that's done not on just voter laws but every kind of a law. we see it in washington all of the time. it's what helps my party trumps what's the right thing to do for the country. it's not going to change until we address that more fundamental problem. >> is there something here about america's rapidly changing demographics. i know that chris hayes talks about this, but it was like when you saw black and brown people taking power, is this about demographics not being in the favor of the republican party, and rather than battling it out they will just suppress those voters. >> right, and you to back to to redistricting as well. the republicans gained control of several legislations in 2010. they redistricted themselves into power, and they pass laws that will keep them in power for a long time. in places like texas, for example, where they passed a very strict voter id law, that is a place where we see the changing demographics happening very quickly. there is a cramble to make sure they can hold on to their power in light of that. >> it feels t

seven laws in six states limiting the right to vote and voter suppressive laws. so the really the big issue now is making sure that voters are educated where they are that we continue to push back against these restrictive laws and that everyone understands what needs to be done in order to vote where they live there. keisha gaskins so well so thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you tom. after the break there is one thing one thing that every american has to understand before the november election it's absolutely crucial for the success of our nation in the future clay what it is and i still take. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of god saying that your motives paul. the far left doesn't want the usa to defeat terrorism. i mean terrorist cells in your neighborhood.

hosted by the university of law school. -- university of colorado law school. this is an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> there is a great expression, let me say a few words before i speak. those few words are to thank so many people. i want to start with the chancellor, who has been incredibly supportive of bill law school. we are so grateful to have you here. thank you for your support. we have several regions to hear dubin -- regents here. we thank you for all of your support and your spirit. we do very much believe in engaging with the community and we want to continue to do so in many ways. in terms of the energy she has brought, this lecture was her brainchild. recognizing that, the chase award was given to her for her leading work in community center. i want to acknowledge her. [applause] finally, all of you make such a difference to us. when i think about what makes us successful as a law school, having a diverse, inclusive, collaborative community of outstanding students, faculty, along, and friends gives us a fabulous advantage. this community can c

we are just talking about rule of law meaning to say rule of just laws citizen laws, laws of to do with crimes. it all started with a crime. because the way in which the parties handled it was seen as inadequate. everything became worse. >> we have time for one more question. this actually came from an email and the question is, what can members of the pro- democracy movement known as the 88 generation, many of whom have been imprisoned in the past, as well as other activists, including exiles, do to contribute to burma's peaceful transition? what is their role? >> i don't think that all those who belong to those activist groups have to do just one thing. each person has his own strengths and weaknesses. each person has his own talents. i think they have to choose. some may be best taking part in humanitarian activities. some may be best going into politics. some may do best in other directions such as literature, arts, etc. so i don't think that just because there has been activists in the past, they all have to be lumped together and they should all be expected to do just one thing. t

in history to grant a river with a legal identity what this all means is that when it comes to the law the river will have the same rights and interests that a company does however this is not the first time a country has made a revolutionary move to protect mother nature last year bolivia passed the world's first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans it's called the law of mother earth and it authorizes eleven new rights for nature including the right to life to exist the right to continue vital cycles and the right to not be polluted while this may seem bizarre to some the concept of protecting the commons goes back to be getting of humankind the commons are the resources that are shared in common with them communities and it's really quite logical when you think about it why wouldn't we work to protect the very resources that every human being on this planet needs to survive in the age of privatisation pollution and the. of these natural resources mother nature is left with no voice the environment and the voiceless critters of this planet can't speak out that's why we nee

seven laws in six states limiting the right to vote and voter suppressive laws. so that really the big issue now is making sure that voters are educated where they are that we continue to push back against these restrictive laws and that everyone understands what needs to be done in order to vote where they live there. keesha gaskins so well said thank you so much for joining us tonight thank you. after the break there is one thing one thing that every american has to understand before the november election it's absolutely crucial for the success of our nation in the future call you what it is and i still take. i think tonight's accusing dates in believe me or just a one to to execution date is enough for anybody to go through in one lifetime. you know more than fifty percent of the people who are executed texas are not. white you know living on death row is like. this it's like you know we execute our convicted capital murder we have the highest execution rate in america we're not afraid to do it we do it well this becomes a point when death becomes. our avenue

