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Sentence. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Thailand a weekend of violent protests as street fights broke out over the fate of the Prime Minister. Demonstrators want her out, thinking she is a puppet of her brother. Four are dead, 50 injured as protesters try to take over government buildings. A distinct shift in the antigovernment protests on sunday. For the first time in seven days police in bangkok are fighting back. Heavy use of tear gas as...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] coming up on cspan2, the Homeland Security Committee Examines the use of Virtual Currencies. Then, a look at the process that granting security clearances for federal workers and contractors. And live at noon eastern, a Heritage Foundation panel on the deal struck in geneva, switzerland, on Irans Nuclear program. Today the Heritage Foundation examines the deal reached this its weekend in genev...

Im talking about the maintenance of the entire infrastructure system that made this country great in the last century. Beauty rating and aging infrastructure impacts our on families, communities, the entire country. As was noted, for example, more than 40 of our urban highways are congested. That means americans waste almost two billions gallons of gas a year and a folks spent more than 7 billion on gas idling while in traffic. The point is that indirectly we are spending this money and were not...

Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator lea...

Quite an important factor. So thats the second point. The third point id make is c. B. O. Themselves says theres a tremendous amount of uncertainty. A lot of the report stems from, as tax credits phase out, what does that do to peoples incentives . Theres a literature on the earned income tax credit that has generally found that the phaseout of the earned income tax credit doesnt affect labor supply. C. B. O. Is assuming that in this context, people will have a much better understanding of these...

Must act to pass Data Security and breach notification legislation. The administration has proposed similar legislation. Congress must act again and we must ensure that such legislation makes its way to the president s desk for signature. To that end, im most interested to hear any opinions of the f. T. C. And what they may wish to share to us. All my questions this morning will be addressed to chairman ramirez. Now, chairman, in your written testimony, indicates that the commission enforces a v...

Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privati...

300 megahertz. The president s five megahertz that he called for a couple years ago, and we certainly applaud him for that effort. And we want to continue to push and get the spectrum as quickly as possible. Because Companies Like the two gentlemen represent on either side of me are using the spectrum for new and varied uses, and the people who stand to gain the most are our consumers that are now over 310 million in this country. And so we want to see that continue. Okay, thank you, steve. Crai...

Thank you, madam chair. And thank you for holding this hearing. I appreciated. I know this is a focus, this panel on cybersecurity but weve also talked about reliability and a new the next panel can focus on the. I appreciate your willingness to move forward on figuring so quickly after your taking the chairmanship. I like to ask a couple of questions because we have great experts here who may be can give us a preview of what were going to next also for us to be able to compare and contrast with...

Anonymity and privacy, and bath there are new laws that are required to end the possibility of anonymity or to address that in some way. I think, you know, as i stated in my comments, we are very focused within our business on having very deep levels of identity verification, we view that as critical. Others within the Digital Currency world, particularly within geographies that dont have the same type of regulatory regimes do not. There are other things we need to be thinking about that could a...