mr. kaiser talks about the major players and discusses what he learned about the workings of the u.s. congress. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> i think we will get going. i want to welcome everyone here today. i am as senior fellow here at brookings and a colleague kabobs. we are here to celebrate a great author, a great book, and an extra bury piece of legislation. and this may be one of the most unusual events in washington today because there are two things that people always talk about. one is the decline of legislating, and this book is actually about a successful attempt to legislate a very important and very complicated piece of legislation. and the other thing that we hear a lot about is the decline of journalism. journalists still spend enough time on substance. all but the time and to really explore a story. well, this book does all of those things, and i want said -- the book is on sale outside one of the most important things that a book event is to sell the author's book, especially if you like the author, and i happen to like baba lot. >> and it makes the perfec

mr. kaiser board senator dodd, if we could agree that that it ain't working and it ain't working becauseit is, that to me changes have taken place so that the character of the senate that your father knew and that you knew when you came as an example is gone, what nominations would we make from this panel of changes that could be made? in either the house or the senate. that would make some difference that would nudge us towards, if not a golden era, a less corrosive one then -- i'm just interested to know, you know, what's the realm of the possible. because it seems to me this is not the time to follow ronald reagan's, you know, don't just stand there do nothing, or whatever the hell it is. so anyway, that's -- >> thank you. for me, that's where this starts is reagan's first inaugural. government is not the problem -- not the solution, the government is the problem. we have cultivated over the last 40 years of hostility to government in our culture. it's never been absent. it's been there from the beginning but it's intensity has increased dramatically in modern times. the result is tha

kaiser report. i'm sitting here with mr william benny he's a thirty two year veteran of the n.s.a. who helped design a top secret program he says broadly changed american personal data and he actually helped crack those codes and enter into this he is now a whistleblower mr benny thank you so much for joining me so first of all let's talk about the latest information that has come out from this n.s.a. spying on americans well first of all the the pfizer warrant that was issued to the f.b.i. to get data from verizon. that's that's been going on according to the paper anyway since not a two thousand and seven and this is like being renewed every three months so if you look at the top corner top right corner of that order it's thirteen dash eighty that means it's the eightieth order since in this year of two thousand and thirteen so when you start to say well what are the other seventy nine orders you can figure other companies and this is like the second order of two thousand and thirteen for each company so you know that maximum you would divide eighty by two and you'd maximum numbe

kaiser reports. i'm sitting here with mr william benny he's a thirty two year veteran of the n.s.a.who helped design a top secret program he says broadly changed american personal data and he actually helped crack those codes and enter into this he is now a whistleblower mr benny thank you so much for joining me so first of all let's talk about the latest information that has come out from this n.s.a. spying on americans well first of all the the fight's a warrant that was issued to the f.b.i. to get data from verizon and. that's that's been going on according to the paper anyway since not a two thousand and seven and this is like being renewed every three months so if you look at the top corner top right corner of that order it's thirteen dash eighty that means it's the eightieth order since in this year of two thousand and thirteen so when you start to say well what are the other seventy nine orders you can figure other companies and and this is like the second order of two thousand and thirteen for each company so you know that maximum you would divide eighty by two and maximum n

mr. burgess: her answers were questionable. last tuesday, secretary sebelius disclosed she solicitted three other companies, a drugmaker, johnson & johnson, a health care system, ascension health and a health care provider kaiser perm then tee. so it begs the question -- permanente. so it begs the question, how far will this administration ghow to fund the affordable care act. along with them, the department of home rand security, department of labor, these will be involved in sharing and tracking information to implement the president's law. do you really want to entrust this administration with the responsibility of controlling your health care and controlling your health care information? i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recks any? -- recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. >> we are all familiar with the recent i.r.s. scandal involving the agency targeting conservative groups. as if this institutional arrogance wasn't troubling duff, the -- enough, the i.r.s. will soon become the primary enforcer of obama