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Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. ...

Authorizing the pipeline. If democrats and republicans cant Work Together and add enough things to it that would authorize and spark broader reforms regarding natural gas oil, wind energy, and other sorts of energy use, congress and the white house could put it together. They say that this is not just about moving oil. Its about constitutional powers of the president and his ability to stand in the way of something that americans want. Its a conversation about job creation. Is it just a construc...

Representatives made because i do think we have got to reform immigration. I believe we need to reform it on a stepbystep bases. I know that we have disagreements about how we do that but i think you will see that things will start to happen on that with regard to Border Security and we passed a bill in this house last year with i think, 350 votes, that dealt with legal immigration. And we have got we didnt do everything but it did a bunch of things to get it started. And i know the member from ...

So what happens i know the magistrate judge or the judge below here said that it was preposterous to think that this prisoner could hide anything in his half inch beard. Assuming that his half inch beard was not thickly grown, but some are, and some you cant see the skin. Should that half inch issue be applied to that prisoner . Wouldnt it be a different set of facts in that case to consider . Well, a state might be able to show thats a different set of facts. You know, but the question is not j...

Position of the v. A. Secretary comes with tremendous responsibility and commands someone who understands the sacrifices and needs of both our veterans and their families. The next secretary of the v. A. Must be willing and ready to lead the v. A. In a new direction. While im grateful for the service of both general shinseki and acting secretary sloan gibson, and thousands of dedicated employees on the ground, i believe the current state of v. A. Affairs or the affairs at v. A. Demands bold lead...

In my case its a republican distri district. Fortunately thanks to some of the efforts in this room, and thanks to the efforts of rand paul and another pieces of legislation. I campaign on that. It was obviously, it worked and im here. Extremely frustrating. It was stripped behind closed doors from the appropriations bill bills there was nothing left of it. That was very frustrating to see. Ill get into that little bit. Let me describe my colleagues and myself as well. When i came to congress, i...

To you and are of practical importance. If youre in this area or youre getting into this area. Basically, i want to cover not each to the same extent, but five different areas. The lobbying disclosure act, you already have some familiarity with with the previous presentations and particularly professor therbers presentation now. The registration act. The ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. Revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the refo...

Automatically, and you are going through your world whether your smartphone or your credit card, you are doing this hundreds of times a day, maybe. All ofue is nsa can use that to establish a profile. That is a good thing. Why do you have to do it to hundreds of millions of innocent people . That is a problem. That is where i have a problem. I do not want to hurt nsa. I served 30 years there. And it is a needed capability to keep us safe, but my goodness, we need to observe the three legs of the...

Addition to what ive already said, is that we would stabilize the debt as a share of the economy, not just over the tenyear window, but over the 25year window, as well. And as i think we all recognize, what we are facing in this country is a real demographic challenge with the aging of the baby boom. The key thing that we need to do, to ensure that we long run fiscal sustainability is focus on Health Care Costs. Weve seen the lowest growth in Health Care Costs in 50 years. Over the last few year...

We are pleased to introduce tajania henderson, a writer in the wartime study. She is an associate professor. She teaches courses on procedure, property and punishment, and american law and history. Publications include work on the viability of the 13th amendment for civil rights legislation, and the slaveholding american south, and remedying discrimination against persons accused of crimes. A graduate of Dartmouth College and new york university, her Current Research centers on the use of disqua...