law? how would this disenfranchise people. >> none of us want in eligible voters participating in the system. the problem is the purging pros, the he will i'll voters caught up in these new laws, so when we look at purging, we really want to look at purging practicion that are transparent accurate, and legal and that way we're not really catching the eligible voters. right now we're working with a lot of inaccurate lists. kind of a great thing with the voter photo i.d. laws. instead of stopping in eligible seaters, we're finding people has recently changed their name because they got divorced, people who voted for 70 plus years and now don't have the fold i.d.'s with their current address on it and are disenfranchised. we're disenfranchising millions of voters, while they cost millions of dollars and they're a solution in search of a problem. >> let me ask you, for example when they're doing a punch of voter rolls because people, they don't want non-citizens voting, how are they determinin

. >> we will enforce federal law. >> too much federal law and state law and local law. it's killing jobs by making were illegal. illegal jobs. that is our show tonight. ♪ >> and now john stossel. john: i tried to get the permits to open a legal emanates stand outside the studio, but it was almost impossible. fortunately when kids sell lemonade authorities usually ignored their excessive loss. and that's a good thing says -- says michael whole house, an entrepreneur who made big bucks when he sold the computer company started. and then your 10-year-old daughter asking for a turtle and what happens? well -- >> she wanted the turtle, too many pets, so of course i said the next morning she gets this great idea to start a lemonade stand because -- john: she wanted the money to buy her own turtled. >> exactly right. this is kind of how america works. if you want something start a company and created. it was the most unbelievable day we had together. and it really got -- i saw the light poles go off and her head. for the first time she really understood how free enterprise wor

law. very strict laws protect our free speech rights in the united states and making a controversial film even if it attacks a certain religion can't be prosecuted under free speech u.s. laws an not a hate crime. >>> you just brought up there are laws against someone running into a theater and yelling fire, to incite something. this man had to have known if you put out this type of video that that would incite a melee, attacks, something. could it be attacked up der that provision? >> you raise a good point. it goes that point directly. i'm sure when he made the film, he was trying to be provocative and trying to anger those over 1 billion muslims worldwide. however, yelling fire in a theater, that's a crime but not's not an expression of a political view or of an art form. on the other hand, making this vicious film, an attack on a religion is a form of artistic expression. we may hate it, we may disagree with it. what makes us americans under the first amendment, we can express ourselves

two dozen corporate law firms and lobbying firms. state legislators a few of them democrats, the majority of them republican. >> alec is a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests that eventually the relationship culminates with some special interest legislation and hopefully that lives happily ever after as the alec model. unfortunately what's excluded from that equation is the public. >> in the wisconsin statehouse, democratic representative mark pocan is trying to expose alec's fingerprints whenever he can. by one count, over a third of pocan's fellow wisconsin lawmakers are alec members. >> when you look around especially on the republican side of the aisle, a lot of members of alec, front row, alec, when you start going down to the chair of finance and some of the other members are all alec members, in fact the alec co-chair of the state, row by row you can point out people who have been members of alec over the years. there's two main categories they have. one is how to reduce the size of

we, as a country, have not enforced the law. because of that we're at the situation we're at today. >> reporter: hernandez is ineligible for a driver's license in arizona. on this day, she's going to have her photo taken for her deford action application, essentially breaking the law to become legal. she worries mitt romney would end the deferred action program leaving her ineligible for the job she wants in alternative energy when she finishes grad school. president obama will legalize more undocumented immigrants and keep his deputies busy chasing smugglers. >>> so, just how different do you think the two candidates are when it comes to gun laws and gun control? well, i'll tell you exactly where they stand, next. >>> florida officials under fire after going back on a pledge to ease up on purging voter rolles. >>> this is new movie scene, a dramatic jewelry heist, right there, caught on tape. ♪ [ male announcer ] every car we build must make adrenaline pump and pulses quicken. ♪ to help you not just to stay alive... but feel al

