agrees that their own proposal heritage foundation is a leader of the entire heritage foundation or agrees that romney care is bad for them tom if you're really interested in knowing details of the heritage position i suggest you check out our website i'm asking you you work for the heritage foundation you're here you're sitting here right now are you suggesting that romney care is bad for the citizens of masters romney says that he does not believe that the romney care plan itself ought to be adopted written large nationwide but he says that now he didn't say that three that is what he says now i'll take him back i didn't say that. friedman once said that the way to change policy is not to elect the right people dipping but to make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing so i would hope that given changes in the political when mr romney. realizes what the best course is for this country in the course again what what is. the repeal of obamacare and this place is of course well ok there have been beyond the thirty attempts to repeal obamacare in the ho

the heritage foundation later this morning. as a new book out and we will take a look at the american spirit later on in the show. michigan, republican caller -- caller:hi, i don't believe we are an exceptional country. host: why not? caller: we send a bad examples of behavior to the rest of the world. we have a lot of smart mouthed people and disrespectful people who don honor their elderly and it feels like that. i don't think we're an exceptional, no way. host: this came in on facebook -- let's hear from joyce on our independent line. caller: good morning. i haven't been on here for quite a long time. the word exceptionalism, american exceptionalism, really turns off. puttingke we're ourselves above the rest of the human race. to me, i would think of someone as being exceptional as someone who is very spiritually- minded, a very giving, the words from matthew :25 when jesus asked the people, and did you feed my brother and sister? did you take care of them? did you visit them when they were sick? how did you treat each other?

it can't be done. >> and you think the heritage foundation plan came through the heritage except throughuse, would it be constitutional? michael savage talked about this. let's listen to the worst. >> it's well known that roberts unfortunately for him, has suffered from epeleptic seizures. he has been on medication. doctors will tell you that medication used for epileptic seizures can be used for d disord disorders. you can see the cognitive problems. >> he never said he was epileptic. congress member jack kingston of georgia tweeted today. with obama care ruling, i feel like i just lost two great friends. america and justice roberts. ron, this is so over the top. this is like some high school. i don't know how to explain it. it isç very sad. >> the republicans feel betrayed here. they thought they had the supreme court comfortably on their side by 5-4 margin. there goes roberts in the other direction. they are furious at him. roberts, with an eye on the credibility of the court, realizing a 5-4 decision overturning the law, would have cut the slender thread by the credibility of the co

violent and turned over to my panel brian darling a senior fellow of government studies at the heritage foundation and a columnist for the daily caller and townhall dot com carl frisch is a sudden kit syndicated columnist and progressive strategist and partner with bold played strategies as he robinson is the deputy director with the paul revere project with a contributor to the blaze and josh horowitz executive director of the coalition to stop gun violence josh welcome first you're the expert on this topic no other mass shooting in america what do you say who say that we shouldn't or on the other side we should have stronger gun controls and look i think you need to look at this this particular situation here we have this is a someone who walked in with an a r fifteen variant made by smith and wesson with a. hundred round drum magazine these are the types of weapons and magazines that are only made for one thing to kill lots of people that implements of war if we need them in a society there for one thing but for taking on the government that's that type of militarization that we're seeing in th

thank you to the heritage foundation for having me here. for those who are stuck inside the beltway, first of all, i'm sorry. second, you will know that the heritage foundation and the cato institute don't always see eye to eye when it comes to health care. in fact, grace murray often has the lock us in a room together until we can come to some sort of terms. but one thing we absolutely agree on, and that is that the patient protection act is an absolute disaster be repealed in its entirety. and going to focus my remarks on just one aspect of it. even though the president on the devoted 189 words of his state of the union address to the question of deficits and debt, i believe that is truly the overriding issue of our time. after all, we're still borrowing $0.34 a very delicate this country spends. in about $15 trillion on the books debt at this point, and if you include the unfunded liabilities, social security, and medicare are total indebtedness exceeds $120 trillion. on that context the cost becomes crucial. and if you all remember, of c

