Cardin, you have an introduction to make also. We will do that. Lets recognize first senator carper because he is going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Very briefly, welcome to the important hearing and i want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for putting this all together. I have a statement by the act to ask unanimous consent that appear in the record of have a. I have a statement by the act to ask unanimous consent that appear in the record of have a chance to come back and give alive later this morning i will do that. Again, its good to see you all. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. We want to thank all of you for being here today, i would like to thank my friend and Ranking Member for his staff and the help in getting this hearing together. Ive taken count and i think the last was other than you and me that came in to this congress is retiring this year end that leaves you and me. I hope thats not a message. But anyway, we did come in and we spent a lot
Cspan where history unfolds daily. Cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Here on cspan2, the senate dabbling in in 15 minutes to continue work on reauthorizing the house approved message on the fisa Surveillance Program and able to advance the plan for 5 30 eastern, 60 votes needed to limit debate on that. The house and senate will be working on funding the federal government past the deadline for midnight friday and possibly using another shortterm resolution to do so. The senate dabbling at 4 30 eastern or more work on the fisa Foreign Surveillance bill. A Bipartisan Group of senators held a press conference about the measure. Thank you for coming. What we have assembled today is a Diverse Group of senators from both sides of the aisle who are organizing together to filibuster the fisa bill. We are here to filibuster the bill because we think there need to be more protections for a
Dhs is complying with the court order. We have begun to accept renewals for daca. We are treating the program as preseptember last year, so if you are a current daca we will leave to go to capitol hill for a News Conference of senators talking about the National Security agencys Foreign Surveillance program. Live coverage here on cspan. Thank you for coming. What we have assembled today is a Diverse Group of senators from both sides of the aisle who are organizing together to filibuster the fisa bill. We will here to filibuster the bill because we think there needs to be more protections for americans. Fisa is about spying on foreigners in foreign lands. I think most of us agree the program has value and is useful but we should not use information collected without constitutional protection on americans. And so at the very least there ought to be a warrant to search an american in the database. The database is enormous. We think maybe millions of americans are caught up in this databas
Youre setting up. Okay. Let me know. Okay. Id like to welcome all of you to the january 19 meeting of the Mayors Council on disability. And i had a welcome letter that i usually read and somehow on this device that i have i couldnt find it, so i and i know that usually denise reads it. Shes on the bridge line. But let me let me just say that our meetings, i can paraphrase, are held on the third friday of every month. Today its the 19th and in february it will be on the 16th. Our meetings are accessible to people who are in wheelchairs at the polk and van ness entrances. I believe on the one of the entrances its wheelchairlift only and thats on the goodlet street side. We would appreciate it if you would not use if you could turn off your cell phones and any pda equipment so it would not interfere with any of the equipment here in the room. That would be greatly appreciated. If you are on the bridge line and need some assistance, please let the staff know and they will be glad to help y
Id like to welcome all of you to the january 19 meeting of the Mayors Council on disability. And i had a welcome letter that i usually read and somehow on this device that i have i couldnt find it, so i and i know that usually denise reads it. Shes on the bridge line. But let me let me just say that our meetings, i can paraphrase, are held on the third friday of every month. Today its the 19th and in february it will be on the 16th. Our meetings are accessible to people who are in wheelchairs at the polk and van ness entrances. I believe on the one of the entrances its wheelchairlift only and thats on the goodlet street side. We would appreciate it if you would not use if you could turn off your cell phones and any pda equipment so it would not interfere with any of the equipment here in the room. That would be greatly appreciated. If you are on the bridge line and need some assistance, please let the staff know and they will be glad to help you. When it comes time for people to speak