ralph nader ran for president four times. the first time he ran was in 1996. ralph nader ran on the green party ticket. he made the ballot in 22 states that year. he ended up getting .7% of the vote. bi bill clinton cleaned up that year in 1996. bob dole was way behind bill clinton. the coming of ross perot, he got about 8% that year. in 1996 there was ralph nader in fourth place that year with less than 1% of the vote. in 2000, obviously ralph nader ran again. ran again on the green party ticket. and comparatively speaking he did great in the year 2000. he got 2.7% of the vote. and rightly or wrongly democrats to this day still blame the spoiler effect of the ralph nader candidacy in 2000 for having cost al gore just enough votes to deliver to the country and ultimately the world the administration of george w. bush and dick cheney. ralph nader never accepted that he played any sort of spoiler role in the 2000 election whatsoever. and much to many democrats' chagrin he came back in 2004 and ran again. this time as an independent candidate, not as a green part

ralph nader, always an honor to have you on this program. >> nice to be here. t that some might have just turned the volume up on their television they thought they heard me introduce ralph mader to talk an emerging about left right alliance. you are the guy who has fought guys for all these years and now you want to get into an alliance? enoughnk there is goodwill in washington for the left and right to come together issues? >> only he we start with the people back home and that is where the left right alliance start. people whether liberals, conservatives, libertarians, don't wants, they corporate subsidies and bailouts of wall street. street. more for main they don't want restrictions on civil liberties and freedoms and governmentwant the to snoop. they want revisions in the patriot act. wage for 30 million poem, they want them to get at inst when people were paid 1968 adjusted for inflation. ant could be close to $11 hour when the minimum wage is frozen at $7.25. they don't like the job-destroying corporate trade agreements like nafta and wto. community aswh

[video clip] >> ralph nader do you think congress deserves a 350% salary increase? -- 50% salary increase? >> not at all they got a $14,500 increase 23 months ago. they have increased it 48% since 1981 to the present. they get generous pension comprehensive health and life insurance, $3,000 housing deduction and list of perks the lengths of a train so i think that they are now in the top 1% of income in the u.s., 99% of the people get to earn less. if you look at the deficit in washington, if you look at the scandals that are not corrected involving the executive branch and all the program cutbacks in head start and health and safety and education and low income housing and the rest, this is not the time to raise these fellows' income? >> what about the issue if you paid them more they wouldn't need the money from outside and help they get from lobbying groups? guest: they will always need the money to get campaign contributions because that is going sky high. personally, i think they get about $170,000 plus benefits. a lot of people would like that. a lot of people

ost: ralph nader, in your new book you start off the book and introduction by saying when of king about the genesis this back i remember the days working in my family's restaurant. you start that way? guest: because we were opposite of these opec style factories and down the street with e county courthouse the jurors and a lot of sales people going through town and up in my dad's strapbrestaurant. they talked. they talked about sports, ankees, red sox, local factory situations or politics in general. even though they would always answer whether they ere republican or democrat or neither, that isn't the way they talked. hey talked in terms of what people react to when they work and live in a community. it was not ideological. i began it realize that they with labels, red state, blue state mentality. hey just came in talking about things on the ground. nd when you go from the abstraction of ideological clashes which the manipulators to divide and rule us down to where people live on the grounds it is a different type conversation. host: how long did you work for your dad in the restaurant

eastern on c-span. " with ralph nader. then, reddish prime minister david cameron taking questions at the house of commons. after that, secretary of state john kerry and british foreign secretary william hague on syria. >> for over 35 years, c-span brings public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences, and offering complete coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we are c-span, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> this week on "q&a" our guest is ralph nader who discusses his career in political activism and his new book, "unstoppable: the emerging left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state". host: ralph nader, in your new book you start off the book and introduction by saying when thinking about the genesis of this book i r

