walden: mr. chairman, i appreciate that and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. walden: mr. chairman, ladies and gentlemen of the assembly, the communications and technology sector is one of the most competitive, innovative and open sectors of our economy. from fiberoptics to f 4 finance g wireless phone, from the tablet to the smart tv, they are creating high-quality jobs that comes with high-tech innovation and investment. now, despite a lackluster economy, wireless providers provided $66 billion in broadband infrastructure in 2010. the u.s. is now leading in the cutting edge wireless technologies. if we want this continue, though, we need to avoid needless bureaucratic red tape and fix broken processes at the f.c.c. communications and technology companies and the public deserve a more transparent and responsive government agency, and that's exactly what the legislation before us now would accomplish, bringing transparency, bringing accountabil

walden: yes. it's just hard to hear. mr. owens: this amendment is not intended to influence the current debate at the f.c.c. on the universal service fund. so we're not amendmenting to in any way impact that. -- so we're not in any way trying to impact that. what we're saying is that the f.c.c. take into account in its rulemaking process rural broadband needs. we are not exempting it from the process but simply asking that that be taken into account as they go through the process. there's no exemption intended here. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it and the amendment is not agreed to. mr. owens: mr. chairman, i request the yeas and nays. the chair: does the gentleman request a recorded vote? mr. owens: yes. the chair: ok. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from n

welco welcome. >> thank you, chairman walden. it is an honor to appear before you today. i'm the senior vice president and chief information officer for metro pcs. i have 30 years of i.t. experience and responsible for the i.t. networks. metro is a wireless communication services with a flat rate with no contract. we sell through stores to retail consumers. we do not sell business to business or to the government. we use four network vendors. we also purchase hand sets from well known vendors. these vendors are not our primary vendors, where a hand set vulnerability could be implemented into the network. we have also adopted measures both physical and logical to protect the networks. we have four i.t. networks that are important to our business. as we will discuss in more detail, we have voluntarily undertak undertaken cyber security measures. the security of the networks is important to metro pcs. we have a security program built on industry best practices covering people, process and technology. we use a combination of hardware and software services. our security progra

we wanted you to know john wayne walden, an east texas kid who joined the green berets because he wanted to make an honest living, an honest day's pay. and he was someone you couldn't invent in a movie. he was born on the fourth of july, his parents decided to name him since he was born on the fourth of july john wayne walden, in the special forces. a handsome guy who just wanted to serve his country. we introduce you to scott ford and what motivated him. he's the team leader and how he came in and how he shaped this unit for this mission and other missions in afghanistan. he was the cornerstone, i think, of this unit. he whipped them into shape. we introduce you to captain kyle walton who was cool under fire, who during the heat of battle tried to keep his men alive. he was doing battlefield calculus in his head, how do i keep my men alive? do i have to roll the wounded off the mountain to save them and fight to the death? these were the decisions that they had to make. but before we could get to the battle, we had to introduce you to them so you would care about the characters so that

. >> reporter: the book, now a trilogy, are selling fast, according to the manager of oakland's walden pond bookstore. >> somebody circulates the first one around. somebody picks it up and reads a few pages. they're up until 2:00 in the morning. >> reporter: on the eve of opening night, hundreds of young people, young and old, want to be the first to see the movie, even if they have to wait in line. a lot of the folks you see in line, are carrying coffee cups because they've been in line for a very long time. there are 14 theaters in the movie complex. half of them are sold out. >> i am so excited. i can't wait. >> all the tweens are uniting tonight. >> i know. including me. tween times five. >> we can catch a 3:00 a.m. showing. >> anything to keep that mojo going, as cheryl was bringing in that story. >>> a lot of people waiting outside in super cold weather. some of the coldest weather we've had a week. winds at 10 to 20 miles per hour. the wind up against your body is fueling that moisture. that's when you get the windchills. 41 in napa. 46 in san mateo. out in san francisco, 47. no

walden has a large program and los angeles. there are facing problems -- problems for funding. it next week we meet with office of drug policy, because there is a concern that within the health care reform there is no obligation for departments like us, like i just discussed, the obligation to run the things we have for medical access. there is nothing like that for medical programming. there could be a scenario and the future that we could lose our match for residential programs. that future is unknown. we're looking at changing some of their services and treasure island. we are working with them on that. i wanted to address the issue of the undocumented for a moment, because it is a challenging issue, but to note most of the program serve the undocumented. so if we were not to take the non-matched general fund, we will be here with and $8 million cut. most of the dollars are not attached for the undocumented. we could give you a scenario what that might look like for that amount of money, but if we brought in any of the other cuts, it would probably be doubled the amount of p