laws. great a victory for birth control advocates this weekend with access to contraception is getting easier. and lenders is to prescribe birth control. the other ways the new law will help women's health. >>> women think governor brown with a round of applause is a sense into law a bill to increase women's access to corporate control. the state prepares to add 2 million people to metical in january of 2014 half of them women. >>> this is generally what's going to be available to women now. >>> adrian said the new law also have some benefits for women's health. >>> a great way to get folks into the health center not only are they getting access to birth control but also an education a time to counsel them on other birth control options and safer sex options. >>> easing its ban temporary health care providers are lenders to dispense the hormonal birth control devices. >>> it's very tough in redding and clearlake the northern communities where there's all lot fewer health-care providers this

laws? because i don't know much about them. >> i know there is this new change going on. >> i know you having to have the date on the i.d. >> didn't know if it actually passed. >> students have to have an expair ration date on their. d.s. this is brock's, not barack's student i.d. can i see your i.d.? do you have it? >> there is no expiration date on it. >> no expirate date on it. >> i need an expiration date on it? >> why? >> that's part of the new voter i.d. laws. what do you think? >> that's ridiculous. >> we are 18, we should be able to vote. >> it's makes it less convenient to vote. >> it's a hassle, people might not know about getting the extra sticker. >> this new vote every i.d. law has never been around in pennsylvania. what do you think the purpose of the is? >> to detract a large population from being able to vote, and a lot of kids will not -- a lot of kids will not know exactly what is going on when they go to try and vote. >> pennsylvania could be swayed by a number of student

laws are very popular and make sense to people. the people who support these laws say they're needed to avoid voter fraud, but in previous elections and the primaries this year, we've not seen a significant number of people charged with voter fraud. democrats who are fighting these laws state to state say it doesn't have anything to do with fraud, it's just a plan to keep minority voters, including blacks and latinos, away from the polls on election day. as you might imagine, some of the biggest balttles over these laws are being waged in some of the most important battleground states like ohio, pennsylvania and florida where the election could be decided if it's a close race. they appeal to the secretary of state as to whether all voters will be allowed to go to the polls on saturday, sunday and monday before the election. the state stream court told him he had to make sure there is enough time for voters to get i.d.s. and in florida, it's been a bruising battle over voting rights for the better part of the year. democrats won a f

that makes homicides more legal or justifiable like stand your ground laws do also. for a sions fund almost all of alex alex money and the koch brothers have a serious and vested interest in alec as well they've given over a million dollars and koch industries have been one of the select members of alex corporate board for almost twenty years and the participating legislators on alec overwhelmingly conservative republicans introduce these proposals as their own ideas without disclosing that corporations pretty much crafted and voted on the bills except for that one time that florida state representative rachel bergen forgot to remove the alec mission statement on a piece of legislation she introduced last year to lower corporate taxes hoops also alex boese that has over one thousand of these bills introduced by legislative members every year with a one in five and acted into law the relationship between these billionaire donors policy groups the n.r.a. wal-mart and local government officials is all undeniable and is all held together by millions of dollars and cold h

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the law has a bright line. it says if you engage in a wongful action, there is a defense called the insanity defense which never works as most of us know because we don't recognize it. should we recognize it, that's an interesting question. should we have a more robust concept of diminished responsibility in light of the understanding that some people have less control over their preferences and desires or should we have better sentencing schemes or get rid of incarceration and come up with different models of trying to deal with punishment once we understand people have wrong selections. i think those are all interesting questions, but is there free will? well, the fact that almost everybody in the audience raised either their right or left hand contemplated it and were quickly able to act and respond. that to me says, yes, there is. now what do we want to do about it? now that we understand that those of us in the audience or up here that like chocolate cake may not have control over it, how do we want to acc

and having those contracts and not following the federal law, it was a federal law. 1963, john f.ennedy signed into law pay equity. equal pay for equal work for women and minorities. and we had title seven in 1964. this was not the law. i was two years away from retirement at the time, and i thought about it. i really thought about letting it go. that is why this decision was made and jointly by me and my husband, because i knew if i started it, these cases, they are not solved overnight. they are not solved in a year. they drag on for years because corporations and large employers have deep pockets and they can wait you out and will wear you out. i knew when i started to fight, i would be in it for a long time. but that is not who i am. i had to fight and stand up. i could not let a major corporation in this country not adhere to federal laws and treat me and my family -- i thought about all those years how much my children did without and how hard they had to take jobs to get through college, working two jobs sometimes, but my son and daughter, to help themselves get through col

