take jaime live cu - peluffo asi es, la congresista zoe lofgren, quien particip del desfile, me confirmel proyecto de ley ya est redactado y que su aprobacin es factible.. :01 - :06 :18 - :24 :26 - :31 :44 - :49 :51 - :55 1:15 - 1:21 2:06 - 2:11 trt: 2:12 o.c. "espero que se dé la reforma." nats.. las gaitas ayudaron a darle el sonido patritico al desfile del 4 de julio por el distrito de rose garden en san jose esta maÑana. s.o.t. lilia tenes/residente de san josé 1:07:14 yo nací aqui, soy americana y quiero celebrar la independencia de mi patria. s.o.t. rudy tenes/residente de san josé 2:03:00 aunque nací en méxico me hice ciudadano americano pero me siento muy orgulloso de vivir en esta nación porque la encuentro que es una de las mejores del mundo. miles de personas llenaron las aceras de la calle la alameda para presenciar este desfile de poco ms de milla y media de recorrido que se ha convertido en toda una tradicin. s.o.t. elba castañon/residente mexicana 9:45:15 he venido muchas veces a este desfile casi desde que lo empezaron a hacer, y antes no se juntaba asi de gente. s.o.t.

lofgren dijo que ella y un grupo bipartidista ya redactaron una propuesta de reforma, pero todava estntalles. s.o.t. zoe lofgren/congresista de san josé 16:32:27 i think it is feasible, there is a way to do comprehensive reform that republicans can support .. aclar que piensa que s es factible aprobar una reforma migratoria que reciba el apoyo republicano, pero que hay que seguir trabajando.. algunos de los inmigrantes que vinieron a celebrar el 4 de julio en este desfile tambin preservan ese optimismo. s.o.t. mariano durán/inmigrante mexicano 13:50;13 la esperanza muere al último dicen y espero que se dé la reforma blanca ---decenas de activistas aprovecharon el feriado por el dia de la independencia para salir a las calles a protestar en contra de la deportacion de inmigrantes que sigue separando familias. ---muchos critican al presidente barack obama y a los republicanos del congreso por no solucionar este problema migratorio que afecta a millones de personas. ---janet rodriguez nos tiene todos los detalles. 00:01 00:11 00:14 00:42 01:10 01:31 pkg blanca --una anciana fue rescatada

lofgren: i want to talk about the much ballyhooed oversight. every year there's a report to the judiciary committee, annual report on section 215. this year, the report was eight sentences, less than a full page. to think that the congress has substantial oversight of this program is simply incorrect. i cannot match mr. sensenbrenner's brilliant

lofgren: i urge a no vote on the amendment. why?it restates current law and current law has been interpreted by the administration in a way that is frankly contrary to the intent of the crafters of the patriot act. section 215 of the patriot act says that you can obtain information that is relevant to a national security investigation. now what's happened since congress enacted that provision? it's a low bar, but under the n.s.a.'s interpretation, it's no bar at all, because as has been widely reported, they are collecting the information about every phone call made by every american. clearly, that is not relevant to a terrorist investigation. i think it's important to note that business records that are the subject of 215 include a lot of sensitive information. what are business records? phone records? internet records? credit card records? medical records? are these things that we would voluntary give up to the government? no. they are incredibly sensitive and that's why they are being sought. i do think it is important to note th

lofgren: i urge a no vote on the amendment. why? because it restates current law and current law has been interpreted by the administration in a way that is frankly contrary to the intent of the crafters of the patriot act. section 215 of the patriot act says that you can obtain information that is relevant to a national security investigation. now what's happened since congress enacted that provision? it's a low bar, but under the n.s.a.'s spreppings, it's no bar because as has been widely reported, they are collecting the information about every phone call made by every american. clearly, that is not relevant to a terrorist investigation. i think it's important to note that business records that are the subject of 215 include a lot of sensitive information. what are business records? phone records? internet records? credit card records? medical records? are these things that we would voluntary give up to the government? no. they are incredibly sensitive and that's why they are being sought. i do think it is important to note that

california democrat zoe lofgren. >> i think that very clearly this program has gone off the tracks legally. >> reporter: the deputy director of the n.s.a. argued the controversial surveillance programs are consistent with section 215 of the patriot act which allows the government to order anyone to hand over, quote, any tangible things so long as the order is related to an authorized investigation. but republican james sensenbrenner, a coauthor of the patriot act argued section 215 is being abused. >> unless you realize you've got a problem, that is not going to be renewed. >> reporter: many lawmakers, including the committee's chairman robert goodlatte, expressed frustration that they were left in the dark about these programs. robert litt, general counsel at the office of the director of national intelligence said that was intentional. >> the decision was made that this is the sort of sensitive source and method that we don't want to disclose. >> do you think a program of this magnitude, gathering information involving a large number of people involved with telephone companies and so on,