chairman walden, i would like to thank you for the opportunity to provide you with information on the topic. >> thank you. all of you, thank you for the testimony. we appreciate you being here. i will lead off with questions. dr. amaroso and mr. olsen. you say in your testimony you routinely track threats to your networks. how can we protect consumers privacy and sensitive data from companies? >> i think the big debate has been between government and industry. that has been the big issue. if i go to a conference and a hacker is saying there is a signature i should look at. i scribble it down and look at it. if a government individual does that, i cannot put it in the network. we would be operating as a branch or agent of the government. that seems to me a little silly. that is something that probably ought to be addressed. >> that is the specific issue we are trying to drill down to here. >> yeah. >> can you give us something more specific. >> the united states intelligence agencies and law enforcement see different signatures we don't look for. we are not in law enforcement. we are p

walden, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i wanted to follow up on something that my colleague from nebraska, mr. terry, had raised. regarding putting things on the website. and it's my understanding that you're an advocate for the policy and trying to open up our process, make it more transparent to the public, because that's who we both work for at the end of the day. at the end of the day. my understanding is that there are situations where groups file suit against your agency. and literally on the same day there are settlements entered into by your agency within those groups. ryguess what we' that the public has an awareness of that sort of litigation. and so when it's filed against your agency, are you willing to notice that on your website in a very timely manner? this would be the notice of intent to sue. so you get a notice of intent to sue. >> yes, sir. >> so when you get those, is there a way you could just put those up on the website so that the american taxpayers would know. would that be a hardship on the agency?

. >> these women are part of walden house, the residential community for substance abusers.s addiction has had on their families. >> me and my kids don't have like that relationship or that bond that a mother and child supposed to have. >> so right now if you could tell your kids anything, what would you tell them? >>> i would apologize for not being the parent that i was supposed to be. i would tell them i love them very much. i would tell them not to make the same mistakes i did. >> i like to give you a big stroke because you did processing, i want to stroke the ladies that was here for support. it's important we let these ladies know that the work that they are doing is very important. because some of these ladies have held this stuff in for 20, 25 years and it's so hard for them to be productive out there in society because they have all this garbage inside, and they finally come to a place where they can release it and be safe about doing it. >> i lost my mother while i was locked up. i'm not real close with my family right now, the trust was lost. >> some of these ladi

stomach's this exposed to the walden is their cybersecurity issue with my ipad? >> let's say i'm connected to comcast, which i am. >> i think those are a new class of device, and a lot of the hackers and other criminals are very focused on the return on investment where the biggest platforms are and so the more those devices could out there a bigger target that makes and they say okay i can stand a couple days developing this and i have a few million devices, you will start to see more and more of those things and depending upon the tablet that you have, some are more vulnerable what the moment than others. but that is something that a lot of americans are buying into and there will be the next draft. >> who is responsible, is apple responsible for this or are you? >> it's a variety. with the device if apple plays a role with the android device and google please enroll and then all the software vendors that make the applications that go on that, but there's also a component of customer education and ensure overtime just in the same way that we have software that

on february 8th, 2010, in walden, massachusetts.d to a robbery at a 7-eleven convenience store. >> the lieutenant detective at the malden police department. >> we realize there was a witness that attempted to get involved, so to speak. >> the witness, granny, is having a casual conversation with the clerk, but that soon comes to a halt when a tall man walks in and goes straight for the cashier. >> when the suspect went behind the counter, she obviously observed that something was going awry and went to the defense of the clerk. >> looking for the closest defense weapon, granny grabs the price scanner and strikes the suspect repeatedly, trying to deter him from getting into the cash register. >> i'm not sure if it works, but in her eyes it worked. she was doing something to attempt to defend her friend's honor as well as herself. >> while this is all going on, another customer is in the store. >> the woman had no idea what was occurring when the individual attempted to rob the store and granny coming to the clerk's rescue. she was cl

