chairman of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy even went as far as saying quote i've always believe that amending our constitution must be subject to the highest measure of scrutiny and is something that should only be done as a last resort when the voices of hardworking americans continue to be drowned out by the money and few more serious action must be taken and i'm hardly suggesting that we should rely on the very people who benefit from this pay to play system to change it instead we should be looking at grassroots movements from outside the beltway movements like made a pac a super pac started by harvard professor lawrence lessig that ironically is raising money to elect candidates promising to repeal citizens united and other measures but of institutionalized money in politics less said came on the show a couple months.

against their own interests for once as encouraging chairman of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy even went as far as saying quote i've always believe that amending our constitution must be subject to the highest measure of scrutiny it is something that should only be done as a last resort.

reform senator patrick leahy introduced new legislation today that puts weeping limits on u.s. surveillance through the usa freedom act here's leahy announcing the bill this morning this is a debate about americans fundamental relationship with their government about whether our government should have the power to create massive databases of information about its citizens. or whether we are in control of our own government not the other way around the aggressive bill is seeking to address concerns that tech companies and civil liberties proponents had expressed about a previous house bill that passed back in may so what's in this new bill and can realistically get passed before congress goes to recess in august i was joined earlier by executive director of the tenth amendment center michael bolden and i first asked him what this new version entails. well actually what we're really most concerned about on this bill is whether or not it's going to pass now if it does some of the most respected privacy advocates say that it will accomplish probably about twenty percent of the way

reform senator patrick leahy introduced new legislation today that puts sweeping limits on u.s. surveillance through the usa freedom act here's leahy announcing the bill this morning this is a debate about americans' fundamental relationship with their government about whether our government you have the power to create massive databases of information about his citizens. or whether we are in control of our own government not the other way around the aggressive bill is seeking to address concerns that tech companies and civil liberties proponents have expressed about a previous house bill that passed back in may so what's in this new bill and can realistically get passed before congress goes to recess in august i was going to earlier by r t producer tyrrell ventura to talk about just that and i first asked him what this new version entails. well senator leahy you know really went in and beefed up that initial bill he basically a bans bulk collection of data complete and it requires the government to kind of narrowly limit its scope into the you know into its of its collection an

against their own interests for once as encouraging chairman of the senate judiciary committee patrick leahy even went as far as saying quote i've always believe that amending our constitution must be subject to the highest measure of scrutiny and is something that should only be done as a last resort when the voices of hardworking americans continue to be drowned out by the money and few more serious action must be taken and i'm hardly suggesting that we should rely on the very people who benefit from this pay to play system to change it instead we should be looking at grassroots movements from outside the beltway movements like made a pac a super pac started by harvard professor lawrence lessig but ironically is raising money to elect candidates promising to repeal citizens united and other measures but of institutionalized money in politics unless they came on the show a couple months ago to talk about why the current system is so poisonous any human who spends thirty to seventy percent of your time raising money from a tiny tiny fraction of the one percent you can't help and develop an i

reform senator patrick leahy introduced new legislation today that puts sweeping limits on u.s.surveillance through the usa freedom act here's leahy announcing the bill this morning this is a debate about americans fundamental relationship with their government about whether our government you have the power to create massive databases of information about his citizens. or whether we are in control of our own government not the other way around. but aggressive bill is thinking to address concerns that tech companies and civil the liberties proponents have expressed about a previous house bill that passed back in may so what's in this new bill and can't realistically get passed before congress goes to recess in august to discuss i'm joined by r t producer tyrrell ventura tyro it's good to have you won so one of the things people were really concerned about with the last bill is that it would have still allowed for broad collection of data apparently the language and that was it was very vague what does this new version address does it address that issue well senator leahy you kno

