the results could be embarrassing to the whitehouse and other senior administrations. and from there we get a launch of the program and it becomes a multi-year exercise that really is quite remarkable. do we have any lawyers or commercial litigators? no? that is odd. >> they are still working. >> yeah they are not free. but with the cia saying we are entitled to do independent audits and reviews of every before we turn it over. we cannot just turn it over. we have to have plenty of time and we will put in because this is top-top secret sensitive matters we will put in place all of these special precautions which in fact will take years to put in place before you can get down to starting the process of review. and amongst things we will not allow you to take the documents to the secure document rooms at the senate. you cannot do that. you can only view them in a secure facility of the cia. and we will not allow you to house these murdoch -- documents on computers at the senate. that is not safe. they will be on computers the cia maintains but we will turn them over to y

one of them has been hired as you know by the whitehouse to fix technology programs across the federal government. i have not done any reporting on this but maybe he feels like he is a prisoner in an iranian jail. i sort of also knew but it was surprising was how terrible the government contracting system is in. they promise to win contracts and specialize in explaining why it wasn't their fault. >> did you figure out -- i mean i think one of the things those of us who read the book want to know is did you figure out how to solve that problem? that is a problem i could see clearly serving in the government if you look at the tech stuff and sites they do it is all a disaster. diagnose and cure here. >> i have this dream article i want to write one day and i keep waiting for the "washington post" to do this is a daily report of outstanding government contracts, how much they are overdue, and behind schedule. with a top a ranking system. >> why do you think that is inherent in the system? >> because democracies tend to work best in situations where there is a crisis is everybody is watchi

whitehouse. senate democrats have already voiced their concerns about what the president did and how he did it. it is time for those same democrats to convince the rest of their members enough is enough. it is time for them to stop pretending that this is about immigration when it is now clear that this is about the president's overreach. it is time for democrats to end their filibuster and to fund the department of homeland security. thank you, mr. president, i yield the floor. [applause] >> mr. president? >> senator from maryland. >> mr. president, today the senate will vote for the fourth time on a procedure to take up the house funding bill. we are going to be voting on the closure to motion to proceed because it is a parliamentary way of dealing with the funding for the homeland security department which runs out on friday. mr. president, you were the ranking member on the homeland subcommittee. you did a fantastic job working senator landrieu creating a funding framework with bipartisan and

whitehouse: mr. i just wanted to respond briefly to what i understand was a presentation made by one of the republican senators suggesting that the continued existence of snow disproves climate change. first of all that's not the only measure. you can take a look at sea level rise, which you can measure from fort pulaski in georgia up to alaska where lisa murkowski has acknowledged that climate change is causing sea level rise that's eroding her native villages to the sea level rise in my home state of rhode island at the naval station. you can look at the p.h. changes in the ocean which you actually measure. it's not complicated. kids measure their p.h. in their aquariums all the time. you can measure ocean temperature, which is absolutely clear. it involves something called a thermometer. it really isn't all that complicated. and if you want to understand why the existence of snow might actually be consistent with climate change, i would urge people to get their personal device here, their ipad, wh

senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman. my experience with the education universe is that there are really two worlds in it. one is a world of contractors and consultants and academics and experts and plenty of officials at the federal, state and local level. and the other is a world of principals and classroom teachers who are actually providing education to students. and what i'm hearing from my principals' and teachers' world is that the footprint of the first world has become way too big in their lives. to the point where it's inhibiting their ability to actually do the jobs that they're entrusted to do. so i understand there are lots of concerns and i share those concerns about making sure the benefit of education is spread evenly across the children of this country and the people who don't have a voice don't also lose out on their chance to join the ranks of economic success where they will have more of a voice. but i don't -- i went through the park tests a week ago for math mat sxikz for something they call english

whitehouse: thanks, mr. president. may i ask unanimous consent that the pending quorum call be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you very much. mr. president, i'm here for the 90th time to urge my colleagues in the senate to take action on climate change. the science is clearly worthy of our trust and it is, indeed, time to wake up. the human contribution to climate change is no longer up for legitimate debate. we know that carbon pollution accumulates in the atmosphere. we know that carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat. we've actually known that since abraham lincoln was president. we know that the atmosphere and the oceans are heating up. we can measure that. ocean acidification and sea level rise are also measurable and they are caused by carbon pollution. these risks to our environment to our health to our economy and to our national security are every week more apparent. news this week from new york city was that an advisory panel of scientists, engineers and risk managemen

