whitehouse: mr. whitehouse: i rise today with my colleagues, senator blunt, senator blumenthal, and soon to be joining us, senator graham, to speak about our cybersecurity public awareness act of 2013. it is now broadly accepted in this body that the cyber threat posed by criminals, foreign intelligence and military services and even terrorists is enormous and unrelenting. but useful information about cyber attacks and cyber risks still is not consistently available to consumers, to businesses, or to policymakers. the legislation that the four of us introduced, the cybersecurity public awareness act is an important first step toward fixing this problem. senator blunt has earned a reputation for working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle, particularly on issues of national security. i was very glad to have the opportunity to work with him last year as part of a bipartisan group of senators seeking a sensible middle ground on cyber security legislation. he has brought his keen understanding of

he went out of the whitehouse way down. but when he was president he had the department of defense, the cia, the national security counsel, the usaiid, nato and a number of things. but one of this rules was if you want a friend in washington get a dog. and the rumsfeld corollary was get a little dog as the others might turn on you. >> next question, since we are in the nixon center and he made the opening to china, what do you think your prospects are for continuing a good relationship with china? >> i think it is possible. china is a big country. it is an important country. china has trouble with its neighbor india. and trouble with vietnam nam. and trouble with mongolia and tibet. and causing problems for the japanese and other countries operating in that part of the world. they are investing in double digit in their defense capability and developing a blue water navy. i could be wrong, but it seems there is a tension between a growing economy, which means a lot of people milling around with computers, cell phones, and el

the person in the whitehouse -- >> greg, what is your point? >> my point was -- oh -- >> greg, did you have a question for jeremy scahill? >> he did a good job of explaining. >> greg, very much we appreciate your calling but we will move on to lorenzo in berkeley, california. >> thank you for taking my call. i am calling from barbara lee's congressional district and i was lucky enough to see you speak in may and love the book. my question is for you is given things like rand paul and the drone issues and the hearings and then people visiting for the congress people. do you think events are a shift in the drone strikes or are they drops in the buckets. >> i felt embarrassed as an american when he had the pakistan and yemen family members of drone strike victims and only a handful of congressmen showed up. he is an incredible man and is on a panel with academics and was asked almost no questions. i don't think it represents a shift. i think congressman grace credit and congressman myers and lee has been-spoken on this. you raise rand paul and thi

the whitehouse is going to replace him and we are not sure who or by whom. but the democrats say they want a long-term permanent person in this position so we know who is accountable. he was put in as the man in charge and we need to know who is the next man in charge >> we are talking with emily ethridge of cq rollcall. >> tank you for taking my call. medicare has been around for approximately 50 years. it started out to be a great program for the american people. but as time went by, the federal government would hack it here and there and before you know it, there is nothing in that for the retired people who have paid their whole lives. and now they have obamacare and that is just like medicare where no doctors and hospitals want this health insurance because the federal government will not pay the bills for these elderly people. my father was in the hospital with health issues and medicare wouldn't pay another penny and get him out. i had to bring my dad home anure him back to health. obamacare is going to be just like that. the people of this country ar

this is actually 17 days after the first scene at the whitehouse that i read from. and gupta is about -- he is at philadelphia international airport and about to board a plane. he gets a call from greg palm, the general counselor for goldman sachs. he started off the call on december 11th, with two tip offs the conversation was going to be uncomfortable. he said he had a colleague listening on the line. since the topic was sensitive, it was important there was an extra set of ears and hands to record what was said and monitor's gupta's reaction. gupta didn't register yet the call was going to be different. we are representing the corporation and not you. palm wanted to make sure this he knew this wasn't a prive conversation. the contents of his conversation could be handed over to law enfore enforcement officers. what can you tell me about raj rajaratnam? gupta was taken back. he said what are you talking about? they said they were told he might have provided him with information about the firm. gupta was calm and denied he ever provided raj rajaratnam with informat

president obama met with top executives and leading technology at the whitehouse today. the leaders of google, apple, facebook and other companies all met with the president and other top aids. they asked for fines to be raised. >> dow dropped 9 points. >> the 49ers long run in its park has met its final days. >> today our cameras got a last look inside candlesticks park and we heard from the workers who seen history happen. to the catch in 1982. >> montana throws his pass, caught by clark to the frantic moments of the 1989 earthquake, the park holds memories for all who braved the game in the fog and cold in hunters point. >> i came to a game at candlestick and came in shorts and a t-shirt and i didn't get the memo. >> sitting there in that locker room i was down there with chico norton. it was a thrill. >> while everyone agrees the stadium is outdated, people who work there understand why people are getting so sentimental. >> it's like the house you group in, it may not have been the prettiest house in the neighborhood, but those are your memories. >> not that bad out

