Mr. Hatch mr. President . The presiding officer president pro tempore, the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch the senate is not in a quorum, right . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call, senator. Mr. Hatch mr. President , i represent a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of bipartisanship and compromise. And i believe that these very virtues of the key to my success as a legislator. By putting these principles in practice as chairman of the finance committee, i was able to pass more than 40 bills sent to law during the last congress. And by working with my friends across the aisle over many decades of Public Service, ive been able to pass more legislation than anyone alive today. Mr. President , i draw from these personal experiences to illustrate a simple point. In an era of endless gridlock and increasing polarization, there is no alternative to civility and healthy debate. We would do well to remember this in light of the frustrations we have all felt
How many new things you see for the first time and people try to ask my new to because its been a year, then you realize that someone who is not in the industry susan and i both came out of the industry and we are pulling behind and doing what we can to stay up, but we are trying to take a slightly behind Technology Knowledge and relate to people. One of the big reasons we started the internet of things caucus was to help educate other lawmakers about where technology is headed. So that you have a good basis understanding where policy might be impacted or needs to be impacted. The other role we play is to make sure that we have laws uptodate where the world actually works. We have outdated laws to ecommerce and people having cell phones and all information transmitted not only in the u. S. But around the world. We have a lot of work to do to keep policy uptodate and keep future looking as well. Host what is specific petes of policy you would like to see updated . Guest one is reform to
[inaudible] [indiscernible] mr. Sessions mr. Chairman, if i might, friends, i would like to thank richard shelby, my colleague and senators susan colleague Susan Collins for their introduction. It was moving and touching for me. Its hard to believe the three of us have served together in this body for almost 20 years. When i arrived in the senate in 1997, i probably would not have anticipated becoming so close to the colleagues from maine. [indiscernible] mr. Sessions it took a while to understand our accents but once we did, we never had a problem. He has been a steady fast friend and we have been a good team representing the interests of alabama and the United States. I want to thank president elect donald trump for the confidence and trust he has shown in me by nominating me to serve as attorney general of the United States. I feel the weight of an honor traders and i aspire to. If i am confirmed, i will commit to do and to the American People to be worth the of the office and speci
I will get started in encourage everyone to congregate again. Thanks to those who stuck with us, at the 2016 cato institute. This is going to focus on the intelligence aspects. We tend to focus on the Fourth Amendment and do medicinmestic. This is really global in scale and so as a result it has implications for the human rights of people around the world but also for our political and diplomatic and economic relationships with other countries, in particular the economic interest of u. S. Businesses who hope to do business around the world. We have allen butler who will talk about the sh rerems case. And talk about cross data, in figuring out what kind of jurisdiction applies with regard to Law Enforcement. Thanks for having me. Im happy to be here today to speak with you about a new International Dimension over this u. S. Surveillance authorities, many of you probably know about the sh rere decision, it was used by businesses to transfer personal data between the u. S. And the Europea
Folks are shuffling in. I will just go ahead and get started in the interest of encouraging them to everyone to kong regular eight again. Thanks to those of you whove stuck with us through a long and fascinating day at the 2016 Cato Institute surveillance conference. Our last pair of flash talks is going to focus on some of the global aspects of u. S. Surveillance. At cato of course were big fans of the constitution. We tend to focus very much on the Fourth Amendment and domestic law and how it regulates surveillance of american citizens and their rights. But the scope of american surveillance, both for Law Enforcement and intelligence purposes, is now really global in scale. So as a result it has implications for the human rights of people around the world but also for our political and diplomatic and economic relationships with other countries, in particular the economic interests of u. S. Companies that hope to do business around the globe. So talk about two aspects of that. Alan bu