this is something i ralph nader brought up when i talk to him afterwards it's a good reason the people god your words today for blowing the whistle on destructive behavior by our government against our constitution against our laws who weren't were not interesting enough for any of the media to show up any of us me mainstream media to show up. but to her there's no audio or video recording allowed active and of course that didn't stop us from being their incumbent real interest in facing criminal charges their concerns borders of what might be might be said that the sort of ann summers lot of caution about the court was switched with recording was loved by many new specifics about what the nsa may be up to it and that nothing new as far as new documents or anything like that starting to dress a few important issues to talk about the future us justice system not. within twenty four hours had charges slapped on him once they found out we was disallowed people like james clock for the director of national intelligence to lie to congress with impunity and other members the government to ph

and on the flip side, ralph nader is here. he explains why he wants a smart billionaire, as opposed to the dumb ones, to run for president. and why he's so against another clinton presidency. >> also this morning, before bridgegate blew up, why was chris christies only recent republican to find statewide success in the guaarden state? his mentor, former governor tom cane is here on the future of his party and one-time protege. good morning from washington, it's thursday, it's may day around the world. may 1st here in the united states, 2014. as you know, may day is the big labor day around the world, just not here in the united states. we start with new details on the record breaking rain and devastating floods that are impacting millions of americans this morning. the latest spring storm system flooded states from the plains to the deep south and now up into the mid-atlantic region. neighborhoods outside of philadelphia recorded almost 7 inches of rain overnight. flooding in the florida panhandle might have caused a gas explo

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ost: ralph nader, in your new book you start off the book and introduction by saying when of king about the genesis this back i remember the days working in my family's restaurant. you start that way? guest: because we were opposite of these opec style factories and down

after that, q&a with consumer advocate ralph nader. live at 7:00 a.m., your calls and comments on "washington journal. >> analysts include student survivors of assault. campus safety and sexual assault of advocacy leaders organizations. live coverage begins at 2:00 2.stern on c-span on wednesday, several manufacturers called on congress to protect intellectual property and address trade secrets theft. the problem is out of control and companies are being attacked every day. congress is examining how companies are affected, and whether there are sufficient laws to punish violators. this is about an hour and a half.

ralph nader joins us.e advocate of consumer safety and has written a book called "unstoppable." it just came out this week. thank you for joining us. you say we need to bridge this partisan divide and come together to create policies beneficial to americans across the board. build toge can we create job policies? >> it has already happened in the past. when we have gotten things done in this country, it is often left-right alliance. we see it in the state legislatures. we are seeing it for the minimum wage to restore it to the level of 1968, inflation-adjusted. that would raise wages for 30 million people and put billions into the consumer demand framework as a stimulus to the economy. a second area that has not gone operational yet has huge support is the left-right alliance for major works, community-based public works to repair our country, public transit, sewage, water systems. all of which create the jobs that cannot be exported. there are many other areas in my book. they are current news areas. the

you can't stop that constitutionally. >> no, you can break them up under the anti trust laws. >> ralph naderyou agree with him or not. nader is a patriot. >> thank you, bill. >>> bill and dennis miller will be bringing the bolder fresher tour to the trail in honolulu tomorrow. information about the tour is available on billoreilly.com. perfect for father's day if you sign up for a premium membership you get a pen, book and total. check that out. >>> up next, am i a pen head or patriot? bill oc'reilly himself will giv what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer ] just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. [ corrine ] super poligrip is part of my life now. to seal out more food particles. intercourse that's painfulit... due to menopausal changes. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. premarin vaginal cream. a prescription that does what no over-the-counter product was d

emerging left right alliance to dismantle the corporate state ralph nader the guy i voted for for president in two thousand joins us now in the studio great to have you back but it's mr nader. you know what most people think about and slowly and brilliant book and so let's get into this the most people think about politics in america they think about extreme partisanship you know the vote that they just had just hours ago in the in the house to let's investigate and gossip is going to stuff. in your book you say is not really the case why it's a divide new strategy by the corporate powers of received they can split. opinion and put the left right to focus on where they do disagree like reproductive rights or gun control they control the scene and they keep the left and right moving on where they do agree and where they do agree would take power away from the corporate brokers. and it would get a lot of things done in this country where they agree eighty percent almost eighty percent comes in for a higher minimum wage that's a lot of conservative workers at wal-mart and other places right ni

