as members of the c.b.c. have consistently pointed out from the floor of the house of representatives, there are people who have been left behind nd the american people deserve this congress putting aside issues of partisan bickering and attempting to find common ground to solve their problems. stock market is way up, corporate profits are way up, productivity of the american people is way up, c.e.o. compensation is way up, yet unemployment still remains stubbornly high. there are americans who have been left behind but we have not failed to take up a jobs bill from the floor of the house of point tatives at any this year. as my colleague from nevada also pointed out, we have a very broken immigration system. there's almost uniform agreement across the aisle about that fact. there's been a failure to bring a meaningful piece of immigration reform legislation to the floor of the house of representatives. despite the overwhelming demand for action by the american people. now, we all agree, as the c.b.c. indicat

c.b.c. special order. mr. jeffries: what we've termed throughout the year our hour of power. where for 60 minutes we have an opportunity to speak directly to the american people about issues of great significance that affect the folks back home in our congressional districts and in many instances impact the entire nation. day we've gathered here to look back at the issues that members of the c.b.c. have tackled individually and collectively throughout the year on behalf of the american people . but we look back in order to look forward. as we anticipate the challenges that we confront in the next year, an a whole variety of issues. throughout the year we've come to the floor, every monday that we have been in session, to address a great many issues of significance to the american people. we came to the floor to deal with comprehensive immigration reform in early february. then we addressed the need to preserve section five of the voting rights act. during the week in which the supreme court

today the c.b.c. absolutes the life of a world leader who sack -- salutes the life of a world leader. today we celebrate the life of a man from humble beginnings who overcame the obstacles of racial intolerance and rose to lead a country and a people to prosperity and freedom. today we cherish the life of a president who led with dignity and strength. today we treasure the life and legacy of nelson mandela, will you forever be remembered -- you will forever be remembered. i yield back. mr. fattah: i thank the gentlelady and i thank her for her leadership on this house floor, on behalf of not just the people she represents in ohio, but throughout the country. i now want to recognize someone who is no stranger to struggle, nelson mandela once said when asked about his life being a struggle, he said, no, you misinterpret. the struggle is my life. the struggle is this man's life. i recognize the gentleman from the great state of georgia, john lewis, for 2 1/2 minutes. ray lewis mr. speaker, i rise to -- r

spying on other countries this time c.b.c. news broke the story with journalist glenn greenwald's help the broadcaster revealed largely redacted documents that detail how the american spy agency conducted it widespread surveillance during the two thousand and ten g eight and g twenty summits c.b.c. news wrote the briefing notes stamped top secret show the us turned its ottawa embassy into a security compound post during the six day spying operation by the national security agency while u.s. president barack obama twenty five other foreign heads of government were on canadian soil in june of two thousand and ten the covert u.s. operation was no secret to canadian authorities so apparently canadian authorities not only knew about the spying that was going on in their country but they may have even participated in it and that has privacy advocates crying foul i was joined earlier by steve anderson executive director of the open media group for more on the latest docu drop and i first asked him whether we should be really surprise

the c.b.c., american college of paediatrics, ginocology, and we believe it is safe, one that kids should get. >> there are side effects from a lot of different things and other vaccines may have bad reactions. we heard the stories later on. in the end it causes a long list of the cancers. the benefits outweigh the dangers. >> you got it. you mentioned 79 million americans affected. common std in the country, and we know that strains of hpd have been linked to cervical cancer m men and women, certain genital cancers and genital warts, which are difficult to treat. speaking specifically about it serve call cancer in women, 12,000 are diagnosed with the disease. 4,000 women die from it. a lot of people say, "we have the pap smear and h.p.v. testing and if you identify the cancer early you can treat and cure it. >> that's true. pap fears are not foolproof. this is a way that we can actually prevent cancer. we don't have a lot of ways to do that. this can prevent cancer. >> the other big conversation

the c.b.c. says it's the worst year for measles in a dak aid because of people refusing to vak sinuate children. am old enough to have measles, and my brother had mumps - you do not want these. >> measles is a serious illness. parents that make the decision not to vak sinuate against measles or anything, are actually making the decision for other children as well. >> a family goes overseas and confrackt myselfles, they come back to the states, and the little baby next door all of a sudden gets it and is hospitalized. there's a notion of hurt immunity. where if you get a large enough segment vaccinated that you are protecting society. now you see pockets of disease cropping up. you're right, many of us have not seen kids walking around with myselfles or polio. not only are they dangerous, not only can they maim children, they can kill. it's important that parents get the kids immune ice. >> given the success that vaccines have had in eradicating small pom, measles and mumps, is complacent. >> yes

could be optimized and synchronized there are lots of delays in the government at c.b.c. but. this is really a difficult word cliff may remind you that and i believe that the potential of the current government has yet to be realized. would you. please ask your question mr obama years in trey's your hand i did have a question indeed mr putin. recently russian proposals. excuse me. but. so russian ideas and proposals on a number of international issues have gained momentum and have received some support in particular about iranian nuclear program and the syrian elimination of chemical arsenal do you think in twenty four this positive trend is going to continue does russia have some other interest in initiatives to come up with. i believe we did indeed make a significant contribution to diffusing longstanding painstaking issues that have to do in syria and today rainy and nuclear program but we are not alone and there is. you know we're not alone in helping the international community move forward in tackling this issues. without our cooperation with americans with europe with o

