. >> i know they have as well as rand paul and schatz have. i'm more than happy for congressman and senators and the president to take part in a conversation of bomb bod cameras but we should be wary of attaching financial incentives. so i want to finish up by talking about what a good bad camera may looj at. looking throughout the country, there are examples o good policies and exam els of bad policyies policies. the knee jerk reaction is that they should be on at all the time and available to the public am the time. paem interact with police on the worst days of their lines. we need to think about body cameras for children who have been asaumted or are victims of skejual abees we know from tash cam real footage interact with celebrities and people who have had too much to drink on a saturday policy. we need to have a previous policy states when the camera will be on, when it will be on and when the footage can be relaced in the first place. i have seen policy proposals, speply the lapd that would allow them to view boll camera video footage

. >> did senator paul make the country less safe by forcing the patriot act provisions to expire a couple of days and also forcing the senate to reform the nsa. >> i opposed the so-called freedom act that sd pa. i think it will undermine our intelligence capabilities and could create a gap that existed before the 9/11 attacks that could have stopped the 9/11 attacks. moreover it was a solution in search of a problem. there is not a single instance of intentional abuse that's been verified under the nsa's telephone meta data program. i personally have oversight and personally have visited with a few dozen men and women who run the program. there's not a single incident of verified abuse of that program. many of you have value cards from your local grocery store. your privacy is much more at risk than anything the nsa collects. your privacy is much more at risk because of the banking and financial data that the consumer finance protection bureau collects than anything the nsa was doing. it was, however, a critical tool in our counterterrorist toolbox and we have deprived our intelligence ag

paul at mcallister college. that was the location of the first broadcast of a prairie home companion on july 6th 1974. keillor is active in democratic politics so he may have a thought or two about that subject. he's going to talk with us about 15 things that need to happen tomorrow. ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm national press club welcome to garrison keillor. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. john, you're much too kind. don't make that mistake again. you'll be held to account. honored to be here with you, and such a great honor that i have gone to the lengths of writing out a speech which i never, ever do. reminds me too much of being in college. 15 things that need to change right away is the revised title of my speech. i came up with this because i was thinking about another speech i gave which also was a great honor. i was invited to give the baccalaureate address at princeton university. i was up in princeton earlier this week, and it all came back to me much too clearly. so i wrote this spee

weighs and means chair paul ryan, tweets the weighs and committee means chair says this committee will continue its work to advance an alternative to finally repeal and replace obamacare. obama at the white house and we continue with your comments. homewood, illinois. dave welcome. >> caller: i am a little dismayed at the decision but i can't say i am that shocked. this is the same court that called a penalty for not calling the penalty for not buy ging the insurance a tax, and so there's great ill lit raw tea going on in the court. the aca intends to improve the health care market and not destroy it. well i think with anybody that has a passing knowledge of economics could have predicted what is happening and it's destroying any resepl pwhrus of a market and replacing it with government bureaucracies and government control, and i would call this a form of fascism and it's textbook definition of fascism, so i can't see how anybody is saying this is improving the market, and i think it's intended in the short term to allow the insurance companies -- the insurance companies did write a l

they'll develop a plan to influence the main house working group led by paul ryan of wisconsin and two other chairman, who is meeting in quote, secret. this will be a senate hearing. the oversight subcommittee. senator bloomingthal in the room. >>> hearing has come to order. welcome, everybody. welcome to the members of this committee. before we get to the substance of the hearing i want to take just a few minutes to discuss the empty table before us. it's a symbol for how little regard the obama administration seems to have for the american people. two weeks ago, this committee sent a letter to three current employees of the u.s. treasury department. requesting their attendance here at this hearing. the talk about treasuries role in developing the obamacare exchange's subsidy rule, which is hurting millions of people across this country, and which is directly contrary to the statutory text of the underlying bill. specifically, this committee sent letters to mark mazer, assistant secretary for tax policy and treasury, emily the deputy assistant secretary and serving as the acting assis