five years old it is in the process of purportedly being strengthened particularly by senator patrick leahy who announced yesterday a new proposal that would help protect made data collection and so forth particularly addressing the problems of section two fifteen of the usa patriot act which is one of the most problematic critically for civil liberties groups and so that's very that's a positive development but we're also again here as you say for the whistleblower summit which highlights a lot of a lot of the problems that people have had over the years who have blown the whistle on corruption in government corruption in the corporate sector and of course we know the obama administration in particular has been particularly harsh on whistleblowers and people that are trying to get the truth to the public so that's definitely a divided message it is a double standard forked tongue so to speak but we're here in town to support again the whistleblowers and people can learn more whistleblower summit dot com and we've been working with some other great organizations like the government accounta

signed: patrick j. leahy, signed: patrick j. leahy, the senate is out for the july 4 holiday and lawmakers will return to business monday july 7 and of course we will have live coverage of the senate on c-span2. now we will take you back to the discussion on banking regulation focusing on community and international bank in posted by boston university. >> -- the shadow finance = hundred and 74% of assets of u.s. banks. it is a very big market presence even as measured by those even let alone but i think it really is. so it is a clear issue for the industry and i think it is also a major one for the regulators and 40 occ. for the regulatory perspective, i think that we need to think about our current approach which is bible college regulation by a charter. if you are a bank that cam talked about it gets thrown at you and the systemic at the bank holding companies with $150 billion in assets even though i think that it's silly. they are close to cam's model and the globally systemic banks. conversely, if you are in non- banked even

from the state of maine to perform the duties of the chair, signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of the nomination of pamela harris to be united states circuit judge for the fourth circuit postcloture. the time until 5:30 p.m. will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. at 5:30 the senate will proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination. immediately upon disposition of the harris nomination there will be four voice votes on the following nominations: elliot kaye to be commissioner of the consumer product safety commission. elliot kaye to be chairman of the consumer product safety commission. joseph p. mohorovic to be commissioner of consumer safety products, consumer product safety commission and brian p. mckeon, principal deputy undersecretary of defense. i ask unanimous consent that upon disposition of the mckeon nomination the senate resume legislative session in consideration of s. 2569. the presiding offi

. >>> this week senator patrick leahy has made a proposal that goes further than a similar house measure that's drawn support from civil liberties groups and the white house. the bill represents the latest step to fulfill president obama's promise to end the practice and would be the most significant change in the wake of the leaks from former nsa contractor edward snowden. >>> if you text friends using facebook, you'll have to download an app to keep sending those messages. in april facebook announced the change coming and said its messenger app is used by more than 200 million people a month. >>> keeping your family safe, wusa9 first alert weather. >> no 90s today. >> no. we'll escape the rest of july without 90s. we barely made it to 80. we were in the 70s yesterday for highs with sunshine and only 80 today with sunshine and record lows this morning, 48 at dulles. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, gorgeous outside, warmer but really not that humid, 79, dew points in the 50s, relative humidity 42%, so that should signal hey, i can probably stil

these children back to the conditions that they fled is inhumane, and the most senior democrat patrick leahy, the liberal lyon of vermont drawing parallel to this policy and the policy of world war ii an making direct comparison to the holocaust. the vitriol is quite palpable. they're very upset with what these children want to do. >> mike, great stuff as always. thank you. an u.s. soldiers has obtained a lawyer. >>> the acting secretary of the v.a. sloane gibson told senators today the agency needs the extra money from private care and to hire more doctors. gibson said the v.a. has historically worked within the budget rather than meet demand. he said that the v.a. has taken 160,000 veterans off waiting lists and into clinic. hillary clinton is still playing coy about a possible run for president. leave it up to jon stewart to get it out of her. a few hints. and rupert murdoch has been rejected. of a buyout of time warner. we'll talk about thi this with "real money" ali velshi next. @j >> there is big news in the media industry. rupert murdoch's 21st century fox made a huge bit to take over

