Republicans, 202 7488001. Independencts, 202 7458002. You can also find us on facebook and twitter. You can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. The dodd frank act was named after its authors, and senator chris dodd and barney frank. It was a massive bill that required federal agencies to write hundreds of new rules. Here are some of the things that the dodd frank act did. It was signed into law by president obama on july joint first, 2010. It created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It attempted to an too big to fail bailouts of Financial Firms. In eliminated loopholes of financial products, providing shareholders a say on executive compensation, and enforce regulations on the books. Here are some polls that show just exactly the scope of this bill. A summary of the bill by a law firm shows that the bill was 22,290 six pages long. It has had 119 congressional hearings, and there have been 139 bills issued in congress to amend or repeal the act. The stats also give you a se
Which is one of the tragic consequences. Attics okay. Okay. Drug addiction is a tragedy. But it is a bigger tragedy when they die because of the drug war itself. Finally i should wrapi should wrap this up by saying that is futile is this drug warriors as destructive as it is that is not the real reason why we should call for the end to this war. I mean, we see the futility going to put him back in jail make sure he is incarcerated for the rest of his life without parole like they did the silk road guy. You know, for what . What is the. . They put him back in jail or they dont. Nothing is going to change any more than it has over the last four years. But the real reason that we want to end this war on drugs is not just the futility of it but because of the concept of human freedom. Ted mentioned russia and iran. Conservative examples of the war on drugs. Lets look at the leftist examples like cuba and north korea and china and vietnam all of which have drug laws and the drug war because
Genuine compassion. To act with compassion and think of the person, the human being at the other end of the telephone. Order you have been watching prime ministers questions at the british house of commons. Can watch it at again at 8 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan two on wednesday. Sunday nightairs at 9 00 p. M. On cspan. The u. K. Hold a referendum in june on whether to leave the european union. British parliament member, liam fox talks about the potential applications of that decision tomorrow at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. President obama and the first family left for cuba on sunday. While there, the president plans to meet with the countrys leader, while castro raul castro. Trip tuesday, his attending a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National team. This marks the first visit by sitting u. S. President and 88 years, and comes as the u. S. And cuba try to normalize relations. A process that began
That cspan covered, i realized it wasnt just the issue of a lack of broadcast media inside the courtroom that made the Supreme Court very opaque. It wasnt just the cameras issue. It was the fact that they dont follow the same ethics rules as every other federal judge, the fact that they serve for life as opposed to most other democracies where there is a retirement age or a term limit. And, they dont put information online. They dont say when justice cane is speaking in massachusetts or in georgia. It was not just this one issue, but a whole host of issues that made the Supreme Court made it the most powerful but least Accountable Institution in washington. And it made sense to spend out the coalition and start my own thing. Brian where you come from . Gabe roth i come from nashville, tennessee. My parents are back in new jersey, but from age two to 18, i was in nashville. Brian where did you get your education . Gabe roth Washington University in st. Louis. Undergrad. It was one of th
Not even sure i need this microphone, but i will use it because this is being recorded for cspan. And its really a great pleasure to be here tonight. This is actually the first stop on a book tour that now has about 30 cities. And it just seems really appropriate, i mean, in terms of gay history to come to the castro, a place that i have really, really enjoyed in the past. What id like to do is just kind of introduce the book by telling you a little bit of the history about how i got into writing what is now the book, and then i thought im just going to read briefly a couple of probably about two, two and a half pages to give you a feeling for the voice of the book and a little bit about some of what you referred to there as the hidden secrets or the tangled secrets. I went to laramie, wyoming, in early 2000 to write a screenplay for a madefortelevision movie. My background is really in film and television, and i went there to write a madefortelevision movie about the story that i beli