mr. scalia, had their way, there would be countless numbers of nominations and appointments in the past thatld be now thrown into question. atyou can read this work thehill.com. thanks for your time today. >> you bet. >> that decision was handed down today from the supreme court. as we wait for president obama, he could get a question or two on the decision during this town hall meeting, about to get underway. in the senate, chuck grassley came to the floor this afternoon to talk about the decision regarding presidential recess appointments. here is what he had to say. >> i ask for permission to speak. i come to the floor today to praise the decision to strike down obama's illegal recess appointments. our goal -- article two, section two of the constitution provides ways in which the president may appoint certain officers. it first, it provides that the andident nominates and by with the advice and consent of the senate, a points various -- appoints various offices. president allows the to make temporary appointments when a vacancy in one of those offices happened if the senate is in recess.

mr. scalia had their way, there would be countless numbers of nominations and appointments in the past that would be now thrown into question. >> you can read ben goad's work at thehill.com. tweet him at ben underscore goad. thanks for your time today. >> you bet. >>> constitutional law attorneys will talk about the impact of some of this term's u.s. supreme court cases. they'll also weigh in on the court's two remaining cases which will be announced on the last day of the term which is on monday. we'll have live coverage from the american constitution society at 9:30 eastern here on c-span3. now house intelligence chair mike rogers talks about the violence and instability in iraq. congressman rogers spoke to reporters at an event hosted by "the "christian science monitor."" >> representative mike rogers, chairman of the house select committee on intelligence, this is his first visit with our group and we appreciate his starting his morning this way. he grew up in michigan, graduated from adrian college there. after serving in the army our guest became an fbi special agent, specializing in

mr. scalia was here saying that dodd-frank and fsoc had too much discretion. we have members of the banking committee -- communities saying there was too little discretion and to archer lines of demarcation. i have two areas i would like you to talk about today. one is the living well, what you're doing on the major institutions to find out if they fall apart, how you will take them apart. secondly, i want you to talk a little bit about the gst. i am one of those that things that with proper underlying it works very well. and the private market will come and go. at like you to talk about that. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of this time. we recognize the testimony of the hon. jack lew, secretary of the department of treasury. he has testified before our committee on a number of occasions. without objection is written statement will be included in the record. mr. secretary, you are now recognized for your presentation. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. chairman, ranking member, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to

mr. scalia had their way, there would be countless numbers of nominations and appointments in the past that would be now thrown into question. >> you can read ben work at thehill.com. tweet him at ben underscore goad. thanks for your time today. >> you bet. >>> constitutional law attorneys will talk about the impact of some of this term's u.s. supreme court cases. they'll also weigh in on the court's two remaining cases which will be announced on the last day of the term which is on monday. we'll have live coverage from the american constitution society at 9:30 eastern here on c-span3.

mr. scalia, had their way, there would be countless numbers of nominations and appointments in the past that would be now thrown into question. >> you can read benjamin goad's work at thehill.com. thanks for your time today. >> you bet. senator charles grassley and mitch mcconnell respond to the supreme court's ruling on president obama's recess appointments. this is 15 minutes. mr. grassley: i ask permission to speak for 10 or 11 minutes in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i come to the floor today to praise the supreme court's decision to strike down president obama's illegal recess appointments. article 2, section 2, of the constitution provides for only two ways in which the president may appoint certain officers. first, it provides that the president nominates with the advice and consent of the senate, appoints various officers. second, it permits the president to make temporary appointments when a vacancy in one of those offices happens if the senate is in recess. on january 4, 2012, the president made four appointments. they were purportedly ba

justice scalia: mr. frederick, your client is just using this for local signals -- >> yes. justice scalia: right now. but if we approve that, is there any reason it couldn't be used for distant signals as well? >> possibly. justice scalia: possibly what? there is possibly a reason, or it could possibly be used? >> it can't be used for distance, but it implicates -- justice scalia: what would the difference be. i mean, you could take hbo, right? you could --you could carry that without without performing. >> no, because hbo is not done over the airwaves. it's done through a private service. but justice scalia, let me answer your distant signal hypothetical this way. that would implicate again the reproduction right. it does not implicate the private performance and public performance distinction, because, even if you were to take distant signals and make them available in the home, it's still through a user-initiated, user-specific copy of distant programming. the question then becomes, is there a fair use right to be able to do that. what sony said, because sony was dealing