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Senate rule and also to tell my colleagues here that both working with what rules maybe we can get through the u. S. Department of agriculture or on some other piece of legislation, i intend to pursue these goals that i sought and i intend to keep reminding my colleagues of senate rules being violated by conferees that should not have been violated. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i come to the floor today to discuss the...

Thank you. Nelson. In my 20 years of daily and weekly engagement with brie bsh brazil, which, by the way, in this room i know is a flash in the pan. Than our moderator. So i dont know if the rules permit this, but given weve heard tom shannon side of the u. S. Side of this. Could i ask our moderator. What will it take from the brazilian side for us to put this disclosure issue behind us . I think its a recognition in brazil of the importance of the relationship. You can see it coming from the Bu...

People in rome that sued the u. S. Government for what was wiretapping and countersuit actually rejected by the Supreme Court on the grounds the we couldnt prove standing, two months before the ed snowden disclosures which makes me wonder if we could have proved standing two months later, choosing the phrase the disclosure problem makes it seem less serious than i think it really is and it is not just on its human rights levelland the right to privacy but on a commercial and political level. It ...

At a time in which theres been no cataclysmic event that forces us into reforming or renewing these institutions, but a clear recognition that the institutions are becoming increasingly less relevant and increasinglyless capable of addressing some of the very large problems and concerns that the world faces. And be so our ability to kind of reestablish momentum in the u. S. brazil relationship and to insure that it gets back on the kind of meaningful tack that i think both of our governments and...

Snowden recently asked brazil for political asylum. Ambassador to. Brazil talks about u. S. Relations with the country. From the Wilson Center, this is two hours. Good morning. Good morning to our good friends in the audience. I am jane harman. I am delighted to welcome you to this before the christmas holiday. The Wilson Center knows a lot about brazil. So does tom shannon. Our Brazil Institute is the premier place in washington for dialogue on u. S. Brazil policy. We were first to honor the pr...

Important is the tapering and what are the next moves . I think we could call this the beginning of the end. If you go back to 2008, when the crisis was at its worst point, the Federal Reserve through all its conventional wisdom had it. At it. So they initiated quantitative easing. They did that into subsets of rounds that did not succeed. They began a third round, last september. That became known as qe3. In the last few months, ben bernanke and his colleagues concluded that that benchmark had ...

We were seeing such a sharp rise. As we look at the issue were closing, we realized that really wasnt true. Many of the new middle class and trends when not traveling to the United States. They were still traveling inside brazil. We were seeing increased travel but uppermiddleclass. Because they had more disposable income and they had developed an interest in travel. Even though we had to run really hard in order to fashion a visa process that reduced wait times down to two days and accommodate ...

Brazilians like to point out even border on france. Complicated diplomatic dance and is made more complicated by the relationships and the trade challenges that brazil faces with argentina because they tend to overload some of the circuits in the structures that they have. But the resilience work very hard at this. Brazilians work very hard at this. The efforts from our point of view are positive, whether it is in Central America or the caribbean community. These are all efforts that facilitate ...

Obamacare could collapse under the weight of itself if there are continued problems, said one u. S. Senator. There could be continued problems and the whole thing could collapse. What has your experience been with the Health Care Law . Here are the numbers to call. State or federal 1. 202 585388 medicaid, 202 5853880. All others, 202 5853882. Here is the headline. Manchin warns obamacare could collapse. [video clip] so much more expensive than we anticipated and the coverage is not as good as we...

We begin with president obamas healthcare plan, and his new pledge to fix it. He says he is responsible for the flawed roll out, and in an about face, he says americans can now keep their plans for up to a year, but it still doesnt solve the problem with the website and the mounting pressure from his own party. John, it really was a remarkable appearance by president obama. He was contrite, he was apologetic, he took the blame, and proposed a fix that are plaguing his new healthcare law. Thats o...