-- with the gentleman and said she was a professor from new jersey or whatever and saying the heritage foundation was like a fairy tale. i was wondering why she was not done in philadelphia this morning with her friends in the marching area down there? i am a retired vietnam veteran. the heritage foundation is an excellent foundation and a lot of other foundations that we have in this country, to give people the right to speak their piece, just like myself here. host: what march in philadelphia are you speaking about? caller: the march down there. the lady said she was a professor and she should have been at the march for her attitude. host: why don't you answer this, you talk about the heritage foundation, but what do you think about the american spirit? caller: it has been kind of on the downgrade since vietnam. the hippie generation -- they are still alive and well, which you can tell. like i said, i spent time in the marine corps. to be able to downgrade their own countries perfectly all right, i guess. by the same token, we need to vet are professors a little more. host: national occupy gath

what a marvelous facility the heritage foundation has year. and it's a privilege to speak today. i grew up in illinois and continue to reside there with my wife, our four kids to my grandkids, and hopefully more on the way. that's a stone's throw from where phyllis and her husband raise their family and she now resides in missouri and works in the suburbs of san louis. a stone's throw across the river i've known and followed her all of my life, but we did not get to know each other until a few months ago when my book came out she so graciously asked me to speak, to be one of her guests on a radio program. here i am today. what a privilege it is to speak to you. i would add that the collective respect the yesterday speakers have for this lady speaks volumes of her work and legacy. by the way, no some of your from north texas state are some university in texas. how many of your native texas? i am a native texan as well. enders, texas, way out west near odessa and midland. try as we might, you natives, the rest of them just don't get it, do they? it's impossible to explain. all right

rumble joining me for times long liberal rumbalara laughlin mark a investigative reporter with the heritage foundation center for media and public policy and judson phillips associate director of the tea party dot net joe thanks for joining me you just heard the my rant the exact quote from romney adviser and surrogate and official spokesperson just talk to the newspapers was we are part of an anglo-saxon heritage and romney feels that the special relationship is special the white house doesn't fully appreciate the shared history we have and then a little later the the author of the piece the reporter who interviewed the this romney spokesperson said that you know one suggested that is the spokesperson mr romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than mr obama whose father was from africa. dog whistle politics again is this it worked for george herbert walker bush willie horton ads even though willie horton was released on a program that was set up by the former republican governor of massachusetts before dukakis it worked for broad reagan opening his campaign

tonight brian darling contributor to the daily mail and director of government studies of the heritage foundation andy croll investigative journalist with mother jones magazine and associate editor of time dispatch and horace cooper a conservative commentator and senior fellow at the national center for public policy research gentlemen great to have you all with you just heard my conversation with congressman kasich what role brian what role do you think wall street should play in arcata. an important role but i agree with congressman kucinich that the thread needs to be it needs to have transparency the fed is trying to do too much when you have the federal reserve being the regulator the chief regulator of wall street in trying to look into these issues there's a problem with the fed there's a problem of the fed i think conservatives liberals agree that the fed is not serving a very good function for our society right now so i think there is bipartisan agreement before the fed and we had banks blowing up we never went more than fifteen years without a banking panic in history the united states

i have worked with the filipino community as part of the heritage foundation. the tenderloin area has been a starting point for many filipino immigrants and their families historically. they have gone through a lot, the community, with three development, the high cost of living, removal, displacement. a lot of our folks are elders who have been forced to relocate to other parts of the city and bay area. at the same time, we have many community centers that our elders and youth frequent and use. we have the country's only filipino bilingual school. we have health centers, parks, churches with filipino residents and their families. we still have a concern about the recent move to push the border north to 13th street. is higher than the previously proposed 15th street northern border, which was in the map as recently as april 4. it is higher than the community unity map version with the district 9 border at 16th street. it is important to filipino community stays unified and has a voice politically. [tone!] our people come out for community matters. they want to be

and we do appreciate the hospitality of the heritage foundation for some 200 students coming from about 100 different colleges. i hope you have found a very profitable and enjoyable. i'm going to call on a representative of the heritage foundation. director of the young eagles program. just take a minute or so about the heritage program. we do some great work -- they do some great work and we appreciate their cooperation. >> welcome to the heritage foundation. and the program associate for the unleash program. want to make sure you're aware of ways that we might be able to help and equip you as young leaders. our goal is to educate and equip young leaders. the same thing that eagle forum is doing, we love to work together. if you have a group that is coming to d.c. are you would love to come to the your campus, we have a fire outside. feel free it e-mail. we also have some products. slay the beast talks about the debt and halifax our generation. we've been passing on these out across the country. i know you have pocket constitutions, but we have declaration of independence and pocket co

