we have had not one lawsuit from the citizens. this runaway train that you're kind of painting the picture of, the citizens are going to jump up and look forward to suing their government, it hasn't happened. we don't have one lawsuit as of today because those policies have been eliminated -- >> but that's because the rest of the law has been injoined. if it goes back into effect, we will see citizens sue. >> but mr. chairman, that's not true. in the first part of sb-1070, it says you will not have policy that limits the restriction and enforcement of these laws to the slightest degree. to the slightest degree. so, there must be some compliance. citizens aren't running to the courts to sue. >> let me go to one final area of questions and i appreciate my colleague, senator durbin, being patient here. there's another chart i want to put up behind me. do you know how many forms of identification exist today that can be shown to prove your lawful status in the united states by federal law? >> i do not know the exact number. >> no, i d

their citizens assigned votes to the wrong candidates. when you have a right choice of voting system with 16 candidates on the ballot, if this system is citing the wrong votes to the right -- wrong candidates, we have a bad election. 460,000 registered voters, six out of 10 do not vote t. that is six out of 10 voting against the official family. that is only 18% of the voters in san francisco that voted for mayor that authorized an election system where the central tabulation is fraudulent. where did you go to make complaints for this type of thing? as a candidate, i was not allowed into the locked door to see the process. i am living in the housing authority. we have a problem at the housing authority where 30 or $40 million contracts are being awarded routinely. no 72-hour notice is being given to anybody about what constitutes those contracts and to the bidders are and it is incomplete violation of the sunshine ordinance. amos brown and housing commission, complete violation of federal law, state law, and local law. where do go to make

thank you, citizens against government waste. obviously, we wouldn't be celebrating what we are today without their efforts. over the years it's been an interesting process. i think on the house floor i've challenged some, well, several hundred individual earmarks. and do you know how many of those votes we won actually outright on the floor? one. just one. it was a republican earmark. and the other party hated that republican more than they loved their earmarks i guess on this one. so it actually went down. but a funny thing started happening, though. members would actually find out which earmarks were being challenged, and they would rush to the floor to beat us there so they could withdraw their earmark rather than defend it. and then you had the bridge to nowhere and the corruption that came with it. and then my personal favorite where i kind of knew this process was going to come crashing down. i had challenged previously the earmark for the punxsutawney weather museum in punxsutawney, pennsylvania. and the sponsor of that e

. >> citizens united. >> i don't recall whether i mentioned citizens united. >> i did. >> well, okay. i want him. >> but i didn't -- i'll be glad to say a word or two about citizens united because i know a little bit about it. but the amicus briefs that were filed supporting, i would say, as the right of organizations to participate in the political process by expressing their views about the qualifications of candidates for office, the amicus briefs were filed by the aclu, fico, nra, u.s. chamber of commerce, the republican party, the democratic party. there was an immense, broad spectrum of amicus briefs supporting what was ultimately the supreme court's decision. the case involved a nonprofit entity that was created to be an advocacy organization. it was formed as a corporation. just like the aclu. and, by the way, the naacp, also an amicus brief in that case. and so i thought -- and i think the question relates to what the aclu has done subsequently with respect to contributions. i don't think you've changed position with respect to expenditures by organizations that happen to be

because most provisions of sb-1070 are in effect it the citizens of arizona are safer. according to phoenix law enforcement association which represents rank and file police officers and i quote, since sb-1070 phoenix experienced a 30-year low crime rate, 600 police vacancies, budget and cuts, and old policing strategies did not bring about these falling crime rates. sb-1070 did. the deterrence factor this legislation brought about is clearly unprecedented in our drop in crime. all of this without a single civil rights racial profiling or biased police complaint. simply put, sb-1070 has clearly worked. arizona has acted within its authority. the supreme court has held the states can utilize their inherent police powers to enforce immigration laws. sb-1070 directs arizona law enforcement officers to cooperate and communicate with federal authorities regarding enforcement of federal immigration laws imposed as penalties and arizona law for noncompliance. it is only these simple and clear law enforcement measures that are before the supreme court. this common sense law is

