even patrick leahy. that's is one of the points in the book looking at a broader civil liberties issue and as expansion continues in those 100 miles loans if the agents are allowed to have this extra constitutional power where you can be pulled over for whatever reason with a checkpoint? >> no checkpoint. no vehicle no camera. just waved over at a point between the borders of the two states the speed limit goes down so if you slow down to the proper 25 miles per hour someone can wave you over safely. >> those are the incidents better becoming quite commonplace and is normal. >> was a few days after the incident of the border security individual being shot at the border. i felt vaguely as though this was a crackdown on the border but the border between arizona and california. [laughter] >> it was a border security mission to pull you over because they thought you were undocumented or smuggling fee and an undocumented person or could be or a national security risk. those are the three types of reasons. >>

one and classic example is patrick leahy the vermont senior senator he was driving with his license plate says u.s. government or something but he drove into of border patrol checkpoint they asked him to get out of his car he said under whose authority are you asking me this? the agent according to his testimony pointed to his gun and said that is the only authority i need. on the northern border not the permanent checkpoints the alliance of transportation checks that border patrol agents would get onto trains or buses not . >> so people do their laundry. and if the police did not have proper documents then you can go visit the man. so more stories like that of the u.s.-canada border. then you see the surveillance tower on the niagara and st. clair river then you hear less about border prosser -- prosser. >> you mentioned at the beginning of the border lands have become a constitutional freeze alone the constitution freeze on the. it sounds like a laundromat type of situation that they donny need the papers they just do it is that your experience from talking to these people? as far as th

friedman the zooms in a revelation prompted senator patrick leahy to grill usaid administrator dr rajiv shah at a recent hearing the legislation doesn't say anything about setting up a cock i mean the idea in cuba twitter accounts and all now this latest usa program was even more cockamamie recruiting young cubans stan type government activism theory number of fake civic programs including an h i.v. prevention workshop a ploy that could discredit the rest of us aid humanitarian missions all around the world. in two thousand and thirteen bolivian president evo morales kicked usaid out of his country claiming that the agency acted like a wing of the cia you may remember in a two thousand and nine speech in egypt president obama touted this new u.s. humanitarian mission today i'm announcing a new global effort with the organization of the islamic conference to eradicate polio well that mission ended quickly since the cia decided to use a fake vaccination program in pakistan to collect the d.n.a. of osama bin laden's family since then actual vaccination workers have been suspected of workin

cuban regime and they'll do whatever they can they certainly are i want to play a clip of senator patrick leahy questioning the usa idea administrator dr rajiv shah about the program. if we can so you're. working. with the cuban government in child survival programs so it could be done. my understanding of the. amendment is that we would not be precluded from engaging in those kinds of so. it would make sure that. we are we wouldn't we wouldn't. i like to claim right there i mean do you think that's really what's preventing actual cooperation at this point well i certainly think that the homes burton act is part of the larger the larger embargo the larger blockade is absolutely critical to understanding this reality certainly the u.s. embargo the u.s. blockade of cuba which has cost them over hundreds of billions of dollars in the years it's been in place has done quite a bit quite a bit to impact the humanitarian situation as well as the economy of cuba and the fact that they will covertly do things that they won't openly do shows how unbelievably byzantine this situation is eugene why why doe

one of the classic examples was patrick leahy. is the vermont senior senator driving with a license plate that said u.s. government but he drove into le checkpoint in agent asked him to get out of his car and he said under whose authority? i am paraphrasing and the agent according to testimony pointed to his gun and said that is all the authority that i need. on the northern border we see a lot of temporary ones that the border patrol agents will get on going east to west to rochester and buffalo and teacher '08. >> tavis thinking more of the tone and attitude. it is pretty intense is that this same attitude? >> and i did a lot of research and every place i went to southwest detroit people told stories it has a huge latin american population a lot of love undocumented people and it is as if there is border patrol everywhere. he got arrested the other day when he was going to work at the bus stop at 4:00 p.m. and pulled over and asked him of citizenship or the family services center at a food pantry and director of the community ce

