our guest this week, anne toth, the head of privacy for yahoo!. >> this is our second week in our privacy series. we are looking at privacy issues and telecommunications policy. joining us from mount view, california, is yahoo!'s cheap of privacy, anne toth. also with us, juliana grunewald. thank you for being with us from california. what is your job at yahoo!? >> i am the vice president of global policy and the head of privacy at yahoo! that means i work with product teams, marketing, customer care, a work throughout the organization to make sure our policies and privacy promises are embedded throughout policies and products. >> this is what you had to say about yahoo!'s privacy policy. >> is this a new policy that yahoo! has developed, and is it one of the more stringent ones in your world? >> our policies have been in evolution over time. i think our thinking about privacy from the beginning. i have been a guy who for 12 years and i have worked with product people to make sure that privacy is reflected through our products services. that is ab

. >> all month long look at privacy in telecommunications policy tonight with yahoo's anne toth on c-span2. >> i underestimated how big the job was. i am not even been a minority leader. i jump from minority whip to speaker overnight. and from a minority party that no one thought would be in power which was -- into the biggest one party increase. >> nude cambridge on his tenure as house speaker and a possible 2012 presidential bid sunday on c-span. >> not a senate hearing on embryonic still supported stem cell research. we hear from the director of the national institutes of health about legislation in response to a recent court ruling banning -- banning federal funding for that research. this is 15 minutes. -- 50 minutes. >> the subcommittee will resume its sitting. dr. collins, two other things i wanted to cover with you. one, in your testimony -- and you mentioned it also in the slides -- was the power of embryonic stem cells as a research tool. sounds like even if these cells never actually end up being used as therapies in which they are transmitted into human beings, they can still t

. >> anne toth is the head of privacy for yahoo! >> thank you for having me. >> next week, we will be talking with the advertisers and with the consumer groups. we will see you then on "the communicators." thinks the nation is experiencing severe anxiety. after that, the author and sociology professor brian powell looks at the changing view on what constitutes a family. a recent survey has found that americans are more accepting of unmarried and same-sex couples raising children. plus, your e-mails and phone calls starting live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. on sunday, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius talks about the new health care law, part of which goes into effect on thursday. she is interviewed by someone from the "wall street journal" uters.eacre >> last fight, alaska senator lisa murkowski held an event to announce her intention to run for reelection as a right in -- write-in candidate. she recently lost the primary to candidate miller. this is about 20 minutes. >> thank you. >> we love you, lisa! >> i love you.

tonight, with yahoo's anne toth on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: lawrence hunter is launching a new group called the alliance for retirement prosperity. the goal of the new group, repealing obama care and what you call obama care and preventing the rationing of healthcare reform and medicare and medicaid. let's just begin with this new healthcare law and its impact on medicare and talk about each of the different provisions and what you oppose about it. so if you look at how the healthcare law impacts medicare, it would increase medicare payroll tax on upper income americans. why do you oppose that idea? guest: it's not only the increase in the tax rates. in fact, it's primarily the two types of cuts, devastating cuts, that will appear on the program. first there's the direct cuts that are going to come out of the medicare advantage program. but even more important than that is, down the road, fairly quickly, there will be price controls and squeezing the reimbursement rates on doctors and hospitals. the medicare actuary estimates that once a

ann toth. >> "washington journal" continues.ost: sheila krumholz joins us to talk about campaign raising in 2010. begin with a talking about by 27. guest: -- 527. guest: that refers to the cota " charities. five to seven groups -- 527 group are not supposed to be saying vote for or against this candidate, but they are supposed to educate people about a specific topic. host: so they can run and had about an issue, like health care, but they cannot mention a candidate's name. guest: right. their roles have changed dramatically with the ruling in the supreme court and other judicial rulings. there's a lot of confusion and there will be a lot of envelops pushing this cycle, i think. host: confusion comes from what is a 527 and what is a 5 01-c4. not report itseed na donors. it means that we are going to see a lot of money going toward our elections, trying to influence our elections, but we will not see who is bankrolling the effort. host: according to "time" magazine these groups were able to do that anyway. they were able to donat