to simplify the law and balance the law back towards the privacy protection we expect from the fourth amendment, plainview in plain concealment should be equal opposite, not getting reasonable expectation of privacy law. my prescription for the quarter, which i'm sure will be at that did in the next days is that the cats taz should be dispensed. it is not useful in protecting privacy. it's not useful for one person at the event that they are for chorus to administer. if the administrative problem of unwanted doctrine that is the heartland concurrence. rather, i argued the court should look for searches come a search is a sad seeking out what is at the risk of field from you. i'm not literally, factually. was the thing available to be seen given the physics that play and a loss on the books around that theme. the strong craze in that area is key though. i like to call it the good kilo, not the property rights case, but the one where an infrared camera was used to examine the goings-on inside of the home and over again 2001 if i recall correctly. another case written by justice scalia,

law.s overwhelmingly bipartisan effort basis former president, with the new johnstone sign the legal voting rights act into law. i'm reminded of the continuing importance of the law. panels of judges appointed by presidents of both parties have found that texas intentionally discriminates against minority voters and redistricting and failed to demonstrate voter i.d. law does not impose greater restrictions on minority voters and without the voting rights act, these changes to election will be in effect. when dr. martin luther king said the act of the moral universe is long for justice, he captured the steady progress we see a relative few that continue. the foundation of the constitution and the bill of rights, not the civil war transformed to embrace equal rights and human dignity by abolishing slavery, guaranteeing equal protection of the law for all americans, prohibiting racial barriers the right to go to my continue with the 19th amendment expansion, the right to vote for women's 26th

the laws in this area are strict compliance laws, and they are very specific. the federal law since 1990 indicates issues from 1998. all businesses, such as a grocery store, a dentist's office, restaurants, a doctor's office, virtually anything that a member of the public comes into the -- comes into needs to be a barrier-free. we will go over what barriers are. every public accommodation needs to be wheelchair-accessible. there are also other other forf disability. most of the issues we are hearing about are wheelchair accessibility issues. there is a small group of private individuals who are wheelchair-down that go around the city and they look at small businesses. and i dare say anybody in small restaurants have some accessibility issues. it is another attempt at making your building wheelchair accessible. i am not sure which of you may be merchants and which it may be landlords. the law applies to both. and that means you were 100% liable for any barriers to access and any damages that may be associated with those barriers. there are ways you can defend yo

like the emergency manager law for several years.he original law goes back decades to 1990, to give it a scope of the economic crisis in this state. politicians have been trying to position themselves as reformers and rescuers of the economic situation for decades. so it is not a new idea in the state, although when the republicans took over the legislature in 2010 and the governor snyder took over the governor's mansion the same year, we sought an intensified push the out-we saw an intensified push of an earlier law which basically gave the governor, as you said, the power to elect one person, a financial tsar to essentially shred collective bargaining agreements and the city level. the origins of the law and those pushing for it are sort of connected to a nationwide network of free-market think tanks including the mackinac center. five years before the law was passed, the mackinac center released an editorial calling for improvements to the regional emergency law including the power to assure a collective bargaining agreements. all

are the laws and shortchange indiana have had laws since before barack obama ever came into office and you know what's funny about george in indiana was minority norty voting is actually went up since they had the voter i.d. laws whether it was clear the person right or we seen would almost almost thirty eight states i mean this year rolling this kind of legislation out i mean we've seen a movement of sorts but even more so that you know every great gain in this country has been about including people in democracy to civil rights movement women's lib these movements have been movements that have included people into the democratic process now all of a sudden it's very strange that we have a movement to exclude people from the democratic process i find it amazing but you know obviously there's a difference of opinion here we'll come back with more conversation more of tonight's extended edition of the big picture rumble right after this break. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for asian

