i would like to thank chairman leahy for his leadership in reauthorizing the violence against women act last year, and his long-standing recognition of the role of guns in domestic violence. that this isioning not a hearing about the second amendment, or the right of law-abiding americans to own firearms. wants on this committee to deprive individuals, women or men, from legally owning guns, and none of the solutions we are here to discuss involve doing that. what we are here to consider is domestic violence situations threaten american women, and how best to ensure that those who should not possess guns do not possess guns. numberstand there are a of domestic violence survivors and advocates here with us today . i would be honored to recognize them right now, if they would not mind standing up. [applause] thank you. i would also like to submit the statements of our chairman, senator patrick leahy, of bonnie laura ponce, katie ray town for gun safety, and the national center for victims of crime into the record. without objection, they will be added to the record. thank you all for your

even patrick leahy. that's is one of the points in the book looking at a broader civil liberties issue and as expansion continues in those 100 miles loans if the agents are allowed to have this extra constitutional power where you can be pulled over for whatever reason with a checkpoint? >> no checkpoint. no vehicle no camera. just waved over at a point between the borders of the two states the speed limit goes down so if you slow down to the proper 25 miles per hour someone can wave you over safely. >> those are the incidents better becoming quite commonplace and is normal. >> was a few days after the incident of the border security individual being shot at the border. i felt vaguely as though this was a crackdown on the border but the border between arizona and california. [laughter] >> it was a border security mission to pull you over because they thought you were undocumented or smuggling fee and an undocumented person or could be or a national security risk. those are the three types of reasons. >>

one and classic example is patrick leahy the vermont senior senator he was driving with his license plate says u.s. government or something but he drove into of border patrol checkpoint they asked him to get out of his car he said under whose authority are you asking me this? the agent according to his testimony pointed to his gun and said that is the only authority i need. on the northern border not the permanent checkpoints the alliance of transportation checks that border patrol agents would get onto trains or buses not . >> so people do their laundry. and if the police did not have proper documents then you can go visit the man. so more stories like that of the u.s.-canada border. then you see the surveillance tower on the niagara and st. clair river then you hear less about border prosser -- prosser. >> you mentioned at the beginning of the border lands have become a constitutional freeze alone the constitution freeze on the. it sounds like a laundromat type of situation that they donny need the papers they just do it is that your experience from talking to these people? as far as th

regime and they'll do whatever they can they certainly are i want to play a clip of senator patrick leahy questioning usa idea administrator dr rajiv shah about the program. if we could. working. with the cuban government in child survival programs so it could be done. my understanding of the. amendment is that we would not be precluded from engaging in those kinds of. amendment would make sure that. we are we wouldn't we wouldn't. i like this claim right there i mean do you think that's really what's preventing actual cooperation at this point well i certainly think that the helms burton act is part of the larger the larger embargo the larger blockade is absolutely critical to understanding this reality certainly the u.s. embargo the u.s. blockade of cuba which has cost them over hundreds of billions of dollars in the years it's been in place has done quite a bit quite a bit to impact the humanitarian situation as well as the economy of cuba and the fact that they will covertly do things that they won't openly do shows how unbelievably byzantine this situation is eugene why why does a sm

friedman the zooms in a revelation prompted senator patrick leahy to grill usaid administrator dr rajiv shah at a recent hearing the legislation doesn't say anything about setting up a cock i mean the idea in cuba twitter accounts and all now this latest usa program was even more cockamamie recruiting young cubans stan type government activism theory number of fake civic programs including an h i.v. prevention workshop a ploy that could discredit the rest of us aid humanitarian missions all around the world. in two thousand and thirteen bolivian president evo morales kicked usaid out of his country claiming that the agency acted like a wing of the cia you may remember in a two thousand and nine speech in egypt president obama touted this new u.s. humanitarian mission today i'm announcing a new global effort with the organization of the islamic conference to eradicate polio well that mission ended quickly since the cia decided to use a fake vaccination program in pakistan to collect the d.n.a. of osama bin laden's family since then actual vaccination workers have been suspected of workin

i'm an expert on explosives. >> that's what admiral leahy said to truman, i'm an expert on explosivesand it won't work. >> thank you all. thank you to our panelists, for your attention. [ applause ] . >> tonight, american history tv, focus on cold war beginning discussion on lessons learned 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. radiation experiments conducted by the defense department during cold war. scholars debate policies of then george h.w. bush and decisions that led to the end of the cold war. that's all tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span3. >> this weekend on c-span network, friday night, native american history. then on saturday live all day coverage from the national book festival science pavilion. saturday evening from bbc scotland, a debate on scotland's upcoming decision on whether to end its political union with england. sunday q&a judge robert, chief justice court of appeals. on c-span 2 friday at 8:00 p.m., in-depth with former congressman ron paul. then on saturday, all day live coverage of the national book festival from the history and biography pavilions. speak

he wrote his grand admiral leahy that if this turned out to be more than a diversion in other words if the russians could hold out it would open up the possibility of sending german domination of europe. in fact roosevelt against the bitter complaints of stimpson and general marshall who were desperately trying to obey the american army insisted on sending all possible -- to the soviet union as he insisted on sending help to the british before. everyone expected the soviets to go down but they did not. in any case this did make him more aggressive initially along the same lines. he pushed the defense lines further out of the atlantic. he occupied iceland which the british had before that and begin sending patrols further into the atlantic and make plans to send convoy ships from a planet. meanwhile something more important happen in early july on the production front because roosevelt left everyone endowed in the first half of 1941 as to how much production was going to be. he was pushing for more but the existing programs were adequate to meet the existing political objectives namely

hopeful leahy lives a long, healthy life as a a mediocre ex-president. everything will be named after him. >> if he doesn't get a candy bar. >> what would it be? >> a zagnut. >> that is a great candy bar, but not as good as the marathon. last time i mentioned marathon bar somebody set me 20. >> if you just mention stuff on the show people just send it to you? >> not that stuff. >> you mow what i like? drugs. >> you can't do that because it won't get thrie security. is kennedy not memorable enough? >> i don't know. what happened to him a couple of turns? >> this is the premature president. the preemptive nobel peace prize after nothing has happened. it is a building and fine. i went to a university where the library was named after a stalinist. the standards for forgetting a building named at you is low. the university of massachusetts ham hurst is the deb do boys. debois jie. don't you hate people who are more up on history than you are? i hillary pete that later. >> do you know who that is? >> i do. he was a labor unionist? >> no. >> was he the fat guy

. >> he is a brave man and hopeful leahy survives.oe app, has the news coverage made you terrified? >> a little nervous definitely. we are raised in fear. we are scared so we do things. you watch the news -- great show, you watch the news and we talk about it and it riles people up. there has been a 90% of people. anyway. if that were here i think we would have a much better survival rate. that's because of all of the technology and i think the doctors -- they seem confident and capable. >> if this is not spread through the atmosphere it is close contact with patients. it was ritualistic with burials. as long as you don't touch dead people. >> and if you accept treatment. a lot of people don't want the treatment. >> that's true. >> you normally want to stay away from people. should you lie and tell people you have a virus so you can be quarantined? have you ever thought of telling people -- >> i i don't know who would be lying. there is a 63% chance. >> you should update your dating profile right now. >> is there a good chance ebola w

number leahy wasn't hurt and doesn't look like there was any real damage.e honest, he won't even remember it. >> young matt was like, what's the deal? >> call it divine intervention. a church was spared from the wrath of the earthquake and with it irreplaceable pieces of history. jonathon bloom has more from st. peter's chapel. >> st. peter's chapel is more than a charming old church. >> it was built in 1901 and it was the first inner denominational church. >> and swivels between catholic and protestant and you need only look at the organ pipes to know there was an earthquake. in spied -- in spite of it all, the organ still plays. >> it sounds off key, but other than that it is still working. >> and what is more remarkable is this. >> they were installed over a 30-year period because each one people had to raise money to put these in. >> designed by the tiffany family from the jewelry store fame each is dedicated to a military hero and all survived. >> i think because it is a wooden building it is less rigid and the forces are not transmitted as greatly to

