conyers: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. conyers: ladies and gentlemen, h.r. 7 is not about the regulation of federal funds. through the hyde amendment, congress already prevents funding of abortion and has done so for more than 30 years. nothing in the affordable care act changes this fact. h.r. 7 is not needed to prevent the federal funding of abortion. nor does it merely codify existing law, as has been falsely asserted by those proponents. as a matter of fact, the bill on the floor today contains numerous new provisions adopted after the judiciary committee marked up and reported the bill. this version of the bill has ever been examined, debated or amended by any committee of the house. yet my colleagues in the majority refuse to allow their colleagues any opportunity to amend this harmful bill today. this bill is far too impact on and its women far too harmful to foreclose meaningful debate and amendments as my collea

leading legislation in congress but it may not actually go anywhere is known as the leahy sensenbrenner conyers bill. and it would modify the patriot act and the five. the foreign intelligence surveillance court legislation. so that. it would. provide some improvements but it wouldn't provide whistleblower protection it wouldn't really stop this back door. the back door compromising that n.s.a. has undertaken it would not i think. really stop the this massive collection of mehta data the two from information who sent what to whom and when. in short it does not. it does not invoke the probable cause standard you know our fourth amendment to the constitution says there shall be no search and seizure of personal property or information without the enforcement or surveillance agency going before an independent judge proving that they know what they're doing proving that they're not on a wild goose chase or operating on an empty hunch and. with very specific accounting of who they are looking for and what they are looking for now meanwhile we also have this white house appointed panel they put out a

um is known as the leahy sensenbrenner conyers bill of and it would modify the patriot act and the fire center of the foreign intelligence surveillance court. legislation. so that of ollie way down. we'll provide some improvements but a whimper by whistleblower protection or would really stop this. a back door either the backdoor compromising the nsa has undertaken. it would not. i think of. if you really stop the this massive collection of of the mega data. the two from the information who sent what to do and plan of. in short it does not. of you does not invoke the probable cause standard in all our fourth amendment to the constitution says there shall be no search and seizure of person old property or information without the enforcement or surveillance agency going before an independent judge proving that they know what they're doing. proving that they're not on a wild goose chase for operating on an empty hunch. i ended up with very specific accounting of who they are looking for and what they are looking for now meanwhile we also have this white house appointed can all make the aud

what's the employment situation in and around conyers? what's the unemployment situation? caller: i'm not sure because i just moved to georgia. i came out of michigan. host: thank you for calling. thanks for all your comments. a couple of final tweets here. c-spanchat what we are using on twitter. host: the #c-spanchat. we'll take you live to the national press club to hear from the army chief of staff. earlier in the senate, by a vote of 60-37. senators agreeing to move forward with the unemployment insurance legislation. which would extend benefits for another three months. that lapsed on december 28. right after the vote, after that vote, we heard from senate democratic leaders. >> good morning. the united states senate just took a very important step forward in assisting 1.3 million americans who lost their extended unemployment benefits on december 28, and also the millions more that will lose it throughout the course of this year. it there's still a great deal of work to be done, but we have literally changed this debate. just a few weeks ago there were colleagues wh

after that debate i talked to john conyer, a democratic from michigan, cosponsored this with his michigan colleague and said, this is just the beginning. he said they, meaning the administration, they're worried, and that resulted in this today. we have not heard the end of this on capitol hill. >> maybe not too joking a way i raced this with ed henry. if the spies were doing what they were doing, whether patriotic or no on their own, and authorities were oblivious to it, who is to say they're going to listen to the same politicians -- they come and go but these spies, just like the grunts at these agencies, they stay. >> this is why jim sensenbrenner, he was the author of the patriot act, the chairman of the judiciary committee on september 11th. he wrote the patriot act and said, a lot of these programs are not working the way i intended and he has put together a piece of legislation, and he says the administration and the spy community is not credible. that's why you need to have legislation. you can't do this by fiat in the administration. a democrat from new york city, a member of th