>> "huffington post," this is for congress woman lofgren. you mentioned the judiciary has been kicking up, as he said, absurd, piecemeal bills. you said boehner has been working with you. have you convinced them to take up a comprehensive bill once you put it forward given that he said the smell is the way he wants to go? >> let me clarify -- the speaker was very courteous and met with me. i would not say that he is working with me on an ongoing basis, he was just gracious enough to reach out. in the case of mr. goodlatte, we have a professional relationship. there are many cases when he and i have worked together on bills. immigration has not turned out to be that type of issue. >> he has said he would hold a hearing on your bill, hasn't he? >> not exactly. i cannot make the decision for the republican leaders. i can ask rest my hope on what they are going to decide, but it is in laps because the majority decides what bills are heard and the like. so i am hopeful that we will have a better approach than we have had so far in the house judic

i thank you and congress moment -- congresswoman lofgren for the testimony today.that it is hear members of congress and to find that common ground. it is also worthy to hear the opposition, but it is also well to note that we as legislators are best when we act on behalf of the american people and strike a compromise. the difficulty as i have listened to my good friend is that we will go nowhere if we cannot find a common ground. or we do not have those who can see compromise on the horizon. the one thing that we cannot compromise on, and i said this earlier, in remarks around the dreamers, and i thank them for they have been a spark plug that has drawn interest of our friends on the other side of the aisle, is that we are commemorating and celebrating ramadan but we also have principles and the christian faith. one of them is where this young woman intrigues her mother-in- law not to leave her. she had come close to her mother-in-law. she asked that her mother-in-law not go somewhere else and leave her. we want to tell the dream act children that they can stay, b

. >> host: now working with democratic representatives jared polis, zoe lofgren, you've introduced the telephone records protection act. what does that do specifically? >> guest: well, that deals more directly with the ap phone records issue. currently, the government only has to get an administrative subpoena to go after phone records like they did in the ap phone records case. and that's an internal thing. it's all through the executive branch. what we would require under that bill is for the government to go to a court and get a court order showing that the material, that the information is, again can, relevant and material to an investigation. that would narrow the scope of the search and would still provide the government with the information they need. if a judge said you need this information, the judge could provide that authority. >> host: are current laws particularly like the patriot act compatible with current and future technology? >> guest: no. current laws aren't really compatible with the changes in technology. and that's part of the problem we're facing right now. and

lofgren: i urge a no vote on the amendment. why? because it restates current law and current law has been interpreted by the administration in a way that is frankly contrary to the intent of the crafters of the patriot act. section 215 of the patriot act says that you can obtain information that is relevant to a national security investigation. now what's happened since congress enacted that provision? it's a low bar, but under the n.s.a.'s interpretation, it's no bar at all, because as has been widely reported, they are collecting the information about every phone call made by every american. clearly, that is not relevant to a terrorist investigation. i think it's important to note that business records that are the subject of 215 include a lot of sensitive information. what are business records? phone records? internet records? credit card records? medical records? are these things that we would voluntary give up to the government? no. they are incredibly sensitive and that's why they are being sought. i do think it is important t

looking around the bay area, spear, lee, swal well, eshoo, honda, lofgren said yes, cook, pelosi voted no. jon and laura, won wonders how it came to the floor. if john boehner doesn't want something voted on, he doesn't have to allow it. this may be a way for people to blow off steam and go back to the people they represent and say, hey, i voted against this. but ultimately it didn't pass. >> that equals the gridlock we keep having in congress. not getting a lot done. 5:56. christina loren is back. speaking of getting it done, it seems like a nice day to do whatever you want outside. >> you want to get it done before summer skoefr as well. fall comes in very quickly across the bay area. 92 in livermore today. 79 in fremont and 83 degrees in san jose. so not too hot and just right at the beach, 73 in santa cruz. you really can't beat that. let's check your drive. mike might be able to beat that. he probably has something up his sleeve. >> we have some stuff, mostly 65s. that's what you have on the peninsula. a quick spot-check there. looking across the san mateo bridge as well, easy dri