we invite the think tanks, and cato institute, the heritage foundation, as well as freedom works and americans for prosperity. some of those nonprofit organizations. we don't compete with them at all. you pay a single price of about $500 per person, and you have three wonderful days that we bring an intellectual feast to a fun city. las vegas. it is pretty cool. >> what is your background? >> well, i grew up in portland, oregon. i am an active mormon. i went on a mission to the mormon church and graduated from byu and worked for the cia. then i broke out into the financial world. since then, i got married, i have five children, i moved to the bahamas for two years. life in living color, saved enough money to move to london where we bought a flat. then there were 71 countries i visited, i have written about. it is my primary source of income. my investment book is call forecasts and strategies. i have written a number of books on economics and i teach economics and business at rollins college in florida. columbia university in new york, and also at mercy college. that is a summary, an

then the president of the heritage foundation on his book. later, a look at the freedom of information act with the sun life foundation and after that, the voice of america executive talks about his organization's goals and audience. that is today, july 4, on "washington journal" starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> no one paid attention to tunisia. if they thought about it, they thought that was where "star wars" was filmed. i started taking the techniques they used in tunisia and expanded on them and improve upon them until it got to the point where my twitter followers essentially became my newsroom. rather than being in a studio as an anchor would with producers left and right and researchers and someone talking into your ear, i was sitting on a park bench with my phone having dozens of twitter followers doing that role for me so i could essentially do wrong anchor coverage of these revolutions and fact check. >> you can watch this event tonight as part of our july for prime-time lineup. it includes a discussion on the history of th

[talking over each other] >> watching someone from the heritage foundation put down the mandate, mittromney went to the heritage foundation and did a powerpoint presentation -- [talking over each other] [talking over each other] shannon: just to be fair, i have asked him about that because that is a line that i hear quite a bit. twenty years ago it was a different kind of mandate and it's not what would end up in this kind of law. they have backed off that position. to be fair to them, to share what they are currently saying about that. first of all, i think it's awesome that you have a book -- [talking over each other] >> mitt romney went to the heritage foundation and did a powerpoint presentation promoting the individual mandate because what he was doing in massachusetts -- [talking over each other] [talking over each other] [talking over each other] >> should be a national model -- [talking over each other] >> romney is wrong and wrong nature was wrong. obamacare is wrong and the american public is of the opinion that it is wrong. amerans don't want to. >> tell me what the republi

we are in the health plan and it is putting it in a deep hole. >> massachusetts and the heritage foundation what mitt romney is a terrible example of what other states can learn from? >> first i will say that that's a good college try. governor romney attempted to veto the provisions and they were overridden and patrick has taken it in a different direction. that's number one. number two, states by the constitution do have the power to coerce behavior. the government doesn't unless it's by taxing power. good for massachusetts that they gave it a try, but when you see the costs are exploding, why in the heck are you taking to the rest of the country. bad for the patients and bad for our fiscal health. >> sir, thanks for your time. appreciate it. now new evidence that the obama campaign sees the latino vote as one of the important demographics in november. the obama campaign has been outspending to woo that vote. since mid-april they spent $2 million on spanish language and radio ads. the romney campaign spent $110,000 in that same period. the president getting help from celebrities like marc

he is an intern this summer at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c. in the office of the president. he will be one of two pages from colorado serving at the republican national conversation in florida later this summer. you know, i don't have the opportunity to meet a lot of our students in my role at ccu. i'm out a lot, off campus a lot. but i have had the opportunity to visit with jonathan a number of times over the last few months. and he is an amazing young man. he has a heart for the lord. he has a heart for public policy, for politics. and i would say you want to keep your eye on jonathan finer. i suspect you'll hear more about him in the years to come. jonathan and kevin will be introducing james robison and jay richards. will you please help me welcome jonathan finer and kevin miller. [ applause ] >> good morning. isn't this a fantastic event? it's just such a pleasure to see all of you. isn't it great? it's my pleasure to introduce you to james robison. he is working with jay richards. they're going to be a combined presentation. so jay will b