at 8:00 eastern, "q&a" with consumer advocate ralph nader. >> "newsmakers" welcomes this week mel watt. has an enormous influence on the housing market. you gave your first public shrinking freddie mac and fannie mae. i was wondering if you can talk about what exactly do you see as your mandate at fhfa? >> multiple mandates. we have preserve an conserve mandate. we have a mandate to assure liquid resilient housing finance market and i think we have a mandate to reduce -- to taxpayers. i try to make the difference between shrinking the current footprint of fannie mae and freddie mac and shrinking their risk exposure. i don't think it's our role necessarily to shrink the footprint of fannie and freddie. >> why wouldn't you want to do that? >> it's not that i'm opposed to it. we will certainly allow it to happen to the extent that the private sector is ready to step into the space. if the private sector is not ready to step into the space and you shrink what fannie and freddie are doing, then you do damage to housing finance in this country. that does damage to the economy and it does dam

you can't stop that constitutionally. >> no, you can break them up under the anti trust laws. >> ralph naderriot if you agree with him or not. nader is a patriot. >> thank you, bill. >>> bill and dennis miller will be bringing the bolder fresher tour to the trail in honolulu tomorrow. information about the tour is available on billoreilly.com. perfect for father's day if you sign up for a premium membership you get a pen, book and total. check that out. >>> up next, am i a pen head or patriot? bill oc'reilly himself will giv the answer of this. can you start tomorrow? tomorrow we're booked solid. we close on the house tomorrow. tomorrow we go live... it's a day full of promise. and often, that day arrives by train. big day today? even bigger one tomorrow. csx. how tomorrow moves. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ here's a good one seattle... what did geico say to the mariner? we could save you a boatload! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ what's seattle's favorite noise? the puget sound! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ all right, never mind doesn't matter. this is a classic. what does an alien seamstress sew with? a space needle!

ralph nader ran for president four times. the first time he ran was in 1996.r ran on the green party ticket. he made the ballot in 22 states that year. he ended up getting .7% of the vote. bi bill clinton cleaned up that year in 1996. bob dole was way behind bill clinton. the

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. >> ralph nader tonight on "q&a." >> a bill is on the legislative agenda for the house this week. the house rules committee meets tomorrow to determine the rules for debating the bill. we'll have that live on c-span 3. >> you had boxes. you had a box for broadcasters. a box for telephone companies. a box for long distance, cable, satellite. we had to come in and try to eliminate the lines of demarcation and demote competition. believing competition there will be more investment and consumer choice. i think the result has proven us correct. that's exactly what happened. when the 1996 act was written he focused on telephone services. we focused on cable tv service and we wanted to take the steps to make that market competitive which we did. the primary focus was really what they called pot. plain old telephone service. today the landscape is fundamentally different. the fcc has managed without clear direction from congress about how the transition from the era of telephone service to the time everything is delivered over the interpret should take -- internet should take place. >> ev

and then william haig on syria and consumer advocate ralph nader. during this week's question time, british prime minister told members that the u.k. will offer assistance to the abducted school girls. and partner with the u.s. in the search. the prime minister dismissed claims that the nigerian government isn't doing enough to find the girls. and the -- this is about 35 minutes. >> order. questions for the prime minister. jonathan edwards. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with colleagues and others and in addition to my duties, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> u.k. has 104 billionaires. london has 72 billionaires, top city in the world. is the prime minister concerned? that most of our people are getting filthy rich? >> what is worth while is the massive fall in unemployment and increasing employment that we have seen across our country. terms of wales today, unemployment has fallen by 5,000 and fallen by 25,000 since the last election. that means in wales, 59,000 more people in wo

. >> next, q and a with ralph nader. live at 7:00, there calls and comments on the washington journal. u.s. house gavels in the four speeches. the legislation gens at 2:00. today, mike pence will speak at an event hosted by the american enterprise institute. c-span watch it live on two. c-span's latest book is a collection of our best storytellers very the the french engineer and architect. symbolic work of sculpture that is the great way york, thentry in new statue of liberty. rivers and towns and universities and colleges all over the country have french names. we don't pronounce some of the way that they do. >> the influence of france on this country is far greater than most people appreciate. published by public affairs books and now available at your favorite bookseller. >> this week on q and a, our guest is ralph nader, who discusses his career in political activism and his new -- theunstoppable emerging alliance to derail the corporate stay." >> they would end up in my dad's restaurant. it is a big sprawling resta