one of the classic examples was patrick leahy. is the vermont senior senator driving with a license plate that said u.s. government but he drove into le checkpoint in agent asked him to get out of his car and he said under whose authority? i am paraphrasing and the agent according to testimony pointed to his gun and said that is all the authority that i need. on the northern border we see a lot of temporary ones that the border patrol agents will get on going east to west to rochester and buffalo and teacher '08. >> tavis thinking more of the tone and attitude. it is pretty intense is that this same attitude? >> and i did a lot of research and every place i went to southwest detroit people told stories it has a huge latin american population a lot of love undocumented people and it is as if there is border patrol everywhere. he got arrested the other day when he was going to work at the bus stop at 4:00 p.m. and pulled over and asked him of citizenship or the family services center at a food pantry and director of the community ce

i'm joined now by a physician at the leahy hospital and medical center. he focuses on staying healthy when you travel, especially by plane. he's also going to give us some tips. first, i want to ask you, how likely is it that ebola could get into the united states in a noncontrolled environment. >> there is some risk there, but the risk is very, very low. i mean, there has been cases of viral hemorrhagic fever infections similar to ebola who have come to the united states. we had a case in, i believe, 2009 of a passenger who was flying from london to jfk in new jersey. and checked himself into a hospital. and he ended up having a fever similar to ebola. the cdc did track 18 people who they believed were close contacts with this passenger during the flight and everybody did well and there was not any problems. so the risk is very, very low. >> so you have, still, a list for us, of tips you say can help people fly healthy. a few of them are keep yourself well hydrated, bring an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, wipe down the tray aboard buses and trains. why ar

he wrote his old friend, admiral leahy, in visual shi that if this turned out to be more than a diversion, in other words, if the russians could hold out, it would open up the possibility of ending german.com nation of -- domination of europe. and, in fact, roosevelt -- against the bitter complaints of stimson and general marshall who were desperately trying to prepare the american army -- insisted in the second half of 1941 on sending all possible help to the soviet union, just as he insisted on sending some help to the british before. everyone else expected the soviets to go down during the second half of 1941, but he did not. in any case, this did make him more aggressive initially along the same lines. he pushed the defense line still further out in the atlantic, he occupied iceland which the british had had before that, he began sending patrols further into the atlantic and head plans to convoy ships -- head plans -- made plans to convoy ships. something happened on the production front because roosevelt had left everyone in doubt in the first half of 1941 as to how much production t

this is just over two hours ]]ó we are going to make this a weekly effort and i know that senator leahyintends to come out here brought us some pumpkin squares that we have from the school menu in vermont. we've tasted one. it's absolutely delicious. from bob casey we have mushroom and meatballs and these are also great. i feel like i'm o i am on the fd channel right now. [laughter] but these are also. we thank senator casey who will be joining us and they will talk to us about what a habakkuk looks like. we've got some apple slices so we are here for the duration. we can last a while this morning. and not to offend my wonderful cafeteria folks that we didn't eat like this when i was in school. this is very delicious food this morning. so, we are very appreciative of everyone being here for the second iran child nutrition and being able to talk to those who are working hard to make things happen for our children. let me just start by saying what we all know that according for the centers for disease control, obesity in young children has more than doubled in the last 30 years. that's wh