i was speaking to senator franken, senator whitehouse, senator merkeley, and i think they all genuinely believe that they may actually get more done under leader mcconnell than they did under senator reid over the last couple of years, and i think that may be true. that serves as a basis for us working to moving things along. you can try to make it partisan if you want to, but you can probably attenuate the policy to where you can get some things done. progress. >> touch on a couple of issues where you think there's some potential to build some momentum both with your colleagues across the caucus and also with the >> i think if you go down my bias really is towards regulatory reform. we talk about tax reform and other things we want to do, but i think if we really go back and examine some of the problems we have with regulatory overreach and really expose some of these areas, whether it's e.p.a. or labor, any of the other areas, in a very focused way, then you can sit down and say these regulations may have made sense in a vacuum, but they do not make sense in the context of how they've

the criticism the whitehouse got was they're bending over backwards going out of their way not to usec extremism. >> the islamic state is islamic. in some sense it's a stupid debate. is it true islam or perverted islam. it's all intrurpd. we have interpretations within christianity, within judaism and islam. if you call yourself a muslim you're a muslim. they have different interpretations but it's all interpretations but one is a perverted sick form of islam. a lot of people have a much more peaceful form of islam but it's an interpretation. what's the real one. it's all a matter of interpretation. i think they should4t call it islamic extremism. the second more important issue is how we diagnose the problem. there are three elements to this sort of terrorism. there was a segment of that egyptian young man. first there's economic and political dysfunction so that young man wanted to be a personal trainer and he couldn't. so he was alienated. there's martyr, he wants to be strong and a hero like that young man. there's conviction. islamic state has theology to it. we're comfortable ta

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. my experience with the education universe is that there are really two worlds in it. one is a world of contractors and consultants and academics and experts and plenty of officials at the federal state and local level. and the other is a world of principleeipals and classroom teachers who are actually providing education to students. and what i'm hearing from my principals and teacher's world is that the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives. to the point where it's inhibiting their ability to actually do the jobs that they're entrusted to do. so i understand that there are lots of concerns and i share those concerns about making sure that the benefit of education is spread evenly across the children of this country and that people who don't have a voice don't also lose out on their chance to join the ranks of economic success where they will have more of a voice. but i don't -- i went through the park tests a week ago. for mathematics and for something t

. >> joes have been creating problems over the past weeks open the whitehouse lawn you used to transport drugs and you're in the border. today they called it a no drone zone. >> a married couple nearly foal their deaths on or or mount hood. they stroud claim 10,000 feet up when lost footing and they came to a spot near a team for a mountain rescue. though badly hurt seems luck was on their side. ice chuncks, coming down the mountain. >> it's above where we had patients and packs filled out in front of them. to deflect the ice and rocks coming down. >> the man suffered a broken leg and woman had broken both ankles and national guard helicopter urnled them to safety and a hiker had fallen and he was able to walk out on his own. >> the first confirmed case of meezles in delaware since 2012678 the come next vaccinated the courted it overseas. >> have super bowl officials -- someone reported nine confirmed cases and head of centers for disease control says the decision not to vaccinate your child affects entire communities. >> they're just concerned that maybe measles is not around any more a

tonight nasser judeh the prime minister of jordan is in washington at the whitehouse summit in countering violent extremism. >> there is interest here between us and your country between the united states and europe and everywhere in the world simply because it has an aspect that threatens all of our countries and every continent everywhere in the world so it is a global fight, a generation fight but it has to because it's a fight within islamic at the end of the day or with people trying to hijack the religion so it has to have a primarily must lump stand. >> we end with chris hughes. >> it isn't just to foot the bill, sign the checks and let it go. my view is, we have to ask ourselves in an active way how is the median environment changing and how do we make sure this brand is relevant from ma lineal annual or college student who can't read a magazine. >> professor: prime minister of jordan and >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldw

some of the companies involved with the whitehouse are pretty successful companies. etsy etc, why do they need further net neutrality protection withyy they have been successful up to this point? >> the reason why and chairman wheeler met with tumbler and kickstarter last month and they became successful because the internet was open. they got to chose who to sell goods to they got to chose how to run their business without an internet service provider in the middle telling them what to do or if they had to pay for better quality of service. what they were asking for is us to preserve those rules. the rules in place in 2010 got struck down by the d.c. circuit here in town. so the chairman needed to reinstate rules to ensure the companies continued to thrive. >> has anything changed in the way the net operates since 2010? >> guest: under the 2010 rules, the internet service providers, broadband providers like verizon and comcast, they knew if they prioritized their own content other other content for pay that somebody could come to the fcc and say they are acting ille