paul launched his bid for the republican nomination for president. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming senator rand paul. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] i feel kind of short changed. i was supposed to go first. marco goes first. are there any protesters left. come on. if there's anybody left, we could start with the protest and just get it out of the way. if there's a protest left, i'll take the first question from a protester. disappointing. i think there are some big issues that go beyond maybe some of the superficial issues of the state. one of the issues that's a big and recurring issue and occurred to our founding fathers and to civilized men and women probably since the beginning of time. that is our liberty and virtue mutually exclusive? are they incompatible? can you have one without the other? can you have liberty without virtue? washington didn't seem to think so. most of our framers didn't think so. washington said that democracy requires a virtuous people. ronald reagan would agree with him. freedom and fai

our next witness is paul sisio. welcome. >> thank you. chairman capito, ranking member carper, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity. the industrial energy consumers of america is a trade association whose members are exclusively large companies who are energy-intensive trade exposed. these industries often refer to as eite consume 73% of the manufacturing sector's use of electricity and 75% of the natural gas. as a result, small changes in energy prices can add relatively large impacts to our global competitive competitiveness. we use as a manufacturing sector 40 quads of energy. and this has basically not changed in 40 years. meanwhile, manufacturing output has increased 761%. this is a true success story. the industrial sector is the only sector of the economy whose greenhouse gas emissions are 22% below 1973 levels. these industries are very energy-efficient. ieca reports action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so long as it does not impair our competitiveness. we must have a level playing field with our gl

so i succeeded to the role john paul stevens had when you were clerking for me. i think there's kind of a consensus that -- in the case of the health care the commerce clause portion hobby lobby shelby county, that as the most senior person on the dissent side, i should write the dissent. and for the rest, i try to be as fair as i can to distribute them evenly in. >> when you think about your two decades now on the supreme court, do you think there are things you feel more sure-footed about today than you did when you first began? >> when i was a new judge i had been on the d.c. circuit for 13 years. and so i wasn't too quiet. the very first sitting in october, i asked a lot of questions of my then-chief to whom i held great affection, decided i had been a little smart alec, so at the end of sitting, instead of giving me what is traditional for the junior justice that is an easy one issue, unanimous decision he gave me a most miserable arisa case where the court divided 6-3. i went to justice to complain. he's not supposed to do this is he? he said ruth, you just

and like senator rand paul went into african-american neighbors and trying to bring in more people in the republican party and so i see that in this election they see how vital it is to cut into the democrats' image of having a majority of minority voters. so i think jeb bush is one of the few candidates that has that ability to attract the hispanic voting block and i think that will provide a tremendous support in the general election if he gets the nomination. so i thought it was well delivered, well presented and especially with all of the hispanic people presenting in the event. >> and someone from florida. this is port richey, florida luciano is on the line. >> hi. thank you for taking my call. the thing about the conservatives and the republicans run for president is the fact that the biggest thing they are preaching is religious freedom but they fail to tell everyone that we only want to give you religious freedom if you believe in god. what about muslims and the other religions. they don't want them to have religious freedom. only if you believe in god. and they want equality

. >> it adds temporarily because when you take a dollar from peter and give it to paul, paul has an extra dollar to spend. doesn't peter have one less dollar to spend in that same economy? >> that's right. >> and isn't the net impact over the long run negative, not positive? >> that's right, making the debt worse is a problem. >> my friend from new jersey rightly pointed with pride to the clinton administration surpluses and rightly criticized the bush administration deficits and impact that he had on the economy, but reminds me of churchill's description of clement at lee that carries on as if nothing that happened. isn't it true bill clinton's administration cut 4% of gdp, reduced entitlement spending, in his words, ending welfare as we know it, approved the biggest capital gains tuck in american history. george bush comes along, increases federal spending two% of gdp, approves the biggest expansion of entitlement spending since the great society, started the entire era of stimulus spending. mr. obama came in, increased it by another 2% of gdp. further expanded our entitlement obligatio

