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This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. A major ruling on the legality of the nsas bulk collection of phone data. A federal Appeals Court says the program is illegal, was never authorized by congress and exceeds the authority under the patriot act. But they did not issue an injunction against the practice. The judges wrote that they would let Congress Sort that out. The judges sent the case back to a lower court. The same court that had originally thrown the case out. The aclu sued the director of national intelligence. It wants the program stopped. Joining us now via skype is kath...

This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. A major ruling today over the nsas spaying program. A federal Appeals Court says the bulk collection of telephone records was never authorized by congress. Lisa this rule says the nsa acted illegally, but it isnt stopping the program, why not . Reporter thats right. Because the authorization that congress used or that the government used to do this expires june 1st, so the court said its just a couple of weeks, we wont stop the program right now. This was revealed back in 2013 by Edward Snowden, and it created a fire stor...

A day else a portion of the sheriff shared lending to small and microbusinesses. Because of that 4 billiondollar investment in 332 institutions across the Country Community banks or cdfi loan funds, we have seen positive returns for taxpayers so this is no cost to the taxpayer and we are also seeing that lending has increased by more than 10 billion so we take that 4 billion investment. As a result the institutions have loaned more than 10 million above and beyond the lending that they were doing beforehand. What that actually turns into is around 41,000 new loans to Small Businesses. It also ...

Certain provisions of the Senate Amendment to h. R. 2642, relating to Crop Insurance. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. Pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on october 11, 2013, at 10 15 a. M. , that the Senate Passed senate 1276. That the senate agreed to with amendments house concurrent reso...

Fascism. Ohio, democratic caller. Our last caller. Say imi would like to looking at their ratings and they are low because congress is slow because it is impractical nowadays. When the Founding Fathers made america, they were not thinking about population as large as it is now. Basically, there are way too many viewpoints for congress to laws or denyo pass others. We have the technology now where we can actually direct democracy. People have ipads in the internet. If we just voted online or Something Like that, dont have the infrastructure all laid out, but i feel like that to be a much more e...