More information about the rules and requirements and also teacher tips and rubrics to help them incorporate into their classroom and more information about prizes and incorporating the video. Its one way to get ready for the president ial in moderation. Tomorrow, the senate is expected to vote on a temporary spending bill that funds the government until december 11. The house may not be able to vote until thursday after the current spending runs out. Mitch mcconnell blamed democrats for the situation and we will also hear from the editor and candidate rand paul who called for a smaller spending bill. This is 15 minutes. Vot last night from a 77 senators voted for advanced legislation that funded atfu the bipartisan level agreed to by both partiesi the bill represents my preferred method for funding the government, but its now the most vital way forward after extreme actions forced our country into the situation. Here. Moreber how we got they were unlikely to by theirnr desire fore more democracy, but they say that they might in a vern crisis. Me fun so they pursued adi deliberate e strategy of blocking government commtee, and some said that they would block government funding legislationvn in some of these bills came out. Of the committee overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis. Egis democrats said they wanted th democr Appropriations Committee with largeat majorities. Ur and the democrats voted r repeatedly blocked a bill thattb funds our military and that funds medical care and pay mr. Re raises democrats are willing to a time of daunting International Threats in order to tear down the normal government funding process and force our country into this situation that we now face. Well, im not prepared to let the government im not prepared to let the democrats lead us over the cliff. The bill before us would keep the government open. It would allow time for cooler heads to prevail. Thats why i joined 76 other senators and voted to advance it yesterday. But, look. Obviously, the best way to fund the government is by, first, passing a budget; then passing Appropriations Bills. The Senate Already passed a budget. The senate is prepared to pass the senate is prepared to pass the senate is prepared to pass appropriation legislation and all that is needed is those that have the sea are behind us, we can turn back to trying to pass the appropriation bill. I am reminded of that name is wine from cool hand luke. What we have here is a failure to communicate. And what we have in congress is a failure to legislate. A failure to exert congressional authority. What we have is a failure to use our leverage and the failure to use the power of the purse. Conservatives across america are unhappy and rightly so. We were told that when we took over congress and were republicans were elected that things would be different. But those that put us in charge, we would right the ship and stop the deficit and here we are with another continuing resolution. What is a continuing resolution . It is a continuation of the past and a continuation of the waste and duplication. And it is a steaming pile of the same old, same old. Let me be clear that a continuing resolution is not a good thing. It is more of the status quo. It is a warmed over version of yesterdays failures. And it is an abdication of congressional authority. It is an abdication of congressional power. Let us at least be honest with a continuing resolution that no waste will be cut, no spending will be cut. No regulations will be stopped. And the debt will continue to mount. We are told that we cannot win, that we need 60 votes to the fund anything. But perhaps there is an alternate future where current big step up and save the day. All spending is set to expire automatically. This is the perfect time to turn the tables and to tell the other side that they are going to need 60 votes to permanently spend any money. You see, it doesnt have to be 60 votes to stop things. Only those programs for which we can get 60 votes should go forward. And what would that mean . That would mean an illumination of waste and duplication and a of bad things that we spend money on. If we have occurred we can use the super majority rule to stop wasteful spending. If we have the kurdish, we can force the other side to come up with 60 votes to fund things like planned parenthood. The budget is loaded with nonsense and also waste. Some are going to say that our job is to govern and to preside. But to preside over what . A mountain of new debt . To be the same as the other side and to continue to add that after debt . Our debt is going to consume us if we continue to preside over the status quo. It is as if we are on the titanic and that includes a continuing resolution that continues the spending of wasteful money. I could go on and on about what we are wasting money on. And we spend 300,000 last year studying whether or not japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine. And i think these things should never have money spent on. But it will continue. We spend several hundred thousand dollars studying whether we can relieve stress and vietnamese villagers by having them watch American Television reruns. And i dont know about you, but i dont want 1 penny of taxpayer dollars going to this ridiculous stuff. If we pass a continuing resolution no reform will occur. We spend time developing a televised Cricket League for afghanistan. 