Personal care brings this planet, and the entire universe into existence by your creative word. May we not lose our capacity for wonder, to listen and care for your creation. It is wisdom and contemplation that allow us to read the signs of the times. You put these signs in our hearts through music and dance, poetry and prose, arts and sciences. We thank you as day begins, and the energies of your daughters and sons are focused on the days business. Inspire those here assembled with the gifts of peace and justice, as your word inspires them to courage and compassion for all. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Reid mr. President . The president pro tempore majority leader. Mr. Reid mr. President , we know that you help in the senate every day, but tod
Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. We are talking people dying and disappearing if this information is made out of sources of ours to disappear in the middle of the night because the question i have we talk about lawyers, from a legal perspective is what the surveillance needs for Attorney Client privilege and when the government does ims surveillance, how that is protected and that might work. Depends on what mass surveillance you have in mind. That is a hard question to answer. On the journalism question there has been too much
Force behind the creation of southern california. He became the first chief judge of the District Court serving in that position until he was appointed to the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Judge carter judge keep graduated from the San Diego School of law as its valedictorian, becaming the first female judge for the Southern Court of california and later the first female chief judge. And this honors judge john rhodes who served as a federal judge in san diego for 22 years and was widely respected and beloved throughout the regions legal community. Udge s. Judges, carter, keep and rhodes showed excellence and integrity. Im proud to honor their legacy with this legislation, and i want to thank two of my colleagues in particular, congresswoman susan davis who represented this area before i did, and led this effort for the past several years. And congressman darrell issa for his support and great amendments to the bill. Its better because of his work. And im proud to have worked with the
Knowing whether they have been limited on what actions might or may not be available. The president has made it clear it is not his policy. I have never seen anybody more adamant about that and more clear in every statement he has made. They were all quoted. He has reiterated it. But that doesnt mean that you want to take away what might be conceivably necessary the president is absolutely clear about his policy. President s the decision to use force and thank you to this committee for voting and having made clear that congress was moving in that direction guess what . Instead of one or two days of bombing, in order to send a message that you shouldnt use these, we got a deal with russia to get 100 of the weapons out. That is because you didnt limited. Didnt limit it. That was another moment where for the first time in history during a conflict we removed all known declared chemical weapons from a country, and believe me thank god we did. Today, isolate is in their controlling half the
Automatically, and you are going through your world whether your smartphone or your credit card, you are doing this hundreds of times a day, maybe. All ofue is nsa can use that to establish a profile. That is a good thing. Why do you have to do it to hundreds of millions of innocent people . That is a problem. That is where i have a problem. I do not want to hurt nsa. I served 30 years there. And it is a needed capability to keep us safe, but my goodness, we need to observe the three legs of the government, the legislative process, to the judiciary, as it was always intended. We do not need to say that we are at perpetual war and can never go back to a democratic visible. We need to get away from that. And that is on the idea that theres a lot of information that is limited to the dish it to the leadership. I can only speak to what ive that is really quite only for sensitive operations. Abbotobad aid on when youre talking about the kinds of things from the surveillance nsa does, those