. >>> today meanwhile the mother of hoingt tank killed by isis last year told "abc news" the whitehouse has not done enough. >> kayla and our son and others were held for nearly two years. and there were many opportunities along the way. and yet, nothing was done to save our young americans. >> if muelleer was killed she would be fourth killed by isis. she was in syria working with refugees when captured a year and a half ago. >> people were under arrested accused of sending weapons. authorities say six defendants are bosnian immigrants that used postal service to smuggle rifle scopes camouflage, boots from turkey into syria. >> shooting rampage in georgia ended with five killeden including gunman. investigators say the shooter targeted ex-wife and other family members inside a home about 20 miles rest west of atlanta. two children were wounded and survived. investigators believed the gunman took his own life during the attack. they're working to identify the victims and confirm their relationships. >> well a person is dead following an accident involving former olympia an and reality s

whitehouse: finally mr.president, at the oklahoma state university -- at the university of oklahoma, berrien moore, iii is dean of the college of atmosphere and geographic sciences, and he is also director of the national weather center. dean moore of the university of oklahoma was a lead author on the intergovernmental panel on climate change report, which the senator from oklahoma is so fond of disparaging. dr. moore's work helped the ipcc earn the nobel peace prize in 2007. he has won research accolades from noaa and from nasa. in 2009, dr. moore testified before the house committee on science and technology. here's what he had to say about climate change. on the increasing strength of earth's science we now can state that global warming is unequivocal. there is that word again. but this simply sets the challenge. we need now -- this is five years ago by the way -- we need now to develop the capability to monitor and thereby manage greenhouse gas emissions through this century and beyond. the challenge is

times the convention was held here 48 and 1936 with fdr and democratic nominee went to win the whitehouse. >> "action news" reporter sdal live at the wells fargo center tonight. dap the security issues would be a lot different in 0 16 than they were in 1948. >> that's rights, post 9/11 they will be jim. some in new york are mivd that philadelphia wanted hosting dnc 20 16. the wells fargo center was superior to barkley center which would have posed security hurdle. >> political conventions by the very nature attract protesters with political views. [ sirens ] and that was no different when philadelphia hosted the republican national convention in 2000. philadelphia police under commissioner john tim any drew international attention in handling protesters. drawing mostly praise and some criticism. >> we demand liberation from this and we demand liberation from the prison. >> enter charles ramsey who will plan police operations for dnc 20 16. >> you look at operation's plan. update accordingly. the world slightly different than 200 0. obviously pre9/11 this is post. >> homeland security and

lou: with that political whitehouse it is not a of a happy thing in the results speak for themselves.ent holds it up as an emblem of success not those radical islamic terrorists because that is what they are. is one failure after another. libya, the baghdad, and to this point we never got started. it is unfair to expect them all. but where we going? >> but the fact that yemen is a failed state and is not governed the league does two things that affect america. it goes black and it goes dark. we have pulled out most of the intelligence gathering mechanisms. in those fought -- forces that are out of there between the corner of africa so that is very serious to protect the homeland because remember yemen is also the home of the most talented ball makers in the middle east -- bomb makers. lou: but there has not been the success of a bear. we have not been able to prevail in iraq or afghanistan. the president has not had his way with syria. because it is in chaos. in floundering now we have congress that has a request to use military force for a president that they have no confidence in an

. >> senator whitehouse. >> i have a statement regarding loretta lynch that i would like to put into the record if i have unanimous consent. >> this is an historic nomination with a fourth country with the record on issues of race that our country has to now be presented with the first female african-american attorney general nominee in history is not nothing. is significant. it is significant in our history and how we react to it is also significant in our history. the republican committee staff had have months and months and months to do their job of falling through background and history to look for damaging information. that is the prerogative of staff. that is what they do. i do not fault them for doing that. what is noteworthy is after all that lengthy effort at the hearing, not one witness could be produced, not one to oppose her nomination. senator leahy made this clear when he asked the panel if any of you oppose turn nomination. instead we brought in an array of witnesses in agreement about the department of justice but nothing to say about this nominee so we stand up at th

