Session because section 215 of the patriot act expires on monday. If they decide to extend it, it would most likely be under the u. S. Freedom act. The other option would afford to be to let it expire altogether which seems to be the less likely of the two options. Host this has already passed the house and it seems a good is bipartisan support in the senate. What is the holdup . Guest there are various series. What has been floated by congressman in mosh that Mitch Mcconnell pass the surveillance act to get more leverage. After the freedom act failed by three votes, last weekend he brought up a cleaner renault which also failed. Currently, it is unclear. It seems plausible to think there will be three more votes. Other people have covered this. National journal broke down 10 possible vote switchers. It is also possible that more hawkish members will also now vote to continue provisions. Host what happens if the authorization for the Program Actually expires sunday at midnight . Guest
After decades of service to the country, women warriors are the gold women lawyers are the gold standard. She said why should we trust nsa or any Government Agency to put the technical side of this together . Why should we and then why do you trust them and i said well, i start with this there are bad guys out there trying to attack us to read what sort of the terrorist piece of this. I want to know who they are and disrupt them before they do that. My assumption is most of them are in some Foreign Place and are not u. S. Persons. But at any rate, some of them could be. So, congress tried to design a system, and i think they did so pretty well. Building in safeguards. Court reviewing the congressional oversight. Now the system got a lot bigger since 9 11. Is it the right size . I dont know. I dont know if its the right size. But i know im not the person, or if i were a member of congress now or even as the slowly beat up president and ceo of the Wilson Center just getting im not the pe
They wont have employersponsored Health Insurance which, by the way, has zero tax consequences to the employee. They have no tax consequences, but under obamacare, every american is forced to buy a product whether they want it or not, even if they cant necessarily afford it, so then people now under obamacare have to go and buy a product that the government dictates to them that they have to buy at a price that government dictates that they have to peso either they get Health Insurance with no tax consequence or pay so they get Health Insurance with no tax consequence or with money they already paid taxes on, so now theyre going to get double hurt under obamacare. So the president wins, the American People lose, thats our choice. The president wins, the American People lose. Financially, freedom new york this case, the most important case, religious liberty, thats not acceptable under our constitutional guarantee of liberty. The magna carta taught king john that no man is above the law
Committee would agree that we should try to avoid war with russia. In addition to that, the Nato Russia Council serves many purposes that are in our direct Strategic Interests as a country. For instance, through the Nato Russia Council, we have obtained Logistical Support for our war in afghanistan from the russians. Because of the Nato Russia Council, the russians have provided us with Logistical Support for that war which apparently will continue at least through the end of this year. Secondly, through the Nato Russia Council, we have joined with the russians to fight terrorism. Up to this point, russians have a very positive and helpful record with regard to fighting terrorism. They have been the victim of terrorism just as the United States has been the victim of terrorism. The way that we accomplish that cooperation is through the Nato Russia Council. Withdrawing from the Nato Russia Council or forbidding russia to participate will actually in a sense promote terrorism. In additio
I want to join in by some of the comments that were made by my friend from california. Ins than two weeks ago, response to the question from the gentleman from florida, secretary kerry said that without a doubt it were free and Fair Elections in crimea. Crimea would join russia. I think that is an important fact, and i think that is the central fact in the situation we face today. All over the world, people are stuck in the wrong country. The great accomplishment of the 20th century was the end of colonialism, the end of colonies , millions of people stuck in the wrong country by means of military force by those powers. Maybe the goal of the next entry is to see the for the moment of that principle that groups of people can join together and create a country and join another neighboring country, and be part of the country that they want to be part of. We cannot ignore the fact that 2 Million People in the crimea feel that they have been stuck in the wrong country. Wassituation created