next is senator whitehouse on disaster funding. mr. whitehouse: this is the climate change related deficit neutral reserve fund rather like senator kain's we voted on. instead of related to military bases this is related to fema disaster money and i've already described it so i won't burden everybody's time further. i hope that this can get strong support. >> mr. chairman, his amendment says may include problems or disasters caused by human induced climate change. mr. sessions: but doesn't limit it to that, so i won't object, we can do it by voice vote i would just note again that according to expert testimony, environment and public works committee, droughts are not up. floods are not up. hurricanes are down substantially. tornadoes are down. and so we're looking forward to more evidence that will come out from the environmental protection agency. mr. enzi: the clerk will poll the committee. the clerk: mr. grassley. mr. sessions: i'll take a voice vote. mr. enzi: oh. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. anybody want a recorded n

i want to yield to senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: this might be the most important deficit fighting vote we will take today. i asked to be added as a cosponsor. chairman: without objection. this takes us back to 2008. i would ask for a no vote on this. please call the committee. clerk: mr. grassley? mr. sessions? mr. crapo? mr. graham? mr. portman? mr. toomey? mr. johnson? ms. ayotte? mr. corker? mr. purdue? mr. sanders? ms. murray? mr. wyden? ms. stab and now? mr. merkley? mr. kane? mr. king? mr. chairman? chairman: no. the amendment has failed. next is senator portman. senator: this amendment would create a reserve fund for legislation that would reduce redundancy and improve access and enhance outcomes for outreach programs. we talked about studies on this that show we have 47 programs over nine different departments and agencies. many of them have not been subject to performance review. 44 of 47 have been viewed as overlapping with one another. i would hope we get support on both sides and go to a voice vote.

senator whitehouse: mr. easterly, how have you built the costs of climate change for indiana to your analysis of the value of the clean power plan? mr. easterly: i don't think you can quantify in the cost of future climate change. let's go back to your other question. senator whitehouse: why don't you think you can? mr. easterly: there is nothing concrete. there is speculation. senator whitehouse: there was a report that says 8-20 3% increase. mr. easterly: those are from the clean power plant. senator whitehouse: this is not from the clean power plan, increased cooling load. you are not familiar with that report. mr. easterly: not that one. senator whitehouse: when you're talking about the cost of electricity, are you talking about on a per kilowatt hour basis? i am sorry to go over. can i make a rhode island point? senator inhofe: how long is it? senatore whitehouse: less than a minute. average monthly bills in wisconsin are $95. in indiana, $110. wyoming, $90. rhode island, they are lower then two of the

maybe it was collaboration or direction from the whitehouse. and in printed reports since then this was cooked up over there and the fcc certainly changed their view at least tom wheeler did on where he was headed once the president sort of tripped him up. so, you know it is just not a good way to do public policy. >> you don't give any credence to chairman wheeler's explanation of thinking about this last summer and they could not reach the protections they wanted basing them on title ii. >> guest: i am having trouble believing that pause of conversations i had with the chairman this fall -- because -- where he was still in touch. and then i read he had a sweat gripped epiphany in july and august. >> host: do you trust the fcc to forbear? >> guest: i think they will try to forbear. i think the question is and you know there is a severability cause in the order and they could have an order that forbears against things that don't belong on the internet under title ii. what if the court says you are okay for title ii but didn't do the proper proc

whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president to change the subject from sentencing reform to climate change i come to the floor today for i guess it's the 93rd consecutive week that the senate has been in session to urge that my colleagues wake up to the urgent threat of what results from our levels of carbon pollution. it is an opportune time now to consider a step up in american corporate responsibility on climate change. call it corporate climate responsibility 2.0. americans can celebrate and applaud the fact that america's corporate leaders have taken so many important steps on climate change. companies like wal-mart and coca-cola to pick just two see the problem clearly and have done great things. wal-mart prince, has taken exemplary responsibility -- wal-mart, for instance, haze taken exemplary responsibility for its carbon footprint not only in its facilities but beyond the corporate walls out to its international supply chain.