i mean, i have incidents in the book like the one i mentioned on the nation, patrick leahy, you know but yeah, that's one of, i think that's one of the points of the book that we are looking at, we are potentially looking at a broader civil liberties issue. and as expansion continued annually in those hundred mile zone's, a federal agents, homeland security czar allowed to have this kind of extra constitutional powers where you can be pulled over, anyone can be pulled over for whatever reason, was that a checkpoint or -- >> it wasn't a checkpoint. it was strange. there was no vehicle there, no camera to record. >> you were just pulled over randomly. >> pulled over at a point where, between the borders of the two states, california and arizona. the speed limit goes down so that if you slow down to the proper 25-mile an hour speed limit, someone can waive over safely. and that's what took place. >> so that's, those are the kind of incidents that are becoming quite commonplace, quite normal actually. >> this took place a few days after the incident of a border security individual being

and there was a coach for frank leahy and then became the whole -- manager of the whole thing.fficers had time for themselves, he would tell them newt rockne stories. and he just was so poignant about notre dame that my father said, "well that's where you're going to go." that's where i went. >> seth: that's great. >> you went to northwestern. >> seth: i went to northwestern. we're playing this year. [ cheers ] >> have we ever played northwestern? i don't think so. >> seth: we have. i was there. we played you guys in south bend in 1995. it was the year northwestern went to the rose bowl and we beat you guys in south bend. i was there, too, that's how i know. i'm sorry i brought it up. >> is that why you brought this up? >> seth: well, no. [ laughter ] i was respectfully not going to. >> but you weren't respectful. 1995, that was almost 20 years ago. did you beat us badly? >> seth: no, it was pretty close. >> but you went to the rose bowl. >> seth: i went to the rose bowl. >> did you win the rose bowl? >> seth: no, we did not. [ laughter and applause ] now, i'm very happy about

also had senator nmike lee, from utah, who, in bipartisan effort with senators dick durbin and pat leahy forward changes for sentencing reform. we're seeing bipartisan effort. this is one of those areas where you have the left and the tea party right coming together to support changes to policy that can hopefully fix our justice system. >> on ferguson, does paul represent where republicans are? >> not necessarily. this is not the first time he's talked about this. he's doing speeches on sentencing reform. trying to go into the heart of black communities. this is an important message. if you have a republican candidate, republican nominee, perhaps, talking about this, it is significant to the party. i'm not sure the base of the party is with him. but he's leading the way. we're seeing this liberal, libertarians coming together on this. >>> we'll be back in 30 seconds. >>> i'm finally who i'm supposed to be. do you understand? i can't go back. >> "orange is the new black." one of its breakout stars, laverne cox. a woman born biologically male became the first transgendered emmy acting nomi

. >> reporter: democrat patrick leahy of vermont accused republicans of standing in the way of progress. >> it is so much easier not to do anything. just let it sit there and say, "oh, it must be president obama's fault." "oh, it must be the senate's fault." "oh, it must be somebody else's fault." "oh, maybe it's the fault of these six and seven-year-old children for trying to escape being killed or molested." >> reporter: with sharp divisions on both sides of the capitol, lawmakers appeared set to leave for a five-week recess with no resolution to the border crisis. >> woodruff: for more on today's events, the washington post's ed o'keefe joins us from capitol hill. ed, what a scene. the house republican leadership said they wanted a bill to deal with the border, but they couldn't get it. what happened? >> well, they pulled that bill very quickly, unexpectedly earlier this afternoon, surprising everyone, including several members, as you heard, who had already headed for the airports. but after a revolt of a handful of republicans in, let's say, more purple districts, places like calif

senator patrick leahy recently introduced a senate version of a would rein in the n.s.a. to some extent. i saw where you were quoted as veryg it's going to be difficult to get a bill out of capitol hill given that the a differentssed version. what is your view in terms of where the line should be drawn on n.s.a. surveillance? well, if i were concerned at n.s.a. was listening in on a telephone anybody sitting in this room today, i would be totally outraged. get briefed on these programs on a regular been to n.s.a.e any number of times, i've watched what they do. our oversight. that's part of my responsibility of you, andntative diane's responsibility as a knowsentative of you, to what these programs are and to know what they do and to know n.s.a. is going with programs of this nature and we do -- there is no program in the that isence community more highly scrutinized than metadataall the collection program that n.s.a. has been operating. congress approved what we call the foreign intelligence surveillance act that gives n.s.a., gives c.i.a. folks in the intelligence commu

