Approximately 100 billion. More than the United States has ever spent to rebuild a country. I further quote. Since then congress has appropriated another 16. 5 billion for reconstruction, and all that has not brought the United States or the afghans a single Sustainable Institution or program. As i travel through the third traveled through the Third District of North Carolina last week, i spoke on this subject many times and was met with frustration from the audience at the waste of taxpayers money in afghanistan. When i went on to explain that the Afghan Parliament was able to vote on the bilateral strategic agreement that we are in the process of finalizing with afghanistan, but we have not even debated the issue in the house, the individuals with whom i spoke were incredibly disappointed in congress. Mr. Speaker, we cannot blame the American People for wanting a vote on this agreement, which will spend billions of american dollars in afghanistan with little to no accountability over
Crats and independents join our conversation on twitter, or on facebook. Com csa pan. We will get your thoughts in just a moment. Upe is the speaker yesterday on capitol hill talking about this lawsuit. Are you planning to initiate against president obama for his executive action . Wax i am. Can you explain why this is necessary . Makes itnstitution clear that the president s job is to faithfully execute the law, and in my view the president has not faithfully executed the law. Government,stem of outlined in our constitution, with the executive branch and the legislative branch and the judicial branch. Congress has this job to do, so does the president. There are conflicts like this between the legislative branch branch,administrative it is, in my view our responsibility to stand up for this institution under which we serve. Of this has been proceeding against the president . This is not about impeachment, this is about him faithfully executing the laws of our country. Host Speaker Boe
Lawyer. Later former secretary Janet Napolitano talks about education policy. Next a discussion on the impact of the splooem Supreme Court decision on the can traception mandate in the Health Care Law. From washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Joining us now, pro choice america, their president , welcome. Thank you for having me. We are here to talk in part about the decisions made by the Supreme Court last week. First of all with hobby lobby, what happened . What is your perspective . My perspective is i am disturbed. What we saw were five male judges essentially say that discrimination against women is not discrimination at all. What happened is that the court decided in favor of a private corporation saying that our religious beliefs trump the civic doubt we have to provide comprehensive health care for all of our employees. This was coming on the heels of there are administration and the country acknowledging if you are truly a religious institution, are you exempt from this. Yo
I stayed. I stayed. Do you have the same time pressure to get something out to your publications . Not quite as much as some of the folks who need to get something out within the hour. I have daily some of the papers i write for are daily and needed to get something out but, you know, the editors also realize im one person so i do the best that i can and we all make it work. Well, you know, you sit there and making so many judgments because i had my colleague knows more about business cases and he was going to cover aerial coming second. I said ill do the susan b. Anthony First Amendment one and not knowing that Justice Sotomayor is about to present this great dissent which matters to me both in my day job and in this side project book on her. So after she says what she says and i know its huge, im thinking, i promise ill stay for the susan b. Anthony oral arguments so my editors are hoping for that but i also know i have just observed this big moment i want to be woven into whatever s
Consistent with National Security concerns. During the process of preparing this report, we sought and obtained declassification of facts about the still highly classified program in order to allow us to put in context how the program operates. And clarify some public misconceptions. As a result, over 100 new facts were declassified by the government to provide needed context for the programs operation. I want to extend the boards appreciation to the personnel at the office of director of national intelligence, the department of justice, nsa, fbi, and cia who worked constructively with the board in this process. Its the most comprehensive public description of how the section 702 program operates and we believe this description will advance the publics understanding of the program. Turning back to the report, it was adopted unanimously. The board also unanimously offers ten recommendations to strengthen privacy safeguards, and to address these concerns. They are in a number of categori