conyers, mr.ing to be able to bring republican support, and they've done exactly that. now, it's not the bill we would have written, but it is certainly a start. and i actually am hopeful that it's going to move and it's going to move both in the senate and the house. >> now, martin, a lot of younger people, she talked about her elders and they're ours too. but then we're older than some of younger people that work with all of us. and they don't understand even today, this holiday came about after a fight. your mother had to mobilize all over this country to even get this holiday. and a lot of young people wake up today and think this holiday was automatic. >> well, you're absolutely correct. we know that nothing comes without struggle, work. >> right. >> and the fact that mom, stevie wonder, you so, many others around our nation were working to get this holiday. and it's wonderful that we have a holiday. but the holiday is different than what we normally do for a holiday. the holiday is about red

there's actually a bipartisan effort -- congressman sensenbrenner and congressman john lewis and john conyers believe, i understand, by eric cantor, to fix it, of all things where voting that you guys and we all know has been so partisan, so divisive, so much a subject of discourse. there's actually -- that's an area where there's a chance for bipartisan progress, and i do hope he seizes the chance to talk about it. that would be a very hopeful moment. >> michael, what is the real, and in your view, the most important impact that a great state of the union address can have? >> you know, there are occasionally moments where a president can crystallize an argument, such as when franklin roosevelt talked about the four freedoms. there are other times when a president can change the debate by putting forward a surprising new proposal. i mean, when i worked with president clinton in 1998, we surprised people by putting out a proposal that said, we ought to use the surplus for social security rather than the tax cut. and that actually changed policy right there on the spot, when everyone stood up a

conyers will hold a hearing on the national security agency as a senate panel reviews what has recommendationsfor limiting the controversial spy programs. come fromg news will wall street where j.p. morgan wells fargo will lead the way, ushering in the earnings season. on wednesday, the federal reserve will sum up the economic conditions in the report known , two weeks book before the beyond c needs to consider whether to continue tapering bond -- before the bom needs tofore the bomc consider whether to continue tapering on purchases. morgan stanley rounds out the week on friday in big enck on friday.ed some -- big bank stocks gained. we will have more on the weeks news in earnings for you right here on bloomberg television. headed to a break, but coming up in a moment, we are talking about indonesia. new rules on raw materials. they are try to keep control of the wealth. we will head over to jakarta and have a look at that. is thef course, it composite index getting underway for the first trading day of the week. it is all coming up after this very short break. "on the move" returns. >> the s

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conyers. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia for his statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. nimmer, i would like to follow-up on the ranking member's question. that aor lunney has held making available right would challenge existing jurisprudence. i take it you do not hold that perception. could you elaborate on that and whether congress should never update the laws for any reason? with thatdo disagree point of view. it all depends on what kind of law congress were to pass. if congress were to pass a standard making available right, that would be our -- and major change. making available has been an aspect of the distribution right. cases construing the copyright owner distribution right have come down on both sides of the distribution issue. that congressis should clarify that the distribution right is violated when works are made available. in other words when an individual uploads of copyrighted work to a shared folder, it has been made available to the world, and the act of copyright infringement is toplete. it is not necessary show a subsequent individual down

conyers, the gentlewoman from kansas, ms. jenkins, the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley, the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. blackburn, and the gentlewoman from california, mrs. capps, each will control 10 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. blackburn. mrs. blackburn: thank you, madam speaker. and i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker, i come to the floor today in strong support of h.r. 7, the no taxpayer funding for abortion and abortion insurance disclosure act. this legislation is written with the same simple principle that has been supported on a bipartisan basis for decades. no taxpayer dollars should be spent on abortions and abortion coverage. h.r. 7 establishes a permanent government-wide prohibition on taxpayer subsidies for abortion. this bill is all the more necessary because of the president's health care law and its attack on this longstanding protection of taxpayer dollars. for example, the health care law's premium subsidies can be used to purchase coverage on exchanges that include coverage of

thank you, representative conyers. it's obviously a broad question. i'll have to give a broad answer. i think the answer is we have govern bade statute written essentially in 1965 passed in 1976 and now here in existence 50 years later with technologies not remotely contemplated then. we see each of the rights of the copyright owner coming under strain. today we've been talking about the distribution right and making available component. you have already mentioned that the united states supreme court granted certiorari. that's a case about the performance right, and we see because of the internet, a convergence of all of those rights. so characteristically in 1965 there was a great difference between reproducing the book and -- and a performance which would be a play. today when the bits flow over the internet, sometimes it's conceptualized as an act of reproduction. sometimes it's an act of dispriewx and argued in cases that it is equally a performance. so a forward thing approach would be to look at exploitation not within the prism of those five ca