senator whitehouse. >> i will just second the chairman's remarks. i'm actually not an opponent of earmarks. i'm a great fan of my senior senator jack reed who is there appropriator and i would think his judgment about federal money should be spent as a good deal better than the bureaucrats in the various departments but my point was we don't need to have that fight to have a good portion of this bill. i'm with the chairman on that fight and particularly as it applies to these transportation issues. i think my questions have been adequately issued. i would put on record that we got a full answer from governor boley under the chairman's request. governor shumlin was not -- but didn't have a chance as anything so i offer him a chance if he has any comments to make in addition to otherwise the record is clear that the governors before us are in accord on the subject. >> the only point that i would make that hasn't been made in terms of this conversation generally is when we talk about reinvigorating the trust fund which we all know is created in 1958 ha

whitehouse: thank you sir. to the far north melting sea ice opens the arctic to fishing and also to smuggling and environmental disasters. it's a whole new frontier to be patrolled and to be protected by our coast guard, part of the department of homeland security at taxpayer expense. former coast guard comarnt -- commander patt has the job to help manage risk in this remote but increasingly accessible region of the world and he had this to say about managing the consequences of climate change. admiral papp said, i am not a scientist. i can read what scientists say but i'm in the world of consequence management. he said my first turn in alaska was 39 years ago and during the summertime we had to break ice to get up to theberg -- to theberg straight. 35 years later going up there as commandant, we flew into katzabi at the same time of year. i could not see ice anywhere. so it is clear to me that there are changes happening. but i have to deal with the consequences of that. mr. president, the men and women of our

we have gregory craig, who was whitehouse council, the former defense secretary bill cohen many distinguished people. i understand you have your own twitter address, what is your handle? >> i don't recall but i will give you the address. >> if you search under khalid al-attiyah, it might come up. >> yes. >> do you use it? i guess not. >> sometimes. >> maybe if you still like me when this interview is over, we can take a selfie and tweet it on your stream. let's have some fun. we are here to talk about a great many issues. i have had many friends in this room say, make sure you mention this, make sure you mentioned isis and all of the support you are giving for all of these terrorists. when a look from your perch at the middle east region, and from your perspective, who wears the white hats and who wears the black hats? i have been watching the tv show "scandal" and it is a lot about white hats and black hats. who are the good guys and who are the bad guys from your perspective right now? >> first of all, thank you steve, for receiving me here. i would like to thank all of your honorable guest

and then wes moore discusses his life from a combat veteran to a whitehouse worker to a social tripoli. and we wrap up with harvard profester who looks at the impact the global cotton trade had on the international economy. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> joe cline is a former chancellor of the new york city public school system. he talks about what the system did to improve the education system and suggests other ways for cities to do the same. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming out this afternoon. we appreciate it. i am going to introduce our guest: ... about equal to the number of schools that exist in boston, washington, philadelphia and baltimore. [applause] >> it says a lot about the bloomberg the years. they were on our role. a lot they have done. and unscreened high school quadrupled the graduation rate and replaced in love bronx and held on to work with joel klein as chancellor and the portfolio of new school development and a senior adviser to the chancellor and mayor's office on strategy. last year the family foundation as director of k-12 education whe

i was having this discussion with senator whitehouse last week actually during the votes. in a strange way i think it is one of the -- the fact the 80 we really have shy audiences at the bbc. we have a couple of mics running around. let us know who you are. one here and one here. >> good afternoon, patrick wilson. it's good to see you senator. one of the questions the president just got today and i will pitch it to you because i think it's timely and that is what we do about tax reform? this was an issue you talked about on the campaign and given what you said about the regulatory burden on american business certainly having u.s. business burdened by the highest tax -- corporate tax rate in the world i wonder what you think the prospects are for trying to take care of that in this congress? >> i think the challenge we have here are two different perspectives between them on tax reform between the president and the current congress and the leadership of the congress. we did tax reform in north carolina. not in our first term but in our second term. we simplified it. we went

whitehouse: mr. president may i say how much i appreciate the open amendment process. mr. mcconnell: if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order following the remarks of senator brown. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. the chair on behalf of the vice president pursuant to the order of the senate of january 24, 190 1, as modified by the order of february 9 2015 appoints the senator from north dakota senator hoeven to read washington's farewell address on monday february 23, 2015. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio is recognized. mr. brown: this week we honor those in uniform and their families who sacrificed for their country. this week is a particularly appropriate time for us to reflect on the importance of fulfilling our commitment to all veterans. just as we invest in, just as we train our men