. >> democrat senator patrick leahy held a hearing last year on mandatory minimums. after turning down the plea bargain he faced over 100 years in prison for marijuana. he was convicted on three marijuana charges. the judge was obliged to sentence angelos to a staggering 55 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole. judge cassel called it unjust. citing that angelos faced longer terms than those who had face committed three rapes, three carjackings. >> the appeal for clemency is huge for your family. what would you want president obama to know about you? >> i am a christian. i made a mistake. i had a good career ahead of me. if i get out i won't give no reason to regret it. >> sheila macvicar, al jazeer jazeera. >> we lost over $20,000 from the hospital trying to do surrogacy in mexico. it was devastating. >> if it's so much money and you put so much emotion into the operation, you're so close and it explodes. >> they said an international surrogacy organization defrauded >> weekday mornings on al jazeera america >> we do have breaking news this morni

patrick leahy, the president pro tem pour of the senate, he drew parallels turning jews back to face the holocaust and what's happening on the southern border. let's listen. >> i also remind people of the time in the past around world war ii where this country unwisely closed its borders to people who were fleeing the holocaust in germany. they came here, they returned back, sent back, many of them to certain death. >> reporter: now, it was the hispanic caucus that president obama invited here to the white house to try to talk them back. they are very angry with what the president wants to do. the president was also compelled to send him homeland security secretary, jay johnson, back to the alcohol. afterwards john mccain came back and said sending them back is the humanitarian thing to do and the only thing had a would deter the flood from the central america. >> i hope we'll act immediately in order to change that law. nothing is going to improve until the plane loads of children return to the country that they left, thereby costing their parents and families thousands of dollars.

. >>> this week senator patrick leahy introduced a bill to end the national security agency's bulk collection of phone records. it's a proposal that goes further than a similar house measure and has drawn support from several liberties group as well as the white house. the bill represents the latest step in fulfilling president obama's promise to end the nsa's collection of domestic calling records. the most significant change in the wake of the leaks of one surveillance programs by former nsa systems administrator edward snowden. >>> mobile users who text with friends via facebook must downloads the social media giant's app for doing so or lose the ability to send messages. in april facebook announced the change was coming. neighbor says its messenger app is used by more than 200 million people every month. >>> wusa9 and dc jobs trying to get you hired. centronia is looking to hire an early head start home visitor. for more information go to wusa9.com/dcjobs. >>> chinye enyi, good morning. she's our fan of the day. she says she watches wusa9 all day every day at the assisted living home with

. >> 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, chairman of the judiciary committee in the senate who orchestrated the immigration bill last year that passed the senate, he said he would fight, quote, tooth and nail to oppose it. other senators have been lining up. dick durbin, a close ally of the white house said he wants more money for kids to get lawyers. other lawyers -- other democrats in both chambers are saying that this is really an unfair tradeoff just to get some money to take care of these kids. the blowback has been pretty sharp and been pretty heated just in the last couple days since this start materializing. >> and what about -- we went through some of the history. i remember when i was covering congress in '06 when cuellar beat rodriguez in the primary. he bragged to us. i just gave him a south texas beating. i remember that's the expression he used. so obviously, you know, he's been getting a lot of, you know, sort of blowback, the democratic party the last couple weeks for how he's been talking about the president and the president's handling of the immigration crisis, the border crisis right no

democratic senator patrick leahy of vermont will introduce the legislation today.support. this all comes on the heels of a scathing joint report by human rights watch and the aclu that says nsa surveillance threatens freedom of the press. >>> a private drone trying to capture footage of a northern california wildfire briefly hindered fire fighter efforts to attack the flames from the air. officials spotted the drone sunday and immediately contacted the owners to have that unmanned aircraft grounded to avoid a possible mid-air collision. fifth verse gained an upper hand on the plays which has scorched nearly six square miles and forced hundreds of people from their homes. southwest airlines is facing a hefty government fine after allegedly failing to reply to repair orders. the faa is proposing $12 million in civil aviation penalties saying they did not properly replace fuselage skins on 44 of its aircraft. the case combines three earlier enforcement actions against the airline. southwest for their part now has 30 days to respond. those are your headlines. >> during

