my name is kevin o'malley. thank you all for being here tonight, and with this, i would like to close this program on the commonwealth club of california, celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captig

my name is kevin o'malley, the chairman of the business and leadership forum of the commonwealth club of california. our program is "food fights for the 21st century: women's voices driving change." and our panelists are judi shils, zen honeycutt, deborah coons garcia, and christie dames. i will turn it over for the last question. >> thank you. thank you, ladies, for all of your activism for all of us. the first issue i have pertains to coexistence. oregon is trying to map out where all of the organic fields are and where all of the gmo fields are, but the biotech companies are pushing back. can we have co-existence and can we have truly organic foods? >> it is ridiculous preview cannot have coexistence, because the gmo flows across. i was able to question tom vilsack at a conference i was at a couple years ago, and so i said, "you have allowed gmo in alfalfa. it was a perennial. they do not need to spray it, and now it can contaminate non-gmo." and he was, "we all have to get along. i have two sons, and i love them both equally, organic and industrial," and i said, "with all due resp

my name is kevin o'malley, the chairman of the business and leadership forum of the commonwealth clubof california. our program is "food fights for the 21st century: women's voices driving change." and our panelists are judi shils, zen honeycutt, deborah coons garcia, and christie dames. i will turn it over for the last question. >> thank you. thank you, ladies, for all of your activism for all of us. the first issue i have pertains to coexistence. trying to map out where all of the organic fields are and where all of the gmo fields are, but the biotech companies are pushing back. can we have truly organic foods? >> it is ridiculous preview cannot have coexistence, because the gmo flows across. i was able to question tom vilsack at a conference i was at a couple years ago, and so i said, "you have allowed gmo in alfalfa. it was a perennial. they do not need to spray it, and now it can contaminate non-gmo." and he was, "we all have to get along. we all have two sons, and i love them both equally, organic and industrial," and i said, "with all due respect, one of your sons is a bully."

my name is kevin o'malley.thank you all for being here tonight, and with this, i would like to close this program on the commonwealth club of california, celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [applause]

my name is kevin o'malley. thank you all for being here tonight, and with this, i would like to close this program on the commonwealth club of california, celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> coming up tonight at 8:00, a debate on evolution versus creationism with the science guy and author and founder of the creation museum, ken ham. here is a preview. worldview isn this that somehow no one and his family were able to build a wooden ship that would house 14,000 individuals, and there is a boy and a girl for each one of 14,000, andout these people were unskilled. as far as anybody knows, they had never told a wooden ship before. furthermore, they had to get all of these animals on there, and they had to feed them, and i understand mr. hamm has some explanations for that, which i find extraordinary, but this is the premise, and we can then run a test, scientific t

panelists are judi shils, zen honeycutt, deborah coons garcia, and christie dames my name is kevin o'malley. thank you all for being here tonight, and with this, i would like to close this program on the commonwealth club of california, celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the second court of appeals hears aclu versus clapper oral argument. um oner chance to see a for pesticides and genetically modified foods. >> on the next washington journal, a preview of house and senate races with admitted terms with political reporters. also a discussion on the influence of the terror group, isis, in syria. as always, we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. on c-span.n journal" >> the second circuit court of oralls in new york heard arguments in aclu versus clapper, a case challenging the constitutionality of the national security agency's collection of phone records. the civil liberties union wants to end the pro

my name is kevin o'malley. thank you all for being here tonight, and with this, i would like to close this program on the commonwealth club of california, celebrating over 125 years of enlightened public discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> next, the second circuit court of appeals hears oral arguments in aclu versus clapper. it challenges the nsa collection of american phone records. after that, a discussion on the in dash upcoming independence referendum clapper.there is sufficient in scotland. campaign campaign 2014 debate coverage continues with north carolina senator kay and her republican opponent tom tillis. that is followed by jerry brown and neil cash kari. c-span campaign 2014, more than 100 debates for the control of congress. this week i'm prime minister's questions, prime minister david cameron condemned the murder of stephen sotloff and said that the u.k. would never give into terrorism. they anno

kevin f. o'malley of missouri to be ambassador to ireland. bathsheba nell crocker of the district of columbia, to be an assistant secretary. department of energy, elizabeth sherwood-randall of california to be deputy secretary. executive office of the president. robert w. holleyman ii to be deputy united states state trade representative. department of defense, eric rosenbach of pennsylvania to be an assistant secretary. department of the treasury. d. nathan sheets of maryland to be an undersecretary. department of homeland security, charles h. fulghum of north carolina to be chief financial officer. united states agency for international development. alfonso elheart to be deputy administrator. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: on these nominations, i would ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded back. the presiding officer: is there objection? seeing, hearing no objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i also ask unanimous consent that executive calendar consent agreed to wednesday september 17 be modified to include ex