vermont's patrick leahy, the senate's longest serving member. tom harkin is retiring this year. so are congressman henry waxman and george miller, both of california. minnesota congressman rick nolan was first elected in '74. he retired in '80 but he returned to the house in 2012. part of our series of exit interviews with retiring senators and key members of congress, i talked to two of these watergate babies. here's an excerpt. >> what does that mean to you to be a watergate baby? >> i think that it really was that we came out of an election where the country was in turmoil over vietnam, over watergate. a change was in the air. >> you guys felt like you had a mission in many ways. >> yeah. we were brassy. >> so looking back, what did you get done that you're like, boy, i'm glad we had that small window of opportunity because if you hadn't done it then, you wouldn't have gotten it done. >> i think clearly ending the war in vietnam. cutting off the funding for the war in vietnam and saying this is now over, you can ramp it down but it's over was really important to us. i think a

leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: our good chaplain is still in the chamber and he has such a way with words. i'm so impressed with the prayer this morning where he recognized the only way we get things done around here, maybe as little as it, and if we could do more we could get more with the good staff we have. i appreciate the prayer of the chaplain and extend my appreciation for the hard work of this staff. everyone in this room works hard, whether they're police officers, enrolling clerks. they do everything. and i'm really grateful to what they do to help us all look better. i wish we did more so that we would look better, but that's the way it is. i move to proceed to calendar number 471. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 471, s.j. res. 19, joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the united states relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the

senator leahy and i were the primary sponsors of your reauthorization, and so i came to tour the center, and i recommended to all my colleagues to do that, and the techniques that you have to go to find, one, who the child is in the image, and who the person is creating the image, who we want to find is interesting how you do that. and it's something we need to know, and it is certainly a skill and an ability. it's something needed. there are things going on in this world most people can't even get their minds around that happens. and the issue with me, i'm from bowling green kentucky and this always happens in the big city you think, and so when we're home on our working in august i'm trying to highlight the fact that this does happen everywhere. anywhere that has a computer, it's not just somebody out on the street sore so forth. so we're going to try to do roundtables or conferences in different parts of my city. what kind of things do you think, just advice for us, we should let make sure people know what's going on in their communities? because you see it everywhere. you see what's

. >> that's what admiral leahy said?hank you all for your attention and great questions. >>> tonight on american history tv, a focus on the cold war, beginning with a discussion about the lessons learned 25 years since the fall of the berlin wall. then a look at some of the human radiation experiments conducted by the defense department during the cold war, scholars debate the foreign policies of then president george h.w. bush, and the decisions that led to the end of the cold war, it's all tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern here on c-span 3. >>> this weekend on the c-span networks, friday night on c-span, native american history, on saturday live all day coverage from the science pavilion. scotland's decision on whether to end its political union with england. he shares his approach to interpreting laws by congress. on friday indepth with former congressman ron paul. then on saturday, all day live coverage at the national book festival. speakers interviews and viewer call-ins, and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern with willia

the audience and we're kind of post spent many a happy hour in him when he's working for chairman leahy. it could have been back in a different capacity. we are having a hearing today that is entitled economic espionage and trade secret theft, our our laws adequate for today's threats? today the subcommittee is going to explore how we can better protect american businesses from those who try to steal their valuable intellectual property. american companies are renowned as being the most innovative in the world. companies of every size and in every industry, from manufacturing to software, to biotechnology to aerospace, own large portfolios of legally protected trade secrets they have developed and innovate it. in some cases the secret sauce may be a company's most valuable asset. the theft of these secrets can lead to devastating consequenc consequences. for small businesses it can be a matter of life and death. the risk of trade secret theft has been around as long as there've been secrets to protect. there's a reason why coca-cola has kept its formula locked away in a vault for decade