. >> reporter: an analyst at the heritage foundation says the real losers in this tug are war are the military and civilian defense workers. >> one way or another, everybody that is related to defense and the business of defense is going to be affected. >> reporter: unless congress acts in eight months, the half trillion in cuts will go into effect putting a very easy to understand result of a not so easy to save rule. >>> the u.s. going for the gold in london. we'll get an update on the summer olympics coming up next. >> we'll check in on redskins camp. what are the early reviews on rg iii. we'll hear that next. >>> baltimore's michael phelps could make history today. he has two shots at gold. he is looking for his 18th and 19th medals which would make him the most deck raid olympian in history. he already has the most gold medals ever with 14. >>> american teammate matt griefers won with the backstroke. >>> on the women's side, 17- year-old missy franklin earned her first olympic gold medal by winning the women's 100-meter backstroke. her time, 58.33 seconds. >>> a big disappointmen

studies, but i would wager that few can distinguish between the american enterprise institute, the heritage foundation, and the cato institute, three think thanks that have had greater impact on washington politics than the entire ivy league. so, in many ways, i'm privileged and i'm honored to have an opportunity to be a part of a course like this at an institution like this. like most conservatives of my generation, i was inspired by william f. buckley. i began reading national review as a high school student and can honestly say that to this day, the base of my political thinking derives from two giants, bill buckley and friedrich hayek, both of whom will figure in my remarks. though i am today president of the national rifle association, i served for many years as chairman of the american conservative union, was a follower, a friend, and an ally of bill buckley and i'm here today for that reason. as i was accepting this invitation i was reminded of what bill's brother jim told me he asked of his colleagues in seeking permission to attend the 40th anniversary banquet of the new york conservative par

the heritage foundation, a conservative group calling them quote a slap in the face to hard-working americans. yesterday romney himself joined the chorus of critics, suggesting the president's comments reveal an anti-business bias. >> to say that steve jobs didn't build apple, that henry ford didn't build ford motor, that -- that papa john didn't build papa john pizza, that ray crock didn't build mcdonald's. that joe and his colleagues didn't build this enterprise, to say something like that is not just foolishment, it's insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator in america, and it's wrong. in the past, people of both parties understood that encouraging achievement, encouraging success, encouraging people to lift themselves as high as they can. encouraging entrepreneurs, celebrating success instead of attacking it and denigrating makes america strong. that's the right course for this country. his course is extraordinarily foreign. >> but the republicans' unified message hit a snag when former new hampshire governor john sununu tried to hit obama on the same theme but it was thrown off h

happy fourth. >> thank you. >> when you were speaking of the heritage foundation the first thing i thoughth the mandate. >> nia-malika, you referenced that earlier. this is where it came with. >> this is where it came from you. you have got mitt romney on video talking about it talking about it as personal responsibility, the personal responsibility call talking about how much he is in favor of the individual mandate. i am guessing there are probably going to be some ads if not from the obama campaign, itself maybe from some of the super p.a.c.s that are gearing up. and seem to be wanting to frame healthcare a little bit more than the top of the ticket because i am not sure yet how much either side wants to talk about healthcare at this point. >> but isn't it interesting as your client did a great piece in new yorker magazine, this idea came from the heritage foundation. >> right. >> it was the conservative answer to clinton's healthcare reform legislation. >> that's right. >> and it was embraced enthusiastically endorsed by bob dole. >> by newt gingrich. >> by chuck grass lee and you name

was listening, trying to understand the difference between, for example, contributing to the heritage foundation and a super pac. if you contribute to the heritage foundation, they are walking around talking about lower taxes, just the same as if you are arguing for a candidate who was doing that. exxon, for example. i get anxious when i see acts of promoting all these teachers while it the same time paying campaign contributions and/or contributions to the heritage foundation. all about lowering taxes and limiting fines. can you distinguish between those? guest: the heritage foundation is a think tank in washington. my understanding it has a nonprofit status a little different than social welfare organizations. i should say i'm not entirely sure what their tax status is. it is very influential and helps coordinate allied of the ideas coming out of the republican party -- a lot of the ideas coming out of the republican party. they're not inserting themselves into the election process, the morning policy side. there's a difference between giving to a super pac and giving to a group like a nonprof