senator enzi: next amendment is by senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you very much, mr. chairman. our responsibility to meet the emergency management needs of the country and the disaster expenses that we face and what we find is that in recent years what's actually been put into the budget has been running around $1.5 billion to $2 billion. but what we've spent is $53 billion. $13 billion. $7.1 billion. and $55 billion in -- i'm sorry -- $17 billion in 2013. so there's a recurring gap what we budget for and what we experience in our disaster response. and this amendment would create a deficit neutral reserve fund that would relate to fema's ability to prepare for this. in rhode island we've seen unprecedented fisheries disasters. we've seen unprecedented storm activity from sandy. we have seen homes washed into the sea. we have 10 flches of measured sea level rise. and as the carbon loading that we're doing to our atmosphere and oceans continues, the continued weather weirding and weather wilding that we've seen all over the place i think will keep -- i think reasonable

i am asking something about the whitehouse. it is a very basic one -- >> before you ask, i will do my best and not refer to the state department but i want you to remember it is the responsible of the state department and that agency to maintain their e-mail system and ensure their compliance with the record act. >> does the whitehouse think hilary clinton broke the law? >> i am going to do my best to answer. secretary clinton's team said at the request of the state department, they have reviewed her records -- >> i know what the team has said. but does the whitehouse believe hilary clinton broke the law our complied with the law? does the president believe his former secretary of state broke the law or complied with the law. >> you will have to go verify this but if in fact what secretary clinton's team said they were going to do and that can be verified by the state department that would be consistent with what the federal act requires. i was not in a position to review secretary clinton's personal e-mail. that was the respon

the whitehouse amendment. >> thank you very much. this is the amendment we talked about that would add the information into the budget report of the amount of federal revenue that doesn't come into the budget but instead is dislocated, i guess i'd say by the tax code. i think the important information. it's a neutral amendment in the sense all it does is add information sort of like senator johnson's. i'd ump the amendment's passage if we can get that. >> senator portman. >> mr. chairman i think it would be useful information. i plan to support the amendment. >> is there -- of course, you should realize that section 308 of the congressional budget act already requires that provide the committee with tax expenditure projections. and those are publicly available. and the budget resolution capes annual revenue estimates that implicitly include all tax expends tours. so if a member wants to increase or decrease tax expenditures such amendment can be offered by changing the total according line. t make no, sir more sense than providing th

whitehouse: mr. president i see the ranking member of the budget committee is on the floor, and if he would not have any objection, i would like to proceed to, on behalf of senator wyden and chairman, ranking member sanders and myself, set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment number 471. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from rhode island, mr. whitehouse, for mr. wyden and others, proposes an amendment numbered 471. mr. whitehouse: mr. president may i ask unanimous consent that further reading of the amendment be dispensed with? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you very much mr. president. mr. president, for my colleagues , this is an amendment that relates to protecting social security. social security is a program that has been an enormous success, that at the heart of the american middle class and that represents a solemn promise that our seniors have earned over a lifetime of work

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you both for being here today. rhode island is a small state and we tend to have a lot of small and entrepreneurial companies. and i'm concerned that when there is fda or other regulatory disadvantaged that a company must bear to bring a product online, that has a lot harder on the small company than it does on the big one. i noticed that in the accelerating medicines partnership, all the participants seem to be the big manufacturers, and obviously, if you are big manufacturer in a world in which only big manufacturers can succeed is a good world because you are not going to get a lot of objection from the big manufacturers. how do you push back against the incentive of big manufacturers to squeeze out little ones and make sure that little manufacturers get the attention that they need and are included in these types of processes and are health or your process? -- helped through your process? i mentioned the accelerating medicines partnership, start with you, dr. collins and i asked dr. hamburg the same thing. dr.

