, the leader of the free world. all because donald trump could not accept his election defeat. trump chose himself above the people, above our institutions, above our democracy, above all of you. we have heard trump say for years now, america first policy. but his truth north star for some americans well being. is not country first like our dear departed colleague john mccain . no his directedness trump first. no matter the cost, no matter the threat to our democracy. each and every one of us in this room, must agree on one thing. we can never allow the kind of violent attack that happened on january 6, to ever happen again in this country. in the immediate aftermath, we heard really disturbing accounts from any members of congress about what they experienced the day. here are some of those reactions. following the attack, a re