Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Philadelphia. Originally thats what it was. But in the years the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capitol. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that well see in a moment was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population at our first census of about 3 3 4 million. We had six members of the house would sit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of the u. S. Capitol is the story of where were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially annou
Argument on legal access to online information and whether police and other enforcement officers can access information for personal purposes. Hear argument next in van buren versus united states. Mr. Fisher. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court, the cfaa is an antihacking statute. To ensure comprehensive coverage, the statute prohibits exceeding authorized access. This ensures that the statute covers not just outside, but also inside hackers. In this case, however, the government seeks to transform the prong of the cfaa into a different prohibition. This prong covers obtaining any information via computer that the assessor is not entitled under the circumstances to obtain. It is no overstatement to say that this construction would brand most americans criminal on a daily basis. The scenarios are limitless, but a few examples will suffice. Imagine a secretary who says that her email or zoom account may be used only for businesses purposes or a person using a dating website whe
Mr. Chief justice, made please the court, it is an antihacking statute. Seatingprohibits the that succeeding access. It also covers not only outside but inside hackers. The government seeks to transform the prong into a different prohibition. It covers obtaining information by a computer that predecessor is not entitled under the circumstances to obtain. It is no overstatement to say this would brand most americans criminals on a daily basis. Scenarios are limitless. Imagine a secretary whose employee handbook says her emailers them account may be used only for business purposes, or a person using a dating site using false information to obtain information about a lossal mates, or student. If a government is right, any of these people commits a federal crime. Any employee that use the zoom account over the next giving to connect with relatives would be subject to federal prosecutors. The main argument is that a single two letter word in the definition under exceeds authorized access. T
Although originally it was a county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Was being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population around 3. 75 million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of