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you, madam chair. let me open with a question and then make a comment. the question will be for i guess, dr. hodes and dr. petersen. i was -- i'm on the budget committee and we have the budget on the floor so i vent been here for the whole hearing. could you be a little bit more specific about what you think the prospects are or a cure how confident you are, how many viable paths towards a cure there are so that a nondoctor like me can get a sense of how much confidence we can have? ronald: thank you, senator whitehouse. difficult question to answer, of course. there is enough exciting research. this is a complex disease. it's not just a single cell disease but really involves networks in the brain so there are multiple targets out there and we're somewhat encouraged by a report just last week that one of the drugs that's under investigation for alzheimer's disease to remove one of the culprits, the plaques, the amyloid plaques in the brain. one result indicated in fact there may be a path forward for

senator collins: senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: let me open with the question, then the comment. i'm on the budget committee, i haven't been able to be here for the whole hearing, could you be more specific about what you think the prospects are for a cure? how confident you are, how many viable paths toward secure there are? so that a non-dr. can get a sense of how much confidence we can have? dr. hodes: thank you, senator whitehouse. to difficult one to answer definitively. i think there's enough exciting research out there perhaps on new targets, this is a complex disease -- dr. peterson: thank you, senator whitehouse. to difficult one to answer definitively. i think there's enough exciting research out there perhaps on new targets, this is a complex disease. in early phase one resulted indicated that in fact there may be a path forward with this particular therapeutic. the plaques or reduced as they measure them in patients over a year, and the patients improved clinically relative to those who were on place

senator whitehouse and senator corker are in meetings. we should be just a few seconds out of voting. i will call on senator murray for her 30 seconds on the sequestration. >> it takes the current cbo projection to allow us to be able to replace sequestration for today. it is responsible. we could face serious consequences without this amendment. >> i raise the issue that i thought there was an increase in taxes and spending. it does say increasing federal revenues. we will be taking advantage of the baseline changes by the time that week it to conference. that will be the normal time for doing that, since we just got them. i would ask that you vote no. >> mr. grassley? >> it has been defeated. next amendment on oil spill. >> this is a taxpayer amendment to say that if you have an oil spill, that the oil companies a should be paying for that, the cleanup. the trust fund should have those types of spills covered by companies paying into it. we eliminate tax benefits that apply when there is a settlement or judgment because of oil spills, a

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you, madam chair. let me open with a question and then make a comment. the question will be for, i guess, dr. hodes and dr. petersen. i was -- i'm on the budget committee and we have the budget on the floor so i vent been here for the whole hearing. could you be a little bit more specific about what you think the prospects are or a cure, how confident you are, how many viable paths towards a cure there are so that a nondoctor like me can get a sense of how much confidence we can have? ronald: thank you, senator whitehouse. difficult question to answer, of course. there is enough exciting research. this is a complex disease. it's not just a single cell disease but really involves networks in the brain so there are multiple targets out there and we're somewhat encouraged by a report just last week that one of the drugs that's under investigation for alzheimer's disease to remove one of the culprits, the plaques, the amyloid plaques in the brain. one result indicated in fact there may be a path forward fo

senator whitehouse. *senator enzi: yes. senator whitehouse: we have been presented for the first time these spending neutral reserve funds. to my knowledge the committee has made no definition of what a spending neutral reserve fund is. we are being asked to vote on this new concept with no committee definition of what it means and there is a theory that offsetting spending that would have to be cut to make it neutral must come out of medicare and social security and other mandatory programs. if what we are being asked to vote on is cut to medicare and social security, that puts us in a difficult position. we are entitled to know, whatever it is, it is. i don't want to be voting without having the committee to find that term. senator enzi: it is not a new term. we used in 2013. >> as i understand it this would be basically mandatory. spending cut in mandatory spending. that is what we have been told by folks. is that correct? >> it is not a definition of mandatory it is a definition of spending. senator enzi: it is not a de

