System for social organization and guide orderly development. We should establish a sound mechanism for safeguarding peoples rights and interests, ofrove the integrated system mediation system by the people and traditional mediation. We should carry out reform of the handling of peoples complaints about legal and litigationrelated issues. Should maintain open and regular channels for people to voice their complaints and court may peoples interests and protect their rights and interests and improve the mechanism for major policy decisions forced the rigid social stability. The purpose of all this work is to preserve law and order and promote social harmony and stability. Food is a prominent concern. We should reform and improve the mechanism for overseeing and supervising food and drug safety. We should require enterprises to have strict oversight and supervision. From production to consumption and establish a scientific and effective food and drug safety system. To better ensure for safety. We should strengthen the Public Safety system and improve workplace conditions to decrease accidents. We should tighten regulation of the market and strength in construction of government subsidized housing. 22 firmly we need to invest in Housing Demand and improve the accountability system for federalizing housing prices and regulating the market. We should sustain steady and sounded development. We should continue to manage government subsidized housing so they are satisfied with housing. This year, we should complete the government subsidized Housing Units and construction of another 6. 3 Million Units and renovate a dilapidated houses. Science and technology play fundamental guiding and global role in the countrys modernization drive. Linney to give the people a sense of belonging. We should continue to give top priority to developing education. Government expenditures and education already exceed 2 trillion yen. This number should continue to increase. We should use such funding to the satisfaction of the people. We need to give comprehensive education reform and address major issues of public concern. We should boost balanced development for education, accelerate development of Vocational Education and raise the code of education of all types and at all levels. We should make education more equitable and provide strong support for Chinese Development. We should give them reform of the Management System for science and technology. We should integrate science and technology more closely and establish a technological innovation system that is based on enterprise is guided by the market. We should focus on Priority Areas of strategic importance that are vital to the overall Chinese Development and strengthen basic research in leading technologies. We should improve the mechanism for open and sharing scientific and Technological Research and the visible taxation, banking, and personnel policies that support science and Technological Development and application of these creates a fair and open environment for making innovations with scientists and technicians and keep them motivated and on lease the creativity of the whole society. We should effectively advanced developments of reform. We should include them in the system for evaluating the performance of government at all levels so as to promote all around cultural prosperity and development of the cultural sector. We want to develop cultural projects for the people and increase the system public cultural assistance. We should extensively carry out public activities and promote a comprehensive development in, competitive and recreational sports. We should improve education and public morality, professional ethics, family virtues, and the personal integrity. We should improve we should promote a credibility system to improve fitness and public integrity. And social conduct. Fourth, stiffening reform and opening up political courage and vision reform and opening up our fundamental for what drives Chinese Development and programs. Only by adhering to reform and opening up can we continue to plot our course. China has entered a crucial stage of reform and we must further is emancipate our minds. We must carry around all around economic, cultural, and social reforms. We must constantly stiffen them. [applause] we need to improve the market economy. We should consolidate and develop the Public Sector of the economy and encourage and support and guide the development of the nonPublic Sector to foster a structured environment in which economic entities has equal access to production in accordance with the law and compete on a level Playing Field and enjoy equal legal protection. We should reform state industries and reform physical and taxation systems and it just relations between the Central Government and local government to rally Financial Resources and powers. We should improve the Public Finance system to institute a system of local taxation and establish a taxation system consistent with optimizing the economic structure. We should give reform of the Financial System and increase the modern Financial System so it supports development of the real economy. We should raise the competitiveness of banking and security and accelerate development the multilevel practical markets. We should carry out reforms to make Interest Rates and the rmb market based and gradually achieve compatibility under capital accounts. We should promote reform of the Financial Systems, carrying out price reforms and increasing rates the resource of products. The Income Distribution system is a basic system of vital importance for social development. And an important cornerstone of the socialist market economy. We have formulated deepening reform of the Income Distribution system. We now need to promptly formulate specific policies, ensure that institutions are established and policies are implemented. And narrow the income gap. So that a more equitable share is shared by all the people. [applause] we need to advance development of socialist democracy and socialist rule of law. We should insure that people occupied a principled position and make the peoples democracy more expensive and insure that people enjoy extensive rights and freedoms prescribed by law and promote peoples route wellrounded development. We should govern the country on the basis of the law and fully respect the authority of the constitution and laws which ensure that policy making and implementation function and that government bodies exercise their powers in accordance with statutory mandates and procedures. We should continue to transform government functions. We need a well structured and efficient and serviceoriented government that as scientifically defined functions and that the people are satisfied with. We should improve the conduct of our work, maintain close ties with the people, advocate hard work and play and loving, practice thrift, oppose extravagance and waste and eliminate bureaucratic practices. We should uphold democratic oversight, legal oversight, and Public Opinion and improve the system of checks and oversights of the exercise of power to ensure that people exercise power and power is exercised in a transparent manner [applause] we should unwaveringly combat corruption, promote political integrity, encourage Political Institutions and ensure that officials are honest and government is clean and Political Affairs are handled with integrity. Profound changes in domestic and external environment placed new and higher requirements on china in developing an open economy. We should adhere to the basic policy of opening up and implement a more proactive opening up strategy. We should keep exports stable and expand imports. Way to raise the policies of former term rather than increased volume and raise overall competitive advantages instead of relying only on cost and price advantages. We should make chinas exports more competitive in terms of technology, brent, quality, and a service. We should simultaneously use Foreign Investment in china and make Chinese Investment overseas to support the chinese prices to go