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but they can adjust their logarithms. >> we're talking with representative greg walden. the next question comes from our guest reporter. >> the big talk has been the language on incentive. we have heard multiple officials at the fcc said the language limits their ability to capture spectrum. what is congress's intent here? are you looking to set participation or did you give them some leeway? are they looking at it in a way that is not how you intended? >> i think this is the first time there has been an incentive like this. the staff to work with the fcc staff to get right. what we did not want to do is create a situation where some of the principal buyers would be excluded at the beginning. att and verizon. there was a lot of chatter coming down to the commission at its highest level. its highest level. they can do all that. we can take away anyway -- any of that authority. they can deal with issues related to monopolies and that sort of thing. what we wanted to do is maximize participation, maximize duration, maximize the ability to fill this to get more spectrum into

. >> the wonderful part for me is my character, robert walden who plays my husband, they have made usi'm 80. >> is it exhausting to do a show like that? >> oh, i get wired. listen, i just did my one woman show about life. it's called life without makeup which i think is a great title which i hope to bring to new york. i danced and i danced a little piece of america. i danced a little piece of the mom bow. i don't know by the time i get to new york if i can do that. >> yes, you can. >> i'll probably be 892 or something like that. >> you can. you've won an emmy, grammy, tony, oscar. >> two emmys, but who's counting. >> i'm counting. let me change that. two emmys, sorry, a grammy. >> she got the zblsh where do you keep them? like a case? a big case? >> oh, god, no. that's so ostentatious. >> oh, no. they're on a shelf in the living room. for years i kept them in a carton. >> why? >> when i married my husband he said, what are you doing? he said something that really meant something to me. i always felt it was ostentatious, i really did. i get shy about certain things even though i'm a bi

consider h.r. 3309, federal communications commission process reform act, authored by congressman greg walden of oregon. and the house will consider and pass a budget resolution. mr. speaker, we also expect to take further action on our nation's infrastructure with authority expiring at the end of next week. finally, i'm hopeful that the senate will clear the house's bipartisan jobs act bill today. i look forward to the president signing into law. i thank the gentleman from maryland and i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for the information with respect to the legislation that will be considered next week. i note that he talks about the highway bill, the infrastructure bill that the -- that is pending. obviously we had expected to consider that bill on the house floor on our side, at least, we are -- our expectation is that it was going to be a number of weeks ago. it has not come here. as i expect we are talking about an extension of some period of time. we are concerned that you rightfully, personally and as a party made it very clear that certainty was an important aspect of gr

consider h.r. 3309, federal communications commission process reform act, authored by congressman greg waldenf oregon. and the house will consider and pass a budget resolution. mr. speaker, we also expect to take further action on our nation's infrastructure with authority expiring at the end of next week. finally, i'm hopeful that the senate will clear the house's bipartisan jobs act bill today. i look forward to the president signing into law. i thank the gentleman from maryland and i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for the information with respect to the legislation that will be considered next week. i note that he talks about the highway bill, the infrastructure bill that the -- that is pending. obviously we had expected to consider that bill on the house floor on our side, at least, we are -- our expectation is that it was going to be a number of weeks ago. it has not come here. as i expect we are talking about an extension of some period of time. we are concerned that you rightfully, personally and as a party made it very clear that certainty was an important aspect of grow

publishers, wholesalers, little bookstores, walden books, barnes and borders, to amazon shipping books through the mail through amazon sending ebooks which there were more last month than there were book sales. if you think about the stages in that, at every stage it got better to be a reader. you had more variety at lower cost and it basically got better to be steven king. [laughter] >> to be an author -- because you had access to much better distribution. and what got worse was to be like a regular shrub carrying cartons around or being a store manager and that's basically what happened. you know, those kind of forces are happening almost everywhere. and you can't change them. if you would be taking them back from the world cutting edge which is where we don't want to go. which is why a fair amount comes back to tax policy but there are other things to be looking at. much more transparency in compensation is clearly a helpful thing. where the government is in the business of conferring rents, more auctions and less give-away, less responsiveness to political pressures. that's somethi

congressman greg walden of oregon is the chairman. this is two hours. >> will call to order the said committee on technology for a hearing on cybersecurity the role of communications networks. i want to think of or witnesses for being here this morning. we look for what your testimony are appreciative of your taking the time to help educate us so we can do the right thing in terms of assisting you all for the networks or the cyber networks. back in october the house republican cybersecurity task force appointed by the speaker recommend the committees of jurisdiction review cybersecurity issues. this subcommittee has embarked on a series of hearings to heed that call and to get a complete picture of the cybersecurity challenges that our nation faces. in our february 8 hearing we examined threats to communications networks and the concerns of the private sector security firms helping to secure the communications networks. that hearing provided us with valuable information and even some potential solutions. this hearing continues our sub