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thank you, senator whitehouse. this is an important subject. i want to start out by just pointing out that 16 years ago the white house charted a course for a vibrant internet economy into perceptive magazine report. the first u.s. government policy statement addressing the needs of internet commerce. that policy statement correctly identified user trust as the foundation of internet commerce. it noted, quote, if internet users do not have confidence their communications and data are safe from unauthorized access or modification, they will be unlikely to use the internet on a routine basis for commerce. that may sound rudimentary today, but we should not take for granted decades of progress in kree yagt security and fostering user trust. and we should not discount out easily that foundation can be damaged. the broad nsa surveillance regime and the way it has been received internationally has harmed u.s. companies, u.s. competitiveness, and the internet itself. the u.s. government must be proactive in addressing these concerns. the status quo is

now down to the wire the whitehouse pr campaign rolls on. >> we love you no matter what. >> that's it, health insurance. >> tweeting this, encouraging their son to sign up for coverage. in october, over 100,000 people managed to pick up health plans through the federal state-run insurance exchanges. that's a fifth the number the obama administration rejected. >> consumers who want benefits in time for the new year have until november the 23rd to sign up. paving the way for democracy. half of the changes made have been approved. voting began on saturday. the panel has until tuesday to hand over a draft to the interim president. the government has a month to call on a vote for the new constitution, and egypt will hold elections next year. in july the arm your ousted president mohamed morsi. >> after a little bit of light snow around the great lakes. maine, you are getting about 3-6 inches of snow. we are now focussing on a bigger storm to the west. first it's rain in the mountains, leaving the flooding coming off the central cascades. then the wind comes in and a winter storm warning be

follows -- reid of nevada, murray, baucus, begich, boxer, blumenthal, udall of new mexico, stabenow, whitehouse, mccaskill, hirn, coons -- hirono, coons, tester, schock, gillibrand. mr. reid: i move to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59 with an amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to h.j. res. 59, with amendment number 2547. mr. reid: mr. president, i ask for the yeas and nays on my motion. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have an amendment which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes amendment numbered 2548 to the instructions of amendment 2547. mr. reid: i move to refer the house message with respect to h.j. res. 59 with instructions. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, moves to refer the hous

whitehouse: thank you very much, madam president. this is my 53rd time for consecutive weeks that we're in session that i've come to the floor to speak about climate change and to urge my colleagues that it is time to wake up. these speeches aren't easy and a great deal of effort goes into assisting me with research and crafting of them. and i am particularly grateful for the hard work of dr. todd bianco in helping notice prepare them. he's the fellow sitting on the other side of the sign looking embarrassed that i've just called him out. todd joined my office in september 2012 as a geological society of america u.s. geological survey congress science fellow, and he has contributed considerable scientific understanding and analytical rigor to our work. his ability to interpret the latest climate research has helped me to convey complex scientific concepts both accurately and in a way that is accessible and meaningful to policy makers and the public. you may be used to seeing him with me here on the floor for each week's speech, but h

mike viqueira is at the whitehouse tonight. the president flying back from south africa. mike, what are you hearing there? >> reporter: it's a measure of how far apart the two sides are that this small-ball deal. this is not a grand bargain, not a baby grand barg inner. it's just a minimum they could do is gaining praise from many but opposition from key quarters. the president is winging his way back here to washington aboard air force 1 leaving south africa. here is a statement from the president that came out minutes ago. it reads in part: this agreement doesn't include everything i would like, and i know many republicans feel the same way. it's the nature of compromise. but it's a good sign that democrats and republicans in congress were able to come together and break the cycle of short i've sighted, crisis-driven decision making to get this done. perhaps the best thing that could be said about this, john, is the last two years, it's very unusual in that respect for a budget deal. usually one deal. >> that's good news for the economy, good news for businesses both la