whitehouse: 700 867 and 895. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection the amendments are called up en bloc. the senator from rhode island. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the sphror pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you mr. president. i ask unanimous consent pending amendments be set aside so i can call up amendments number 632 and 633. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the amendments are called up en bloc. the clerk: mr. casey proposes amendments number 632 and 633 en bloc. mr. casey: i ask that the reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: just a brief description of both. the first is a -- are deficit-neutral reserve fund. we have had a standard in place for a quarter century for -- pursuant to the americans with disabilities act that individuals who are -- have a disability in the workplace are given reasonable accommodations at the work site. we should have the same for pregnant workers. we have a case that was decided today by the supreme court young

but the whitehouse yet to confirm isis was in fact the culprit. white house spokesman says the islamic state ovrp claims responsibility for attacks. they targeted mosques by shiite rebels that recently took over capitol. the protests against police in philadelphia that got out of hand last night in lawncrest is being condemned tonight by the mother of brandon tate-brown. he's the man officers shot and killed during a traffic stop in december and demonstrateers claim hear they're doing this all in his name. yesterday, district attorney seth williams said police acted without excessive force and no charges wore filed. in a statement to "action news" tam ra brown-diggerer son must be respect for williams and commissioner and charles ramsey and law enforcement officers and they have been kind of professional in dealing with her. they says she rejects all forms of violence and calls for peaceful protests in honor of dr. reverend luther king jr. and last night ten people arrested for disorderly conduct and they want the names of the officers involved pu

that was senator sheldon whitehouse. he's a democrat from rhode island.e government shouldn't regulate climate change. another to pretend that climate change doesn't even exist or it is somehow disproven by the existence of winter. senator, what moved you to march down there with that rebuttal? >> well i guess first there are an awful lot of people out there who are working very very hard to deal with climate change to explain climate change to try to reduce the threat of climate change, and i think they deserve to have sort of loopy comments like those that were made on the senate floor rebutted. >> another interesting part of that is that senator whitehouse has been waging a battle. he marchses down to the floor to talk about the science. we in the media cover conflict more than policy addresses. i asked him about that as well. >> you see so much progress kind of inch by inch and often behind the scenes but we went from climate change being an issue that nobody would talk about to really starting to put pressure on the republicans and making things diff

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senator whitehouse good. :the last topic i want to address with you is cybersecurity. cybersecurity has a lot of different elements. it has a national security element. obviously. there's considerable capacity for sabotage. against the electric grid and other very essential elements of our infrastructure. there is a huge flow of intellectual property that is stolen out of people's computers and i think the vast majority of that, up in china, where they have a policy of trying to steal american intellectual property for mercantile reasons so they can compete with us without having to pay to license the technology. there's enormous amounts of financial crime, not just around america, but around the world. hugely lucrative for these criminals and then privacy concerns when you're social security information the being hacked, stolen and sold on a website so that shall be can open up a credit card in your name and that kind of stuff, so i think it's a very big deal. and i think we need to be deliberating what our law enforcement response to it should look like. i noted that

they owe it to the american people to explain why the budget blue prints from the whitehouse are unserious chatty. the president's budget is never balanced ever and keeps spending more. never balanced other. contrast to the budget before the senate. it balances without raising taxes and it is the result of omen and transparent committee work led by the chairman. this budget is another example of the new senate getting back to work for the american people. it is another example of the senate moving past failed ideas from the past like obamacare and positioning america for the future instead. this balanced budget is all about growing an economy that can work better for the middle class of today and leaving a more prosperous future to the middle class of tomorrow. it will also provide the procedures and tools via the budget reconcilation process to bring an end to the nightmare of obamacare. that is something all of us should want. since our friends across the aisle are not offering a budget of their own i would invite them to join us. join us in supporting the growth oriented balanced budget