800,000. You know how many people have a television in afghanistan . One in 10,000 people and i dont care if they all have tv. Its ridiculous that our money, which we dont even have, to send to afghanistan, you are agreeing to continue this nonsense. And we spent 150,000 last year on yoga classes for federal employees. Not only do we pay them nearly one and a half times as much as the private sector employees but we give them yoga classes as well. If you pass a continuing resolution, this goes on and on. And nothing is going to change. The status quo is going to continue and we will continue to spend ourselves into oblivion. We spent 250,000 last year and fighting 24 kids from pakistan to go to space camp in alabama. We borrow money from china to send it to pakistan. Its crazy. It is ridiculous. And it should stop. We have the power to stop it and congress has the power to spend money or not spend money and yet we lay down and we say that it must continue. We dont have the votes to stop it. Well, nonsense. The other side doesnt have the votes to continue the spending we would stand up and challenge them. We spend a halfmillion dollars last year or the year before developing a menu for colonizing mars. We sent a bunch of College Students too wide to study this. They got two weeks all expenses paid in hawaii and you know what a bunch of them came up with . Pizza. This is where your money is going and i could go on hundreds and hundreds of programs. If we do not exert the power of the purse this is going to continue and we should attach all 12 individual spending bills not ground together and we should attack hundreds of instructions. Thousands of instructions. And some of the media said that would be the power of the purse. If you object to the president writing regulations about our authority, congress should defund the regulations. What we object to. They should talk about how we dont want money spent on planned parenthood. Hundreds should be written and sent to them. Would we win all of these battles . Do we have the paddle and transparent to win every battle in defund everything . No, we do not. Do we start off with a negotiating position right now. Why dont we start off with a negotiating position and let defund at all. And if there has to be a negotiation lets start and see where we get. But it would take urge because he would have let spending expire. If youre not willing to let the spending expire and start anew, you have no leverage. The power of the purse is only there if you have the courage of conviction to say that enough is enough. Some will say that we want to shut down government, but no we dont, that means that spending must expire. But lets only renew the spending that makes sense. We have the power of the purse if we choose to exert it. And so look at the mountain of debt and the debt that continues to be added. We have not been doing our job. The way that we are supposed to spend money in congress is 12 individual Appropriations Bills and why dont they presented on the floor. But everyone in america know that its democrats who desire to shut down government. And its democrats that desire not to have any restrictions on where the money is spent and they are saying that we dont want and wasteful spending and we dont want to end any spending and we want to continue the status quo and we should not be complicit with them. We have allowed this to go on for too long and it threatens the very heart of the republic and are very foundation. It is time that we stood up and said enough is enough. One is the was the last time we did it in the appropriate fashion and Congress Passed each of the individual appropriations bill. 2005. A decade ago. It has been a decade. In the last decade we have added 10 trillion in new debt. It is time to take a stand. I have had enough. I am not going to vote for a continuing resolution that is simply a continuation of mounting debt. I wont do it. A continuing resolution is announcing defeat in advance. What we should do is take a stand and we should say in the senate requires a supermajority and that means 60 votes to pass spending. What would happen . Would have spending that is controversial like planned parenthood that would fall away. And you wouldnt find things being funded that are controversial. And what would happen if there would no longer be funding were to put their projects. We had 7 billion worth of just duplication. And even this president puts forward this to be eliminated. Congress is dysfunctional and we continue to pass this resolution which means we do nothing to exert the power of the purse. Congress is a shadow of what it once was. Madison said that we would have hit ambition against ambition and we no longer do that. But instead congress is a withering shadow of what it once was. They have no power and exerts no power and we walk and live in the shadow of a presidency that is growing larger and larger and larger. The president says that he has been writing and creating laws. One of our philosophers said when the executive begins to legislate a form of tyranny is going to ensue and thats what we have now. We have executive tierney. But this is been going on for a while, probably for a hundred years we have been allowing more and more power to accumulate in the hands of the presidency and what we need is a taking back of the power. We need congress to stand up on its on 2 feet and say enough is enough, we are reclaiming the power of the purse and will do whatever is necessary to get rid of the wasteful spending, the offensive spending. And we are going to do it with what the American People want to spend what is only coming in. I oppose this and i recommend that everybody in america says that we are tired of the mounting debt and we want you to stand up and say that enough is enough, let the funding a expire and make the other side come up with 60 votes to spend the money and its time we took a stand and i hope you will. Thank you, mr. President. The Senate Returns tomorrow at 9 30 p. M. To debate a contemporary spending bill that they will vote on at 10 00 a. M. Needing a simple majority to pass. It will fund it through December December 11. It ends wednesday night at midnight and we have live coverage of all the Senate Proceedings on cspan2. A signature feature of booktv is our allday coverage from across the country from top nonfiction authors. The southern festival of books in nashville. The weekend after that we are live for the texas book festival and then we will be covering to book festival is on the same weekend from our nations heartland the wisconsin book festival in madison. And then the boston book festival. Then we will be in portland followed by the National Book awards for new york city and at the end of