two dozen corporate law firms and lobbying firms. and some 1000 state legislators, a few democrats, the majority or republican. >> alec is a corporate service for legislators and corporate special interests that eventually the relationship culminates with some special interest legislation and hopefully, that lives happily ever after as the alec model. unfortunately, what is excluded from that is the public. >> in the wisconsin state house, mark mccann is trying to expose alec's fingerprints whenever he can. by one count, over one-third of fellow wisconsin lawmakers are alec members. >> when you look around, and lot of members of alec print front row, alec. when you start going down to the chair of finance and other members, are all alec members. row by row, you can point out people who have been members of alec over the years. one category is how to reduce the fact of government in the other is, this model legislation in the corporate good. profit driven legislation, in other words. how can you open a new market or private has someth

the state laws and the local law says that there's still smoking inside of restaurants. and the ordinance does not allow or provide any provision to allow restaurants or cafes to smoke indoors or outdoors. and i -- or any type of business to smoke, if they're located in a residential building. and since june 2010, nile cafe knew, through meetings with me, phone calls, we've had several phone calls, and notices. the first written notice was the denial of the exemption that went out november 2010. the second notice was the notice to comply. that went out august 2011. and then there was two notices of violation issued on 2012. and that was all before we even met with the director of public health. so nile cafe h written notificas between november 2010 and may 2012. but they still made the choice to violate the health code. and therefore there should not be reversal or reduction of the suspension or order. the nile cafe once they comply with the suspension and want to -- they can contact me and we'll be willing to meet with them but i think they need to comply with the law f

the sheriff is the head of a law-enforcement agency. i do not think the sheriff should be an example of reform to justice -- reformative justice. the sheriff should be someone who follows the letter of the law, someone we can all emulate. i would certainly feel that this has been violated. chairperson hur: ok, i think probably -- i appreciate the views of my fellow commissioners. i appreciate also that i am clearly in the minority here. i think they are very informed and wise use. i will say one thing, in response to commissioner studley. you are right. the language is all over the place. it could be interpreted as the people wanting to be broad. one reason i think people did not want to be so broad is because the power it gives the mayor to suspend an elected official without pay while this entire process goes on, i think, is pretty in store -- pretty extraordinary. we might become more efficient, going forward, but it is still going to be disruptive. i want to protect future mayors and elected officials from a provision i am concerned

hate crime laws are counterproductive. it politicizes crime and spawned charges of hypocrisy and double standards. those who are prosecuted call themselves victims of political correctness and mortars to the first amendment. the hate crime laws conflict with their proponents' usual criticism of overuse of criminal law and especially, over incarceration. sending more people to prison for longer periods of time is not likely to contribute to a more tolerant society. thank you. >> thank you, professor jacobs. mr. saini, i ask the question of the first panel based on your request that six be added to the category. i think the response was positive, and i promise i will follow-up with him to make sure it is considered on a timely basis. let me ask what impact this massacre has had on your community in oak creek. >> just the people have been wonderful. everybody has come together now. just for that to happen, this was not a loss. this was a gain. >> you mentioned the president, first lady, the governor, and other leaders who exp

or create a new law what about just a bang the law your thoughts. well the law is flexible and fluid as you see and this is somebody who's caught in the law who doesn't have a significant lobbying influence but you know a lot of lobbying fluence are tightly correlated so you know goldman sachs broke the law who broke the law you know if you would have done it broke the law goldman sachs did it. go to the well i'm pretty sure there was a technical loophole that allowed them to do the offering. understand they actually had to pull the offering about before they pulled it they changed it to only foreign investors so i'm not a lawyer but you know it is obvious said in as you mentioned many times on your show the big banks with goldman included have committed. or have perpetrated the purposeful misleading of their clients so i'll put it that way since it might not defy definitively fit the definition of fraud even though it seems like fraud that means use it for you and everybody else but let's just say they purposely misled the clients for their own fin

