Page 33 - Congress Sort News Today

Minutes. [applause] thank you all. Thank you for coming. I appreciated, especially on this taken a terrible weather. I woke up this morning. I expected to be a lot worse. It was not that bad. The 130 wakeup call which is really the not going asleep golf. But it was not too bad out there, thank god. I think you for coming. Thank you to heritage. Special thankyou to my friend for really providing some stage in the eyes of the last couple of years in a number of different aspects of my life. Thank ...

You will all be very famous because cspan is filming us today. I dont know when that will air, the state had. Thank you again for coming out. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] when you look at congress in 1901, less than 2 of members came from workingclass backgrounds, got into politics and eventually wound up in congress. Flash forward to the present day, the average member of congress that less than 2 of their career doing manual labor jobs, Service Industry jobs. So this is one thing that ...

And to data protection. The present case as reported in the media is also likely to reenforce the concerns of e. U. Citizens regarding the use of their personal data online and in the cloud. Already in 2012, 70 of e. U. Citizens were concerned that their personal data held by companies could be used by a purpose other than the one for which it was collected. The prism case as reported in the media also highlights the difference between the European Union and the United States. Whereas in the u. ...

Then your phone calls and tweets. It is live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. I think theyre moving extremely fast. Expires after five or 10 years. There is no facebook or twitter. Historically what we have done is we have sliced human life into four slices. There is a resting phase. Them alle should have at the same time. We should play. We should learn. The world moves so fast. We really have to stay upto date. New years day on cspan. Ceos of the deaths of the, twitter and others on Higher Educ...

As possible, to do as much damage using bullets often designed to inflict maximum damage and thats what allowed the gunmen in aurora wrote to shoot 70 people. 70 people, killing 12, in a matter of minutes. Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater. The majority of americans realize that. By the way, so did Ronald Reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the Second Amendment who wrote to congress in 1994 urging them this is Ronald Reagan speaking urging them to li...

Shouldve known better were saying that it would not matter if we failed to meet our obligations. I think that changed the discussion, as you see today, being able to fairly easily extend the debt limit. But i remain frustrated a lot of days that things that should be easy, that everybody can agree on are hard to do because of the super power of minorities here. Some already have said that you may have higher aspirations. Forget it. This is as high as it goes. 58 years old. When i decided to do t...

Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a democrat from north dakota. I want to begin with one of your campaign ads. You describe your mom as a janitor, your dad as someone who never finished high school and you are one of seven. What was that like . We did not think it was all that rare. Back then, a lot of people in the world war ii generation did not finish high school, who had to help out on the farm. An eighth grade education was considered the most you could ascribe to. For us, it was not odd. Our dad was...

Violence and gun policy and we will start with january 16, 2013. He also talks about what his administration plans to do with the issue. I started getting a lot of. Etters from kids four of them are here today. They are pretty representative of the messages that i got. These are some pretty smart letters from some pretty smart young people. A third grader, you can go ahead and ways. Thats you. Terrible for the parents who lost their children. I love my country and i want everyone to be happy and...

The push for privatization of social security. That is the blueprint. That is not an agenda i can support. Nor the code7 Many Americans have ever been to. How would you describe yourself . It is stunningly beautiful. People who believe there is not anything they cannot accomplish. I say that is the biggest difference that i see. Here, if you tell somebody an idea and you think you can work, they will say, that is a good idea but that cannot happen. I do not think that will happen. In north dakot...

Something that i think is an issue for journalists and citizens for the next 20 years, which is theres been a distinction in law and more generally between metadata and content, so some people have a thought that if government has access to your phone calls, thats really troubling. If they have access to metadata, meaning what numbers are calling what numbers, thats a completely different problem. We in the review group are uneasy with that distinction. That if the government has access to knowl...