To have you. I want to talk to you about how youre going to vote in 2024 in a moment, but putting the merits aside, i like how youre laughing about that. Putting american id say no, you dont agree with the merits of the new york hush money case, but you worked for donald trump. You got to know him. What do you think its like for him to be in court, being treated like any other criminal defendant, and having to be there for days a week i think its real tough on them. I think a lot of the countrys sympathizers with them. So i think the longer the trial goes on, the more supportive gets well, i mean, he has claimed multiple times that this case is being brought essentially by President Biden. I mean, you know how this works and how the breakdown in this works. President s dont have any role in what a local district attorney, what case they bring normally true. And i dont im not suggesting biden is involved, but i think what theyre saying is that this former federal official whos gone up t
Kochs belief in a free and Prosperous Society. And going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. If you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. Theres no better way than to reform our criminal Justice System because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. So thats one part of it. The other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal Justice System. Back in the mid90s. That we learned from. And we wanted to see whatever we learned and how the process went for us. If its happening to a big company with a lot of resources like us whats happening to the Small Business owners whats happening to the average citizen, whats happened to the average joe in the street out there, and so that got us involved working with the nacdl, National Association of crimi
Would be to fortify the protections, the Privacy Protections for americans in the law but the law has evolved and exactly the opposite direction and indeed since 9 11 there has been a sea change in the law. If you back up a few decades following the church committees revelations in 1970s there was a series of laws and policies put in place that establish a kind of golden rule. Intelligence agencies could not collect information on americans from within the United States without some individualized factbased suspicion of wrongdoing. Now the purpose and the effect of this rule was to constrain the abuses that had come before it. In the past 14 years a cardinal principle has been utterly jettisoned from the law. So lets talk about the three legal authorities that we know of under which mass surveillance is currently occurring. The first is section 215 of the patriot act. This is the provision that allows the government to get a fisa court order Compelling Companies to turn over Business R
It didnt gist come out of thin air. Its not just by more efficient ebb e Energy Sources its by conserving energies. Thats correct. As we become more e fishlt consumers save, dont they . Yes they do, senator so i just want to make that point. The cost benefit analysis under the Clean Air Act or clean waterer act, theres direct savings, that senator boxer has talked about the number of premature deaths and workdays which pashlts have to stay home because their child cant breathe. Or the days lost at summer camp. It will also safe us money. Correct. You look at globally, the cost is incredible. In maryland, we have taken steps to deal with our power emissions. Weve done that and weve had a growing economy. Its helpd our economy. You have a dual objective. In maryland were one of nine states part of the regional initiative. Weve taken some pretty extreme measures. Talk a little bit, as part of a reasonable oefrt how have you taken into consideration based on numbers. As we mentioned before
Actions bassed on that finding sdsh. I think youre doing exactly what the epa reprimanded you to do. You are tarking cig nef kabltly amousht of power wuz telling. Youve tried to get this aut ri saigsz before and congress has not passed it. Youre not allowed to move forward with the regulation to do Want Congress wont allow. Tlfgs tome e testimony by tony clark who said quote. He later said in spite of epas promise and for exampleblety i states are seeting it mat authority to the epa. J i dont agree with it, senator. Let me go ahead and give you an additional minute of my time because you have taken that. More than half of them believe its not legal under the clear air act. Thank you very much chairman. We always have an interesting diskugsz. For the second con sec tifr year there would be no fishing this year. The lobster has been disappearing. The message here is clear. Clie malt change is taking dollars and jobs away from new englands fishing communities. We certainly see that in rho