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senator whitehouse. >> thank you chairman and thank you very much to the panel for being here. let me ask first commissioner nowak, in 2013 commissioner nowak, the milwaukee journal sentinel posted an editorial in your home state, and i'll quote climate change is happening. human activity plays a huge role in that. the consequences of doing nothing could be dire and expensive. do you agree with the milwaukee journal sentinel on that? >> thank you for the question. my role as a regulator or an economic regulator, we ensure also the reliability of the grid. i did not or do not endeavor to take on the policy behind what is before us. my role here has been analyzing it and the rules that come before us. i look for three things. the environmental rule that's coming, does it compromise the affordability, the safety and reliability of our grid? that's the lens that i look through this rule. >> so no amount of environmental cost would figure into your analysis then? >> no, that's not what i said. >> that's exactly what you said. i'm just trying to make sure i put it properly and want y

my amendment full text congress from what i consider, senator whitehouse mentioned smelling the polls, one of the smelliest loopholes we engage in is this one. this would stop congress from engaging in this terrible crack this and protect and preserve this fund. senator to me is the sponsor and i'd like to give the rest of my time to senator to me. i think senator crapo for yielding to me. it's been 15 years congress has been take hundreds of millions of dollars in the federal law should be going to victims of the most tremendous crime sex assault, domestic violence other crimes and not using money for the benefit of the guns despite the fact the law requires you it's outrageous. i'm enthusiastically supporting senator crapo. from 2010 to 2014 the fund collected $12 billion not from taxpayers some of that convicted criminals and gave the big as

if we have a liberal in the whitehouse and they make the right sort of appointment that decision can be overturned. >> i have a quick one on that one. absolutely true. and also that this is kind of like the winston churchill thing where americans make the right decision after they exhausted all others. the democratic structures themselves are in a crisis point and we will manage to put out of the nose dive. 1916 we passed the 16th amendment and then in the '30s we have the deal and we got the 21-year-old vote in 1972. it doesn't happen magically and things are bad so they will get good. but structural reforms have and do and can happen. >> if you could talk to justice roberts about the voting rights act decision what would you say? >> i would say please sir, explain to me. i understand you are a law scholar and i am a piddling person but explain the logic by when you decide the fact that a thing has worked means that thing is no longer required. i don't get it sir. please explain this to me sir, and please explain to me what i am supposed to -- please explain why i am not supposed to

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i'm back for the 91st consecutive week that the senate has been in session to urge my colleagues to wake up and pay attention to the threat of climate change. i am delighted and proud to be joined today by my colleague and friend senator baldwin from wisconsin to consider the effects of carbon pollution in her state. rg according to scientists at the university of wisconsin-madison, weather stations around the state show that average temperatures in wisconsin increased by about 1.1 degrees farenheit between 1950 and 2006. during the same period wisconsin got wetter. annual average precipation increased by almost three inches. these changes are likely to continue and intensify as carbon pollution continues to pile up in the atmosphere. researchers at university of wisconsin-madison estimate that by midcentury the state could warm by four to nine degrees farenheit. by the end of the century the climate in wisconsin may look more like that of present-day missouri or oklahoma, raising the

nothing more we should be focused on than changing this direction and changing the party in the whitehouse in 2016. thank you, kim. [applause] >> yes, ma'am? >> thank you for coming today and thank you for your service. >> my pleasure. >> i understand there is problems with the rules of engagement. can you address that? and i understand the senate has some control over that. can you address that. >> sure i will say i remember in 2009 when the president first came in. i was active in the military community and seal community. i was getting messages from seal wives in 2009 who were really worried about the rules of engagement in afghanistan. that the guys would have to be shot at first to be able to engage. and it was -- we were speaking out harshly about that. i don't think that has changed. i said it generally speaking but we cannot send people overseas with one hand tied behind their back. and i will talk about this like it is a bar fight with foreign policy. you go to the bar and try to diffuse the situation and calm down, let me buy you a beer. but if somebody puts hands on you beat the

the whitehouse says there's no indication the islamic state had any operational link to the suicide bombingsill see. nuclear negotiations with iran have reportedly sold at a large -- march 31st deadline for nuclear agreement with the problem, iran's negotiators want sanctions lifted almost immediately after any deal is agreed to but u.s. and european diplomats want sanctions lifted only after tehran accounts for its past nuclear activities and is confirmed to be using nuclear energy for only peaceful means. a new report blasts clinton foundation hypocrisy. the clinton foundation sagan's war of the nation's from foreign governments when hillary clinton served as secretary of state but according to the wall street journal's reporting for individuals, foundations companies and organizations gave the clinton foundation almost $70 million while mrs. clinton was secretary of state. adding to the scandal the clinton foundation's flag ship health program, public health program publishing for its donors back in 2010. turning to the next story if we make the service employees international union relea

