Act was signed. Reports are that the bill does not mention Sexual Orientation but some believe that the bill could allow Business Owners to deny service to gay and lesbians. In our first 45 minutes, we want to get your thought on states, and particularly businesses within the states, using these sorts of laws. Religious freedom and businesses. Your thoughts. 202 7488000 our line for democrats. 202 7488001 our line for republicans. And for independents, 202 7458002. If you want to post on social media, you can do so on twitter cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. You can send us an email too journal cspan. Org. Heres a story saying the nations battle for religious rights closed on thursday when indiana governor signed a controversial religious freedom law. His action followed two days of intense pressure from open itm opponents. Senate bill 101 prohibits state or local governments from substantially burdening a persons ability to exercise their religion. It takes effect on july 1.
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House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m
Patrick to explain it and bob to comment, but to present the severe dissonance that exists in terms of what this is. Nancy, described it as phoning up investigations and said shed never heard it anything like it. And senior dea officials called it decades old, a bedrock concept. And nancy was a judge, by the way. Patrick . Mr. Toomey to describe what and some of the critical criminal cases we litigate, and articles described, and articles have expended on especially to the deas program and recent disclosure of bulk collection of phone calls out of the u. S. , parallel construction is an effort to construct a parallel source for certain evidence in investigations. It often occurs in certain senses. Where we see it or wait believe it happened where investigators obtain information using one authority, which is potentially controversial or novel or legally untested in the court and they rely on that authority to obtain information. Investigation proceeds with a bit of it and on the base o
As a lawyer, you know the difference between an untruth and a mistake. When clapper was asked that question, it was a public hearing and director clapper said for him, he liked public hearings as much as he liked root canals or folding sheets. He had two huge notebooks to prepare for the hearing, neither which talked about surveillance. We were notified the day before that senator wyden was going to ask this question. He was hit unaware by the question. If you read his answer, it is perfectly clear that he is thinking about the 702 program when he talks about not wittingly collecting. After this hearing, i went to him and said, you know, you were wrong. It was perfectly clear that he had absolutely forgotten the existence of the 215 program. This is not an untruth or falsehood, this was a mistake on his part. We all make mistakes. I would say i made a mistake as well thereafter because i did not think to counsel him that we should immediately send a classified letter to the committee c