one and classic example is patrick leahy the vermont senior senator he was driving with his license plate says u.s. government or something but he drove into of border patrol checkpoint they asked him to get out of his car he said under whose authority are you asking me this? the agent according to his testimony pointed to his gun and said that is the only authority i need. on the northern border not the permanent checkpoints the alliance of transportation checks that border patrol agents would get onto trains or buses not crossing borders even . >> so people do their laundry. and if the police did not have proper documents then you can go visit the man. so more stories like that of the u.s.-canada border. then you see the surveillance tower on the niagara and st. clair river then you hear less about border prosser -- prosser. >> you mentioned at the beginning of the border lands have become a constitutional freeze alone the constitution freeze on the. it sounds like a laundromat type of situation that they donny need the papers they just do it is that your experience from talking to thes

advisory committee and this entire series of briefings of the advisory committee, namely [inaudible] leahy, andrick senator john soon. this series is a great platform to debate and discuss internet policy issues. privacy experts and regulators have been discussing the so-called right to be forgotten for several years now. in may, the european court of justice reached a decision that many say found the right to be forgotten within the existing european data protection directive. asked engines can now be to remove links to certain websites from their search results. we have a distinguished panel here to tell us what this all means for us as internet users, and for the internet as a whole. i would like to introduce our panelists very quickly. our first panelist is a senior policy advisor with internet use, an ngo focused on strengthening local news coverage worldwide. generallso the former counsel to the parent organization of wikipedia, which will be interesting and relevant here. next, emma from the center of democracy and technology. she is the director of cdt's progress in free expression

senator patrick leahy and senator john boone. the series is a great platform to debate and discuss internet policy issues. privacy experts and regulators have been discussing the right to be forgotten for several years now. in may the european court of justice reached a decision that many say found the right to be forgotten within the existing european data protection directive. the bottom line is search engines can be asked to remove links to certain websites from their search results. we have a distinguished panel to tell us what this all means for us as internet users -- i would like to introduce our panelists very quickly. our first panel list is mike godman, who is a senior policy advisor with interviews. he was also the former general parent organization of wikipedia, which will be interesting and relevant here. >> from the center of democracy and technology. the next panelist is david hoffman, the director of security policy and the global privacy officer from intel. the next panelist is rob, a columnist with yahoo! tech a

senator patrick leahy recently introduced a senate version of a would rein in the n.s.a. to some extent. i saw where you were quoted as veryg it's going to be difficult to get a bill out of capitol hill given that the a differentssed version. what is your view in terms of where the line should be drawn on n.s.a. surveillance? well, if i were concerned at n.s.a. was listening in on a telephone anybody sitting in this room today, i would be totally outraged. get briefed on these programs on a regular been to n.s.a.e any number of times, i've watched what they do. our oversight. that's part of my responsibility of you, andntative diane's responsibility as a knowsentative of you, to what these programs are and to know what they do and to know n.s.a. is going with programs of this nature and we do -- there is no program in the that isence community more highly scrutinized than metadataall the collection program that n.s.a. has been operating. congress approved what we call the foreign intelligence surveillance act that gives n.s.a., gives c.i.a. folks in the intelligence commu

you to our witnesses, thanks to our ranking member senator grassley and most especially to senator leahy, the chairman of the judiciary for giving me this privilege of chairing this hear. we are convened today to hear testimony regarding the women's health protection act, removing barriers to constitutionally protected reproductive rights. our first panel consists of a number of our checks who have positions and views on this issue. as well as my check, senator baldwin from the senate, who is my co-sponsor in the measure that's not pending before the senate and has been a leader for a long time in this area. we have support from more than 30 of our senate colleagues, and my understanding is that the companion measure. >> co-sponsors in the house or thereabouts. >> the reason for this big is essentially is the cascading avalanche of restrictions on reproductive health care around the country. what we see increasingly is in effect an avalanche of measures that purportedly protect women's health care, but in reality restrict reproductive rights. this bill is about stopping laws when really