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 384, s. 2363, hagan sportsmen's bill. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number calendar 384, s. 2363, a bill to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and shooting, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:30. senators during that period of time will be able to speak up to ten minutes each. at 5:30 there will be two roll call votes. the first will be on the confirmation of cheryl krause to be a circuit judge. the next will be on a mexico to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to s. 2363, the hagueen sportsmen's bill. i'm told that s. 2562 is due for its second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk read the title for the second time. the clerk: a bill to provide an

i would also like to submit the statements of our chairman senator patrick leahy of christie salters martin bonnie campbell laura palms katie ray jones, every town for gun safety and the national center for victims of crime into the reco record. without objection they will be added to the record. thank you all for your support of this effort and for your courage. i would like to welcome all of our witnesses and thank them for parts of baiting the hearing and turn the microphone to my distinguished ranking member senator grassley. >> bonnie campbell you just mentioned is a former attorney general of the state of iowa. mr. chairman we are here to discuss it important subject. thanks for experts who have agreed to the palace for us. all of us want to see the federal government take appropriate action to assist in fighting domestic violence and especially domestic, sides. i have met with many victims of domestic violence over the years. i feel compassion for the physical mental and emotional injuries they have suffered and you particularly feel that when you talk to people that have expe

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 453, bring jobs home. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to the consideration of s. 2569, a bill to provide an incentive for businesses to bring jobs back to america. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will be in a period of morning business until 5:30 this evening. senators during that period of time will be permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each, with the time equally divided and controlled in the usual fashion. at 5:30 p.m., the senate will proceed to executive session and vote on confirmation of the following nominations -- julie carnes of the united states circuit -- to be united states circuit judge for the 11th circuit, michael anderson lawson, eunice reddick to be ambassador to the republic of niger. we expect roll call votes on the carnes nomination and voice votes on the lawso

one of the classic examples on the northern border is patrick leahy. the vermont senior senator resigns in his car with his license plate that says senator u.s. government or something like. he drove into a border patrol checkpoint. the border patrol agent past and to get out of his car. he said under his authority are you asking me this. i'm paraphrasing. the agent pointed to his gun and said, thus the only authority i need. so on the northern border we see a lot of -- not like a permanent check points easy in arizona, but a lot of temporary ones, of transportation checks, with the call transportation checks. border patrol agents will get on to you, get onto trains or buses traveling easter west cannot even crossing borders. buffalo and erie and detroit. it will go from passenger to passenger asking them for their citizenship. [inaudible question] >> it is pretty intense, as you said. it is that same tone and attitude. >> i mean, like, i did a lot of our research. every place i research for example, in toward i went to the southwest detroit. when i wa

i would also like to submit the statements of our chairman, senator patrick leahy, of christie salters martin, bonnie campbell, laura ponce, katie ray jones, every 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 support of this effort and your courage. i would like to thank all the witnesses for participating in the hearing and turn the microphone to my distinguished member senator grass ling. >> bonnie campbell is a former attorney general of the state of iowa. mr. chairman, we're here to discuss an important subject. thanks to our experts who agreed to be panelists for us. all of us want to see the federal government take appropriate action to assist in fighting domestic violence and especially domestic homicides. i have met with many victims of domestic violence over the years. i feel compassion for the mental and emotional injuries they have suffered. you particularly feel that when you talk to people that have experienced that. they told me of the fear they confront, and wa

listen to senator patrick leahy. >> at the beginning of the holocaust, look at the people who died. number of jews who went to the ovens because we forgot our principles. >> so there's the holocaust in central america? we know there's a problem of violence. we know that bill that so many are streaming across our southern border protects anybody who is a victim of sexual trafficking. we know that. but, you know, it's always dangerous to compare things to a holocaust. i know representative gutierrez said of the people who are here now, he thought 90 to 95 would probably wind up being deported. that shows you the problem with the holocaust he's drawing a comparison -- >> those who think they may come here without issues may fall to great critique. experts say you go through mexico you're subject to physical, sexual abuse at the hands of drug cartels there. >> a problem. >> much more on this throughout the show this morning. are you guys ready? it's almost training camp time for football, football season. >> ten days ago for some camps. >> the nfl about to kick off. cbs -- the head of c

