Instituted, this court had approved it. And there was this process of briefing in congress. And i dont think theres anything classified. You can tell me if it is and if you cant answer it. But could you just explain to me. If im a member of the congress, an ordinary member, not a member of some special committee, what exactly was i told . I dont mean what was in the classified briefing. What was i told about you better go read this before you vote for this. What memo did i get from whom . So, i think, there were memos from the chairs of the two intelligence committees. And they are in the joint appendix. They identified within the connection of the reauthorization, information has been provided by the im paraphrasing but information provided by the executive branch that was important for evaluation of the reauthorization of this authority in section 215. And it was up to me to go and figure out if it was worth it for me to go and read it as they were telling me i should. And i think of
They often cant do that. What often happens is the president acts through history, the president has acted and Congress Even where many of them may disagree with his use of power have been unable to muster the political will to check him. That creates a precedent for future action. A recent example of that is libya. In libya, we were involved in 2011 in bottoming libya. Many congress spoke out against that. The president was in violation of his war powers but no action evolved to curb his activity in that case. What weve seen over time is power evolving toward the president. This doesnt mean that the congress is no longer important at all in in area. They still have a significant role to play primarily flowing from the idea that they are the orally the branch of our government that is supposed to declare war. We dont declare war anymore. Thats become obsolete since the 1940s but we have modern day equivalents of that. Theres still a role for congress in determining when we use force. T
Join the conversation. This week was full of economic data, the most important of all was the monthly jobs report. 247,000 new jobs was added in october. That is a lot more than predicted. Still a mixed picture because unemployment inched up to 7. 3 . It was 7. 2. More jabs were created, more people dropped out of the labour force. The Labour Participation rate. People who were working dropped to 62 , the lowest in 35 years. I asked labor secretary thomas perez why Labour Force Participation drops. The best remedy to address this is to grow the economy. Thats why the president is talking about investing in road and human capital. Passing immigration reform. As we create the jobs coming from the investments, youll get more people in the workforce. What are you concerned about with respect to sequestration, a number of economists say we have not seen the full effect, and a number of economists saying, we have cut the money out of the budget. Others said wait until the end of the year or
Nuclear program despite initial talks didnt come to an agreement. More talks will occur this month. The Syrian National coalition will attend meetings, but was guarantees that relief will meet all areas, Political Prisoners must be releeld. Their the headlines, real money is up next with ali velshi. All the latest news on the website at aljazeera. Com. Data, the most important of all was the monthly jobs report. 247,000 new jobs was added in october. That is a lot more than predicted. Still a mixed picture because unemployment inched up to 7. 3 . It was 7. 2. More jabs were created, more people dropped out of the force. The Labour Participation rate. People who were working dropped to 62 , the lowest in 35 years. I asked labor secretary thomas perez why Labour Force Participation drops. The best remedy to address this is to grow the economy. Thats why the president is talking about investing in road and human capital. Passing immigration reform. As we create the jobs coming from the in
As possible, to do as much damage using bullets often designed to inflict maximum damage and thats what allowed the gunmen in aurora wrote to shoot 70 people. 70 people, killing 12, in a matter of minutes. Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater. The majority of americans realize that. By the way, so did Ronald Reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the Second Amendment who wrote to congress in 1994 urging them this is Ronald Reagan speaking urging them to listen to the public and to Law Enforcement community to support a ban on the further manufacture of military style assault weapons. [applause] finally, Congress Needs to help rather than hinder Law Enforcement as it does its job. We should get tougher on people who buy guns with the express purpose of turning around and selling them to criminals. We should severely punish anyone who helps them do this. Since congress has not confirmed a director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms in