I am Nikki Kennedy and on behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for United States senate im very pleased to welcome all of you to this very special edition of our getting to the point series. The candidate kennedy two dozen nonprofit, nonpartisan plays in vision and plans by my late husband senator edward kennedy. Its a place where visitors come now virtually as well as inperson to experience democracy their hands on learning about the United States senate and then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. Its also a place where we encouraged participatory democracy. In fact we just started to nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to to go to our new web site called just go. Org but most important i encouraged you on november 3 to just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. This is a place where we work to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. I can think of no program an
The copyright ability question in this case. Oracle has a copyright to the computer code in java. Right to the functions and oracle cannot leverage the copyright to create patent rights. Under their murder doctrine there is no copyright protection for computer code that is the only way to perform those functions. Java developers have the right to use certain commands to create applications for google, android platforms. To work the commands require google to reduce a set of declarations from java fc. Because there are no substitutes oracle is claiming the exclusive right not merely to what the declaration is saying but to what they do. That is not a copyright, it is a patent right. Reusingtice of interface is critical to commuter software. Reusing the declaration allowed developers to write billions of creative applications that are used by more than a billion people. Those policy questions are almost academic because the issue is not one this court would find fair use. The standard of
Fate of the homeless. Homelessness is a growing problem in the united states. Around 500,000 people in america are homeless, which is around the same population of wyoming. ,he proposed budget for hud housing and urban development, the department that deals with Affordable Housing and billionness is 44. 1 grants received only 2. 6 billion. Some people believe America Needs billions and billions of dollars to end homelessness, but the opposing view of the National Alliance to end homelessness is they only need 3 billion. All we know was the current budget proposed by the president. According to the new york times, homelessness and afford will housing have gotten less speaking time. The reason it matters is so much is because an expresident , whether it is a republican or democrat will determine the budget for housing and urban development. To see how president ial candidates thought it placed on a local level, interviewed cedric greer. Im a las vegas city councilman. President ial candi
That is pretty stupid. Host thank you for the call. Stephen hammond has this on our Facebook Page we need to practice social gov. Cuomo good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. I want to thank our hosts very much, northwell. Ishael dowling to my left head of northwell. They have done an extraordinary job all through this situation. They have an extraordinary leader in Michael Dowling. Michael dowling ran health care for the state of new york, social services for the state of new york. He worked with my father, came for one year, wound up staying with my father for 12 years in state service. He is one of the really beautiful and brilliant leaders in this state and it is a pleasure to be with him. I want to say to all the people of northwell who have done extraordinary jobs, thank you so much and thank you for having us today for for my to my right is Melissa Derosa, secretary to the governor. To her right is what is your name . Cuomo, who is part of my team and it is a
Relief bill. He talks about it with Stephanie Murray. The Edward Kennedy institute for the United States Senate Posted this virtual event. Our inso delighted for our girl getting to the point by zoom that we have an absolutely phenomenal first guest and it is chairman richard neal, chairman of the house ways and Means Committee. Chairman neil is not only a great friend to this institute, he was a wonderful friend to senator kennedy, so we are thrilled to have him. He is not only involved in the Covid Response but through his house ways and Means Committee everything that touches an impact, families, and the compassionate response to the Covid Response, but to working families in the commonwealth and around this country. He has been working diligently on the cares act that was recently passed. Aboutgoing to talk to us that today and we cant wait to hear about it. We are thrilled also to have Stephanie Murray here with us today. We all open our inbox and read lay book. Of politico thank