global to have a new phase in economic development. We should keep an opening up in different areas. All regions need their own distinctive features a drawing on each others strengths and have a division of what works and cooperate with each other and continue to open up to those developed and developing countries and expand common interests with all other parties. Fellow deputies, we should fully and faithfully implement policy on ethnic groups, adhere to and improve the system of regional and ethnic autonomy, and strengthen and develop socialist ethnic relations of the quality, unity, material assistance, and harmony. We should fully implement the partys basic policy on religion for a harmonious religious relations and gather religious figures and the believers actively involved in economic and social development. We should implement policy of the party and overseas Chinese Affairs and support overseas chinese as well as domestic chinese as relative and endorsing and participating in the chinese endeavors to achieve harmonization. We should accelerate or organization of National Defence and the forces so as to strengthen chinas defense abilities. We should uphold chinas sovereign state, security, and territorial integrity and insure its Peaceful Development. [applause] we should adhere to the principles of one country and two systems the people of hong kong governing hong kong and the people of macao governing macao. We should maintain longterm prosperity of both regions. We should fully implement the important banking and calculating people across the states relations and strengthen and deepen political, economic, cultural, and social foundation. We should accomplish the reunification of the motherland and the cause of working together with our compatriots in taiwan to achieve great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. [applause] we should continue to hold a banner of peace, cooperation, and Mutual Benefit and pursue Peaceful Development and adhere to our independent Foreign Policy of peace and promote durable peace and common prosperity in the world. Fellow deputies, we have achieved remarkable progress on the part of socialism with chinese characteristics in the past. Now we envision an even Brighter Future for our great country. The leadership of the partys central committee, let us unite as one and work hard to finish building a moderately Prosperous Society in all the facts and achieved a great rejuvenation of the chinese nation. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] error makes opening remarks road to the white house eric holder makes comments today at 9 30 a. M. Members of the Recording Industry are launching a system to inform consumers when they have downloaded or shared copyright to content. On capitol hill today, the congressional internet caucus will host an event examining whether Internet Users will comply with copyright restrictions. You can see the forum at noon eastern here on cspan. The United States patent and Trademark Office is one of the few federal agencies that actually is designated to exist in the constitution. Patents and trademarks are a fairly modern invention. The first patents or royal grants given to inventors for monopolies on their inventions. They were popular in england and Continental Europe but the constitution takes it one step further. This is for useful inventions and, from the beginning, novelty was a key aspect of the patent offices role. Youll notice that every one of the models has a little tag with it. Each of the tax is tied on by a piece of red ribbon. This little piece of red ribbon is one of these supposedly origination of the phrase red tape but this was originally red ribbon that each of these was tied on with and was not until the attack was tied on and a patent was approved that you would cut through all the red tape. Originally patent models were required to show the operation of an item. Each one of these models works and the way a fullscale version would work. This weekend, tour the National Inventors hall of fame and Museum Sunday at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. President obama nominated sdally jewel be the interior secretary. She appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee on thursday. Department of the interior has many challenges as have been expressed in the introductions but also many opportunities to address them. The decisions we make have the potential to shape our country for years to come. On energy, i have a commitment to the president s all of the above energy strategy. Increasing our nations production of both traditional and renewable sources of energy on our public lands, implementing Innovative Technologies and new frontiers onshore and offshore, to encourage safe and responsible development of our resources. I also understand it is important to bring certainty and clarity to industry. Industry wants to know what the rules are and they want predictability as they make investments that will power our future. On conservation, observing our lands, waters, and wildlife define this as a people to help us make this place america the beautiful. Theres a generation of children growing up with a disconnect from nature. The Kaiser Family foundation did a study that said children spend 53 hours per week in front of a screen of some sort and other studies say only 30 minutes per week and outside play. I know the department of interior has an Important Role to play along with neighborhood parks, perhaps leaning into the centennial of our National Parks service which will occur in 2016 to ensure that our trails and parks are accessible and relevant to all people from all backgrounds. On Climate Change, the president has made it clear that Climate Change is an important issue for our nation. We have experienced storms, wildfires, drought, and floods and if confirmed, i will tap the vast resources of the department of the interior light the u. S. Geological survey and others to understand and prepare for the impact of Climate Change. If confirmed as secretary of the interior, pledged to abide in a couple the principles of transparency and integrity that have defined me throughout my business career, to uphold our sacred, trust, and responsibilities to American Indians and alaskan that eds, continuing the nation to nation relationship that has been important for us to maintain with Indian Country. I will support the unique needs of our into areas where they are in the pacific or the caribbean and commit to defined me througy business making wise decisions about the use and conservation of the resources with which we have been so blessed in this country of ours. You can see her entire testimony at her confirmation hearing on our website, c span. Org. I believe that the United States has many fantastic qualities. I do believe that maybe many people have the possibility of pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. I think every year that is less and less probable. But the United States, especially in Foreign Policy which is what i worked on for years and years, is not the great nation. It is an interface it is an aboutinterventionist and extrey aggressive militarily. We mess with other peoples politics in ways that i cannot imagine americans tolerate in. Imagine if some country invaded us to bring their system of government the way we did in iraq . Can you imagine american sitting there and thinking that is okay . Yet somehow we in this country have a mmyth. Believe 99 , we create new enemies. Self described as left of liberal, she made a career of being an advocate for world peace. More with Jodie Williams sunday night on a. Members of congress and tribal leaders and others joined president obama on the violence against women act. It was first approved in 1994 and it will expand programs that support victims of sexual and domestic and violence. Vice President Joe Biden original sponsor the bill. This is 30 minutes. [no audio] ladies and gentlemen, to introduce the Vice President of United States, please welcome diane millich. [applause] good afternoon. I am diane m