Protection product safety insurance and Data Security subcommittee will come to order. Were pleased to have our witnesses here on a topic that i think is of value and has some opportunity for us to make a difference. Whether its garth brooks concert at wichita, a ku basketball game in lawrence or the mosthyped and prestigious broadway show of all time hamilton, the digital age made acquiring tickets easier than ever, but an ageold issue of ticket scalping has been made more prevalent by advances in technology. When youre trying to pick up tickets for the next big event, youre no longer competing against other eager fans, youre now forced to compete against an army of sophisticated ticket bots that overwhelm the website with brute force, scoop up as many tickets as possible and resell them on a secondary market at a significant markup. So whats a ticket bot . Heres my quick example. Live performance is happening. Garth brooks concert in wichita. You know lots of people who want to be th
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A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Mcconnell i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell im not sure if you have a fax machine at home, not Many Americans do anymore. Neither do a lot of Small Businesses. So it seems a bit a odd to tell Small Businesses they need to fax in enrollment foamplet for be obamacare for obamacare. That is what the Obama Administration is now doing. I might paraphrase the president , the 1980s called and they want their Health Policy back. Now, to be fair, snail mail is also an option and it looks like the president s people will try to have the issue fixed soon despite passing the law more than three years ago. But then again this is the same president who told us that obamacare is working the way its supposed to, president obama said, and that those who already have Health
After april 15. We didnt do any of them. We only considered one of the 12 bills on the floor, and that one was shut down because the First Amendment the majority leader didnt like. So he pulled it off of the floor, he never brought it up again, nor did he bring up any other spending bills. Is it any wonder that in january, 2009, the total federal debt stood at 10. 6 trillion and now its over 17 trillion . We dont budget, we dont appropriate. We just deal make. Its never risen so high so fast in our countrys history. Just like keeping legislation to one topic per bill, we should look at each spending bill individually. The committee should be able to look closely at each branch, each agency. Thats how it used to work before the power shift, but we can make some changes now to encourage more spending scrutiny. We could switch to a biennial appropriations process. That means once every two years for each agency. I have introduced s. 625, the biennial appropriations act, and i am also cosp
Reporter for five months in 2008, samesex couples in california could marry legally. Then voters passed proposition 8 banning samesex marriage. When gay couples challenged prop 8, both the state Supreme Court and the federal ninth Circuit Court of appeals ruled that banning samesex marriage is unconstitutional. Many supporters of samesex marriage were hoping the Supreme Court would not take this case. Therese stewart is San Franciscos deputy City Attorney. In many ways, this is bad news for you. Its bad news in the sense that if we had if the court had denied review we would have seen marriages very quickly within a few days, again, not only in San Francisco but all over california. Reporter opponents of same sex marriage say the Supreme Court should uphold the will of california voters, defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. Its important to remember that still in the vast majority of states, four out of five states, the people have chose on the either vote themselves or