serving as whitehouse senior direct and assistant director of the state for the western hemsphire. and with informal indication from the brazilian government that they would be delighted to see tom back in brazil. he served as an accomplished ambassador to brazil and returned long enough to add a couple gray hair and serving as political aware at the request of secretary clinton. two jobs, one salary, i believe it was. last year, tom was nominateed and c-- nominated -- to the ambassador ranking and that is a rare recognition given to only 53 diplomats over the last 50 years. and secretary kerry, as jane noted, has brought tom to the int int intercircle as senior advisoadv. ambassador tom was the suing thread for the torn relationship. in march of 2011, months after the first women president in brazil, president obama went to brazil and in his address to a large group in brazil, the president decided it was long time that we join on the stage like china is on our stage. this helped readjust the stage with the openness and engagement with president obama was an important, constructiv

the whitehouse is coming saying these are sensitive talks. it is a six-month interim first step. don't put more sanctions in place. how do you balance your concerns about the deal with the whitehouse that is in talks with iran and that is only a first-step agreement? >> i would push ahead with the sanctions for this reason. we give the caveat to the president of making the decision not to move forward or put tinga timeline on the program or peeling back the sanctions. we are in the worst possible position now. here is the other problem: they have not agreed on when the clock starts ticking. you can imagine they have to have another round of negotiati negotiations to determine the clock starts ticking. iran needed more time in this whole thing. we gave them probably closer to a year. and that is why the israeli's are upset. we talked about the dash and how long it would take to put the missile portion on their plan. we know the missile portion is complete, we know they have hit the 20% mark when it comes to enrichment. how fast can they put the program together? that is what every

the whitehouse movie nights dating back to 1915 with woodrow wilson's screening of "the birth of a nation." the reconstruction of the war portrays ku klux klan as heroes. wilsons showed it as a political favourite. 27 years later fdr converted a cloakroom into a screening room. that is the white house movie theatre. the 40 seat room is far from perfect, narrow and directors complained about sound and focus issues. still, dwight d. eisenhower watched more than 200 westerns during his two terms. president kennedy put his famous rocking chair in the middle of the front row to help with the back pain, and later had an orthopaedic bed to watch propped up on pillars. kennedy watched "from russia with love" the night before his il-faith trip to dallas. >> lbj was not a movie pan, but watch a documentary called "a president's country" 18 times. jimmy carter viewed nearly 500 films, the first "all the president's men". president kenny had an awkward screening with "the apostle", hillary clinton diffused the tension saying, "just another quiet day at the white house. >> films of significance from l

they are being locked out of pivotal moments and the only photo they get is the one that the whitehouses. >> i don't get it. but to not allow photo journalists to events limits the ability of the administration the work that is being done that occurs within the white house. >> it makes no sense at all. >> i eluded to this protest and the carney briefing, listen to this. >> hasn't it always been okay for a white house photographer to take pictures? >> i take your point, the fact is, for a lot of those hours, the president former president, first lady, and former first lady were asleep. so we weren't going to bring in a still pool for that or they were having dinner. >> and now you have the reporters turning on carney turning on him for so many things why would they continue with this mission. >> you have seen the continued frustration from the press. since the ap subverted their efforts and then we had the john rosen -- >> james. >> excuse me. this is one of the things where the press gets it right. we see time after time them mocking that pledge in the first term. the president received

. -- whitehouse. >> i hesitate to jump in, as far as closing words go, what senator warren just said, if we don't do something we're still going to pay for it, we'll really pay for it in terrible ways is kind of a good closing salvo for the whole thing but, i go after you. so i get to go ahead and foul up what was a great closing. i did want to follow up with ms. tumlinson about, what we're seeing in rhode island is people who have made the responsible choice, invested their money into a long-term care insurance policy, are now finding that the premium is going up pretty dramatically, to the point where for some people it is really no longer doable. that is particularly frustrating you paid in all this time. you have a connection to that policy and to bail on it makes everything you paid already look like money down the drain which in fact it is. so, it strikes me in terms of relying on the private sector to handle this problem, they're actually going the wrong way in terms of where the prices are headed and where the likely market share of affordable, long-term care coverage is heade

and the idea that i was discussing with senator whitehouse that i put before the commission, and hope we will all consider in the future, is that i think that there is, based on a view, that we can better educate and help people prepare and helping industry respond. if we do, as has been said, set up a structure that creates some clarity about how you can prepare. so if a public program takes on that tail risk in some ways and tells people based on the resources what they have to prepare for, you can better educate around the dissipation and preparation. but that back in federal program is won, as anne has emphasized, that everybody is participating in, whether through taxes or premiums or whatever we're calling it. it needs to be a shared risk in order to work. >> dr. chernof, i can't help but smile, thinking about how you could get people to buy this insurance well ahead of time. you could have an individual mandate. and if that sounds familiar, we've just had quite a debate about that, and it was declared constitutional by the supreme court. but it is not easy. let me ask you on a

