20th century, vienna embodies, perhaps more than any other city, the struggle to break with the ossifiedraditions of the 19th century to achieve a modern art, an art for the 20th century. turn-of-the-century vienna was a prosperous and technologically advanced society, peaceful and secure, the center of the austro-hungarian empire, ruled over for more than 50 years by the last of the hapsburgs-- emperor franz josef. franz josef symbolized permanence and stability. he cultivated a status quo, based on a bureaucracy and state censorship, which exerted a virtual strangle hold on the capital's cultural imagination. artistic life was dominated by the baroque history painting of the fine arts academy. architectural endeavor aimed at creating a sense of continuity with a grand past. the town hall-- late gothic... the hofburg theater-- high baroque... the parliament buildings-- classical greek. against this background, artists and architects across europe sought new ways of looking, new forms of building, that would embody the idealism and progress of the new age. in vienna, these hopes found ex

the law is very ossified. we are puzzled that the court hasn't quite been able to figure out -- we are a puzzle that the court hasn't been able to figure out. >> give us some nuts and bolts. doma and same-sex marriage case, i was not going to wait for the legacy press to report it, i watched the feed coming from scotus blog. do you have a mole? oflain the nuts and bolts how you go about that instantaneous reporting. allowscourtroom itself no electronic devices. they are outside the courtroom and at the point that the chief justice says, justice kennedy has the opinion in united states versus windsor, they start handing out the opinion to the press corps. then lyle denniston will get his copy of the opinion and pete will be outside waiting for his copy of the opinion and will talk to us about what the opinion said. then we will be typing that into our live blog to go out into the rest of the world. , we are finish off going to take advantage of every opportunity we have. there are a whole series of rules in the

because of funding shortfalls employees sometimes continue to work in positions that allow access to ossified information even if the initial period of clearance has lapsed. for example this summer for 10 weeks the department of defense has suspended periodic reviews of contracted employees due to funding shortfalls. i would like to hear from her witnesses about how often suspensions like that are happening across the federal government could i would also like to hear about what agencies are doing to manage risks to our security when clearances are not re-examined on schedule under the periodic review process. today we have been joined by officials from four agencies responsible for policies to determine who is eligible to obtain security clearance and access to government facilities and computers. they are the office of management and budget the office of personnel management the office of director of national intelligence in the department of defense. we want these officials to talk with us this morning about the critical security related policies and procedures and also about the coordinat