con conyers. the recognizes the gentleman from virginia for his statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> i would like to follow up on the ranking member's question. professor has raced concerns that making that adding making available right would change long standing jurisprudence. i take it you don't agree with that perception. would you elaborate on your view? does the view imply that coming should never update the law for any reason? >> thank you. yes, mr. chairman. i do disagree with that point of view. it depends what type of law congress were to pass. and congress were to pass a stand alone making right right. it would be a large change to combat law. the way the cases have arise ton date concerning make available, it has been an aspect of the distribution right. say that have come down on both sides. my testimony today, if we keep our narrow focus is congress should clarify that the distribution right is violated when works are made available. in other words, when an individual uploads copyright work to a shared folder it has been made available to the world and the a

you, i'm let me tell not originally from conyers, georgia, i'm from millersville, georgia, but we had a situation millersville we lost 40,000 jobs there. from our senator switch democrat to republican so they whatever bill they were trying to pals. something. tell you for blacks s known not getting out to vote. that is what killed us in 2010 out actually did not get the vote that. is the truth. notwithstanding everything that happened in between 2010 and 2013, we don't want to talk the real issue which is that we need to be telling our to get out we need and vote. if we get out and vote they are way, we see or a everything that is going on. we are not dumb. the media not even representing everything that the have a hard job being democrats because you tell e where in the world that you got people that own medicaid sitting here talking about they medicaid. you to have if you had the governors and to esentatives coming georgia telling people not to vote who do that? to hing is if anybody comes me telling me don't get insurance what they trying to keep me from? to me each representative

conyers and i and other members want to express our thanks to the witnesses to have prevailed duringthis marathon today. it has been a very worthwhile, balanced presentation gamay's seems to me. as i said i appreciate does in the audience to have remained in its entirety. your presence indicates more than a casual interest in this very, very significant issue. this concludes today's hearing. thanks to all of our witnesses for attending. without objection all members will have five legislative days to submit additional written questions for the witnesses or additional materials for the record. this hearing stands adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> coming up live this afternoon .. >> the first pioneers crossed the ocean to a new world. a promise, the promise of the men were a man to build his own house, farm his own makers, races children in freedom. yet in one of the great river valleys of america, something went wrong. in the tennessee valley, three centuries later, the defendants -- the descendents of the pioneer were neglected people living in a ruin

let me tell you i'm from -- i'm originally from conyers, georgia. i'm from lewisville, gament. we had a situation, we lost 40,000 jobs. we had our senator switch from democrat to republican so they could enhance whatever bill they was trying to render. let me tell you something, the g.o.p. is -- has been on blacks not getting out to vote. and that's what killed us in 2010 is that we actually did not get out and vote. that's the truth of the matter. withstanding everything that happened has happened in between 2010 and 2013, we don't want to talk about the real issue. we need to be telling our young people they need to get out and vote. we can change this. if we get out and vote, they are not looking for a way, we are going to give them a wave because we are at t we see everything that's going on. we are not dumb. even with the media not even representing everything the way it is, you-all have a hard job being democrats. you tell me, where in the world that you got people that -- on medicaid sitting here talking about they don't want you to have medicaid. i don't understand. you

you have a tea party working with john conyers, the most liberal member of congress, to curb the nsa,th john mccain. but i think this speech needs to be viewed against the back trop of a progressive resurgence this past year and that has built up whether it's a people on the streets, fast food workers, whether it's the progressives in the senate saying, enough. we're not just going to step back and defend programs that have made this country a more civilized one like social security. we're going to expand it. i think the president is being moved by his constituency that has waited too long and is saying we can't wait. so let us move forward. >> lynn, to me i'm looking at the calendar and there's the speech this week and we can expect the president to call for probably raising the minimum wage and last year i think the call was for $9, now there's more momentum. it will be $10.10, indexing. we can expect the call for comprehensive immigration reform that got through the senate last year, absolutely died in the house. the key thing that i'm kind of looking at is a few days after the spe