mr. booker, what is your professional background? >> guest: well, i've been with -- [inaudible] over a half century starting with the baltimore astros. i had a -- [inaudible] who went to harvard or, carl murphy -- [inaudible] and he always wanted me to be a journalist. so i followed in his steps when i finished college. i joined the astros in baltimore, started my career. >> host: what year was that? >> guest: oh, boy, that was '42. i finished college and joined the astros. i stayed there a few years and then went on. then i won a nieman fellowship. that was in -- i can't get the years right. that was a nieman scholarship. i took a reak from -- break from the newspaper and decided that i would join "the washington post." >> host: so, mr. booker, your new book, "shocking the conscious," what are you covering in this book? >> guest: my life. i start off -- [inaudible] i started getting headlines when i covered the murder of emmett till, and it was my coverage on the -- [inaudible] and they covered it and made it worldwide. >> host: whe

mr. booker. i know him as t.j.ause he's informal and i've had to send people with challenges to him directly at the young community developers not only did they do an incredible job with working with those individuals but many of them are still politely. the young community developers has p had it's challenges bus it's one of the most effective organizations in dealing with people who were formerly homeless and people who have serious barriers whether they've been incarcerated you name it those are entities i've known for a fact deal with the kinds of challenges that i personally have to deal with in district 5. i'm not in each stance a fan of residency i waivers but the work he does impacts san franciscans

mr. booker, what is your professional background? >> guest: well, -- over half a century. [inaudible] i had he always wanted me to be a so i followed in his steps when i finished school. i joined -- [inaudible] >> what year was that? >> guest: boy. [inaudible] '42. i finished college i stay there had a few years and then went on. then i won a fellowship i can't get the years right. the fellowship after they took a break from the newspaper, and decided that i would join. >> so mr. booker, your new book, "shocking the conscious" -- conscience" what are you covering? >> my life. i started getting headlines when i covered the -- became interested. and then made it a worldwide. >> where if you come up with the title "shocking the conscience ." well, with the light on. my wife decided that [inaudible] and she helped me we developed. [inaudible] >> is it african-american reporter in the '40s, '50s, '60s. what was that like? >> well, [inaudible] [inaudible] >> why do you say that? why do you say that? >> because we should have -- [inaudible] that's a story in itself -- [inaudible]

mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator booker, do you have any other questions? >> not for this panel. >> thank you. to senator rockefeller for allowing me to chair this meeting. i went to thank you for coming. some had to reschedule because .f ice i know we had a couple of senators who could not remain. they wanted to ask questions. we will submit those for the question. and you could work to get those questions answered as soon as possible, it would be very much appreciated. thank you to senator rockefeller. with that, we will adjourn the meeting. thank you. [indiscernible] >> thank you very much. we have been in touch and will continue to be in touch. >> if you are a middle or high school student this competition most to know what the important issue is that congress can do it next year? be sure to include c-span programming for your chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. the deadline is january 20. get more info on the website. marked the one-year anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school shooting in newtown, connecticut. an acknowledgment, president

mr. cerasale? >> sure. senator booker, there is a group, dma has started the digital advertising alliance online, following where people are. and we have created an icon and a process to have, allow consumers to opt out totally or selectively for any cookies that are used to track their surfing, their browsing activity across unaffiliated web sites. and that icon is a little triangle with an i -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt you -- >> no problem. >> you're saying the industry is trying to self-regulate -- >> yes. we have that. >> -- and find a way, because you recognize that this is a rob. >> yes. and approximately a little over a million people have opted out, over ten million people -- >> [inaudible] the ex-g with en guy, i never heard of this. that's problematic to me just because i'm very engaged in the world of -- so i didn't know there was an opt-out function and am concerned about my -- so the industry's trying to correct what they know is a rob. >> right. to give consumers a choice, absolutely. >> okay. so, ms. rich,

officials have done the food stamp challenge, but one of the things about cory booker's approach to being mayor of newark was that he was mriving his life in public. so him doing the food stamp challenge also meant that he instagramed and tweeted these pictures of his every meal that week. minute-to-minute updates on his choices and his hunger pains and his really detailed details. these are all cory's photos, on what he could and could not afford to eat spop if what mayor booker could afford for breakfast and lunch one day was just sweet potatoes and beans, everybody saw that on his instagram. the one breakfast that was a mashup of lettuce and chicopees was a particularly memorable one. but now newark mayor cory booker is new jersey's u.s. senator cory booker, and as a u.s. senator, now he is putting his stomach on the line again for a different cause. senator booker and new jersey's other senator, robert menendez, both agreed not to eat anything at all for 24 hours yesterday, as part of the rolling fast that lots of legislators have been participating in over the last few days. along with immigration activists. they're t

mr. chairman. an excellent discussion. a very good hearing. i appreciate senator booker's good questioning. up ont -- i want to pick transparency. i want to know exactly what the ftc wants to do in terms of, what is your fix and what is transparency to you? context, we recommended the data brokers allow consumers to access to the kind of information they maintained. >> how? >> we recommended in a privacy report last year, possibly through some centralized website, where consumers can go. dma has something like that. daa has developed a centralized website for online tracking and we have recommended that. >> will be on the information plaything? what would be on their? >> the names of data brokers. and then he would be able to find out what kinds of information they collect and would be able to potentially opt out of the use of their data. >> can you tell me what that sounds like to you and what problems you have with that and how restrictive that would be e >> first, we want to be responsive and be more transparent. we are trying to figure out more of what that means in a meaningful way to

mr. chairman. an excellent discussion. a very good hearing. i appreciate senator booker's good questioning. i can't -- i want to pick up on transparency. i want to know exactly what the ftc wants to do in terms of, what is your fix and what is transparency to you? >> in this context, we recommended the data brokers allow consumers to access to the kind of information they maintained. >> how? >> we recommended in a privacy report last year, possibly through some centralized website, where consumers can go. dma has something like that. daa has developed a centralized website for online tracking and we have recommended that. >> will be on the information plaything? what would be on their? >> the names of data brokers. and then he would be able to find out what kinds of information they collect and would be able to potentially opt out of the use of their data. >> can you tell me what that sounds like to you and what problems you have with that and how restrictive that would be e ? >> first, we want to be responsive and be more transparent. we are trying to figure out more of what that means in