Senators john mccain and Lindsey Graham on the senate floor talk about the filibuster. Senator rand paul, who led the filibuster, questioned the ability of drone strikes on u. S. Citizens on u. S. Soil. This is 40 minutes. Thank you, mr. President. Id like to quote from this mornings editorial in the wall street journal, entitled rand pauls drone rant. Id like read, for the edification of my colleagues, the editorial in the wall street journal this morning. A Credible Media outlet. The warm read, quote give rand paul credit for theatrical timing, as the snowstorm descended on washington, the republicans kentucky oldfashioned filibuster wednesday, filled the attention void on twitter and cable tv, if only his reasoning matched the showmanship. Shortly before noon, senator paul began talking filibuster against John Brennans nomination to lead the cia. A fact tick rarely used in the senate and was last seen in 2010. But senator paul said, quote, alarm, had to be sounded to the threat to a
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 sa
Israel. But it takes two to tango. And the rest of the arab world has to get in the game. We are under no illusions about how difficult it will be difficult to achieve. Some of you in the audience have said why do we even talk about it anymore . Well, its going to require hard steps on both sides whether its in all of our interests, israels interests, United States interests, the interests of the palestine people. We have a profound interest in peace. To use the expression of a former president , bill clinton, we have to get caught trying. We have to get caught trying. So we remain. We remain deeply engaged. As president obama has said, while there are those who question whether this goal may ever be reached, we make no apologies for continuing to pursue that goal, to pursue a Better Future and hell make that clear when he goes to israel later this month. We are also mindful, we are also mindful that pursuing a Better Future for israel means israel confronts the myriad threats it faces
Of them, that it remains a challenge area. Dhs has taken a number of steps. The secretary earlier mentioned about the nkeg. That is an area in which it has started improve the sharing of information, through that mechanism. I also heard where dhs has issued a relatively large number of security clearances, which can help facilitate some of the sharing of information. But challenges still remain. We still find that, for example, it has not yet developed a predictive analysis capability, which would help lead to providing threat information, alert information, to private industry. As mr. Kepler indicated in his prior remarks, it seems like that is still an area of improvement that can be made on the part of dhs and other federal partners. Mr. Kepler, do you feel you have timely and relevant information from the government . We do not get specific information. When we get to the point that we can mitigate something, to get back to who it was and where it was, and how we can address it in
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