The result was overwhelming. The house stood up to the American People and for the constitution. That is something we can all celebrate. We sent a strong signal; that if the government wants to collect information on u. S. Citizens, get a warrant. Thank you for your hard wok on this important issue, and i look forward to working together with each of you to keep pushing for safer, more secure internet. All right. Thank you, congresswoman lofgren. And next up, alan grayson, representative alan grayson. mn congressman alan grayson. Thank you for inviting me to share this panel on the nsa, and thank you for all the good work you do to protect private and security in america and throughout the world. Listen to me. If the Chinese Government had proposed to put in a back door into our computers and then paid 10 million to make that the standard, wed be furious, wed be angry. Wed do something about it. What about if its our own government that does that . Thats exactly what the nsa has become
Now again, we come back to the nsas dual functions and see over and over again whenever they weigh Information Assurance it gets surveilness, this side wins. So its very unclear how this weighing process is going to play out. And actually one of the reasons its unclear is that theres no transparency built into it. I think one of the key things we continually talk about throughout this is the need for Greater Transparency and how things are being applied. And they havent talked about if any numbers are going to be made public about this process. Who is going to be aware of how many vulnerabilities they turn over every year and how many they keep back. How many days on average that they keep things back. So these are core questions that need to be answered. Things that can be made public. Numbers that can be made public without great risk to National Security if any risk at all. And its not built into this process. Its just inherently kind of tilted in one direction from the very beginni
Declared the winner of the primary Runoff Election by 6700 votes after finishing second in the first primary driven to his victory by courting support from africanamerican democratic voters. The House Veterans Affairs committee is holding a series of hearings looking at medical care problems at the va and tomorrow the committee will look at how they handled whistle blower complaints. That is like at 7 30 eastern. We invite you to join the converation about the va on facebook and twitter. From roll call, john boehner is moving to a late july vote to authorize the lawsuit against president obama as he tries to check executive power and stoke the republican base. Committee staffers are discussing several executive actions boehner could target and widdle the list down to the fewest number of actions that will give the suit the best chance of being heard. Again that news item from roll call today. Now you can keep in touch with Current Events from the Nations Capital with cspan radio. 20226
President s own review group in december. This discussion focusing on the costs of the nsa programs to our overall Internet Security is a followup to our internet discussion earlier in the spring about the economic Foreign Policy costs overall and previews the release of our paper later in the month, surveillance costs, the nsas impact on the economy, information security, and freedom. Freedom. With that, cue the representatives, please. I am congresswoman zoe a lot of and thank you for inviting me today. I regret i cannot be there with you. But on june 19th the house took a big step on shutting the backdoor on unwarranted government surveillance. 293123 the house agreeed to an amendment that prohibited the government from serving communication and data without a warrant and requiring device manufactures create backdoors for surveillance purposes. As many of you know and are discussing today when an individual or organization builds a backdoor toassist with security they place the data
Tennessee out the escalator. We hope to have them for you live or recorded as well. A long day of hearings on capitol hill tonight. We will have live coverage of a House Veterans Affairs Committee Hearing of whistleblower claims coming from Veterans Affair Department Employees and several of them will testify before the committee. That is coming up on cspan two at 7 30 p. M. Eastern. A lot more talk about immigration headline here on the hill. Ahead of a Texas Fundraising trip, the president will hold fundraisers in dallas and austin , writes the hill, during the twoday trip. No plans tot he has visit the border, where officials have struggled for. Onths president obama is now offering to talkwith rick perry about the influx of children crossing the border according to abcs jonathan karl. On thatkeep you posted story as well. Thursday, the Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson and the health and Human Services secretary will be on capitol hill talking about the administrations new in