erik barnett. erik barnett >> -- >> erik barnett what is your responsibility when it comes to counterfeit and piracy? >> i am the assistant deputy director of i.c.e. we aim to protect american businesses from having their products taken, copied, and sold. imitations. or if it is electronic data like a movie being put on the internet, where responsibility is the second-largest the federal law enforcement agency. we are using our agency to enforce criminal laws that protect american companies. >> it is immigration and customs responsibility. this is an international problem? >> it is an international problem. the united states is not alone in having its products taken and sold as counterfeits. we are fortunate because we have 63 offices in 44 countries. we work with our partners to make sure we can enforce american laws especially, and other countries' laws if they have them. >> we want to 0 in on intellectual property and piracy. what issues are we talking about when we say intellectual property? >>

erik barnett. >> it is important every floridians know that i was a person to stand up for the state of florida. i will not be part of the culture of bribery, corruption, and special-interest. wexford the c-span video library makes it easy to follow the election cycle, the debates, rallies, victories, and if concession speeches, all free. now to the representative to the u.s. for the kurdish regional government of iraq. qubad talabani is also the son of joel talabani, the iraqi president. he speaks on the current u.s. role to the stability of iraq. he spoke at a forum hosted by the denver world affairs council for about an hour. >> good evening. my name is kim. we're going to have a discussion. i am on the boards of iie. i'm taking the place of karen this evening as your hostess. we have c-span with us this evening. they will be taping uninterrupted. during the question and answer time, after the speakers, we would ask that you please come up to the microphone to ask your question, but do not touch

theft on the internet and homeland security's role of stopping it with assistant deputy director erik barnett. "the community indicators" on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: well, our summer "washington journal" series continues this week as we take a look at the financial regulations bill that is just becoming law. quick look at the week ahead. tomorrow is a conversation about this law and its impact on banks. wednesday, the focus will be on consumers. thursday, changes for investors. friday we wrap up this series with a look at which provisions will be aimed to prevent a financial crisis. of course, today, financial regulation and the control of the government. joining us is phil mattingly from bloomberg news. why don't you explain of how will the federal government grow as a result of this bill? guest: it's going to expand a lot. for the last decade, two decades, there's really been kind of an era of deregulation in the financial markets and financial regulation. there's been an effort to roll back some of the strictest great depression era regulations. i think on the heel

we will be talking with erik barnett. >> the series continues tuesday with the impact on banks.ednesday, we look at the effect on consumers. on thursday, we look at changes for investors. friday, we wrap up with a conversation on which provisions were provided to prevent a future financial crisis. that is washington journal on c- span. >> earlier this year, the u.s. stock market suffered a drop of more than 1000 points in an hour before trading was stopped. since then, there have been investigations into what could prevent such a drop in the future. mary schapiro join the conversation on this topic. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> again, i want to thank the panelists, because that was very helpful. i can just tell from the 10- minute break that is the case. the next item on our agenda is from the subcommittee. as we mentioned at our last meeting, we believe it is important to provide the public with as much information as we can about what we're doing. as a result, we will have reports on the subcommittees. the agenda, as we mentioned, i know you have only met a couple

assistant deputy director erik barnett on "the communicateors" on c-span2. >> u.s. senate historian, don ritchie, why did you decide to write a small book called "the u.s. congress"? >> i had -- have a series of educated books but not in their field, so they call it science for philosophers and philosophy for scientists. they asked me to write about the congress for people that don't study congress but are interested in what congress does. the series has a tight format, like 35,000 words. i couldn't include everything there is to know about the congress. so my job was to try to take this very complicated institution, which is really two separate institutions, and explain how it developed over time to an audience that are curious, including people that live outside the united states that live in parliamentary government and wonder why we don't have a parliamentary government. >> i'm going to jump into the middle and read back to you what you wrote. in the first congress, senators wanted president washington to come to their chamber when making nomnages and requesting