. >> brown: california democrat zoe lofgren agreed there is great skepticism on the left and the right. >> i share with mr. sensenbrenner the belief that this will not be able to be a sustained. but i think very clearly this program has gone off the tracks legally and needs to be reined in. >> brown: deputy a.g. cole argued use of the material is severely restricted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court. but new york democrat jerrold nadler wasn't reassured. >> the fact that a secret court unaccountable to public knowledge of what it is doing- for practical purposes unaccountable to the supreme court may join you in misusing or abusing the statute is no comfort whatsoever. >> brown: the judiciary committee said it will soon take closed-door, classified testimony on the n.s.a. programs. now to a debate on snowden, the government's response to his actions, and the programs he revealed. daniel ellsberg was tried under the espionage act after leaking the so-called "pentagon papers"- - a classified report which he co-wrote as a military analyst that was critical of u.s. decision-ma

lofgren. >> this is an important issue in our system, the treatment of undocumented young people who are brought to the u.s. as children. these are kids who have grown up in this country, attended american high schools, who often know no other country as him. this subcommittee last held a hearing about them in 2007 when three young women testified about their lives. one witness grew up in california, graduated in garden grove california, from ucla and a bachelors program with honors. she was in the phd program in american civilization at brown university. she was serving as a leading voice in support of the dream act which she and a close friend died in a car crash on may 15, 2010. i wanted to recognize her as we begin this hearing because i am mindful of what martin luther king junior referred to. right now, we have an opportunity to fix our broken immigration system and it would be a national shame if we were unable to do that. one part of that fix, an important and compelling part of that fix, is to ensure that dreamers have an opportunity to become just as american on paper as th

lofgren, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman.ng back to 11th, one of the worst days i have ever spent in the congress, remembering that that weekend after the attacks, members of the white house, the intelligence community, members of this committee and our staff sat at that table. we sat around the table and worked together to craft the patriot act. that theth remembering original act was passed unanimously by the house judiciary. it had the balance that we thought was important to protect the country but also looking forward, to protect the rights of americans under the constitution. expressed byoncern mr. sensenbrenner that things have gone off in a different direction. has indicatede from alabama, i do not question your motivation, which is to keep america safe and i know that that is what you are trying to do. certainly we all want that. statuteern is that the that we crafted so carefully may not be being adhered to as envisioned by us. i want to say this -- yes, we have a system where there are checks and balances, but part

representative lofgren, since you spoke to postulate about the agreement that wasa that be int you're working on? i'm wondering what mr. diaz-balart thinks about the agriculture section of the senate bill, and also the guest worker? >> we're not as as they going to reveal what's in our bill until it's introduced but let me just say that when you can have 70 farm organizations, everything from the sheepherders to the tobacco growers and a vegetable, i mean everybody, come to an agreement with united farm workers union, that's a pretty amazing thing. and i think it's worthy of great deference. in fact, the senate did give it great deference. when you try and do a better job, and then it's easy to say, well, this could be different or that could be different, but it's all put together anyway that is hard to undo. i think it's far superior to what was reported out of the g. sherry committee that basically is not even a plan. it's completely dysfunctional. >> one of the things, you know, but i didn't until we started getting involved, all complex and how diverse these are i've agriculture.

i'd first like to ex tebbeds some thanks to chairman gowdy and ranking member lofgren. not only for giving me the privilege and the honor to speak before their subcommittee on immigration yesterday, but as well to have conversations in my district, have conversations in my state with a number of constituents that are affected by our immigration policy. this is something we have to act now on. this is something that we need to make sure that we've got a top-to-bottom approach that republicans and democrats can actually come together on an issue that's vitally important to our economy and to the greatness of our country. making sure that our border security is actually secure, not only with a fence and greater law enforcement, but actually redeploying the security technology and surveillance equipment from afghanistan. making sure that we've got the internal security as we move forward. an e-verify system, making sure that we can actually verify the jobs within our communities. so we can address not only jobs but the high unemployment in so many areas. making sure that we

lofgren: i have an amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment offered by ms. brownley of california. after the dollar amount insert reduced by $ million. after the dollar amount insert ncrease by $5 million. mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's amendment. the chair: the gentleman's point of order is reserved. the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. brownley: i rise to support an amendment to department of energy, cleanup account. my amendment is an offset by reducing a small portion of funds for nuclear energy research programs. i believe this offset is appropriate because the contamination that must be cleaned up was directly caused by past department of energy nuclear energy research programs. the past, inadequate safety protocols and lax environmental standards resulted in severe soil and groundwater contamination at sites across the nation. the d.o.e. office of environmental moogement is responsible for cleaning up 107 sites across the country whose area is equal to the combined area of rhode island and delaware. a few of these sit

that's why representative zoe lofgren and i have introduced legislation to protect a citizen's right of privacy against government. it will update the electronic communications privacy act. government can't seize and snoop through your mail it shouldn't be able to snoop through your emails without warrant or proximate cause. and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rom utah seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i wish that our president had the same respect for our constitution that our founding fathers had, but he doesn't. he simply doesn't. for fa too many of his political decisions are made with little regard for the sacred document that has guided our nation for more than 00 years. several -- for more than 200 years. several weeks ago, the president announce head won't enforce certain provisions of obamacare. whether this is good policy or bad policy is not the point. the point is the president doesn't have the authority to make such a decision. the president is constitut