the person in the whitehouse -- >> greg, what is your point? >> my point was -- oh -- >> greg, did you have a question for jeremy scahill? >> he did a good job of explaining. >> greg, very much we appreciate your calling but we will move on to lorenzo in berkeley, california. >> thank you for taking my call. i am calling from barbara lee's congressional district and i was lucky enough to see you speak in may and love the book. my question is for you is given things like rand paul and the drone issues and the hearings and then people visiting for the congress people. do you think events are a shift in the drone strikes or are they drops in the buckets. >> i felt embarrassed as an american when he had the pakistan and yemen family members of drone strike victims and only a handful of congressmen showed up. he is an incredible man and is on a panel with academics and was asked almost no questions. i don't think it represents a shift. i think congressman grace credit and congressman myers and lee has been-spoken on this. you raise rand paul and thi

>> there is a huge debate about who is responsible for the delay of conveying the delay toot whitehouse. but the document didn't specify -- it wasn't declaring war, really. so you cannot really argue -- the stealth of the attack remained. and the treacherous nature would have not been affected in roosevelt's mind, the naked he had a gene mind that enabled him to do that. and there is something to be said about the native americans should i say. >> red skins. we use it on tellivatievision. >> it speaks for the a-symm a-symmetrical measure. and that is why people used the 9-11 attack being like the attack on pearl harbor and how undersour under-sourced staff would take on a giant. >> there is another analysis by a japanese intellectual who is no longer with us, but he started off as a communist and his phrase was pearl harbor was the hundred year war and it started before that when it opened with the gun ships. there were period of piece, but every since, japan has been fighting back against western dominance. is there truth in that? >> if you look at the whole history in terms of cultura

president obama and the first lady lit a candle at the whitehouse, one for each of the 20 children and the adults killed today. they also offer condolences. >> a quite peaceful town was shattered by unspeakable violence. six dedicated school workers and 20 beautiful children were taken from our lives forever. as parents, as americans, we still remember. newton is a town like so many of our home towns, where he had indicators and kids could have been any of our own. our hearts were broken for the families who lost a piece of their heart. >> after the shooting at sandy hook, many demanded stronger gun controls. chicago officials say cracking down ol illegal guns is called for. >> chicago police blame illegal guns for most of the 900 murders in the city over the last two years the sheriff said his department is making the city safer. >> we are making process it is getting safer. just two months ago, their 19-year-old son was gunned down on the porch of his home. the atwaters say he wasn't in a gang and may have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> guns here. you can for $500

thank you, senator whitehouse. this is an important subject. i want to start out by just pointing out that 16 years ago the white house charted a course for a vibrant internet economy into perceptive magazine report. the first u.s. government policy statement addressing the needs of internet commerce. that policy statement correctly identified user trust as the foundation of internet commerce. it noted, quote, if internet users do not have confidence their communications and data are safe from unauthorized access or modification, they will be unlikely to use the internet on a routine basis for commerce. that may sound rudimentary today, but we should not take for granted decades of progress in kree yagt security and fostering user trust. and we should not discount out easily that foundation can be damaged. the broad nsa surveillance regime and the way it has been received internationally has harmed u.s. companies, u.s. competitiveness, and the internet itself. the u.s. government must be proactive in addressing these concerns. the status quo is

. >> senators defy the whitehouse the democratic senators calling for sanctions against iran as the white insist they are not needed on what is next for iran. ♪ lou: my next guest says the senate has it right concerning additional sanctions against iran and a negotiation is that fail to call for iranian this panel that of its -- dismantlement of its nuclear program. anything else is just foolish. joining us is retired four-star army general, fox is most -- military analyst. great to have you here. this is a remarkable development . twenty-six u.s. senators telling the white house to basically, thank you very much for your counsel, we are going to proceed with tougher sanctions. i cannot recall a time that this has happened. what kind of a position does it but the united states government in? >> well, i think it puts us in a much stronger position, frankly. we should applaud and welcome with the senate is doing. the history here, lou, is that the congress, as a body, has always argued that tougher sanctions will be better for this country. the sanctions in place now live to the creation of