- enforcement -- a law enforcement officers should never run afoul of the law or commit anything thatuld be charged as a crime and the law enforcement officers should never be convicted. the key witness said you get convicted, you should be fired immediately. that is not the case in san francisco. there have been many law enforcement officers that have been conducted reaching have been convicted of misdemeanors and have remained on the force honorably. there is a two-part process. you determine whether thereó' is official misconduct, and then you decide whether or not this was a correct use of the mayor's discretion. i would maybe add something to that, as suggested in the brief. and i think if you did find some level of official misconduct, you could make the recommendation that it does not warrant removal. the mayor has argued -- law enforcement has a special duty because they are required to investigate, required to do certain things. you could look at what happens with judges who can be found to uphold the law and apply it fairly. i personally know several judges who have been con

i'd also like to thank the 200 volunteer attorneys, law students and interpreters who manage the help lines and staff, the five workers rights clinics that the legal aid society runs, the many law firms, including all of you who provide us with a wide range of pro bono advice and counsel, our many donors, businesses and members of legal communities, foundations and individuals. and the attorneys who designate the legal aid society as recipients of the fund and finally our committed colleagues on the board of directors who help steer the society with their leadership. finally, i'd like to express special thanks to the 17 firms who are recognized on the screen and also in the program book who continue to participate in the time-honored addition of per attorney giving to the annual fund. that tradition and commitment is especially meaningful in these economic times when people have been cutting back a little bit on donations. thank you very, very much for joining us. and now please welcome my fellow board member, the tireless and hard-working esteemed chair of the luncheon committee, the

, and the case law in california supreme court, you have heard similar provisions under state law and the evidence presented to this commission, under the common sense and wisdom of the commissioners and for what is right, not for the share suburban and for our city, -- for the shares department and for our city, we ask you to sustain these charges. the commission has received a great deal of evidence in this case. most of it has come from the mayor and has been unchallenged. the mayor presented nine witnesses to witness and britain have to marry. the sheriff -- through written testimony and witnesses. the sheriff has only chosen to cross-examine two of them. the facts are not difficult to understand in this case. i will go over them in a moment. but first, i want to address the law that the commission is going to have to apply and address specific questions that the commission has asked the parties to address in interpreting the charter. the legal basis for removal is met. the sheriff seems to argue that even if i acted wrongfully and terribly under the law, a technicality permits me

so we could reform the laws in that way.ere is a possibility that we should just eliminate the ethics commission. it's appointed by the departments that are at city hall. so they appoint their friends, which makes it inherently somewhat difficult for them to perform the job they are supposed to firm. this was created in 1993 and it was said to have created an extra layer of bureaucracy and i think that is playing out. >> thank you. experts say there is a 62% chance that an earthquake causing widespread damage will strike san francisco, or the greater bay area within the next 30 years. what new polices should the city institute in order to minimize the human and economic costs of the next big one? this is a question for miss breed, mr. davis and miss johnson. >> i think that we all -- we are already doing some of those things. for example, many of the new buildings, we're making them as sturdy as we possibly can. we're doing a lot of retrofit projects. part of the work that we do -- i raised over $2.5 million to renovate the

interest include election law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, constitutional law and property and natural resources law. he is a resident of san francisco's mission district. we are honored to work chris almendorf. [ applause ] >> thank you very much and thank you to all of the candidates who are here today. we're very fortunate to be joined by six candidates and what i hope will soon be seven. all of the candidates have agreed to ask their supporters to be respectful of other candidates and the audience and to maintain quiet during the forum. i ask you to respect that commitment. every aspect of this forum will be equally fair to all participating candidates. as everyone here knows candidate debates are often limited to latitudinal appears and personal attack. our debate focuses on critical areas of policy disagreement among the leading candidates. so this end the league of women voters of san francisco and the san francisco public press working with researchers at uc davis, developed an issue position survey for the supervisorial candidates. the candidates were asked to stat

drug laws or state drug laws that you would change immediately? >> guest: hold people accountable for what they do, not what they put in their bodies. the criminal justice system is able to if i drive a motor vehicle under the influence, not the crime and should be. why? because by my actions and putting your safety at risk. as far as putting people in jail for what they put into their bodies, number one at the thought turkoman the libertarian and part of that most people are. government has much right to control what you are icicles put into our bodies as it does what i put in my mind. it's none of their business, so it doesn't work and you actually so contributing to problems because 90% of our so-called drug problems today are drug prohibition problems. that's not to minimize drug farms themselves, but huge amount our problems just like with alcohol prohibition. the bathtub gin problem, for example, quality control when awake. i'll capone was no longer involved in selling drugs. today you do not find children selling drugs -- selling alcohol to

