Chance, a chance for the American People to have this on their behalf review this agreement and then vote. Time as has the Ranking Member, as has all the members, people here going through this agreement and i oppose the implementation of this bill. I oppose the presentation. The president first stated his goal, his goal of ending Irans Nuclear program,this that was something that i think achieved tremendous bipartisan support in this body. As a matter of fact, onward there were discussions about dismantling the program and as we all know today and im going to speak more on this tomorrow rather than ending it, this agreement, allows the industrialization of a program, the worlds leading state sponsor of terror and does so with our approval. Now that is a large step from where we began these negotiations and had the president achieved the goal, i think what you would have this 1 body 100 senators standing uprss and supporting what he said he wished to do with these negotiations. Ended u
Four. I am neither the first or the last. The point that i wanted to reflect was that this is a tradition in the history of. Ociety people have to put themselves on the line. People have to take risks. Citizens have not just an , notest but nomination just believing in idea but standing for it in challenging the government when it goes to backfire. If we see our constitution being a violated on a massive scale by we have been demanded our officials to smirnov that they will protect becomes diffusion against all enemies not just foreign but domestic as well, we have a duty to stand up and do something about it. I tried my best to do that. I will hope that others will do the same in the future. I hope that will have no need for something as dramatic as we have seen in the last year. The last one, i have lost track of. Sorry. Are you working on a tool to protect journalists . That is still an area of active focus. I am doing a lot with the freedom of press foundation and doing other thing
Congress. Top of the charts the year they were elected was a song coming up Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance at a Cato Institute conference. Then the chair of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers and former former attorney general alberto gonzalez. In the senate tonight members are debating a 1. 1 trillion spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown. A live look here on the senate floor. Today House Republicans earlier passed a stopgap measure to keep the government open until at least wednesday if need be. Senator barbara mick ullstromky who chairs the Appropriations Committee speaking now about the spending bill, the 1. 1 trillion measure, on the senate floor while leaders are negotiating behind the scenes to attempt to schedule a final vote on that bill. Watch the senate live on our companion network cspan 2. This afternoon former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden spoke Via Video Conference at a Cato Institute conference on govern
Other ways includes markets. Other ways includes everything we do in society. There are ways to pursue what were after. Obviously our political system well, maybe not its not obvious but our political system would work better if more people participated. I think they want fewer people to vote, which is nuts. And shouldnt be what they want. Thats not to say that if everybody wotevothed we would know what if everybody voted we would know what everybody wants. It is a way of answering some very important questions about what our government should look like. I think more people should be involved in offering those answers. People in public life should want that, should want more people to be involved and more people to be voting and that should be everybodys goal this democracy. I would just add so that. Its partly why its critical why some of the market based ideas are critical for people being able to express their differences. If you have no voter turnout in one party wins and they want
With a live look from the roof camera as he concedes a lot of wind out there for the giants and for halloween. Ratting now to Clear Conditions were talking about temperatures on the cooler side. 55 leaving the house and antioch in the upper 50s for downtown San Francisco. As the head into the afternoon was still warm up with the upper seventies for the and was perhaps we could see 80s for pleasanton and livermore. Significant amount compared to the past couple symptoms. Its unsettled weather as we head into hauling friday. We have also some showers on saturday. It looks like will try to drive up and slightly warmer conditions as we head into early next week. Them. A napa San Francisco fans watched the game live they did not have words to describe watching the giants. Riding his bike to school the team died at the scene he was wearing a helmet the team has not been identified just yet but questions are being asked whether the truck should have been driving on the road in the first place