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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 many ways that obamacare continues to negatively affect americans. Yesterday the Washington Post pu...

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 Business Community that feels that brazil has, in a sense, somewhat isolated itself in the trade arena...

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 fundamentally has to do with trust. I understand it is corporate as well as domestic, but i would li...

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 our societies want is going to have a big impact on our ability to conduct this kind of long diplom...

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 president of brazil. We sponsor the brazil economic conference. We host brazilian governors and legisl...