. >> will you have to do to be the next ralph nader? >> you have to have a very gratifying life. go for, because justice is a great work of human beings on earth. you can't have liberty or freedom without justice. then, i would get down to yourfics, apropos of question. one is, you have to share the credit. you can't have legal control freak. you just minimize yourself. you can't so a lot of seeds. second, you have to have what i call a civic personality. that is, you can't be discouraged and burnout. you're going to lose a lot of battles. human to win some, but you will lose some. you have to have a built-in resiliency. when the doctor goes to hospital every day, he doesn't expect only help the people there. he expects people who need the doctor's help. you have to have a resiliency. that is very important. the third thing is, you have to keep up-to-date. you don't want to sound like a tired tyrant. you have to keep up-to-date, you have to sell new yourself as john gardner wrote. >> what you read that we wouldn't think about to stay up with what is going on inside the government

dennis ka sinnage, and ralph nader, and even bernie sanders, because they based their beliefs on basico that's why i think the message of liberty should be appealing across the board. there is a quote that nixon made one time. he says we're all cane see ans now. he was right, but it was philosophically, they were caneseeians. so they are all caneseeans. so i see it in philosophical terms. and it's not so neat. >> you are from an elect ability perspective the most compelling libertarian who has run for presidential office in a very long time. and yet you hit ceiling there. why couldn't you get -- you were so compelling and in fact on a hot streak for a while. why does there seem to be a ceiling for a libertarian candidate? >> well, i don't believe there is. i believe there's limitations from the coverage. but for instance when i was hitting the peak, we had a debate, and i had 89 seconds in the whole debate. and my supporters that were very much involved were a lot more critical. i always try to say it's politics. that's the way it works, but others were pretty critical about the whole

ralph nader and i just had a long visit the other day, and we talked about the things we agree with. on economics take for instance the difference between corporatism, and free market. so we both despise corporatism, the big corporations running the show, so we pick the things that we can agree on, so i think that is the way to work, because you are right. i mean how many people are you going to get to agree on every single thing. when it comes to [ inaudible ] i'm a little bit firmer on that. but i was watching an interview the other night of milton friedman, and they said what was your opinion of the federal reserve? and he says we shouldn't have one. and i thought that's pretty good. but, no, if you move in the right direction, you should accept it. let's say we have a fed and we're not going to get rid of it. and we can stop them from being a price fixer and fixing the price of money. >> are you encouraged by this fed and the ben bernanke giving press conferences? does that make you feel better? >> not a whole lot. i guess i have become too cynical about, you know, having straigh

and ran as the libertarian party's presidential nominee in 2008 and did terribly, even worse than ralph nader did that year. he's back running on an impeach obama platform and it will be him against barry loudermilk in a republican district running in a runoff to see who will be the republican nominee for the seat. still a lot of stuff outstanding. stay with us. you got the bargain kind? you need a bunch of those to clean this mess. then i'll use a bunch of them. then how is that a bargain? [ sighs ] no, that's too many -- it's not gonna fit! whoa! cascade kitchen and math counselor. here's a solution. one pac of cascade complete cleans tough food better than six pacs of the bargain brand combined. so you can tackle tough messes the first time. that is more like it. how are you with taxes? [ laughs ] [ counselor ] and for even more cleaning power, try cascade platinum. [ laughs ] if you're looking to buy a car,t this?? now is the time and truecar is the way. just go to truecar.com to lock in guaranteed savings... without negotiation. thank you! happy memorial day weekend! dog: what, what? mat

democratic party a consensus that she's going to be the nominee and i don't think you're going to see a ralph nader tried he has no credibility at all, that would strip votes away from her. >> robert trayhnam, do you think the fact bill clinton is playing defense and live down the perception he was so pro big business signals a shift in what americans want from economic policy? >> no question about it he's playing to the current political winds. let's not revisit history but we need to and that is the 1990s were very good to all americans out there for two reasons. number one because bill clinton was in the white house from an economic standpoint and republicans were in the house and senate in 1994 and enforced this president more to the center on economic policy. a lot of people forget this, the 1992 tax increases that george h.w. bush signed into law also helped as well. it was a combination of all three things that actually worked. the 1990s from an economic standpoint were very, very good and bill clinton should be proud of that. >> trying to harken back to happy memories. here. we'll see how t

