we look to what comcast has done with their business and we admire what they've done. i think they've done a great job of building a nice set of entertainment assets and a great dissipation platform to do that but you have to look at some of the new nontraditional providers with the a netflix or hulu. they've done some great things to innovate for customer user interface, customer experience. clearly customers are voting and sing it like that. we've got a variety of people coming at u this from different angles. that's the beauty of it. it's an intensely competitive industry with a lot of different business models emerging. it's kind of ministry asked why somebody please there needs to be more active involvement from a regular side of it when did this much innovation going on. time will tell whether or not the market wins. >> so you're criticizing fcc unblocking the set-top box proposals because i'm just asking why we are needing any additional regulation, whether it is on transport services or unlocking the box or any other dynamic about it. it's a fiber industry. the

senate gathers today following morning business. lawmakers will resume debate on h.r. 2577 that combines transportation and housing spending bill for military construction. these are the second and third appropriation bills the senate is considering this year. yesterday on this and for those discussion on the vacancy on the supreme court. these comments are about one hour. >> i rise to discuss the pending vacancy on the united states supreme court, and i do so on a very woman does a day in american legal history. 17, may 17 today is the anniversary of the supreme court's decision in the pivotal case of brown v. board of education year on may 17, 1954, the supreme court ruled the promise of equality reaffirmed in the 14th amendment to the constitution passed in the aftermath of the civil war could not be denied to little schoolchildren based on their skin color. the brown v. board case was five cases consolidated together, one from virginia, one from kansas, one from delaware, one from south carolina and one from the district of colu

then criticism on the right from the business industry that the obama administration has not been friendly in that way. so how do you kind of thread that needle and pursue antitrust especially at a time when we're seeing these massive mergers with walgreen's and rite aid and kraft and heinz, aetna, cigna, humana, something else? we're seeing massive mergers and how do you deal with that? >> on your first, you're precisely right there is an intersection between these two issues. if you had a choice of 100 different cable companies probably we wouldn't need a rule about set-top boxes because one of those cable companies would compete for the business letting you have a set-top box or better one. when you don't have competition in terms of cable wire going into your house, that makes it that much more important to make sure you can't leverage the market power you have in the wiring of the house into what is unrelated product, which is, the set-top box. so there is intersection between those. we've tried to take up steps to free up spectrum for mobile broadband which would create more competit