law. the five changes are so convoluted in detail, we couldn't find a way to simplify them for you to read on screen. imagine you are a voter trying to keep up with those changes, to understand what you need to do in order to vote or imagine you are a worker at the penndot office responsible for actually following the rules to make sure that voters get the proper i.d. and information. where once there was clarity, now there is just confusion. which was the conclusion drawn by this report from the pennsylvania budget and policy center. last month, volunteer observers made 44 visits to the penndot driver's license centers in 35 pennsylvania counties to assess the implementation of one of those five changes. an alternate i.d. that the state designed for voters that lacked the document to obtain a traditional nondriver's i.d. in almost 50% of the cases, the volunteers who are were stand-ins for actual voters were given inaccurate or incompetent information at penndot offices. one penndot emplo

we also discovered that many of these employers were profiting from the law by charging surcharges in the name of employee health care and then pocketing the majority of the money that was collected from consumers in san francisco. so, given that workers were not receiving the health care that we all intended them to receive, it was unfair that the vast majority of businesses and something else that we found out that in fact the vast majority of businesses are covered by the health and security ordinance in san francisco are doing the right thing and are following not only the letter but the spirit of the law. and so it was in response to these concerns that were raised to us by workers, by consumer advocates and a number of people in the community that we introduce legislation to close this loophole sx, the legislation that we introduced was a very simple reasonable piece of legislation that said that when the health and security ordinance says that you have to spend money on health care, the word spend or expenditure means spend expenditure, means making an expenditure, not collecti

it's, um, an unfair and deceptive acts and practices law is the general, um, law that we enforce. we also have laws in particular areas that we enforce involving children's privacy, financial privacy, some medical information, and when i said financial, it's in some context. some medical information in some context. so, um, we are very much in privacy and in many ways we at the federal trade commission are the nation's leading privacy law enforcement entity. the fcc has a very important role when it comes to the carriers. and when it comes to other entities in the mobile space. so we work with our sister agency on these issues. >> host: and would it be possible to have a dual system where, okay, if you want this app, you can pay a buck a month for it, and we won't track you, or you can get it for free, and we get your information? is that in our current world? >> guest: i think it exists in our current world. i mean, i, you know, amazon's kindle to begin with, there are lots of other, um, entities that say we will target you with advertising, you know, for one price, maybe free or

current law requires the v.a. to ensure that those receiving grants under the per diem program meet safety codes. however v.a. lacks the rules to make certain that their per diem grants are subject to the same rules. we must make sure that the services they need in a safe and secure environment this would allow us to do so in a more comprehensive, effective, and efficient manner this was introduced by my good friend, david mckinley, and i thank him for his advocacy on behalf of the homeless veterans trying to rebuild their life. it would require an open pit registry to be mane taped this provision would also require the v.a. to develop a public information campaign to inform eligible veterans of the registry and periodically notify them of significant developments in the study and treatment of the conditions that may be associated with burn pit exposure. it would direct the v.a. to contract with an independent scientific organization to develop a report on the actions take ton collect and maintain information on t

we both graduated from the university of pittsburgh law school school of law. i have a great admiration for him and great feelings towards him, but only the obama administration has claimed this -- quote -- authority, unquote, circumventing congress. the latest g.a.o. report highlights that only the obama administration has claimed the authority to waive welfare work requirements. further, g.a.o. notes that this action by current h.h.s. officials is in response to the president's february, 2011, memorandum, which according to subsequent administration genocidance solicited -- quote -- "input on significant statutory barriers that could be addressed through waivers. unquote. especially when viewed in the context of the president's -- quote -- we can't wait, unquote, agenda, it's clear that this h.h.s. proposal is part of an organized administration toafort toafort -- to circumvent congress and its legislative authority, and we have seen that time after time. an abusive use of executive orders. now, look, tanf has worked amazingly well because of the work require