ing i was speaking with senator franken, senator whitehouse, senator merkley heitkamp and tester, all of them. i think they all genuinely believe they may actually be able to get more done under leader mcconnell than they got done under senator reid over the last couple of years. and i believe that to be true. and i think that that serves as basis for us working together, moving things along. there's a lot of things we do here you can try and make partisan if you want to, but you could probably attenuate the policy to where you can get things done. maybe not as much as i want done certainly not as much as the minority does, but progress. >> touch on a couple of the issues where you think there's some potential to build some momentum both with your colleagues across the caucus and also with the administration. >> you know, i think if you go down -- my bias really is towards regulatory reform. we talk about tax reform a number of other things that we want to do, but i think if we really go back and examine some of the problems that we have with regulatory overreach and really expose som

. >> the whitehouse introduces the strategy to reduce the oil and gas emissions and they had sources at hydrauling wells, pumps, leak from well sites and pressure stations. anyone on a rig knows you put a hole in the ground and you find oil and most likely natural gas and more than half of completed wells produce oil and gas. does the epa believe there is an overlap between the rules? >> we believe there are sinnergies and we will not duplicate efforts but provide a signal for those producing oil and natural gas as to what the regulatory obligations are. >> in 2014 the epa estimated about $200 million in natural gas could be captured and sold. producers in texas have been using quipment to get the methane and separate and it sell or power it pack the producer. methane is a product we need to use. aside using it on site additional capture is going to require additional pipelines in the budget has side aside some but not enough to encourage investment in the module pipelines. >> we are working to take a look at what pipelines need to be constructed in order to make sure we can still co

i was having this discussion request senator whitehouse last week during the vote, and in a strange way, i think it's -- the fact that about 80 million of the 115 million that was spent was against me ultimately worked against my opponent. i think people got burned out. i tell you what. i woke up on wednesday morning, the day after the elections, and i got misty eyed when i saw a toothpaste commercial, because, i mean, for a year, the first negative attack ad that was run against me was the week after thanksgiving in 2013. $7.5 million by third parties on the other sides of the aisle before the provide mayor. -- primary. but i think it's a reality. i think we tute do a little more to disclose the sources, but i'm not one who says it all needs to be shut down. i think the supreme court has spoken. so what you now do is try to figure out how through disclosure the way they'd go about communitying things. because it's really -- there's really some ugly stuff out there. there were things done by third parties that were osstensably supporting us that were -- ostensibly supporting us that wer

and hen a whitehouse force looks at policing policy. federal reserve chair will deliver the monetary policy to the house tomorrow and discuss the economy. she will testify before the senate banking committee at 10 eastern. and secretary john kerry will talk about the 2015 budget request for the state department and talk about challenges facing the united states in foreign relations. homeland security secretary jay johnson talks about what happens if they don't approve funding for his department. he is joined by the head of fema and border patrol. >> good afternoon, i am pleased to be joined by the deputy secretary, and the craig fugate and assistant secretary of immigration and custom enforcement, the director of the secret service and the director of uscis and the acting administrator of tsa and our cfo. i am also honored to stand here today with the men and women of the department of homeland security. many who are behind me. these are the men and women who reflect a much larger workforce that is responsible for keeping the homeland s

pulling a part the relationship of the cia and all of the other aspects of the government -- the whitehousertment of justice, department of state -- and also the press, i think the most amazing disclosures of the book is the way the cia manipulates and plays with the press and understanding how they operate. what you see at the end of the day, looking at all of this is the cia and the national security apex and i didn't talk about the department of defense, but the cia and apex and the cia a subject of dread or fear on the part of many other institutions of the government, people don't want to cross them. people are afraid of what they might do if they take a negative view to particular political actor or political institution. their power is certainly perceived at the being at the system's apex. and when we go back and test the specific points reported against what happened we see individuals who make the most stupid decisions, wrong decisions, arresting people who are completely innocent and a couple of cases torturing them to death or filling prisons in fact with people who are if anythi

