To me they seem to confine it to being able to have your religious views in church or in temple or wherever you worship on sunday or wherever, whenever you worship, and thats it as opposed to living out your religious views 24 hours a day seven days a week. I think the real assault is on religious liberty. I think the hobby lobby case where the green family was threatened with over a Million Dollars in fines if they didnt want to pay for adortafations was correctly decided. I wish there had been a 90 ruling. This is the latest assault on religious liberty. You see it in the case that was decided with the administration, the case of a lutheran school, went in and tried to argue there was no ministerial exemption that had long been recognized in the employment laws. When you think about that, whats dangerous, they didnt have to claim that in simply deciding that case. They could have gone with a much more narrow argument. Instead the government was claiming there was no protection for ch
And of the 181 waivers granted by this Committee Last congress, 175 of them were republicans. Thats 97 republicans. Three 3 democrats. Again in the last congress, democrats had to abide by the rules. The republicans did not. I have an amendment to try to eliminate big tax breaks for big oil companies. And every time ive tried to get a vote on it, on an energy bill ive been told, sorry the tax rule says you can only do this you can only do that on a tax bill. Then when i offer it on a tax bill, sorry. Its a farce. And i think the majority is hiding behind the rules to keep members from voting on anything you dont like. I have an Old Fashioned definition of rules. I was taught when you have rules youre supposed to follow them. And given the number of waivers that this committee has provided to get around the rules, i think we taught to be transparent about that. My hope is, the same with the previous amendment, if youre required to report these things then maybe you might think twice abo
Of the provisions that block president obamas executive order on immigration. The senate is expected to move the measure forward this week after three failed attempts over the last month. The National Governors Association Winter meeting expected to continue momentarily. Hearing from secretary jeh johnson. He will be discussing Cyber Security efforts at the state and federal level. Secretary johnson is there after appearing on the sunday morning talk shows. Funding for his department set to run out this week. Secretary johnson this morning called the debate over funding absurd, and he said he hoped to some in congress will quote, exercise some leadership it comes to finding a solution. He also said 30,000 workers would be for load if the fund is not approved. We could hear something about that today from secretary johnson. If everybody can please take your seats, we can get started. Thank you and good morning to everybody. I want to thank the governors. I think we all understand the im
Well in the world. That i think is close to many peoples minds. That no industry is limited to smartphones, the devices we carry around. It is a Great Technology to connect so many other things and build a Better Society based on those kinds of technologies. The internet started with this thing that people needed to get somewhere or somehow. We brought the internet from that thing somewhere to your home. He brought that internet from being your home to being in every device that you carry around. The next age of the internet is about taking it from mobile devices and connecting not just people, but things with people, information with people, processes with people, so we can create an internet of everything. I think we are at the early stages of building the internet of everything. Monday night at a clock eastern on the communicators on cspan2. From the winter meeting Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson talks about Cyber Security. Than a discussion on the impact of Government Polic
Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, im happy to take questions, eager to take questions which i understand there are mics at both sides. Sitting in the middle, please come to the aisle, thank you. Question over here. So thanks for a great talk. My question is related to how you get everybody and their individual issues to align this greater issue, right, whether its either health care, environment, the lists go on. It seems like there is an emotional piece. How do i place my emotional fervor around Climate Change and if leslie, the bigger issue is the first issue. Its hard for me to get emotional about this bigger one and take that same emotion and pour it into this underlying piece. That is my discussion, my question. Right. So and this is a general problem that people have described around this Reform Movement for many years. I think the first step is to recognize something about how you cannot get what you want. I dont think its enough to think about how i cant get what i wan