or bernie sanders in agreement on something so it's brought together sort of a libertarian strain as well as sort of more of the liberal strain of on the democratic side especially in on the tea party caucus i think in the house there's been a lot of debate over this in fact they when they tried to expedite the process and back in february it was sort of an embarrassment for house republicans right because they thought they had the votes in order to sort of speed this process up but they were it came out some some votes short are they going to do it again or blow it up again i think it's especially with the looming deadline of and with obama being overseas they really need to pass this quickly they just just to make a close the ability to add amendments to this so the center. is so there's not an ability to add any more of them and so it's going to be expedited because they have to once the bill is signed get it overseas because since obama is overseas right now so if if the tea party caucus in the house or for that matter the progressive caucus has no ability to amend this bill and

and with you know ron wyden and mark udall and the others who were trying to stop the paycheck bernie sanders are saying. but now it's a done deal nonetheless i would still urge you to contact your two senators your member of the house of representatives and call the white house comment line and just express your disappointment. that our constitution has been shattered or at least a whole has been ripped out of it by the patriot act in the hopes that maybe some change in legislation can come down the road over the next year to something like that or that if further unconstitutional legislation comes forward that they will think twice before that but just blow up our rights like this this is just fundamentally wrong and and we all need to be citizen lobbyists on behalf of the constitution what you know what happened after nine eleven basically it was that it you know and after the anthrax attacks and before the anthrax attacks the two senators that this thing had to go through tom daschle and pat leahy pat leahy in the judiciary committee tom daschle running the senate they were both expressin

what ron paul has been saying i will say that ron paul and ralph nader and then excuse and and bernie sanders and cindy sheehan have all worked together cindy sheehan and i was friends with angela and so were dot com people here it is happening and it can happen and they come together around not just the atrocities of war and the human cost of it but also the economic costs of it i do want to say i want to come back to one point we were talking about earlier which is that how do you mobilize people well you can't go into the ghetto and sort of convince people that they should be forced against something i find that to be sort of paternalistic actually what is really to me the problem is obama because that is most americans are not political and their version of politics of the way they interact with politics is really through the head of states they don't actually pay much attention to anything else there is a tremendous amount i will come back to this again of psychological identification with the president of the united states now he is extremely popular among his base which is large enough

voted no three democrats and she got four democrats three republicans and the independent senator bernie sanders the house is expected to pass their version of the bill sometime this week and i mean the patriot act will be put in a lot for twenty fifteen so what does this say about our nation if teen years after nine eleven we're all still so afraid that we need to keep shredding our constitution i can't believe there is no we're not even ten years after nine eleven so let's not get ahead of ourselves let's let's worry about it now which is a former there's a reason the patriot act has been has been voted on almost in the last year and then it's it's reauthorized every few years this is the price for a few months last yes it was a very horse it was a it was a universal it was the year prior that's. the reason the reason is that it's a temporary act because as we talked about earlier we're in the middle of war and we need to take temporary acts in the middle of a war time for income tax back in one hundred. years look i'm fine with rolling down one back to i'm just saying i'm not i'm not in favor

conrad has moved his budget proposal to the left in order to gain the support of senator bernie sanders, an outspoken progressive on the budget panel." close quote. you know, "progressive" is a new word they're using now for big-government types. they think they want to take more money from the american people because they believe they know how to better spend it than the american people who earned it. they want to take it and spread it around the way they want to spend it. well, this is a remarkable turn of events, i've got to say. it's particularly stunning because the president's budget repudiated for its dramatic levels of spending and taxes, claimed that there was a three to one ratio of spending cuts to tax hikes. we cut spending $3 for every one tax hike is what the president said. chairman conrad has indicated that would have been his choice; he praised that. and he claims he favored that same ratio. i don't think that's necessarily a good ratio. i think we need to reduce spending more than that. taken literally, what this means is that senator conrad has in a fundamental respec

and colleague and fellow madisonian -- madison high school in brooklyn, new york, that is -- bernie sanders. i have rarely met, not just here in the senate but in public li life, people who display the passion and the effectiveness combined that bernie does. and sometimes it's a lonely world for him in a certain sense because he feels these issues so strongly, he is so outstanding at articulating them in every way, and he wonders why the world doesn't change a little more. well, bernie, in terms of this world, which changes slowly, unfortunately, we would agree with that, you've done a great deal of good for people who need help. and i'm just glad you're here and i'm glad you're my friend. thank you. anyway, madam president, i rise today in support of the legislation authored by my good friend from new jersey, senator menendez. as you know, the democrats here on our side of the aisle are focusing on this legislation this week and next. but senator menendez has been championing this legislation for quite awhile. and he was prescient to focus on this idea and i'm glad we'll have a vote on it

bernie sanders and and to control the fed essentially choked the fed might be six votes, 96 for 0. there was strategic voting and other reasons for that but that is a pretty broad swath of people when you have every single republican senator in the united states senate voting for the amendment, and i think there was probably the only time in his entire life that would have been. but many of these issues are core mainstream frankly many of them right of center issues coming and we need to talk in english and broaden the base. we shouldn't pigeonhole ourselves or these issues and things we care about. we should take and go right at them at mainstream issues we should talk in english and defend and promote. >> taking the topic may be slightly further than the narrative point which is a great point. but the other thing we need to be doing is educating the public on financial literacy. and it's not just the fed. people the won't even understand their credit card and the mortgage, and we do nothing about that. the only financial literacy we have offered is easier for people who were alre

previous panel with the next panel, congress had of left-right coalition led by ron paul and bernie sanderskind of the odd couple that increased transparency and audit oversight. in the interim why the law has been being enacted the fed has been fighting tooth and nail against the freedom of information act requests from noted journalism organizations such as bloomberg which led the fight to open up information about who got all of the injections of cash from too big to fail and of the provisions that the fed had following the collapse. so the culture is not to do anything unless ordered to do it. that is why i think congress is important. the president making good nominations is important. events like this and groups such as ours are important. >> we will ask about that at the next press conference. >> the national reinvestments coalition. i wanted to thank and reinforce what you said about cr8. in particular building on what ed said, it is a unique opportunity for the public to comment on the activities in banks, not adjusted merger time, but also when they go through their cra exams. i t