when they was standing in the front of the whitehouse, he turned to perez to say you go shake his handsnow. >> rose: that's the strength of the defense force force. >> that is true. >> rose: everybody understands israel's security interest is understandable and significant because if you look at the middle east, israel is sitting in the middle of a number of countries that are hostile or a number of organized groups like hezbollah and hamas. >> well. >> rose: and iran. >> two factors have changed since those days since 1995. fact number one, rockets. they didn't use rockets in those days. and if i address that for a second, the number one threat in the event of a pull out is over the ridge where they can shoot rockets at the airport. they don't need to shoot the 10,000 or 100,000 or 50,000 it doesn't matter. all they need to do is shoot two rockets a day into the airport. israel comes into a screeching halt. and the second thing that has changed is terrorism now has a different face than it had then. then they threw stones. now they blow up school buses. that's what they do. these two f

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. may i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business for up to 20 minutes? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. this is the 52nd consecutive week we're in session that i have come to the floor to ask us please, for lord's sake, to wake up to the damage carbon pollution is already doing to our atmosphere, oceans and climate, and to look ahead to use our god-given sense, and to plan for what is so obviously coming. in those weeks, i have talked about all different aspects of carbon pollution, its effect on sports and our economy, its effect on oceans and coasts, its effect on agriculture and wildfires, its effect on storms and insurance costs. i've talked about the measurements, measurements we can already make of the harm already happening, sea level rise which you measure with a yardstick, basically, ocean temperature which you measure with a thermometer and ocean acidification, the fastest in 50 million years, according to rese

mike viqueira is at the whitehouse for us and has the latest on this trouble site. mike, this was a big deadline for the administration over the weekend >> reporter: right. >> there seems to be plenty of work to do here. >> >> reporter: there is. there is good news/bad news really. you mentioned signing on. the administration was full of facts and figures over the laugh two days. saturday, they set november 30th as the goal whereby the quote, unquote vast majority of americans visiting the website would have a positive experience and some success. that would be a marked improvement over what we have seen over the course of the last two months ever since the bungled launch and the administration says there are market improvements. the error rate now less than 1% down from a whopping 6% back in and on october 1st. if you look at it relative to some big department stores or even amazon, it's still a pretty large error rate but it is cinching fast now. the administration says as of noon today, there were 375,000 folks who were successful at at least logging on to the we

house congressman israel, so many others who have joined us in this -- senators murphy and senator whitehouse, senator schatz -- who have been partners in trying to get this done. and so now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 3626, which is at the desk, that the nelson-schumer et.al amendment which is also at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read three times and passed and the motions to reconsider be made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 3626, which was received from the house. i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so

, heinrich, carper, schumer, feinstein, murray, sanders, king, franken, harkin, murray, warren, whitehouse, blumenthal and brown. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection so ordered. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. 1882, a bill to extend the exclusion from income for employer-provided mass transit and parking benefits, that the bill be read three times and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? a senator: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. hatch: mr. president, i understand and appreciate my colleague's commitment to this particular issue. however, this is just one of many tax provisions that will expire at the end of the year

early years first, then the road to the whitehouse, and then i did kennedy at one point said, after he was defeated for the vice president nomination, they asked him will you run for the vice president. and he said no, i will run for the president. because the president is the man at the center. he always thought the president was the man at the center of everything. he is. so i title that man of the center for the letters that have to do with his presidency. and i titled the next section a world in crisis. the final section is titled and that was my most creative title a triumph of will. people ask me the same questions and that is what surprises were there. and we will talk about that if he ever gets a word in. >> did you guys pack a dinner? >> i didn't find any olt of the letters from marilyn saying it was great last night. i did find letters of his affair with a married women who was a friend of hitler's and hoover was about to nail him for that. i didn't set out and write a secession book. the surprises are incredible enough. one of the things that surprised me is if you read the

all act, a bill i introduced today with senators blumenthal, brown, leahy, markey, shaheen and whitehouse. this legislation would prohibit employers from requiring prospective employees to disclose their credit history as part of the job application process. it makes sure that hiring decisions are based on an individual's skill and experience, not on past financial problems. this is also about basic fairness. let people compete for jobs on the merits, not on whether or not they have enough money to pay all their bills. many people have bad credit because they hit hard times. they got sick, their husband left, or their wife died, that he lost their jobs. these are tough events urnsdz er any circumstance and put a strain on a person. the strain sometimes results in late praimen payments orange inn the amount of money they -- or an increase in the amount of money they must borrow. the problems of bad credit were compounded following the 2008 crisis. man depreciated savings left people with a smaller financial cushion to survive fluctuations in their income. people lost their small businesses