citizen on u.s. soil and these days we've been forced to put up with a lot of profound constitutional violations right things like the u.s. government killing its own citizen abroad without any due process but this case brings of so many important questions about the lead immunity the fact that high ranking officials have not been held accountable for any of the policies post nine eleven also the back of the courts for the most part of been complicit and allow the government to get away with it using national security excuses the reason they're trying to take this to the supreme court now is because they're trying to appeal the ruling of the fourth circuit court which said that they could not sue and a.c.l.u. is also asking the supreme court to answer the following question they ask whether federal officials responsible for the torture of an american citizen on american soil may be sued for damages under the constitution tells glenn greenwald pointed out in his blog it's along today in what kind of a

that was citizen journalist bernard day sunny day. the supreme court has heard arguments in the case of arizona's controversial immigration law the way it plays out in supreme court could set the tone for immigration laws in several other states amid all this we want to take a moment to look at the consequences of this law especially after new footage brings a natori escapes back into the limelight and shows police tasing an immigrant to death take a look. it's hard to see there because it's dark but you can hear you can hear as a crowd of age and swarmed around on the stars you know hernandez was on the ground as the officers continued to tase him police earlier said that hernandez his behavior justified the use of force but this video britain that all into question for the discussion ira zone is immigration law and its consequences i was joined earlier by author and activist kevin powell he is the author of the book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king here is his take. well to understand and i've been to arizona many

citizen journalists. people on their, with their smart phones, with cell phones, cameras, on twitter and facebook. hurricane katrina. you can go down events where tsunami, were not present. marcus doesn't have reporters there. and his paper. is relying on information from citizens. are they journalists? no. and i would make the argument at the risk of being called an elitist, which i would plead guilty to, that a journalist is, it should think of themselves as professionals. as a professionals. to decide what's on the front page. and i think citizens necessarily have that, but they have a virtualable -- having to boast it in the last campaign, deputize people they call citizen journalist. remember the person on the line -- i mean, so you learned a l lot. >> are you going to -- more citizen journalism? >> we should probably find more ways to report more of the conversations that take place. closest to regularized citizen journalism. lit up all the listers. from that, we picked up the idea of doing some sto

he is an artist and also heads a citizen's initiative that wants to preserve the farm.or years, it has been battling to prevent the demolition. a tenant in this building supports the initiative. she let us have a look into the grounds of the farm. 2700 square meters of pride in paris real estate, but the farm buildings were in disrepair. >> back there is the barn. it is huge. it has been ripped up and left to fall apart, especially the roof. they know it is had to get permission to tear down buildings that are intact, so he waits until they are in ruins. >> most realistic companies were wary when the farm went up for sale. back then, local residents were already banding together to preserve the farm. they organized publicity events on weekends. in the end, they forced the real-estate company to postpone the demolition plans. they were helped by something underneath the earth -- an old stone quarry. >> this used to be under the city. there used to be a labyrinth 280 kilometers long. >> many buildings in paris were constructed with stones like this, and the quarry directl

destroyer also tomorrow members of congress activists and leaders within the movement to overturn citizens united will meet for a summit on capitol hill will be discussed at that summit what do the attendees hope to accomplish or some said joyce from florida's nineteenth district will be at the summit and he's going to be here tonight to tell us more about an intern ideally take republicans lie their way into office because they can get away with it and no continue to get away with it if no one calls them out so how do we stop these lies from influencing american public opinion. you need to know this today health insurance company blue cross blue shield became the latest member of the american legislative exchange council to sever ties with the koch brothers funded corporate think tank in just one month alone this month now it has lost eleven members after several progressive groups organized a campaign against its corporate sponsors the exodus of alec members comes on the heels of a new report by progress missouri documenting thirty pieces of legislation introduced in the missouri general

as you know, that guidance has a loophole allowing law enforcement to profile american citizens based on religion and national origin. while many -- any profiling of americans based on race, ethnicity, religion or national origin is disturbing, i think it's important also to note that it is poor law enforcement. law enforcement is a finite resource. using law enforcement resources profiling as opposed to relying on facts based on behavior suggesting a crime is a waste of that law enforcement resource. it leaves us less safe and more at risk when we don't target based on conduct and behavior suggestive of a crime, but based on other considerations and formed by prejudice. my comments will focus on religious profiling of american muslims. americans know what it looks to be -- muslim americans work hard and play by the rules and infinitesimally small number don't, many even live the american dream and send their kids to college and earn a living just like everyone else, yet many know all too well what it means to be pulled off of an airplane, pulled out of line, denied service, called na