i would also like to submit the statements of our chairman, senator patrick leahy, of bonnie laura ponce, katie ray 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 for your courage. i would like to welcome all our witnesses and thank them for participating in the hearing, and turn the microphone to my distinguished ranking member, senator grassley. >> bonnie campbell is a former attorney general of the state of iowa. we are here to discuss a very important subject. thanks to our experts, who have 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, sides. -- homicides. 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 experienced that. they have told me of the fear that they c

i mean, i have incidents in the book like the one i mentioned on the nation, patrick leahy, you know but yeah, that's one of, i think that's one of the points of the book that we are looking at, we are potentially looking at a broader civil liberties issue. and as expansion continued annually in those hundred mile zone's, a federal agents, homeland security czar allowed to have this kind of extra constitutional powers where you can be pulled over, anyone can be pulled over for whatever reason, was that a checkpoint or -- >> it wasn't a checkpoint. it was strange. there was no vehicle there, no camera to record. >> you were just pulled over randomly. >> pulled over at a point where, between the borders of the two states, california and arizona. the speed limit goes down so that if you slow down to the proper 25-mile an hour speed limit, someone can waive over safely. and that's what took place. >> so that's, those are the kind of incidents that are becoming quite commonplace, quite normal actually. >> this took place a few days after the incident of a border security individual being

. >> 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 recently introduced a senate version of a would rein in the n.s.a. to some extent. i saw where you were quoted as veryg it's going to be difficult to get a bill out of capitol hill given that the a differentssed version. what is your view in terms of where the line should be drawn on n.s.a. surveillance? well, if i were concerned at n.s.a. was listening in on a telephone anybody sitting in this room today, i would be totally outraged. get briefed on these programs on a regular been to n.s.a.e any number of times, i've watched what they do. our oversight. that's part of my responsibility of you, andntative diane's responsibility as a knowsentative of you, to what these programs are and to know what they do and to know n.s.a. is going with programs of this nature and we do -- there is no program in the that isence community more highly scrutinized than metadataall the collection program that n.s.a. has been operating. congress approved what we call the foreign intelligence surveillance act that gives n.s.a., gives c.i.a. folks in the intelligence commu

vermont's patrick leahy, the senate's longest serving member. tom harkin is retiring this year. so are congressman henry waxman and george miller, both of california. minnesota congressman rick nolan was first elected in '74. he retired in '80 but he returned to the house in 2012. part of our series of exit interviews with retiring senators and key members of congress, i talked to two of these watergate babies. here's an excerpt. >> what does that mean to you to be a watergate baby? >> i think that it really was that we came out of an election where the country was in turmoil over vietnam, over watergate. a change was in the air. >> you guys felt like you had a mission in many ways. >> yeah. we were brassy. >> so looking back, what did you get done that you're like, boy, i'm glad we had that small window of opportunity because if you hadn't done it then, you wouldn't have gotten it done. >> i think clearly ending the war in vietnam. cutting off the funding for the war in vietnam and saying this is now over, you can ramp it down but it's over was really important to us. i think a

one and classic example is patrick leahy the vermont senior senator he was driving with his license plate says u.s. government or something but he drove into of border patrol checkpoint they asked him to get out of his car he said under whose authority are you asking me this? the agent according to his testimony pointed to his gun and said that is the only authority i need. on the northern border not the permanent checkpoints the alliance of transportation checks that border patrol agents would get onto trains or buses not crossing borders even . >> so people do their laundry. and if the police did not have proper documents then you can go visit the man. so more stories like that of the u.s.-canada border. then you see the surveillance tower on the niagara and st. clair river then you hear less about border prosser -- prosser. >> you mentioned at the beginning of the border lands have become a constitutional freeze alone the constitution freeze on the. it sounds like a laundromat type of situation that they donny need the papers they just do it is that your experience from talking to thes

