Powers for purely political purposes. Part of a larger pattern of this Administration Using the irs to shut down its critics and opponents and to change the outcome of elections. When i go back home to the town Hall Meetings or when people come to my office, they will bring up the number 1, 2, 3 issues they are concerned about. There is always somebody in the back that says, wait a minute, what about my free speech rights . Why cant congress get to the bottom of this . That takes a rather lengthy explanation. There are those of us that are committed to do that. That is why they are frustrated, concerned, angry. That is why they think the america they have grown up in and appreciated and they want to leap to their kids and grandkids, the very fact they cant get up and say what is on their mind or take part in the political process, is in danger. Has been in danger. This is an attack. That is just the way we have to put it. It is an attack on the First Amendment rights of our citizens ju
Thank you, senator. I do want to respond to some of the comments made earlier. The chairman started out by talking about the cuba issue and said i will just bear freeze, it is down, down, and even dumber to essentially shield cuba from the influences that we have on other dictatorial regimes and authoritarian regimes. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. This why i oppose our policy on cuba for so long. Mentioned another senator mentioned that iran is the only country less free cuba. But even iran, we dont shield the people from the influences or the government from the influences of americans traveling there. We encourage it. North korea to my of their government would allow more of it we would encourage more of it. We had a similar situation with cuba praising the education system. If we had bob from peoria our friend from the mind it would say no such thing because they would realize that its a different world than is described by some with travel there was enough for the
Dedicated to preserving foundational American Values in a time of rapid technological change. I am Kevin Bankston the policy director of the open Technology Institute which is the tech policy and technical modeling of new america where we are focused on building a stronger and more open internet for a stronger and more open society. I want to thank you for all coming here today and braving the heat or for tuning in via the webcast or cspan for todays panel Event National insecurity agency, how the nsa surveillance programs undermined Internet Security. Since they first note and lakes all the controversy around the nsa has been focused on its programs to collect phone records under section 215 of the patriot act and its moderating of internet under section 202 under the fisa amended that been focused on the debate over how to reform the surveillance statutes. Yet the nsa is also engaged in a wide variety of conduct that in our view is fundamentally threatening the basic security of the
And several members of Congress Held a press Conference Thursday on tax policy and the need for tax reform. This is an hour. Knox. My name is ryan ellis, im tax policy director for americans at tax reform. This is our annual tax day eve press conference where we highlight the irs issue along with members and senators. Before i turn it over to Grover Norquist whos going to be the emcee of this event, i wanted to just run through the handouts you have on your seats so that youre familiar with them. And all these can be found, by the way, at atr. Org. And dent forget our hash tag on twitter today which is tax day. These are people who have committed to their constituents that they will not vote for any net tax increase as long as they are elected as a member of congress. Next thing you have is an oped i wrote in forbes. Com about why the irs should not be preparing peoples taxes. We also have a packet of information from the ways and Means Committee on the lois lerner affair which is very
Hope. I could tell you stories about looking in china to see theres some tea you might be up uphold about, but that was long ago. I think theres also it really is up to the companies. Fda has always to my knowledge at least in duchenne and other fields been willing to entertain and talk about compassionate use . I think for the Rare Disease Community is talks about and get us back to trial design but in general, trials are designed to test a sub set of patients. In the duchenne committee, the six minute walk test is standard outcome, primary outcome measure. That means a child with duchenne would have to walk six minutes and even further as learn more about the testing its in a very narrow subset of people in that six minute walk test. Program was put into place at te National Cancer institute. So with that longitude, that breadth of experience within your specialty, are there things that you want to share with others about what that experience has taught you . Well, let what we did ba