. >> i would just like to end it by saying i guess like we say at the heritage foundation, details matter. and the more the american people know the details, i think the less that they will like it. so thank everyone for the panel. we do have books available when you came out so, please, feel free to pick one up. but let's thank the panel one more time. [applause] >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> and now booktv sits down with jonathan karp, executive vice president and publisher of simon and suiter, and morgan entremendous ken, publisher of grove atlantic to discuss the publishing world from bookexpo america, the annual trade show for the publishing industry. this is about half an hour. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, and we are on location in new york city at the annual book publishers' convention, book extoe america, it's called. -- bookexpo america, it's called, and we're pleased to be joined by two publishers. first, morgan entrekin, publisher of grove atlantic, and jonathan karp, vice pr

committee a couple of weeks ago, we heard from one of the think tank folks out here from the heritage foundation, analyst who said the u.s. companies are free to exploit the deep seabed right now and they have all the legal certainty necessary to support investments to drill in the deep seabed. the analogy drawn by that witness was it's just like fishing. you go out, and it's everyone for themselves. in light of the fact that you have 160 nations and the european union that are all party to the themself approach to this. i wonder if -- you have addressed it somewhat here and talked about the certainty, but i just want to be crystal clear, whether that's an alternative. is that viable? >> well, senator, mr. chairman, i would say it's an alternative but i don't think it's viable. we could proceed as a nation. i think it's very important to recognize that the world today is extraordinarily different than it was 40 years ago. we are again a global economy. we have multinational companies that have the means to develop these resources, but they simply are unwilling to do so because of the risk that e

darling senior fellow for government studies of the heritage foundation a columnist for the daily caller and townhall dot com karl frisch syndicated columnist and aggressive strategist and partner with both fight strategies as he robinson is the deputy director with the paul revere project and contributor to the blaze dot com and joining the panel is ranya keylock kalik how he set out again finally i got to write in a pen a journalist and contributor to alternate salon and truth out ron you thanks so much for being with us what happened in anaheim is is pretty shocking this was the actually let me set this up first let's talk about something that happened in anaheim california over the weekend on saturday afternoon twenty four year old man was shot in the back of the head as he fell fled from police that man manuel diaz later died at the hospital prompting members of his community to take to the streets to protest police brutality. there they were met with even more violence from the police according to reports in a local news affiliate police fired bean bags and rubber bullets into the

he is an intern this summer at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c. he will be one of two pages from colorado serving at the national convention in florida later this summer. i do not have the opportunity to meet a lot of our students. i am out a lot of campus. but i have had the opportunity to visit with jonathan a lot of times and he is an amazing young man. he has a heart for the board, for public policy, for politics, and i would say you want to keep your eye on jonathan. i suspect you will hear more about him. jonathan and kevin will be introducing james robison. please help me welcome jonathan finer and kevin miller. [applause] >> isn't this a fantastic event? it is a pleasure to see all of you. it is my pleasure to introduce you james robison. he is working with j richards. jay will be speaking first. he is a friend of mine. i want to tell you why you should listen to james robinson today. don't listen to james because he has spoken in over 600 venues around the country, full to the brim in breaking attendance records that the rolling stones did

brian darling contributor to the daily mail and director of government studies at the heritage foundation is doing a long. i'm not aware of your maybe secretly yeah if i do our best to get a journalism oh jones magazine which is not owned by rupert murdoch and tom dispatch and horace cooper conservative commentator senior fellow at the national center for public policy research welcome back to all of the. obama democrats have proposed actually here living a move move on to the campaign trail president obama just released this new ad hammering mitt romney on his record of outsourcing jobs and offshoring bank accounts checking. i'm barack obama and i approve this message beautiful for spacious oh right. right. for. gosh. and. has become a big issue on the campaign trail and romney has been leveling criticism at the president for being the outsource or in chief. it is interesting that that when it comes to the outsourcing that this president has been outsourcing a good deal of. american jobs himself by putting money into energy companies solar and wind energy companies that end up making the

he is a visiting fellow at the heritage foundation, a research fellow at the acton institute. he is here today with co-author james robison of their latest book "indivisible: restoring faith, family, and freedom before it's too late." today our society is riddled with fatherless homes and a national debt on the brink of $16 trillion, and a government that has grown increasingly out of control. to quote dr. richards, today we are fight agriculture war, not a civil war. a culture war is unlike ordinary political debates. it's a fight over the fundamental principles on which cultures are based, end que. in richards. [ applause ] >> welt, it's wonderful to be here. i'm now at the discovery institute in seattle, but have been at a number of think tanks actually throughout my career. and i'm a little intimidated. try to put yourself in my shoes. so we've heard from governors. we've heard from glenn beck. we've heard from some amazing speakers. and now you're going to hear from a philosopher who is going to use slides, right? that's sort of the basic story. i honestly felt like somet

