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Cliff Stearns: it is my pliverage to encourage a-- privilege to encourage approval of the house of the calm act, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from florida. >> mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: this bill, h.r. 1804, the commercial advertisement loudness

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Cliff Stearns: act, is a bill its time has come. this is a perfect opportunity for industry to this. but they did not take care of this for some 60 years. the bill would require the federal communications commission to issue regulations based on industry standards for loud commercial adversements within one year of enactment. the regulation would take effect one year after adopted

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Cliff Stearns: complaints. complaints continue to come into the f.c.c. today. in fact, in the 25 quarterly reports in consumer complaints that have been released since 2002, 21 have listed complaints about the, quote, abrupt changes in volume during transition from regular programming to commercials, end quote.

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Cliff Stearns: distributing the content that consumers he and see in their living rooms. each element may be recorded provided a different respective volume level. moreover, shows and movies have a dynamic sound range to cover to a huge explosion. commercials, meanwhile, tend to

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Cliff Stearns: established a subgroup on digital television loudness. now, as this subgroup, consisting of leaders on auto and technology who participated together from all the major production companies and postproduction, manufacturing and education, all these very

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Cliff Stearns: complaints that the consumers have made for almost 50 y i trust the collective rizz dom of these technical -- wisdom of these technical experts and craft a solution to thtv loudness issue. about this. there are going to be some small cable companies,

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Cliff Stearns: that they can't afford to implement it. there i for some of those small companies. and if they can't make it there is another extension. so, now we have the majority of the indu but we have set aside within the bill a safety hardship in which they just demonstrate they can't do it for financial

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Anna G. Eshoo: the biggest complaints of the with that in mind, i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 1804, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from virginia. mr. boucher: mr. speaker, i yield such time as she may consume, the sponsor of the bill, the gentlelady from

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Anna G. Eshoo: california, ms. eshoo. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. eshoo: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to begin by thanking the chairman of my subcommittee, mr. boucher, for his consistent support and cooperation to help bring the bill to the committee. i doubt we would be here today were it not for that.

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Anna G. Eshoo: ask my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill, which is designed to eliminate the ear splitting levels of television advertisements and return control of television sound modulation to the american consumer. i first introduced the commercial advertisement loudness mitigation act called

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Anna G. Eshoo: the premise of the bill then as now was really simple. and in an era of 1,000 or 1,800-page bills, this is a two-page bill and it is to make the volume of commercials and programming unifo consumers control the sound. the problem has existed for

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Anna G. Eshoo: know that we are all subjected to blasting ads. for those with sensory difficulties, the loud commercials are more than just an annoyans. it can harm hearing and sometimes they are painfully loud. this issue, as my colleagues have referenced, is also one of the top complaints consistently one of the top mplaints from

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Anna G. Eshoo: people accountable. it economic health of licensees and the importance of smaller providers. the atfc, a body that sets technical standards for digital television, has developed the solution to the problem of the very volume between commercials and programming with one stream

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Anna G. Eshoo: we don't have to wait another 50 years for a solution. i look forward to voluntary and immediate adoption of the standards by broadcasters, cable, satellite and all multichannel program providers. but the bill exists because we know that voluntary compliance or adherence to consumer needs

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Anna G. Eshoo: those affected. and i think it's very reasonable. will have one year after the f.c. adopts the rule for purchase and installation of the atsc standard equipment and they may grant up to two successive extensions.

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Anna G. Eshoo: first, i think the bill is and i stated that earlier. volunteerism hasn't worked for 50 years. second, the bill makes the atsc standards applicable to all f.c.c. licenseesand that includes satellite and cable

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Anna G. Eshoo: fourthly, it's been said that congress has better this to do. i have never suggested that this solves the great challenges that face our country today. as i said, it's a two-page bill. but it is something that's been ft unattended to for half a century. and i think the time has come that we end the practice of consumers being blaed out of

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Cliff Stearns: i look forward to the passage of importantly, so do millions o our constituents across the country. thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman fromlorida. mr. stearns: mr. speaker, i yield such time as i may consume.

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Cliff Stearns: the speaker pro tempore: th gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: let me just perhaps move a little forward. the gentlelady from california well, why does congress need to that has been brought before me before. and i would say -- and this is the compliment to the gentlelady from california, what she did with her bill, a bill originally directed the f.c. to write its own rules.

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Cliff Stearns: and now she's saying basically, let industry solve the problem and let the f.c.c. adopt what they've come up with. another thing that i think came through the process, which is also, i think, a compliment to her that she was willing to realize that some of the industry, some of the smaller companies might have a financial problem with this. so she was willing to change the bill to allow this -- i'll

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Cliff Stearns: in a way that solving their own problem but they also realize after all these years, going back to the 1960's, these complaints, something's got to be done. and i think many of us nth last weekend -- last weekend watching football games can remember that time where we have to get up and turn it off. that's fine. turn it off.

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Rick Boucher: i think the aspect about this we should realize that ms. eshoo is willing to change the bill and reach out and work with industry to get this done and also provide the safety valve. so i think that's an important aspect to bring to the attent this bill works, i think, in a way to help industry. .

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Rick Boucher: i have no more speakers. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia. mr. boucher: i yield 30 conds. mr. speaker, i simply want to take this time to thank the gentleman from florida, mr. stearns, for the bipartisan way in which we have processed this measure through our committee and for his strong support of the measure that we bring to

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Rick Boucher: in no matter has that spirit of cooperation been better reflected than in the way we have processed and handled this bill today. i want to thank mr. stearns and his colleagues on the republican side for that outstanding bipartisan cooperation. mr. speaker, we also have no further requests for time. time.

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those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed. without obj reconsider is laid upon the

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Lois Capps: 971, resolution expressing the sense of the house of representatives regarding guidelines for breast cancer 49. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to t rule, the gentlewoman from california, mrs. capps, and from tennessee, mrs. blackburn, will each control 20 minutes. the chair gentlewoman from california.

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Lois Capps: mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i re today in support of house resolution 971.

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Lois Capps: it also expresses the sense of the house that the national cancernstitute should continue to invest and provide leadership regarding research to develop more effective screening tools and strategies for improving the detection of breast on november 16, 2009, the u.s. preventive services task force

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Lois Capps: the public. unfortunately, the failure in communication has led to much concern and confusion about what their findings and recommendations are and what the implications would be. mr. speaker, this task force is not suggesting that women in their 40's forgo mammography. the task force is recommending

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Lois Capps: earliest stages, it is by every means an imperfect we need continued research into more effective screening tools and strategies to improve the detection of breast cancer. breast cancer is the second most common states women and it is the leadin for women between the ages of