and ran as the libertarian party's presidential nominee in 2008 and did terribly, even worse than ralph nader did that year. he's back running on an impeach obama platform and it will be him against barry loudermilk in a republican district running in a runoff to see who will be the republican nominee for the seat. still a lot of stuff outstanding. stay with us. we're live. d someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. golive garden'svorites asignature favorites, just $10 including creamy fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. plus unlimited soup or salad and warm breadsticks. signature favorites, just $10 all week long, at olive garden. i use my citi thankyou card to get two times the points at the coffee shop. which will help me get to miami...and they'll be stuck at the cube farm. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn two times the points on dining out with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards. you alwa

. >> ralph nader, sunday night at 8 p.m. >> michael kimmelman is an altar for the new york times.s recent travels to other cities where public spaces have become the site of mass protests and activist movements. from el university, this is one hour and 20 minutes -- from yale university, this is one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you guys. that was incredible. >> thank you all for coming today. today. so i read last week that the mayor of madrid wants to ban all protests in the center of the spanish capitol. anyone that has traveled to spain has come across rotesters in public places -- last month tens of thousands of demonstrators took madrid ne square in with continuing unemployment measures. during the night some protesters clashed with police. so the mayor who earlier in the buskers. ed down on petitioned the national government to prevent all gatherings in central madrid at a time they need to attract tourism and investment it undermines the city's image. i would say that the reverse is true. they prove the vitality and resilience of the spanish. in kiev demonstrato

award back in two thousand and eleven was there a member of congress alan grayson was there also ralph nader a former presidential candidate was there i spoke with him about a few issues after the ceremony also snowden and laura portress themselves appeared live video link to address the conference snowden talked about his motivations for releasing these documents and he kept reiterating the point that he wanted to return these documents to the american people that was the main message you want to get across is these documents don't belong to the n.s.a. they belong to the american people and it was necessary that the american people see these documents so that we can have the sort of debate over the n.s.a. as capabilities laura poitras talked about her first interactions with snowden about beefing up her encryption knowledge to handle these these documents interesting thing there was hardly any other mainstream media at the events this was something that ralph nader brought up when i talked to him afterwards. it's significant isn't it that the the people who got the award today for blowing t

. >> ralph nader, tonight at 8:00 >> sylvia also burwell was chosen by president obama to replace halfling sebelius as health and human services secretary. she is currently the white house budget director will stop she wrapped up her final hearing on tuesday. the hearing was two hours and 40 minutes. >> finance committee will come to order. the finance committee meets today to discuss the nomination of sylvia burwell. she will be the secretary of department of health and human services. if one thing has become clear in the months since the president announced her nomination, it is that she is tremendously well respected. ledonly by those she has and worked with in the administration, but by democrats and republicans in congress as well. that should not come as any big surprise. last year the senate confirmed her nomination to be the director of the office of management and budget by a vote of 96-zero. that was a big and well deserved bipartisan endorsement. ms. burwell's background of results shows why she has earned that respect. she is a graduate of harvard and oxford where she was a rho

. >> on another topic, has ralph nader given any kind of an update? >> what i can tell you about mr. nader is that he has been dispatched to the va at the secretary's suggestion. a suggestion that was endorsed strongly by the president. the president is focused on the review that secretary shinseki has announced and has launched a of the allegations regarding waiting lists and disclosure, wedding less and wait times when it comes to getting benefits and services. i can tell you that robb is on his way to phoenix to visit the phoenix veterans affairs medical facility and to meet with its acting director. as part of this review the president looks forward to the results, both of their review and of the independent investigation that is under way and is being conducted by the inspector general. >> what is the president's expectation in terms of the timetable of the review? >> i would refer you to the kiffin -- cave -- va for a timetable. the president's expectations for it to be a comprehensive and for >> we refer you for questions. >> and how would you