during the great depression, many american citizens of hispanic dissent were deforred to mexico undern and during world war ii, tens of thousands of innocent japanese americans held up, confined in interment camps. 12 years ago, in march 2000, the subcommittee held the senate's first ever hearing on racial profiling. it was convened by then-senator john ashcroft, who would be appointed attorney general by president george w. bush. and in february 2001, in his first joint address to congress, president george w. bush said that racial profiling is, quote, wrong and we will end it in america. end of quote. we take the title of today's hearing from the promise president bush made that night, 11 years ago. in june 2001, our former colleague, senator russ feingold of wisconsin, by predecessor's chairman of the committee held the second and most rathering on racial profiling. i was there, there was bipartisan agreement about the need to end racial profiling. then came 9 /11. the national trauma that followed civil liberties came face-to-face with national security. arab-americans, american m

his wife is a citizen. the other siblings were citizens. by 3:00 in the afternoon, he was already in tijuana in his pajamas with no money, no nothing. fortunately, the other people who were arrested gave him $10 so that he could call his family so that they could wear him money and he could go home. -- wire him money and he could go home. these are the types of cases i see. we need this immigration reform, but what i wish we could do it is -- i would like to see a media campaign. we want you to present the benefits that immigrants bring here. what we see everywhere is that immigrants are taking jobs away, they are the pressing salaries, they are committing crimes. that is not true. republicans to press our salaries. -- depress ourur salaries. [applause] look -- [laughter] look at all of the major cities around the country. what do they have? they have a vibrant economic immigrant community. san francisco depends on tourism. who goes to those places? immigrants. we need to engage with the community to and -- believe their fears. i invited a

first, all of you are arizona citizens and residents, right? do you -- can you point out ways that illegal immigrants, undocumented immigrants dress differently than other people? i mean, what does it say about the arizona police when they say that's one of the things to look for? >> mr. chairman, if i could just comment, as former senator, former prosecutor, native of arizona, mother native of arizona, i'm embarrassed for my state. i apologize for arizona's actions towards our latino community, legal or illegal. this is not a way to treat people. so many of the religions in our state, they have outreach programs. they don't ask whether or not their immigration. as senator durbin pointed out, for a violation of violence, domestic violence, for any other kinds of crimes, they don't ask. >> right. >> because that's what america is all about. and the federal government has that responsibility. thank you, mr. chairman. >> all right, either senator gallardo or mr. landfried? >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> in terms of my question. >> thank you, mr. c

how long can they continue to get away with crashing our economy for political gain also thanks to citizens united corporations have a new way to throw their influence around congress without the help of k. street so what could possibly put the millionaire lobbyists out of business and in tonight's daily take america has gone insane and the rest of the world is noticing ike we keep the crazies out of office and restore our national sanity. you need to know this nearly thirteen million americans are out of job and out of work and looking for a job unfortunately federal funding to retrain american workers and prepare them for the jobs of the twenty first century is drying up funding for job training programs across the country it's down eighteen percent from two thousand and six when george bush was president even though there are six million more unemployed americans the day in fact funding for job retraining for americans is roughly half of what it used to be more than a decade ago so now even though the economy is slightly improving businesses are having difficulty finding american workers

which is overwhelmingly supported by citizens across this nation. thank you. chairman schumer for invite me here and before this honorable committee. it is an honor for me to appear. as you know, illegal alien problem is a critical issue, not just in arizona but across the nation and the effects of it rill. throughout society. we must begin by remembering we are a nation of laws. we must encourage, have the courage the fortitude to enforce with compassion without apology those laws to protect the integrity of our borders and rights of our citizens from those who break our laws. sb of 1070 removes the political handcuffs of law enforcement. all law enforcement agencies have the legal authority and moral obligation to uphold our laws just like sheriff joe who keeps his oath did does the job he was hired to do. the invasion of illegal aliens we face today, convicted felons, drug cartels, gang members, terrorists, pose one of the greatest threats to our nation in terms of political, commission, national security. during the debate of sb of 1070 a friend of mine, r

citizen should be made to feel like a criminal. simply because of the color of their skin, language abilities or religion. thank you. that's part of my story. >> hello. my name is elizabeth dann. i want to thank you for this incredible opportunity to speak to you all about what muslim students have been going through for the past few months. i am a convert to islam. i'm in my final year of law school at nyu. and i'm the outreach chair of nyu's muslim law students association. i'm many other things as well. i'm a descendent of english immigrants who arrived in this country prior to the revolutionary war and irish catholic immigrants, i'm a wife and an expectant mother. the racial profiling that has culminated in the nypd's surveillance of muslim students in and outside of new york city appalls me on all levels of my identity. after finding out about the surveillance without any suspicion of criminal activity of muslim students from yale to the university of pennsylvania, i felt a variety of emotions. i felt fear. fear not only of ha