[applause] >> tomorrow we are live in new hampshire with more of continuing the road to the whitehouse. we will see more from rick perry who is in manchester. it is live at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >> on the next washington journal, club for growth president discusses his groups look at congress and how they vote on economic and limited government legislation. and will marshal of the progressive policy institute talks about the recent policy agenda released by the whitehouse democratic coalition. plus your calls and tweets. washington journal, live every morning at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> here are some of the featured programs for this weekend. saturday, booktv is live from the university of arizona with discussions on race, politics civil war and by nation magazine writers and call-ins throughout the day. sunday at one we continue with panels on the obama administration, the future of politics, and the issue of concussions in football. and saturday morning on c-span 3 we are live for the 16th civil war seminar and talking about the closing weeks of the civil war in 1865. and sunday mor

and checks attacks and intrusions on the whitehouse. we plan to roll that out over the next few weeks moving the coverage from the government of 20% to almost half of the government covered. that roll out would be delayed. there would be no action taken on it during a shutdown. you might say the government hasn't had this protection so what does a few extra months hurt. i would say we suffer attacks and intrusions every day in the government. you never know which attack takes the critical piece of data removes it from government networks and give to a foreign nation state. so the fact we will go unprotected for the portion of the government we could otherwise protect for days weeks, months is of grave concern. [inaudible question] >> i am. >> the law firms are organizations that have tremendous amount of information that directly relate to the client they are trying to protect. what group do they fall in? where does that come in? >> we have talked to this committee about that issue. we need to continue talking about that. it is not just

is there any particular moment in the fannie mae-freddie mac relationship witheter the whitehouse or congress where it truly got out of hand or was this a slow development over 15-20 years? >> i see it as a slow development. i think from fannie mae and freddie mac point of view it was out of hand quickly. if they recognized what they were doing and i think many of them within those organizations must have realized it because up until 1992 they wouldome make prime loans. they were famous for only making prime loans and after the affordable housing requirements were put in place and they had to buy loans from people below the median income 50% or 56% of those loans had to be to people whose credit relationships were not particular good they began to reduce their underwriting standards and realized they were taking huge risks in doing so. by 1995 for example they were accepting mortgages with 3% down payments and by 2000 they were accepting mortgages with no down payment at all. i actually don't blame fannie mae and freddie mac so much mt book as i blame hud. fannie mae and freddie mac

it got him to the whitehouse and it got him in trouble in the whitehouse because he figured whatever happened he would survive it. so that loss and recovery played out in the whitehouse and will until the day he dies. he never tried to figure out and resolve the contradictions of his own life. he just kept going. with ohm obama from the time he got out of hawaii -- i agree with half of what ian said but i think there is another opportunity. there were not many african-americans in hawaii and it wasn't until he got to occidental he was dealing with african-americans and in chicago much more deeply. but from the time he was 17 until he got to harvard, that entire period he spent trying to fig re himself out. receding from the public in a totally opposite way of bill clinton and dealing introspectively with who am i. i think he found out after being a community organizer after this long search and developed what i would call a confidant, unnarcissistic, integrated personality. he figured if i can figure myself out why can't the rest of the world? this confidence got them to the whitehou