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 438, s. 2234, the terrorism risk insurance. officer the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 438, s. 2244, a bill to extend the termination date of the terrorism insurance program and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at 11:45 earnlg the senate resume consideration of s. 2363, the bipartisan sportsmen's act, and the senate proceed to vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the bill. further, that notwithstanding rule 22 following the cloture vote, the senate proceed to executive session, as provided under our previous order. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: so following my remarks and those of the republican leader, there will be a period of morning business until 11:15 today. senators will be permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each during that time, with the time equally divide

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leerksd the senate will be in a period of morning business until 12:00 noon today. during that period of time, senators will be permitted to speak up to ten minutes each. the time will be equally divided and controlled between the leaders or their designees. at noon shall th, the senate wio executive session and provide to votes on three nominations: julian castro, mayor of san antonio, texas, to be the secretary of house being and urban development, darci vert, and william adams to be chairperson for the national endowment of the humanities. there will be roll caught votes on the nomination of the castro nomination and we expect voice votes on the vetter and adams nominations. following that there will be a motion to proceed to s. 2363. we expect that vote to be by voice also. senators should expect one roll call vote today at about noon. mr. president, s. 2569 is due for its second reading i'm told. the presiding officer: t

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president?he presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to calendar number 453, the bring jobs home act. this will be postcloture time. cloture has been invoked on this measure. at 1:45 this afternoon, there will be a voice vote on adoption of the motion to proceed to the bring jobs home act. there will be a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of pamela harris to be united states circuit judge for the fourth circuit, followed by a voice vote on confirmation of the nomination of lisa disbrow to be an assistant secretary of the air force. i ask unanimous consent that at 3:40 this afternoon, the senate conduct a moment of silence in member of the 1998 capitol shooting that resulted in the deaths of special agents john gibson and officer jacob chestnut. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: s. 2649 is due for a second reading here in

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president?the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 488. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 488, s. 2648, a bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. mr. reid: following my remarks and those of the republican leader the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to the emergency supplemental appropriations bill postcloture. the time until 10:00 will be equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. the majority will control the time from 11 until 12:00. we will notify all senators when votes are scheduled. s. 2709 is due for its second reading, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. the clerk: s. 2709, a bill to extend and reauthorize the export-import bank of the united states and and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. pres

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president?e presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: what is now before the senate? the presiding officer: the senate under previous order is now in leader time. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to s. 2569, with the time until 11:00 a.m. equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. at 11:00 a.m., there will be a roll call vote on the motion to proceed to invoke cloture on the motion regarding the bring jobs home act, s. 2569, followed by voice votes on the following three nominations -- confirmation of julia aikins clark to be general counsel for the federal labor relations authority, confirmation of andrew shapiro to be ambassador of the czech republic, and qirnlings -- mr. president, i have a colloquy between the republican leader, senator boxer, and me. i ask consent it be placed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid:

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number number 459, s. 2578, protect women's health from corporate interference. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 459, s. 2578, a bill to ensure that employers cannot interfere in their employees birth control and other health care decisions. mr. reid: there are two bills at the desk due for second reading, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the bills for the second time. the clerk: s. 2609, a bill to restore states sovereign rights to enforce state and local sales and use tax laws, and for other purposes. h.r. 5021, an act to provide an extension of federal aid highway, and so forth and for other purposes. mr. reid: i would object to any further proceedings regarding these bills at this time. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed upon the calendar. mr. reid: mr. presid

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 459, s. 2578, protect women's health from corporate interference act. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 459, a bill to ensure that employers cannot interfere in their employees birth control and other health care decisions. mr. reid: mr. president, following my remarks and those of the republican leader, if any, there will be a period of morning business until 6:00 this evening with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. there will be no roll call votes during today's session of the senate. mr. president, the reason for that is last week we were able to get a few things done. we were able to do some things around here like we used to do. i know my republican colleagues lament how things used to be. well, i was there. i know how things used to be. and one of the things we used to do is we would work out pieces of legisla