this is a perfect example of a sterile and empty debate this whole program was cooked up on the heritage foundation it was first put into practice in two thousand and six by then governor mitt romney they took that massachusetts plan the pharmaceutical and insurance lobbyists authored two thousand pages of the bill included four hundred forty seven billion dollars in subsidies for the pharmaceutical and insurance industry the equivalent of the bank bailout bill for those industries they can still raise but they are as anybody who has private insurance as i do will tell you they are jacking up premiums almost monthly they can raise co-payments there's no protection if you get chronic chronic or severe illness if you can't pay those premiums you're out that's why a million people a year in this country go bankrupt eighty percent of those people by the way had insurance and yet you know we have this debate that there is no difference between romney care and obamacare it's all a carnival act it's political theater and you know it doesn't matter which piece of legislation you're talking about corporatio

william beach heads up the center for data analysis at the heritage foundation. interview]sot in 50:56 "we've got a situation in washington, right now which is a crisis." trt=:05the crisis, beach speaks of, is a looming tax increase -- among the largest in history -- as much as 600 billion dollars. it will hit all of us -- not equally of course. but, for the majority of households, it has the makings of a tax burden beyond compare -- if congress fails to act.[money shots] take a family of four -- with an annual income of just over 70 thousand dollars.[take graphic] righh now that family would write a check for 2 thousand dollars to uncle sam by april . set taxmageddon loose and the bill in 2013 soars to over six thousand dollars or a five percent plus increase.[sot beach]in 46:45 "500 dollars a month less in the average budget, where's that going to come from. it's going to come from something that you are now doing that you have to cancel." trt=:07retiree's will take a hit and recent college graduates, well they are already feeling the wind of taxmageddon. busin

have fallen off a golden betty i mean it was a this was put forward by the head this is the heritage foundation's plan that was put in put forward by conservatives put into place by a conservative governor mitt romney and now is being bashed by conservatives i'm confused doesn't make it right tom there are bad ideas put forth by conservatives there are more bad ideas about what is going to forth by liberals patient driven health care initiatives via print there is support those who do nothing no you have a choice either you pick or the government picks i'll take my choice any day of the week ok all right let's let me let's move along the republicans in pennsylvania are touting their new voter id law and according to some estimates as many as seven hundred fifty eight thousand people in that state don't have the i.d. that's going to be necessary to vote under this law that's almost you know almost three quarters of a million people the republican house majority leader mark tears. in infamously said this last month. voter id which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania d

the book signing. it is an hour, noon to 1:00 p.m: tejera damage foundation -- at the heritage foundation. are commander lippold will be there. it's my pleasure to meet you have. >> thank suyou for giving me the opportunity. [ crows cawing ] [ male announcer ] strange things happen in the black forest. [ metallic bell toll ] [ car speeding down the road, lightning strikes ] where things aren't always what they seem. [ wolves howling ] because thrills hide in the shadows just waiting at every turn. [ coaster whoosh ] brave the black forest on verbolten. the all-new multi-launch coaster. only at busch gardens. >>> more than 11,000 rodeo sport suvs are being recalled. rear suspence parts can cause -a the recall affected 1998 to 2001 ameeting georgetown roads ands 2002 rodeo sports. >>> don't fall for a scam claiming president obama will pay your utility bills for aor month. the bogus offer is being sent via e-mail, facebook, text, phone, and door to door.d the scammers are asking for social security numbers tos enroll people in the bogushe federal program. never give occupant your social secu

as the heritage foundation has so aptly said, we don't want a big, new regulatory scheme that is not going to be successful in our efforts to improve the cybersecurity safeguards in our system. we are the ranking members of all but one of the relevant committees. we know this area. we deal with the agencies that deal with cybersecurity and all the national security in our country and we know what can work and we know what we have a chance to pass and we know how to take the first step forward without another big regulatory overreach that we have seen happen in the last 3 1/2 years in this administration. we hope to work with the majority, with the lieberman-collins bill and come up with something that everyone will feel is the right step forward. we'd like to have a bill that would get a large number of votes rather than a very lopsided vote against it. so, mr. president, i appreciate very much that we are now beginning to discuss this. i'm appreciative that we have had several meetings with all the sides that had been put forward with having concerns with the bill that's on the floor