but ralph nader and another group of liberals wrote to her urging her to exercise more of her authorityn persuading walmart. you have the elizabeth warren wing of the party that's getting a lot of attention lately. let's remember something interesting about where hillary clinton and bill clinton are now vis-a-vis where they were when they entered national politics. they were making $35,000 a year when he was governor of arkansas. now they have made in excess of $100 million on speeches. so they may not be in the eyes of many democrats the best messengers for the message of economic populism. >> you know -- >> $100 million? >> they've got a nice quote between the two of them. >> $100 million. >> highest paid. >> not bad. >> in listening to him just briefly, he spoke for two hours. >> no, he did not. stop it, barnicle. that's his first convention he spoke at. that was horrible. >> he was up for two hours with charts and graphs. >> don't tell me that. >> tim didn't stay for the two hours. >> i was going to say i hope he took his iphone and played angry birds. >> one of the interesting aspe

joining us is former presidential candidate, consumer advocate, ralph nader.ower act on corporate fraud on the taxpayer. that was a big win for left-right alliance. you can see it in the past whenever they got together, they form an unstoppable majority. going forward, we're seeing emerging in various stages a left-right alliance to bring the minimum wage up to where it was, inflation adjusted in 1968 for 30 million workers. we see a left-right alliance to revise the patriot act and preserve our civil liberties and stop government dragnet snooping. we see a left-right alliance to crack down on wall street speculation, break up the big banks who are too big to fail because they're risking another crash. and to prosecute the crooks on wall street, we're seeing an increasing left-right alliance to pull back on empire and wars overseas and the bloated military budget. and we're seeing a,-n left-rigt alliance to revise those job-destroying trade agreements. nafta, wto and the emerging pacific trade agreement. that's a pretty good start. >> think about a lot of the

lose your >> ralph nader, sunday, "q&a."., c-span's >> president obama traveled to encourageednesday to infrastructure spending. he called on congress to act on restoring the highway trust fund and outlined his plan to expedite infrastructure projects. thepresident spoke at washington irving boat club in tari town. he was introduced by new york governor andrew cuomo. this is 25 minutes. >> it's an honor. much.you very thank you. afternoon, westchester! first to chris horton, it is an with mario confused cuomo. let me tell you that, chris. let's give a big thank you to and all of his colleagues who are doing a .antastic job for us [applause] i have been out there during the winter months when they've been bridge.on this i can tell you those are really rough and tough conditions. and they're doing a great job. time.e on they're on budget. let's give them another round of applause. [applause] good afternoon to all of you and welcome, mr. president, to the great state of new york. let's give the president a great new york welcom

the >> ralph nader, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q & a.ay voted 3-2 to limit the amount of spectrum the two largest mobile carriers, at&t and verizon can buy in next year's spectrum auction. in a party line vote, chairman tom wheeler and the commission two democrats approved a plan that would reserve part of the spectrum in each market for wireless carriers that don't have a large footprint in that area. this portion of yesterday's meeting is about 1:40. >> ok, sir. it's all yours. >> good morning. commissioners, my colleagues are here to present the intent of auction reported order that established rules for implementing the broadcast television incentive auction. thank you for your continuing oversight and support of the incentive auction process. today's item is the product of an extraordinary piece of work done by my colleagues throughout the commission. i want to thank each and every one of them. joining me at the table today are julian, bill lake, chief of the media bureau, roger sherman, chief of the wireless telecommunications bure

. >> ralph nader, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's "q&a." >> next, the senate caucus on international narcotics control looking at the issue of heroin and prescription drug abuse. they heard from michael botticelli and officials from the dea, the substance abuse and mental health service administration, and the national institute on drug abuse. this is about two hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> our hearing will come to order, and i would like to introduce our established witnesses. recently, the media has chronicled the issue of heroin abuse in the united states and more heroin being moved into the country. according to a 2012 national survey, 666,000 americans reported using heroine during the previous year. that number has steadily grown over the past several years. so, this begs the question, why andmore people using heroine this is the senate caucus on her onional drug -- international drug control, but the reason to control it is