or the c.b.c. . i mean. some funny stuff. i was obliged. to edit the. letters all three years. but the problem was that there were absolutely no letters to read it but the. problem is. why i said they and so i was obliged. to invent those letters myself. and i just. i invented a lot of them for that you get something i mean if you're just going for real readers yeah we've got. three or four. oh maybe five. months but they were all. they were all complaining so some critics of these papers are people from now but those that are us i wanted to publish at least those that worry about some problems in the factual content and use paper because i've found it rather important. to you to have some bent of self-criticism but our marketing departments have no self-criticism they for a bit the publish and so so and then to to letters about problems of bedrooms problems of tension here is a problem so. wall problems of no matter. so that's how i become a journalist. you know we're going to be the magazine expert which is in the same media holding my magazine and also in the same building w

spying on other countries this time c.b.c. news broke the story with journalist glenn greenwald's help the broadcaster revealed it largely redacted documents that detail how the american spy agency conducted widespread surveillance during the two thousand and ten g. eight and g. twenty summits c.b.c. news wrote the briefing notes that stamped top secret show the u.s. turned its auto industry into a security compound of calm and post during a six day spying operation by the national security agency while u.s. president barack obama and twenty five other foreign heads of government were on canadian soil in june of two thousand and ten a covert u.s. operation was no secret to canadian authorities so apparently canadian authorities not only knew about the spine that was going on in their country but they may have even participated in it and that has privacy advocates crying foul i was joined earlier by steve anderson executive director of open media for more on this latest docu drop and i first asked him whether we should really b

gold silver and bitcoin to do so now back to the story about germany accepting it as private money so c.b.c. went on to interview kathleen brooks a research director at fork's dot com and she told c m d c i think it is interesting that germany has gone ahead and given legal status to the bitcoin as it could become an alternative to the euro if the single currency ever ceased to exist is.

gold silver and bitcoin to do so now back to the story about germany accepting it as private money so c.b.c. went on to interview kathleen brooks a research director at fork's dot com and she told c m d c i think it is interesting that germany has gone ahead and given legal status to the bitcoin as it could become an alternative to the euro if the single currency ever ceased to exist if the euro does go belly up the german authorities could potentially still collect tax everyone started using bitcoin that's a good example of german forward thinking well the germans appreciate the engineering behind but gone the germans appreciate that the i.m.f. is bankrupt and that if the euro were ever to encounter some existential crisis the i.m.f. is not going to bail out the euro but bitcoin could potentially bail up the euro and they talk about bitcoin being able to extinguish debt this is generally the terms used by the austrian school of economics that talk about gold as the only debt extinguisher that is worthy of the name and now we have bitcoin so the only thing we don't have is the majority of t

revelations without an international relations mess this one coming from c.b.c. news in canada where new snowden document exposes canadian spies doing work on behalf of the n.s.a. to spy on approximately twenty trading partners classified as high priority countries and i say appears to be using canada to exploit relationships that the united states can no longer keep unclear what sort of diplomatic fall out the canadians makes perience as a result of this latest leak so that's the latest all of it coming just as the chief of the n.s.a. faces off with senators today for an oversight hearing i was joined earlier by shah had bhutto our executive director at the bill of rights defense committee here in d.c. and steve anderson executive director of open media in vancouver and i started out by asking shah had now that this information has come out will this bring more attention to the type of spying corporations have been doing on us for years. it very well might and there's a great documentary out that's just making the rounds now called terms and conditions may apply

revelations without an international relations mess this one coming from c.b.c. news in canada where a new snowden document exposes canadian spies doing work on behalf of the n.s.a. to spy on approximately twenty trading partners classified as high priority countries you know say appears to be using canada to exploit relationships that the united states can no longer keep unclear what sort of diplomatic fallout the canadians makes perience as a result of this latest leak so that's the latest of all everything coming out with the n.s.a. just as the chief of the n.s.a. faces off with senators today for an oversight hearing for more on this i'm joined by shot head batar executive director at the bill of rights defense committee here in d.c. shahad welcome to the show again thanks for having me on so this latest revelation about there is a piggybacking on google cookies to pinpoint certain targets and then using application data to get a better a more precise location of certain people they're looking for. commercial advertising which is this is where this comes down

a c.b.c. study showed 24% of women who binge drink are college age. >> what is causing the big boost in drinking among women. the new book "drink", the intimate relationship between drinking and alcohol takes a look at the issue. we have a 5-time worker. and an assistant professor of psychiatry at the medical college. thank you both for being with us. fascinating book. you obviously do not fit the profile of what people think of as an alcoholic. you have been a tremendously successful magazine writer, vice principal of magill. as you research the book, how common was your story. did you see others like you? >> my story is common. sadly i'm the poster girl for the female alcoholic. meaning professional, high bottom, high functioning, well educated, not like my mother whelm mixed valium. the gender gap is closing. >> why? >> three reasons - a lot of self-medicating of depression and anxiety. i ask if it's the modern woman's steroid allowing women to juggle the roles. in a stressful world, that's

. >> the chinese were good about sharing the virus with the who and with the c.b.c.so that we could begin to grow the virus. in the test trials they affected 200 people with varying levels. it led to a development of a vaccine. researchers know that while china is 8,000 miles away a global food pandemic could be on the doorstep at any time. >> it used to be if something happened in china we wouldn't see it for a long time. any of these pandemics are playing right away. >> americans should know that the public health infrastructure that we have this the united states is alert to this. we are all tuned in, on top of this and watching it carefully. >> as test trials continue at vanderbilt should the disease spread. >> most of the flu cases were reported in march and april of this year, with virtually no new cases over the summer. as the traditional flu season is back, there's fear the bird flu may come back. >> a major breakthroe in the fight against cancer. an speerntal treatment -- experimental treatment could be a cure for leukaemia. success rates have been stunning.