paul ryan was talked about the broad debate about the nuclear arms agreement with iran. if you have tpa-like restrictions in restricting his agreements with iran, then it would have to sit publicly for 60 days before it would get an up or down vote in congress. the american people would have 60 days to examine the agreement, congress would have the ability to veto the agreement. we don't have those provisions and so the president now can go negotiate this agreement and frankly foist it upon congress. if we want to make sure that there is transparency if we want to make sure we can hold the president accountable in negotiating these kind of agreements we have to pass tpa which make the agreements sit in public for 60 days before the president can agree to them and require congress to give an up or down approval f. we don't approve of the agreement in the final form then we have the ability to veto that. >> but if the president were to not have fast track authority and negotiate a trade deal and put it on the house floor. >> we'll leave this discussion to go live to the ra

sunday night at 6:35 profile interviews with two presidential can dads, fist, kentucky senator rand paul and then vermont independent senator bernie sanders. on book tv c-span 2 saturday night at 10:00 eastern an afterward, the history of puerto rico op on sunday night, h.w. brans recounts the luf and political career of ronald reagan. and on c-span3 saturday night, a little after 9:00 commemorating the 800th anniversary of the mag that carty. brenda heal on how to document influenced both countries from the rights of ribt and property to limits on executive power. and sunday night at 6:00 on american art facts, the french sailing ship brought its general to america in 1780 and we're in yorktown, virginia to hear from the crew and french and american officials. get the complete schedule at c-span.org. >>> today is decision day at the supreme court. the justices have yet to rule on a number of cases. we're planning live coverage when a couple of the highly anticipated rulings come down which could occur today tomorrow or monday. one of the cases would decide whether to uphold the power of

ladies and gentlemen as i said about senators rubio and paul, senator cruz also on march 23rd of this year had a special announcement for all of us. he is running for the republican nomination to perfect united states. i'm sure he'll share with you now more about that and more about his solid track record on the issues that motivate, animate and inspire you. ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming senator ted cruz. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, kellie ann. god bless the faith and freedom coalition. and god bless concerned women of america. i'm thrilled to be back with so many friends today. you know, today the body of christ is in mourning. i want to begin by just reflecting on the horrific tragedy of last night. at the emanuel a.m.e. church, that a sick and deranged person came and preyed with an historically black congregation for an hour and then murdered nine innocent souls. christians across our nation, across the world believers across the world are lifting up the congregants at emanuel a.m.e. and i want to start with a moment of silence remembering those who were

first judge paul michel the former counsel to the church mitty. and one of the things that fascinated me about the year i spent working with these incredible people is how incredible they're diversity of experience is both before and after their church experience -- kmch committee experience. he was an assistant watergate special prosecutor, work in the public integrity section of the department of justice and nominated by president ronald reag to the circuit court of appeals and retired in 2010, peter fenn he was the washington chief of staff for senator frank church, founded, among other things and was executive director for the center for responsive politics and self-described political on sieve and now runs fenn communications. and patrick shea, the former assistant to the staff director of the church committee, has one of the most diverse careers that you should look to his bio for for all of us but on the president's commission on aviation safety and security looking at the twa -- after the twa 800 drafter, the national bureau director for l

that attention comes from people like newt gingrich and grover norquist and rand paul and the coke brothers and rick perry and eric holder and ralph reid. here is how hillary clinton put it, just last month when she kicked off her presidential campaign with her very first policy speech. there is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison in their lifetimes. and an estimated 1.5 million black men are missing from their families and communities because of incarceration or premature death. it is time to change our approach, and it is time to end the era of mass incarceration. we need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population while keeping our communities safe. this -- i don't think anyone in this room i don't think anyone who is a veteran of this work that we do would have put smart money on that ever happening. so but here's the second point this group has the potential to make good on the promise of smart, effective reduction of over incarceration. and different than what hillary said, you're not debating you're doing. this is a group tha