rachel carlson's book silent spring and ralph nader he called ralph nader by name his book on safe at any speed these books had ignited a consumer movement in the late sixty's and this was a threat to corporate america and he said we have to get politically active we have to get institutionally active we have to take over the schools we have to take over the legislatures we have to take over the judiciary we have to create think tanks and create public opinion business has to get its message out it's not enough for the u.s. chamber or any other business organization just be a business organization anymore we've got to get out there and be active. and and you know the u.s. chamber read this memo this was really seventy one ok and out of this have come a whole variety of major institutions that have shaped public policy throughout the united states over the last forty years in very significant ways leading right to these dual supreme court doctrines in many cases explicitly to these doctrines that money is protected by the first amendment even though you don't find the word money in the

. >> ralph nader on alliances to combat government spending. that's sunday on "q&a." eric says he's, quote, mad as hell" over the treatment of veteran at veterans hospital, adding that if these allegations are true, they're unacceptable. he faced a barrage of questions from republican senators who called for his resignations as well as democrats who suggest he needs to shake up his management team. the secretary's two-hour testimony is followed by representatives of veterans organizations. on the days is the chairman of the committee, bernie sanders of vermont. >> thank you all for coming. i want to thank our panelists for what is going to be a very important hearing. the rules will be that i will make some opening remarks, senator burr, the ranking member will make opening remarks, members will have three minutes, and i will keep people to three minutes because it will be a long hearing it, and that we will go to secretary shinseki, and the undersecretary. excellent second panel and a very good third panel as well. it will be a long hearing, and we will get through i

. >> ralph nader sunday night at 8:00 on c-span q&a. the newest book, a collection of interviews with the nations best storytellers. >> we're sitting here today in a city designed i have frenchman. -- by a frenchman. the great symbolic work of sculpture at the gateway to the country in new york, the statue of liberty, a gift from france. rivers and talent and universities, colleges all over the country with french names. we do not pronounce them the way ofy do, but the influence france on this country is far greater than most americans appreciate. >> read the interview with david mccullough. published by it public affairs books and available at your favorite bookseller. former secretary of state hillary clinton discusses policy strategies to address various problems facing the nation. she was the keynote speaker at a conference of the new america foundation. this is just under 40 minutes. from that moment on, i have watched her public service with awe. taking on the challenges that , first lady,ut senator, secretary of state, at a level

. >> ralph nader on creating left-right alliances.unday night at 8:00. >> c-span's newest book. >> i can't say with the moment was. i have been living at all my life. my parents migrated from the south. my mother from georgia, my father from southern virginia. that is when they met, married, and then had me. without the make ration -- without the migration, i wouldn't be here. i have lived with people from north carolina, south carolina, georgia. all around the neighborhood where i grew up. i was surrounded by the language, the food, the music. the ambitions of the people. a lot of competition about whose child would go to which school. it has been with me all this time. quinn -- ofisabel wilkerson, one several unique voices. published by public affairs books. today, national security advisor security -- susan rice talked about foreign policy. she is questioned by judy woodruff in an event hosted by the women's foreign policy group. >> hello, i hope you have enjoyed your lunch. have waiting to hear from has arrived. we are going to ge

. >> ralph nader sunday night at 8:00. alliance reform panel discussion assessing the state of community health centers. new findings from a 2013 survey of health centers which provide care to underserved communities. this is just under two hours. >> good afternoon. i'm with the alliance for health reform. you to theelcome program on how well prepared federally qualified health centers are four major health system changes that are afoot. they are one of those essentials . it is a collection of letters. whatever it is, you have to know what it means to be able to negotiate the next one hour and 45 minutes. reliably that there are some differences between democrats and republicans on health policy issues. melissa told me this. during his tenure in office. congress has funds for those centers in the affordable care in additionstimulus to the regular -- and now we have the coverage expansion underway that is bringing in new customers, new challenges, to these federally qualified centers. they face fiscal and uncertainties. the