and united states evidence that monitoring your citizens has worked i mean it's there's not a lot of cases that are brought out that you know maybe they're keeping it secret but where they can actually say you know we've been tracking trevor ten for the last three years and because of that really good the says the tracking we realize he's a terrorist you know there's not a lot of cases in which this is working so it seems to me that the government just wants kind of the have their hand in every partier. yeah absolutely and you can see that with the patriot act the patriot act expanded were known as national security letters which allow the f.b.i. to go after bank records or internet records or any other type of records without much judicial oversight in the three years after nine eleven the issue dumbass two hundred thousand of these national security level letters and they lead to exactly one conviction of terrorism and in fact they didn't even need these national security letters to get that conviction so it really shows you the extent to which with these laws and of getting carrie

master sergeant milligan defines the selfless dedication of our citizen soldiers. a mother, twice answered the call to military duty, leaving behind family, friends and community. in truth, she is not just a member of what tom brokaw has termed the new greatest generation, she exemplifies it and she is a leader in it. her service, especially the character of her service, has been truly inspirational. our reserve components have, in short, clearly distinguished themselves in a variety of calm pat and support roles in the decade since 9/11. some 385,000 members of our reserve components in fact served in iraq or afghanistan during that time and over 30,000 continue to serve on deployment in those theaters, contributing their valuable skills, experience and expertise. indeed, since 1990, reserve component members from various brampl branches of the military have mobilized and deployed in support of every american military operation, including not just combat operations, but peacekeeping and humanitarian missions as well. in fact reserve component elements continue to

citizens deserve to know who is spending money. this has been recognized by the supreme court in repeatedly upholding the constitution -- constitutionality of the laws. millions of dollars in undisclosed constitutions -- contributions were injected into the race. this amount is expected to dramatically grow in 2012. this has returned the country to the era of the watergate scandals when huge amounts of secret money were spent in federal elections. secret money in american politics is dangerous money. as the supreme court held, disclosure requirements the tar actual disruption -- corruption and avoid -- deter actual corruption and the appearance of corruption. new disclosure laws were enacted during the watergate era to address the problem of secret money in federal elections. from the mid-1970's until 2010, there was a consensus in the country among democrats and republicans alike in support of campaign finance disclosure. in the year 2000, in response to a disclosure loophole that was allowing certain five to seven groups to spend

and then he was sworn in as an american citizen. today oscar is serving our country and his country, the united states of america, in afghanistan. now, you've criticized the dream act as "some liberal dream of creating an american military staffed with foreign soldiers." do you consider oscar vasquez a foreign soldier? >> mr. durbin, you know, oscar is a good story to use. the exception was made. that's exactly what i'm talking about. those exceptions ought to be carefully thought out and not just a blanket amnesty or support. there's a cost to the american taxpayers for all this. you know, if you want to make exceptions, i'm okay with the proper exceptions. and i think oscar's probably one of those that met all the criteria that any american would be proud. and certainly i'm proud that he would join the military. proud that he would defend the nation he wants to be a part of. those are good things, mr. durbin. >> be careful. it sounds like you're getting close to the dream act here. >> that's right. i'm not in favor of a blanket am

>> the purpose is to make a citizen activist to vote on election day, understand the issues, what is at stake. not just jobs, will exploration, but also long term. they give us the charter for a perpetual union both short-term and long-term to understand how can we become the extraordinarily prosperous nation of what to carefully guard to pass that on to our children but to be a citizen activist how we live our lives and what we share with others. >>host: where did you grow up? >> raised in indiana graduated from lourdes game worked in the southwest than midwest after law school in mid school winnow in washington d.c.. i am a constitutional lawyer my wife and is an emergency department dr.. i do debate and am on the research side of faculty on constitutional issues and enjoy the opportunity for ongoing litigation is i do have a brief with the supreme court but also teaching conservative is legally to the next generation of lawyers making sure they understand that because it is we the people who adopted the u.s. constitution that they are bound to understand addis addis -- aclu the ac