first senator whitehouse's language which simply stated that climate change was not a hoax received a nearly unanimous vote and believe it or not that is progress. but my amendment stwaited that climate change -- which stated that climate change is real, caused by humans, and has real and significant impacts received a bear majority of the votes with five republicans supporting it. senator hoeven's amendment had similar language as well as some pro--keystone language and a-- pro-keystone language and attracted a dozen or so republican votes. without acknowledging the problem, we cannot even begin to work on it. the wall of denial has begun to crack. so now we have a denial of, depending on how it's phrase phrased even a potential supermajority? the senate saying that climate change is real. now most every serious person in public life either admits the basic facts of climate change or is on their way to et going there. -- to getting there. so that's a good thing. now the question is, what should we do? given our regional differences our ideological difnses differences and the partisan

we fortunately have folks like senator whitehouse in d.c.ntially standing shoulder to shoulder with citizens. that's what got us where we are today. we stopped keystone xl for six years. you can stop it in your backyards, too. i think the corporations think we won't have the resources or time or will to do it. but what politicians have to do is feel us at the ballot box. i feel like that's our responsibility in our next step in these fights. >> colleen, what is the next step in all of this? we saw the videotape of the people getting together. you've big rallies. what's the next step? >> we've been writing letters to the new york d.e.c. there's been a public comment period. before is the pipeline can be built, they need performs saying they won't affect our water, they won't poising our water. we're telling the d.e.c. they will. the d.e.c. needs to uphold the mission state and protect new york's water and its citizens. >> colleen, keep up the fight. jane kleeb, thanks for your time. it's not just nebraska it's new york. >>> "politics nation"

you will see next week the so-called summit at the whitehouse on terrorism which is really, i think, could be called a summit of lies. they are not going to define who the terrorists are. they are not going to define what the threat is. they are not going to be serious about explaining what we were up against and instead, they are going to have a pr show and pretend they don't know. host: they are calling it extremities him, not terrorism. guest: you have to ask yourself what are they take talking about? what happened in copenhagen, shots fired at a conference on whether or not a cartoonist has free speech. there is no confusion about it. the person who fired the shots probably went to a jewish synagogue and killed the guard at the synagogue. now, president said that's random acts of violence referring to the person who , killed four jews in a jewish grocery store and who, by the way, said to public television yes, i wanted to kill jews. i went out this morning to kill jews. if we can't have an honest conversation about what threatens our civilization, all of the rest of this is a sh

it's in this vain that my colleague from rhode island, senator whitehouse and i have joined together to introduce a piece of legislation we call the corrections oversight recidivism reduction and eliminating costs for taxpayers in our national system. our corrections act. that's quite an acronym, it's a mouthful, to be sure. but the point is this is real, meaningful reform of our prison system at the federal level. before i describe the specifics of the correction act, i want to tell a brief story that the presiding officer is very familiar with of the success of in that laboratory of democracy known as the state of texas. not too long ago texas lawmakers confronted a problem similar to what i've described here at the national level. we had growing budget for prison construction overcrowded prisons and a high rate of criminalry sid vicitm. but at some point the thought occurred to a group of people that just building more prisons wasn't necessarily the answer. it wouldn't certainly fix the problem on the back end i described of people who eventually get out of prison not being prepar

join hundreds of experts and academics and private sector representatives for a first of the kind whitehouse summit to discuss how we can improve trust and enhance cooperation to strengthen the online consumer protections and separate offense. -- cyberoffense but what has become a vast cyberecosystem we have to work in lockstep with the private sector. it could be and should not rely on the government to solve all cybersecurity problems for at the same time i want to emphasize the federal government will not leave the private sector to fend for itself. partnership is a precondition of success there is no other way to tackle such a complicated problem. requires daily collaboration to identify threats and address over abilities to work together to respond during the. to the private sector we have made it clear we will work together. , we will not bottle up intelligence if we have the information we will do the utmost to share it and in fact, without an -- within 24 hours of learning of the sony pictures attack u.s. government pushout information to update the site for defense so they could tak