the whitehouse says there's no indication the islamic state had any operational link to the suicide bombingswill see. nuclear negotiations with iran have reportedly sold at a large -- march 31st deadline for nuclear agreement with the problem, iran's negotiators want sanctions lifted almost immediately after any deal is agreed to but u.s. and european diplomats want sanctions lifted only after tehran accounts for its past nuclear activities and is confirmed to be using nuclear energy for only peaceful means. a new report blasts clinton foundation hypocrisy. the clinton foundation sagan's war of the nation's from foreign governments when hillary clinton served as secretary of state but according to the wall street journal's reporting for individuals, foundations companies and organizations gave the clinton foundation almost $70 million while mrs. clinton was secretary of state. adding to the scandal the clinton foundation's flag ship health program, public health program publishing for its donors back in 2010. turning to the next story if we make the service employees international union rele

senator whitehouse. senator whitehouse: thank you madam chair. the question will be for dr. hodes and dr. peterson. i am of the budget committee. we have the budget on the floor so i have not been able to be here for the entire hearing. can you be more specific about what you think the prospects are for a cure? how confident you are, how many viable packs toward -- paths toward a cure they are so anon doctor like me can get a sense of how much confidence we can have? dr. peterson: an excellent question. a difficult one to answer definitively but i think that there is enough exciting research out there now that perhaps on new targets. this is a complex disease, not a single cell disease. it really involves networks in the brain so there are multiple targets and we are somewhat encouraged by a report just last week that one of the drugs under investigation for all timers disease to remove one of the culprits, the plaques in the brain indicated that in fact there may be a path forward with this particular therapeutic. the plax were reduced. the patients improved clinically rela

. >> richard jordan live for us outside the whitehouse. thank you. >>> today you can go to a special town hall about how you interact with police in your community. montgomery county police chief will be there to answer your questions. if want to go it's at 7:00 tonight at peoples community baptist church in silver spring. a man is now under arrest and facing charges for a shooting duri a protest in ferguson missouri last week. prosecutors say he shot two police off is liven ferguson now with more on this story. jay, good morning to you. >> reporter:d morning. yeah police say it was a tip from the ultimatelyt here 20-year-old from the area who does admit that he pulled the trigger but says he wasn't firing at police that it was part of a separate altercation and that the police were hit in the crossfir investigators say that this suspect was a part of the protest earlier in the evening before the shots were fired, but had left for at least a couple of hours. they're continuing their investigatio saying that they will try to piece together

. >> israel's prime minister is heading to the united states to address congress angry at the whitehouseplus... >> i am andrew thomas in melbourne australia with the sort of airplanes they viewed during the first world war. this year marks 100 years of the fighter plane. ♪ >>> welcome to the program. it was a rare sight on the streets of moscow. thousands of protesters marched earlier on sunday in memory of the boris nemtsov. a vocal critic of put putin shot dead on friday night t protesters say it was a political murder. rory challands reports from the russian capitol. >> boris nemtsov hold sunday's rally would be a re-energizeing. the crowd was vast bigger than any anti-kremlin march for years. nemtsov was not here to see it. his murder, arguabley is the main reason so many people came. >> we came to protest because they killed a man, a man who was telling the truth. we think the authorities bears'actions are a travesty of justice. a man was killed for telling the truth truth. >>> i came because boris was killed and not only because of that: because we need to fight. we cannot live lik

and we have whitehouse senior director of cyber security and the senior technology policy advisor is here. they will speak on panels and release the organization sharing and efforts to promote an advanced cyber security risk management. as the new chairman of the homeland security committee, senator johnson is playing a role to advance cybersecurity legislation by seeking a bill with broad bipartisan agreement on key issues. in addition to the cybersecurity leadership, he is on the budget commerce and foreign relations committee. before his election to the united states senate in 2010 he spent 31 years at a manufacturing business he co-founded in 1979. mr. chairman, thank you very much for joining us and discussing the outcome of this important legislation. >> thank you all for braving the cold and snow. once we got to washington, d.c. the streets are good. but if you had to travel i appreciate that. i will open it up at the end for questions. let me make a couple foundational points. i come from the private sector. my background is in accounting and finance but i ran a manufacturing

