After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
A significant correction in the market. Youve got chinese assets which have been overprized, even against a basic analysis with their standard price ratios. But to draw too much implication from this in terms of, number one, the overall performance of the market in recent times to what it means to the economy in general and, three the direction of reform, i think we need to take a calmer perspective. Bremmer finally, a look back at charlies 2004 interview with former saudi former minister who died thursday, the worlds longest serving Prime Minister before his retirement in april. I believe saudi arabia sounds going a program of reform that is not only seriously pursued but adamantly pursued by the government in spite of the opposition of the conservatives inside saudi arabia. Bremmer iran nuclear negotiations, the chinese stock market and the late prince syed alfeisal next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of
A significant correction in the market. Youve got chinese assets which have been overprized, even against a basic analysis with their standard price ratios. But to draw too much implication from this in terms of, number one, the overall performance of the market in recent times to what it means to the economy in general and, three the direction of reform, i think we need to take a calmer perspective. Bremmer finally, a look back at charlies 2004 interview with former saudi former minister who died thursday, the worlds longest serving Prime Minister before his retirement in april. I believe saudi arabia sounds going a program of reform that is not only seriously pursued but adamantly pursued by the government in spite of the opposition of the conservatives inside saudi arabia. Bremmer iran nuclear negotiations, the chinese stock market and the late prince syed alfeisal next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of
Surveillance with the fisa inin particular we have sean vitka from demand progress so remind our viewers what demand progress is and your action what they do and how they are related. It is to arms so demand progress is part of the same arm. What is the work you are involved in . I served as counsel across the country we are active on that neutrality and surveillance issues in particular mass surveillance something we have dedicated time to. Remind us to where it comes from. Section seven 02 is the of fisa amendment that passed in 2008 to allow for the programmatic surveillance of targets intended for those other overseas and not u. S. Persons but today the debate is americans that are swept up in a surveillance we know it is a large number and what people will bader except that. Why dont we know the exact youll remember we have from the government comes from 2011 with 250 Million Communications per year. So the reason weav dont have a cleaner never so those number of americans that ar
Intelligence report, we were the first to report theres kind of a pattern of behavior when it comes to congressman hue byes questioning the legitimacy of republican president s. We kid some digging, some reporting, as you call it, and we found this article in the washington post. It is dated from january 2001, and it reads, i quote john lewis, for instance, spent Inauguration Day in his atlantic district. Atlanta district. He thought it would be hypocritical to attend bushs swearing in, because he doesnt believe bush is the true elected president. Finish huh. You know, that quote that we found and shared with you, that bit about him not believing that president bush was the truly elected president kind of sounded familiar. It got a whole lot of pickup after we showed it with even president elect donald trump weighing in. Here he is tweeting john lewis said about my inauguration it will be the first one that ive missed. Wrong, or lie. He boycotted bush 43 also because he thought it woul