. >> we have senator baldin, senator casey, senator whitehouse, senator murphy unless some random republican wanders into the room. and there should be time for all of you to have a full five minutes. then we'll be close to the noon hour when we conclude the hearing. senator baldwin. >> thank you mr. chairman. very grateful to you and the ranking member for getting us off to a great start with a bipartisan dialogue and how we can best address the shortcomings of the no child left behind law. and i'm hopeful that we can find a thoughtful path forward to fixing this law for all students, parents, teachers administrators, policy makers. we need this information also. great panel. thank you to the witnesses. now, a well-designed standardized test is one important tool among many that can help all of the stakeholders i just listed understand how well individual students are doing as well as how well our nation's schools are serving all of our nation's children. as such we should know if the tests given those required by federal law as well as those that are required by state and local districts a

the article goes on the whitehouse threatened to veto the bill saying it would take away critical benefits and increase the deficit. before the vote president obama met with ten people who benefited from the health care law. here is what the president said: >> why is it this is at the top of their agenda? making sure folks who don't have health care are not able to get it? it was maybe plausible to be opposed the affordable care act before it was implemented but now it is being implemented and it is working. and people are being covered just as anticipated. the premiums on average are less than $100 when you take into account the tax credit. so it is affordable for the people it was designed to help. health care inflation is at its lowest rate in 50 years. the overall tab for the affordable care act is costing less than the original projection. in every respect this is working, not just as intended but better than intended. and so the notion that we would play politics with the lives of folks who are out there working hard every single day trying to make ends meet and look after their fami

sex trafficking strategy and includes a very important strategy that senator sessions and senator whitehouse worked on together. most importantly it creates incentives for states to do what has been working in so many states and that is treating his young girls as victims, giving them the services they need so they can turn their lives around and making sure they can build stronger cases against the perpetrators that are running these rings. i appreciate republican support for this bill because it is a new approach. it is looking at this differently and it means a lot to me. i want to thank my colleagues for their support and the work that needs to be done going forward. >> senator flake. >> thank you mr. chairman. i will support her nomination today, i have always felt that it is -- i don't agree with every decision she put forward and i disagree with the president's executive action for example and she thinks it was reasonable to put forward. but like i said my position is not to agree with every position taken. there are differing opinions on this. anyone who attended the hearings were sh

on this topic in on the house floor on the senate side, a member known to give speeches sheldon whitehousedemocrat from rhode island discussing climate change. viewers can look those up in the archive. in the meantime we we will go to frank in montana, the line for independence. good morning. are you with us? all right. frank in scranton, pennsylvania on the line for democrats speethree yes. my question is -- speewun turned down your tv and talk to your phone. >> caller: going through our land, people's private property two rivers railroads highways, parks. also going through sacred indian lands. hasn't the united states stolen enough money or land off of the indians already? and on top of that it we will be going down. what is going to happen? .. ith the residue from that? it is the doherty us -- it is the dirtiest oil on earth. host: several concerns from frank. guest: thank you for those questions and concern. i agree that the pipeline is going to have to go through private property. people should have some amount of say of whether that is allowed or not. the state of nebraska is strugg

. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much chairman. >> good to have you here. could you please tell us a little bit about the part of your budget document that is called federal budget exposure to climate risk? and what you see and anticipate in terms of costs of taxpayers will bear from our failure to address a climate change problem? >> what we've done for the very first time is to very specifically quantify as much possible what we have seen over a number of years and what we expect to see going forward in terms of what we expect to see. we tried to focus on programs like disaster assistance. fema, flood insurance, property insurance is another area where we've seen substantially increased edd claims as a result of more extreme weather and i think the basic analysis is that it is foolish for us not to act and both take further steps to reduce climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to prepare our communities for the more extreme weather we're seeing. not only will those save lives but dollars as well. fema shows that where we invest in prot

. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. mr.lies tell us a little bit about the part of your budget document that's called "federal budget exposure to climate risk." and what you see and anticipate in terms of cost that the taxpayers will bear from our failure to address the climate change problem. >> senator what we tried to do for the very first time in this budget is to very specifically quantify as much as possible what we have seen over a number of years and what we expect to see going forward in terms of direct increase costs. there are many other areas that are perhaps more speculative more indirect costs, but we tried to focus on programs like disaster assistance through fema or flood insurance crop insurance is another area where we've seen substantially increased claims as a result of more extreme weather. and i think the basic/íñ analysis is that it is footish for us not to act and both take further steps to reduce climate change reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to prepare our communities for the more extreme

. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much, chairman. >> good to have you here. could you please tell us a little bit about the part of your budget document that is called federal budget exposure to climate risk? and what you see and anticipate in terms of costs of taxpayers will bear from our failure to address a climate change problem? >> what we've done for the very first time is to very specifically quantify as much possible what we have seen over a number of years and what we expect to see going forward in terms of what we expect to see. we tried to focus on programs like disaster assistance. fema, flood insurance property insurance is another area where we've seen substantially increased edd claims as a result of more extreme weather and i think the basic analysis is that it is foolish for us not to act and both take further steps to reduce climate change reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also to prepare our communities for the more extreme weather we're seeing. not only will those save lives, but dollars as well. fema shows that where we invest in protec

host: sheldon whitehouse, a democrat from rhode island, with his charts, discussing climate change.iewers can look those up. in the meantime we will go to frank, montana. good morning. are you with us? we will try another frank scranton, pennsylvania. caller: my question is -- host: turned on your tv and talk through your phone. caller: these pipelines will be going through private property. through rivers and railroads and highways and parks and going through sacred indian land. hasn't the united states stolen enough land off indians already without going through their lands? on top of that, it will go down through the refinery. what will happen with the residue from that? it is the doherty us -- it is the dirtiest oil on earth. host: several concerns from frank. guest: thank you for those questions and concern. i agree that the pipeline is going to have to go through private property. people should have some amount of say of whether that is allowed or not. >> "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern and always available at c-span.org. we will leave this portion as the u.s

here is what happened. 99-1 the whitehouse amendment declaring the climate change is not a hoax passed with the support of the chairman and 59-40 the hoven amendment that said climate change is caused by human activity won the day, 59-40 but it was filibustered so it never got where it should have gotten and then the shots amendment that said climate change is significantly caused by human activity passed 50-49. so let's get those in the record. so now my colleague from mississippi went into this whole thing about that great movie the king's speech. i didn't get the connection but it was cleverly put forward. but the bottom line is he's saying that these two newspapers are confusing the matter. so i'm going to put into the record all of the news outlets that reported this story. i have 40. there are many more. let me tell you who is included and said the same thing. the christian science monitor, upi, chicago sun time reuters, a.p. testimony times politico. national journal, pollity cal pilot. news week. kansas first news, national geographic. bloomberg, smithsonian magazine. salt lake

department of homeland security asked the panel to do a review of the secret service's protection of the whitehouse following the events of september 19, 2014. we did not focus solely on that event but looked broadly at concerns about the service that had been raised by this committee and others. from october when we were commissioned to the issuance of our report on december 15 the panel talked to dozens of members of the service from all levels as well as more than 100 experts from the federal protective services, local law enforcement, national laboratories and the defense and intelligence communities. we thought it was important to hear perspectives about the service, about the protective function about technology from both inside and outside the service. we also reviewed thousands of pages of documents. ou report and recommendations were completed december 15th. the report contains substantial sensitive information as well as classified information and recommendations. we have had the opportunity to brief the chairman and ranking member and many staff of this and other committees in a classifi

host: sheldon whitehouse, a democrat from rhode island, with his charts, discussing climate change.wers can look those up. in the meantime we will go to frank, montana. good morning. are you with us? we will try another frank scranton, pennsylvania. caller: my question is -- host: turned on your tv and talk through your phone. caller: these pipelines will be going through private property. through rivers and railroads and highways and parks and going through sacred indian land. hasn't the united states stolen enough land off indians already without going through their lands? on top of that, it will go down through the refinery. what will happen with the residue from that? it is the doherty us -- it is the dirtiest oil on earth. host: several concerns from frank. guest: thank you for those questions and concern. i agree that the pipeline is going to have to go through private property. people should have some amount of say of whether that is allowed or not. the state of nebraska is struggling with that issue and it should be. in terms of refining, when the oil goes to refineries, it

here is sheldon whitehouse. time for a few more of your calls.ob is up next from washington, line for democrats. what do you think about the increases proposed in the military budget? caller: i think we've had enough military spending. over my lifetime, i'm almost 60 come a week spent trillions and trillions of dollars on this military. -- i'm almost 60, and we spent trillions eventually died dollars in this military. -- we have spent trillions and trillions of dollars in this military. it is time to put our trust in god. and president obama is asking for more money for defense to go kill people in other countries. we've got to stop. america, wake up. host: before you go, it is president obama himself that propose the $38 billion increase for defense spending, somebody's pushing as well as members on capitol hill pushing this as well. caller: i look at that and i say that obama is trying to a pe's the people on the right, all of the republicans. -- trying to appease the people on the right all of the republicans. 63% of the people did not even vo