senator crapo followed by senator whitehouse. cnet thank you mr. chairman and i join with those who thank you for bringing forward a budget. as we all know it's difficult to create a budget in the circumstances we face right now in the united states could i believe you have done a very good job. this is a budget that balances budget that as important reforms that will improve the processes by which congress operates. it's a budget that contemplates addressing those concerns that it has been raised about our burgeoning health care costs. the budget to contemplate reform on our tax code that we need to make america more competitive and to generate those jobs we all agree are necessary to keep our economy strong and i commend you for that. remarkably we are still debating in washington a budget crisis. although there has been lipservice to the question as to whether or not we have a crisis, the fact is those who say we have gotten past that make the case that we have reduced the deficit by 66% in the last five or six years. what they don't point out i

last june, senator whitehouse and i wrote to attorney general holder about the consent increase and bmis licensing practices. i would ask you for that to be placeded ton record at this point. we encouraged the department of justice to modify the consent decrees to allow for competitive benchmarks and rates. licensing flexibility, arbitration that's in alternative to lit dwags and bundled rights. some of you have argued that modernizing the consent decrees would be a bad thing and that they need to be preserved in their current form to prevent anticompetitive conduct by p.r.o.s. why would allowing for arbitration in lieu of expensive litigation trip the so-called antitrust wire? i'd really like to know that or why would allowing all performance rights organizations to bundle rights disturb the free market? these seem like common sense changes to me and maybe we can start with you over in that end. >> thank you, senator hatch. we agree with you. these are common sense changes. to be clear, we are not asking to terminate the consent decree. we are merely asking for the changes that senator

senators durbin and lee are trying to fix federal drug sentencing law, and senator cornyn and whitehousema talked about how democrats and republicans realize we have to address this together. >> there is an increasing realization on the left but also on the right politically, that what we're doing is counterproductive. either from a libertarian perspective, the way we treat nonviolent crimes is problematic. from a fiscal perspective, it's breaking the banker we're all response for at least finding a solution to this. i think awareness is increasing in part because violent crime has gone down in a lot of big cities. people are more open to having a decision about this. >> our criminal justice system is broken and is going to take leaders from all sides, to get out of the their comfort zone and do what is right for all of their stids. the real test of leadership is not what you do with an environment and a crowd that you're comfortable with. it's when you have to bend and really stretch and do something hard that we know you're a leader of the highest magnitude. >>> thanks for watching. i'

now, i have senator casse di whitehouse and warrens. >> one, great job. you've done a remarkable progress, thank you for that. >> thank you. >> you've recently put out your fda's transparency initiative ch i have tried to understand your agency, but don't understand it as you, but it seems like there's different divisions that do different quality of work in terms of approving new applications and there are some which have higher turnover than others. i suspect those with lower turnover are the ones with better output. now, is there, i see that as a diagnostic. frankly, i think that indicates in those divisions with high turnover and lower output, there's probably some issue there that in management leadership, you name it, that is a problem. will there be more information regarding that so that we in oversight can look at that on a granular level trying to get a sense how your successor could perhaps improve those processes? >> certainly, the transparency initiative was a multifaceted undertaking intended to expand under undering of what the fda is, what

so i have had the great privilege of meeting several times at the whitehouse and nih with president obamaeen lucky that the presidents of the units have been amendable to listening to and helping out with the problems we face with research. >> c-span: 27 institutes in the nih and you are justing one of the them. how many times were you asked to be the director of the nih? >> dr. fauci: george h. bush two or three times and i said no. and he was great. people thought he would get upset with me but he was wonderful and said continue to do what you are doing. when president clinton became president his staff asked if was interested and said they heard i would be good. i explained what i said to george h bush that this would be an honor i don't want to be asked because i don't want to have to say no. when george w bush became president he specifically asked me. and i said to his father this is a great honor and position i think i could contribute more to the nation and arena of biomedical research by staying in the position i am now. >> c-span: do you still see patients? >> dr. fauci: oh yes.