november we are live for the 18th year in a row from florida for the Miami Book Fair international. That is a view of the fairs and festivals this fall on cspan2 booktv. The director of National Intelligence and Michael Rogers talked about cybersecurity at a hearing of the Senate Conservatives committee including recent hacking threats and encryption in preventing statesponsored cyberattacks. This is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning, we meet today to talk to robert work and the commander of u. S. Cybercommand, director of the National Security agency and chief of the centrals dirty service, we thank the witnesses for their service and for appearing before the committee. We meet at a critical time in just the past year and we all know that the United States has been attacked by north korea, china, russia and the attacks have only increased, crippling our networks and compromising sensitive National Security information. Recent attacks against the joint chiefs of staff are just the latest examples of the growing boldness of pushing acceptable behavior in cyberspace. New hacks are occurring daily. Trends are getting worse, but it seems the administration has still not mounted an adequate response. They say that they will respond at the time and manner of our choosing but then they either take no action or pursue symbolic responses that have zero impact on our adversaries behavior. Not surprisingly the attacks continue and they gain a competitive economic edge in improving the military capabilities. To demonstrate their own need to attack are critical of the structure and they do all of this at a time and manner of their choosing and more and more they are leaving behind what the ad while recently referred to as cyberfingerprints, showing that they feel confident that they can attack us without mexican consequences. Just consider the recent case with china after chinas efforts to steal intellectual property and wage economic espionage against u. S. Companies. Instead last weeks state visit simply a amounted to cyberand enabled the rat. Whats worse is that the white house has rewarded china with diplomatic discussions about establishing norms of behavior that are favorable to china and russia and any internationally agreed upon with rules must recognize the right of selfdefense is contained in article 51 along with meaningful intellectual Property Rights protections. The administration should not concede this point to autocratic regimes who seek to distort or principles or detriment. We are not winning the fight in cyberspace. The adversaries put simply, the problem is a lack of deterrence. The administration is not demonstrated to our adversaries that the consequences of cyberattacks against us outweigh the benefits. Until this happens the attacks are going to continue and our interests are going to suffer. Establishing deterrence hires a strategy to defend and aggressively respond to the challenges to our National Security in cyberspace and that is exactly what the congress required in fiscal year 2014 National Defense authorization act. That strategy is now over a year late and counting and while the department of the defense is a big improvement over previous such efforts, it still does not integrate the ways and means to deter the attacks in cyberspace. Establishing deterrence also requires robust capabilities both ostensibly in defense of late that can pose a credible threat and a gold in which the committee remains actively engaged. The good news is that significant progress has been made in developing our cyberforce and that will include a mix of professionals trained to defend the nation to support the geographic combatant commands and to defend dod networks. This is good, but the vast majority of resources have gone towards showing up cyberdefenses and far more needs to be done to develop the necessary capabilities to deter attacks and fight and win in cyberspace. Policy and decision should not become an and capability development. We do not develop weapons because we want to use them. We develop them so as we do not have to. We are at a tipping point. He said that we have to broaden our capabilities to provide policymakers and operational commanders with a broader range of options. And we must invest more in the offense and capabilities that our teams need to win on the battlefield. We seek to address this challenge and a number of ways including our Pilot Program to provide us with limited authorities and finally we know the Defense Department is in the process of assessing whether the existing command structure can elevate cybercommand to a unified command. There are worthwhile arguments on both sides of the debate and i look forward to hearing views on this question in his assessment of how and elevation might enhance our overall cyberdefense posture. And i also look forward to hearing from eyewitnesses what if any progress has been made on addressing disagreements within the agency on the delegation to use cybercapabilities. And i think the witnesses appearing before the committee and i look forward to their information. It is important to talk about this and i want to thank the director and the cybercommander for their information. Let me start with china. I expect we will have a robust discussion about chinas can compliance chinas leaders must be aware that the reputation may continue to decline if this does not stop, which ultimately will have it immensely negative impact on our relationship with china. I would also emphasize how important it is to embrace these norms, which include refraining from the tax on the other nations Critical Infrastructure. And that includes whether we can go to a full unified command and whether the commander of cybercommand also serves as a director of the nsa. And i understand that the problem could elevate it to a unified command. We have questioned whether or not the arrangement should continue on an arrangement is made and put simply if they are so reliant that, leadership is necessary, is the command ready to stand on its own. This is an issue that the senator