it was so silent, you could hear the drums and the cortege left whitehouse. you could hear the click in the street lights as they changed. you could hear the horses and the drums as they came up pennsylvania avenue. thinking about that a lot in the last two days, we talked about it a lot and what it felt like as two youngsters standing there. one of the many markers president kennedy said for us in his memorable inaugural address, spoke of the unwillingness to recognize or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today and around the world. john kennedy in his inaugural address, lost 53 years since then. i believe his words are even more relevant today. the most important things we can do for our country, asked us to do back then, to continued to reaffirm, a poll that commitment, and doing so, help the rest of the world. frankly the american people have expected no less. my children and grandchildren expect no less. keep on working on this and i will be there to fight with you.

whitehouse, up the national intelligence, the fbi, the nsa, the national security council, downing street, the cabinet office, national security adviser, we have consulted more than a hundred with the agency's, aware of their concerns before we published. >> the question is have you gone through all these documents, have some been from -- of the this been okayed for publication? >> publishing documents, we published 26, we published a few more individual pages. i will not be expecting us to be publishing more. it was a trickle. >> what about the one that was communicated to the united states? i understand the names that were redacted. how did you go about deciding? >> let's be clear about this. "the guardian" has not used any names, individual slides had names on. it has been said we didn't use names. >> you made it clear -- >> a question i asked you, when you communicated the documents to the united states and in some cases in these documents you did redact these names? >> you are wrong. you haven't redacted any names. >> we have not used any names. >> communicated document to other plac

senators ron wyden, bill nelson, debbie stabenow, bernie steanders, sheldon whitehouse, jeff merkley, chris coons, tammy baldwin, tim kaine and angus king. they were great members of our committee and i thank them for their diligent work as well as all the republicans on our committee who worked so hard with us. finally, mr. president, i really want to thank all of our staffs who have spent so many hours on putting this together. from my office, my budget committee staff director, evan schatz, our deputy director, john wright riter, my chief of staff, mike spawn, and all of our staff members, too numerous to mention right now but i want each and every one of them to know how much i appreciate the intense amount of work they put into this. i will insert all of their names in the record. i also want to thank chairman ryan's office, budget committee staff director austin smythe, and many more who really helped us be successful. i also want to thank david coon from leader reid's office and chris sari with the office of management and budget and doug elmendorf and all of the staff at the c

i was right there by the president when he made the announcement at the whitehouse. that is something that is going to be difficult to predict if and when we will get there. >> i want to go back to callers, but can you explain what is the global fund. >> the global fund is a multi lateral organization of countries that donate into a fund. it is called the global fund to fight aids,tb and malaria. it is an organization that is based in geneva and countries put into the funds that get partnerships with high burdens of these diseases to treat, prevent and care for people with those diseases. the united states of america is the largest by far funder of the global fund. we put in 1/3 all of the money that goes in. the global fund is a major component of how we address these disease. and there is the president's relief of aid and that was started by president bush which puts in billions to address the treatment of hive infected individuals. we had the replenish meeting where representatives came from all over the world to make pledges for the amount of money they would be

. >> and after you speak general i'm going to turn the gavel over to senator whitehouse because he's a nicer person. >> chairman, first, two things. aws correctly stated there was ne unique case under 215 where the meta data helped. there were four where it didn't find anything of value and we were able to tell the f.b.i. that. that last part of value, i want to point that out. this summer there was a big issue on terrorism we all went through. this program helped us understand was that focused on the united states or else wrfment we used that program to determine none of those leads were coming into this country and were able to focus our efforts elsewhere which thepped intelligence community and the f.b.i. in that case. the second part, i've been in this job for a little over eight years and my experience from dealing with the people that we have, dealing with congress, the courts and the administration on this is our folks take the constitution to heart. we have -- we see this as two roles, defend the nation and protect our civil liberties and pride. we support and defend the cons

senator whitehouse?>> i hesitate to jump in, because as far as closing words go, what senator warren just said -- if we do in, because as far as closing not do something, we are still going to pay for it. we are just going to pay for it in really terrible ways. that is kindthat is kind of a gg soundbite for the whole thing. what i go after you, so i get to follow-up on a great closing. ms. tumlison about -- what we are seeing in rhode ms. tumlison about -- what we are seeing in rhode island is people who have made the responsible choice, invested their money into a long-term care insurance policy, are now finding that the premium is going up pretty dramatically, to the point where for some people it is no longer doable. that is particularly frustrating, because you have paid in all this time. you have a connection to that policy. to bail on it makes everything you have pain already look like money down the drain, which in fact it is. so it strikes me that in terms of relying on the private sector to hand