senator patrick leahy recently introduced a senate version of a would rein in the n.s.a. to some extent. i saw where you were quoted as veryg it's going to be difficult to get a bill out of capitol hill given that the a differentssed version. what is your view in terms of where the line should be drawn on n.s.a. surveillance? well, if i were concerned at n.s.a. was listening in on a telephone anybody sitting in this room today, i would be totally outraged. get briefed on these programs on a regular been to n.s.a.e any number of times, i've watched what they do. our oversight. that's part of my responsibility of you, andntative diane's responsibility as a knowsentative of you, to what these programs are and to know what they do and to know n.s.a. is going with programs of this nature and we do -- there is no program in the that isence community more highly scrutinized than metadataall the collection program that n.s.a. has been operating. congress approved what we call the foreign intelligence surveillance act that gives n.s.a., gives c.i.a. folks in the intelligence commu

senator patrick leahy and senator john boone. the series is a great platform to debate and discuss internet policy issues. privacy experts and regulators have been discussing the right to be forgotten for several years now. in may the european court of justice reached a decision that many say found the right to be forgotten within the existing european data protection directive. the bottom line is search engines can be asked to remove links to certain websites from their search results. we have a distinguished panel to tell us what this all means for us as internet users -- i would like to introduce our panelists very quickly. our first panel list is mike godman, who is a senior policy advisor with interviews. he was also the former general parent organization of wikipedia, which will be interesting and relevant here. >> from the center of democracy and technology. the next panelist is david hoffman, the director of security policy and the global privacy officer from intel. the next panelist is rob, a columnist with yahoo! tech a

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: our good chaplain is still in the chamber and he has such a way with words. i'm so impressed with the prayer this morning where he recognized the only way we get things done around here, maybe as little as it, and if we could do more we could get more with the good staff we have. i appreciate the prayer of the chaplain and extend my appreciation for the hard work of this staff. everyone in this room works hard, whether they're police officers, enrolling clerks. they do everything. and i'm really grateful to what they do to help us all look better. i wish we did more so that we would look better, but that's the way it is. i move to proceed to calendar number 471. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 471, s.j. res. 19, joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the united states relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. mr. rei

probably come down for the more senior democrats to call for his resignation like patrick leahy on thehis a trend here in the nsa is supposed to be spying on foreigners. the other countries are supposed to be the focus of our intelligence gathering efforts. not american citizens. they are spying on you and me and now members of congress? talk about a perversion. how can we have this type of intrusion. president obama yesterday was trying to address this in front of the press conference yesterday. listen. in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong we did a whole lot of things that were right. but we tortured some folks. we did things that were contrary to our values. >> just some folks. just some people we rounded up having breakfast at cracker barrel. just some folks. what is that? who talks like that? is this guy really the president? we tortured some folks. what are you talking about? >> a couple of other democrats dianne feinstein and mentioned the white house press secretary josh earnest coming out. we are thankful that he came forward. this is honest, t

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore.ding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up five minutes each. mr. coons: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to house concurrent resolution 112, which was received from the house and is at the desk. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the clerk will report. the clerk: providing for a conditioning adjournment of the house of representatives and the conditional recess or adjournment of the senate. mr. coons: i know of no further debate on the measure. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not, all in favor say aye. opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have t the ayes do have it. the violence agreed to. mr. coons: dishaict the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: i unders

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, and pursuant to the provisions and pursuant to the provisions >> so the senate is a journey for the remainder of their september recess. later that day at 5:30 p.m. senators will take up a series of confirmation votes including jill prior to serve as judge of the 11th u.s. circuit court of appeals. as well as three of the presidential nominees deserve on the social security a vice report. we will return now to the discussion on ways to reduce carbon emissions. >> so air capture could become a storage option for intermission electricity by holding the energy in liquid fuel when you have too much. and ultimately you can draw down the co2 in the atmosphere. if you were big enough to do with the entire transportation sector, you now scale up by another order of magnitude, you draw the co2 down from the atmosphere and could get there but you can't really get there until you solve, until you stopped the meeting. otherwise you're not really ne