. >> ralph nader on creating group -- on creating left-right alliances.on q and a. >> c-span's newest book, sundays at eight. interviews with the nation's top storytellers. >> i can't say with the moment was because i have been looking at all my life. my parents migrated from the south to washington dc. i have lived with the all my life. i grew up with people from north carolina, south carolina, georgia. thes surrounded with language, the food, the music. the ambitions. from the south. a lot of competition about whose child would go to which school. the school across the part. it has been with the all this time. one of 41 unique voices from 25 years of our book notes and q&a conversations. sundays at eight, now available at your favorite bookseller. >> president obama has named white house budget director itvio birdwell -- edison information hearing, she answered questions about implementing the affordable care act, preventing medicare fraud, and funding or nickel. this is two hours 40 minutes -- funding for medicare research. this is two hours 40 minutes

. >> ralph nader, sunday night at q and a. on wednesday, several manufacturers called on congress protect intellectual property and address trade secret theft. the probleme says is out of control, and companies are being attacked every day. examining how companies are impacted and whether there are sufficient violators.ish this is about an hour and a half. >>> the hearing of the senate judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism will come to order. i am expecting that my ranking member, senator lindsey graham, will be here shortly. i just saw him on the c-span screen, so i know he's on the floor and not here. i have permission from his staff to proceed. he will join us as soon as his schedule permits. i also want to recognize in the audience ed pagano who spent many a happy hour here when working for chairman leahy. good to have him back in a different capacity. we are having a hearing today that's entitled economic espionage and trade secret theft. are our laws adequate for today's threats? today the subcommittee is going t

. >> ralph nader on creating left and right alliances to battle wasteful spending at 8:00 o'clock on c-span "q&a." >> executives from aircraft manufacturer boeing and pharmaceutical company eli lilly testified on capitol hill about economic espionage and the problem of intellectual property theft. the senate judiciary committee is considering legislation to increase criminal penalties for corporate spying. sheldon whitehouse chairs this hour and a half long hearing. [inaudible conversations] >> hearing will come to orderer. and i am expecting that the ranking member and senator lindsey graham will be here so shortly, but i just saw him on c-span screen and i know he's on the floor and not here.m his sta so i permission from his staff to proceed and you will join usj asoi soon as his schedule permis and i also want to recognize in the audience the gentleman who has spent many happy hour in. here when it is working forn chairman leahy and it's good to have him back in ant c different capacity and we are having a hearing today that is entitled economic espionage and trade secret theft a

. >> ralph nader on creating left- right alliance is the battle wasteful government spending some and added:00 on c-span q&a. >> today center marco arubia made a proposal to help younger workers save for retirement including making their retirement savings program for government workers available to anyone , raising the retirement age for younger workers, and eliminating payroll taxes for those over the age of 65. senator rubio outlined his plan at the national press club in washington. this is an hour. >> good afternoon, and welcome. i am an adjunct professor at the george washington university school of media and public affairs, a former international bureau chief for the associated press and the 107th president of the national press club. the world's leading organization committed to our profession's future through our programming with the events such as this well fostering of free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website. on behalf of our members worldwide i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today's ev

. >> ralph nader on creating left-right alliances sunday night at 8:00 on c-span "human day." q&a." > hearing from ericsson shinseki including allegations that patients were waiting for care. others included representatives from the veteran organizations and the acting and after general. this is four hours. >> thank you all for coming. i want to thank our panelists for what is going to be a very important hearing. the rules will be that i will make some opening remarks, senator burr, the ranking member will make opening remarks, members will have three minutes, and i will keep people to three minutes because it will be a long hearing it, and that we will go to secretary shinseki, and the undersecretary. excellent second panel and a very good third panel as well. it will be a long hearing, and we will get through it. let me begin by just making a few basic points. serious allegations have v.a. personnelt in phoenix and other locations. i take these allegations seriously, as i know every member of the committee does, which is why i have supported an thependent investigation of v

consumert, "q&a" with advocate ross nader -- ralph nadar. >> you cannot take c-span wherever you go with our free c-span radio -- can now take c-span wherever you go with our three c-span radio app. each of a schedule of our network so you can tune in when you want and play broadcast of recent shows from our signature program like "after words." take c-span wherever you go. >> representatives from google and yahoo! say they are committed to protecting consumer third-partyy from apps. members were examining how consumers can breach privacy and data. this is two hours and 10 minutes.