. >> thank you, senator whitehouse. it's a privilege to address this committee. i want to begin my suggestion to step back from the details of the disclosures in recent months, we find a disturbing pattern across multiple programs and authorities focusing in particular on the metadata program, the now defunct internet metadata program and upstream collection under section 702 of the fisa amendments act. in each of these cases what we see is extraordinary but nevertheless limited authorities were secretly interpreted in ways that permitted far more extensive collection than certainly members of the general public and even i think many legislators believed at the time of passage had been authorized. this was done in part because the fisa court, which was established on the premise that it would be authorizing and finding probable cause in cases of specific and traditional targeted surveillance, instead found itself in the position of addressing broad programs of surveillance, often involving novel, legal, or technological issues. it's not clear that body was well e

and again i want to thank my colleague, senator whitehouse, as well as others, like senator schumer and my colleague from connecticut, senator murphy, as well as senator cantwell for that kind of effort that they are devoting. and i'm very proud to be working with them. mr. president, i see colleagues on the floor. it's late in the day and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mr. wicker: thank you, mr. president. i would point out that the distinguished senator from delaware was on his way to speak and has graciously offered to defer for just a moment or two while i make my brief remarks. i rise this evening to speak briefly about the delegation chosen by president obama to represent the united states at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2014 olympic winter games in sochi, russia. i would also like to offer a few suggested additions to the delegation. as members know, janet napolitano, our former secretary of homeland security, will lead the u.s. delegation to the opening ceremonies on february 7. our deputy secretary

and the idea that i was discussing with senator whitehouse that i put before as a commission and hope that we will all consider in the future is that i think that it is based on the view that we can better educate and help people prepare and help an industry respond if we do as it has been said set up a structure that creates some clarity about how you can prepare. .. we just had quite a debate about that. and it was declared constitutional by the supreme court. but it is not easy. let me ask you on a completely different kind of subject, we've really had some problems in florida with assisted-living facilities, basically taking a damage of seniors. nursing homes. do you have any suggestions? we've got people starting these things up that are unlicensed. obviously, they are breaking the law. we are talking about the care and nurturing of ours and yours. did your commissions as anything we have to be doing? >> so you raise a really important question, that are not. actually, as a commission, we had a lot of focus directly. indirectly, we had a real concern that we don't really understa

we have a whitehouse council on women and girls and concerned about the education of girls and making sure they don't fall behind, when it is boys behind. so we need a council on boys. >> christina hoff sommers in a recent article you write women in the united states earn 62% of associates, 57% of bachelors and 67% of masters and 52% of doc a doctodocto doctorates. if male enrollment and 40% or below, women begin to flee. schools near the tipping point are watching as their schools become retirement villages as women are battling for the surviving men. >> there are campuses that ad mission officers are looking at 62-65% female. and they are panicked. i think the administrator at the college of william and mary said we have to attract more men. we are the college of william and mary not mary and mary. there is a grain of truth to this. it is quite a mystery. why the girls could be so much more prepared in education. girls have higher aspirations now as well. and some say this is only in poorer kids. but it is across classes you see the girls outperforming the boys. the girls get more a

whitehouse: thank you. mr. president, i'd like to engage perhaps for the next 20 or so minutes with senator cantwell who is arriving shortly. i will begin with some remarks and then if i can have unanimous consent for us to engage in a colloquy. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you very much. i am here today to talk about the health care problem in the country because the fixation of this body on the health care web site, as -- has i think taken our eye off the fact we have a very, very significant and fundamental health care problem. this graph represents how much we spend on health care as a country. it begins back here in 1960. i was 5 years old in 1960, so this is a lifetime, one lifetime 50-some years. $27.4 billion. that's what we spent on health care, $27.4 billion. now here we are, this is up to 2011. $2.7 trillion. this is what we spent on health care. it's 100 times as much. in 50 years, 100 times as much. now, granted, there are more americans, but not 100 times as many