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Julian welcome back to the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. I remain senior fellow julian sanchez. Thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this years conference. This morning, you heard about an array of institutions that work to oversee the secret you seven the secret use of intelligence collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors g...

Now, i have taught religion in america for more than 35 years. And i believe that the First Amendment has played a vital role in the vitality of this nation. And i shall read it for you. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The establishment of religion and freedom of...

Press or the right of the people to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The establishment of religion and freedom of exercise comes first, which is why religious freedom is often called americas first freedom. Establishment actually comes even before religious freedom. Often, people dont understand what establishment is. Now, in 1833, massachusetts disestablished. And what that means is people no longer had to pay taxes to support my own religious ance...

Update on what is happening at the southwest border . Sure, when we talk about the border we have to put it into two pockets. One is the crisis regarding immigration and the other is the massive security crisis. The drive or focus in the last year plus has been the migration flow from the northern tribal countries specifically the families. The reason that has been the focus is because of our broken Legal Framework. Agreement thate if you come to the country with a child, we can hold you for 20 ...

[background noises] the ways and Means Committee will now come to order. Good morning, today we will consider the historic u. S. Mca transforming agreement that creates a new High Water Mark u. S. Trade deals moving forward. The implementing bill before us is the result of many months of negotiations and indeed more than a year between House Democrats and the ambassador robert who worked with us honorably every time we met. And im very proud of the outcome of that we have reached. When we assume...

Speak the ways and Means Committee will now come to order good morning we will consort considered a historic usmca the high watermark with trade deals moving forward it is the result of more than one year House Democrats and the ambassador light heiser who worked with us every time we met. Im very proud of the outcome we have reached. When we assume the majority this year we were asked to consider a renegotiated nafta in a number of areas including enforcement the environment and access to medic...

First, alexis explains how these articles moved from the House Judiciary Committee to the floor within the week. Alexis well, they passed out of the House Judiciary Committee. There was lots of discussion about what the rules would be. Obviously for this entire inquiry. The rules meeting, would the investigation be limited . And the house judiciary had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It wasnt going to be limited to just a certain number ...

Delivers remarks later tonight at a fundraising event at the Trump International hotel. Back at theook 19981999 impeachment of president bill clinton. We will show you a portion of the u. S. House floor debate on four articles of impeachment. The house voted to approve two of those articles, making bill clinton the second president in u. S. History impeached since Andrew Johnson in 18 68. On december 18 and 19th, 1998, the house of representatives take you have articles of impeachment against pr...

Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american....

Why is in crisis half of the description clicks because 11 million americans upwards of 4 million are receiving no treatment to their lives lost to psychosis untreated serious Mental Illness represents a huge and unnecessary loss of human potential. It also makes our more dire social mission such as random acts of violence and sheltered homelessness Substance Abuse, and the disturbing rise of the rate of suicide i want to emphasize these problems are exacerbated not by serious Mental Illness but...