[laughter] >> that was admiral leahy. >> thank you all. thank you to our panelists.thank you for your attention. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. likeness,unting likened by some to a sold apart in the body composition product of the women's titanic memorial association. over 1500 lives were lost when the titanic went to the bottom of the north atlantic after striking an iceberg on the night of april 14, 1912. half of the ship's female passengers perished, a number that would have been higher but for hundreds of men who yielded seats on lifeboats. titanicwhy the women's memorial is explicitly dedicated to the men of the titanic, over three fourths of whom never reached new york. figure thathigh towers over washington's channel part is itself the creation of a female sculptor and patron of the arts. ironically, gertrude vanderbilt whitney is probably less remembered

leahy, president pro tempore.ding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up five minutes each. mr. coons: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to house concurrent resolution 112, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the clerk will report. the clerk: providing for a conditioning adjournment of the house of representatives and the conditional recess or adjournment of the senate. mr. coons: i know of no further debate on the measure. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not, all in favor say aye. opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have t the ayes do have it. the violence agreed to. mr. coons: dishaict the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: i unders

to raise the minimum wage so people can have a living wage, allows them to make massive cuts in the leahy program which provides fuel assistance to low-income people. many of them are on record as making massive cuts in medicaid, trying to end privatized social security. so i think there are concerns today about the needs of low-income people might be held up to some question. senator whitehouse, did you want to add anything to that? >> one last question for the administrator. the, i take the position that the costs of this regulation are dwarfed by the benefits. and i think that is epa's judgment as well. i also take the position that it's not fair for people to only look at one side of the length earn in evaluating this legislation. they can't just look at the interests of the coal businesses. they really need to look at america more broadly, and there are lots of us who are on the other side of that equation for whom coal really is a harm. and we can work in rational ways to try to balance that, but please don't pretend that my side doesn't exist. the third is that there is legitimate

and we know that the leahy law, which is part of the foreign assistance act, cuts off any u.s. aid to units of any foreign military that engages in human rights abuses and individuals who do so are restricted from gaining access to the united states by being denied visas. the question before us is are we a country of laws, are we a country which is going to insist upon the application of the very laws that were written this these halls of congress, or is israel somehow above the law and free to neglect the restrictions of these laws? we'll be examining these questions, and for congressional staff we have more information about this very issue for you to take back to your offices. and to elucidate both from personal experience and from professional expertise the use of force that israel employs against palestinians living under military occupation, we have a very rich lineup of speakers to the address us here today. i'll introduce them all at once at first, and then they'll come up and speak in the order in which they were introduced. first, i would like to introduce turiq, a pa

leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, and pursuant to the provisions and pursuant to the provisions >> so the senate is a journey for the remainder of their september recess. later that day at 5:30 p.m. senators will take up a series of confirmation votes including jill prior to serve as judge of the 11th u.s. circuit court of appeals. as well as three of the presidential nominees deserve on the social security a vice report. we will return now to the discussion on ways to reduce carbon emissions. >> so air capture could become a storage option for intermission electricity by holding the energy in liquid fuel when you have too much. and ultimately you can draw down the co2 in the atmosphere. if you were big enough to do with the entire transportation sector, you now scale up by another order of magnitude, you draw the co2 down from the atmosphere and could get there but you can't really get there until you solve, until you stopped the meeting. otherwise you're not really ne

i commend chairman leahy and chairman udall for advancing a proposed legislation. have co-sponsored the house companion to that bill introduced by my friend representative ted deutsche of florida. with that i will conclude my comments and yield back to you. >> i thank the gentleman. members have seven days to submit written statements. we're pleased to have the honorable john koskinen commissioner of the internal revenue service. you know how this works. you have done it a few times before. please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. the gentleman answered in the affirmative and you're recognized for your opening statement or your statement and then we will get right to questions. >> chairman jordan, ranking member cartwright, members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. with your permission i will provide a brief intre duck tiff statement. before beginning my statement, i want to th