100,000 in cash prizes with a grand prize of 5,000. For more information go to our web site, studentcam. Org. Next, a conference on government surveillance and privacy. Law professors, Security Experts and former government officials talk about oversight of the Intelligence Community. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the cato institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here, and im grateful to everyone who has come out bright and early to the cato auditorium for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by foreman nsa contractor edward snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency, unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by a report from the, from the Inte
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Congress returns for work the first week of january. Here is what is ahead. The house has yet to decide on impeachment managers and sent the two articles of impeachment to the senate. The impeachment will hear the cases against President Trump eventually. We also expect the senate to take up the u. S. Canada mexico trade agreement, which of the house approved before leaving for the holidays. And congress will hear President Trump deliver a state of the Union Address on february 4. Watch the house on cspan and the senate live on cspan2. 2020 democratic president ial candidate andrew yang was in nashua new in nashua, New Hampshire. He talked about his campaign platform, including his proposal for a 1000 monthly universal basic income program. [inaudible] [applause] [laughter] come on up. Good afternoon everyone. We are going to open those doors up so, hopefully people out there can hear what is going to happen. Come on up. Good afternoon everyone. We are going to open those doors up, so
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