Contributions. For too long politicians who claim to be concerned about Community Safety issues and Police Accountability have take than money without really considering what the implicat n implications are. Just in the last week dozens of politicians good afternoon. Thanks for coming. Yesterday the country heard emotional testimony from the siblings of two people needlessly killed over the past few weeks. George floyds blower recounted the pain of losing his big brother. He called on congress to honor george and make the necessary changes to ensure his death was not in vain. We also heard from my friend afternoon la underwood jacobs. Sister of patrick underwood. A member of the federal protective service who was murdered in the line of duty during a protest in oakland, california. Angela urged congress to make a change so that no one ever has to wake up to the phone call that she received telling her that her brother was shot dead and murdered. Heres a commitment i make to the floyd f
Americaseated by Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Now Kevin Mccarthys weekly banning, addressing choke holds. This is just over 20 minutes. Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. Yesterday the country heard emotional testimony from the siblings of two people that were needlessly killed over the past few weeks. s brother recounted the pain of losing his big brother. He called on congress to honor george and make the necessary changes to ensure his death was not in vain. You also heard from our friend andrea jacobs, the sister of patrick underwood, who was murdered in the line of duty during a protest in oakland, california. Angela urged congress to make a change so no one ever has to wake up to the phone call that she received. Make to commitment i the floyd family, to the underwoods, and to any family who has lost a loved one senselessly in this violence the last few weeks. Your families deserve justice, and we will not st
Will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of troy d. Edgar of california to be chief Financial Officer of the department of Homeland Security shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 62, the nays are 31. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of
Will come back to the auditorium. Both those president here and watching at home. I am again senior fellow, burried pleased to welcome you to the second panelist of the 2019 Institute Surveillance conference. This continues the theme, focusing on oversight. With respect to two controversial programs. Surveillance on section seven oh two of Foreign Policy and a provision of section 215 that provides for a burried large scale automated collection of phone records. Both of these programs have had some serious complaints. That come to live over the past year. And so we thought it useful to examine how those arose, what the nature of the problems of the discovery is and how the Intelligence Community is responding to them and whether the response is adequate. So the discussion will be headed up by prizewinning port reporter, Charlie Savage. His book power wars is probably the best portrait of nast National Security policy making. In a president ial ministration. I will pass you on to Charli
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with 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 reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at