i am here are my own time as a private citizen. >> like to read a memo. "the primary concern had been that the staff draft, this is so drastically restricted to the commission's enforcement jurisdiction as to render it nonexistent. another part of the memo is that the staff draft would be the jurisdiction. we should completely rewrite the guidelines for enforcement. those guidelines must be written. finally, i would like to remained both the ethics commission and the sunshine task force members, that the task force found mr. st. croix in willful violation on my sunshine complaint and the city comptroller was also an willful violation on 113 and 11. i have begged to over and over to schedule a public hearing on both of these complaints. obviously, mr. st. croix will have a refusal problem. -- recusal problem. unlike get some justice on these? there may are may not been some about them. we must expedite me with a public hearing on my two complaints. >> members of the commission, members of the task force, the director of san francisco open government. i wan

the purpose of the book is to make the reader a citizen activist, both to enable them to be an informed voter on election day, to understand the issues, to understand what's at stake. not just the issues of the day, talking about jobs, talking about oil exploration, talking about our kids education. all of that is important, but also the longer-term. the founding fathers gave us a charter for a perpetual union, for ongoing freedom. and so the issue there is to make people a citizen activist to understand what the issues are, both short-term and long-term to understand how it is that we became such an extraordinarily prosperous and free nation, and what we have to carefully guard. if you want to pass that prosperity and freedom on to our children. both to be an informed voter on election day but not just that, to be a citizen activist in every penny of our life in terms of how we live our lives, and the ideas that we share with others. >> where did you grow up? >> i was born and raised in indiana. my wife and i both work graduates from university of notre dame from undergrad. were there

as citizens thashs can make demand, have expectations, as citizens they should be able to hold their government's accountable. what they don't have, and this gets to the point elliott was making as well. they don't have institutions that are there that allow them to express what citizens would express. and it's going to take time to build those institutions, and one of the things that has to happen now, playing upon their self-image of being citizens and the fact that they feel she in a voice and are not simply going to give up that voice, it's important to create standards of accountability. again, on our own we can't do this. because we don't have the credibility to be able to do it, and it's very easy to try to blame things on us. but the more the narrative of blame the one that's adopted, you know, the more you're not going to see one house built, one job created it's a the not going to address demands and expectati expectations. there are things that can be done but you have to create standards of accountability as it relates to the regimes where the islamists will have all the

citizen children or is brought here as a minor through no fault of their own? the law does not make any distinctions among those type of people, right, or between -- >> mr. chairman, the federal law doesn't make any distinction. that's a regulatory function, not a function of the states. >> okay. next question. do you believe that many national political leaders agree with your policy of self-deportation or do you think you have a minority view here, even within your own party? >> mr. chairman, i have a majority view. sb-1070 is supported by 2-1 from coast to coast across this nation. they originally passed 73%, rasmussen poll, 73% of arizonans supported sb-1070. it is still, by far, the

>> i did. >> i don't know if i mentioned citizens united. >> you did.ughter] >> but i didn't. >> i'll be glad to say a word about citizens united because i know a little about it, but the amicus briefs that were filed supporting what i would say as the right of organizations to participate in the political process by expressing their views about the qualifications of candidates for office, the amicus briefs were filed by the aclu, the afl-cio, the sierra club, the nra, the u.s. chamber of commerce, the republican party, the democratic party. there was an immense broad-spectrum of amicus briefs supporting what was ultimately the supreme court's decision. the case involved a nonprofit entity that was created to be an advocacy organization. it was formed as a corporation, just like the aclu and by the way, the naacp was also in an amicus brief in that case. and so i thought, and i think the question relates to what the aclu has done subsequently with respect to contributions but i don't think they have changed position with respect to expenditures by organ

citizens without due process.> but they did imprison u.s. citizens without due process. over 110,000 of them who happened to be of japanese ancestry. >> these american citizens were uprooted from their homes, taken away from their businesses and sent to places like this. >> one of these citizen was my great uncle john. uncle john was a dental student in california at the beginning of world war ii. he was rounded up along with all other japanese americans on the west coast and sent to an internment camp far away from his home in california. i traveled to the relocation camp to learn more about my uncle's experience. this camp is over 200 miles from los angeles. there were ten camps like this in remote locations where japanese americans like my uncle john were confined. two months after the attack on pearl harbor, president roosevelt issued executive order 9066, that authorized the removal of over 110,000 japanese americans from their homes on the west coast. more than two-thirds were american-born u.s. citizens. ov