Hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. And as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the Intelligence Community inspector general. We have forthcoming next week ill breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, actually would be from the House Intelligence Committees. Even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of our political discourse in a way the intelligence agencies itself began to be earlier in this cycle in a in a way that was unp
To the second u. S. Circuit court of appeals for oral argument in a case where President Trumps attorneys will ask the court to block access to the president s financial information. In this case. There is no doubt this dispute comes to the court involving the house of representatives on one side and the president and his family members and elated businesses on the others. There is weight and importance in his individual capacity and not his official as the complaint says. The president is standing before the court in his individual capacity. It is the complaint that we have and the role we have for the plaintiff. I do want to note the number of statements three rely upon and the Background Information makes it clear that these subpoenas are being targeted to the president because he is president. Because, are you raising motive . I am not raising motive but looking to at the real object of the subpoena is. That is another really way of saying why they are doing it. Precludes motive an
This is an hour and 40 minutes. We will hear argument in donald j. Trump versus committee on Financial Services. Court, thereshe no doubt the dispute comes to the court involving the house of representatives on one side and the president and his family members on the other. I do want to note the number of statements three rely upon and the Background Information makes it clear that these subpoenas are being targeted to the president because he is president. When you say because, are you raising motive . I am not raising motive but looking to at the real object of the subpoena is. That is another way of saying why they are doing it. The motive precludes motive and rises above concerns that the house or the congress has taken one action and we think they are not. They are not taking the action you can delineate from their statements from authorizing resolutions themselves. There is Something Else completely going on. Many of the cases make it very clear you can inquire into what the real
I do want to note the number of statements three rely upon and the Background Information makes it clear that these subpoenas are being targeted to the president because he is president. When you say because, are you raising motive . I am not raising motive but looking to at the real object of the subpoena is. That is another way of saying why they are doing it. The motive precludes motive and rises above concerns that the house or the congress has taken one action and we think they are not. They are not taking the action you can delineate from their statements from authorizing resolutions themselves. There is Something Else completely going on. Many of the cases make it very clear you can inquire into what the real object is and what the legislative purpose is. Is that the real object as distinguished from no other object . In other words, they put something up as just a sham. I think the court in watkins is clear about this. The court is obligated to look carefully especially in a ca
The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This phone Committee Hearing is convening regarding the patients perspective and the devastating impacts of marketing drug prices on American Families. I recognize myself for five minutes, to give an Opening Statement. Today we are closing this work period, the way we started our work. With a hearing on the Prescription Drug prices. This is a bipartisan issue and i have focused on for many years. The first witness at our hearing this congress was a woman named antoinette worsham. A mother whose daughter died at 22. Years of age after rising insulin because she could not afford it. And it was the subject of our hearing on hiv prevention drugs in may. Today, five patients and her family members are here to share their stories. I urge all members to go back to your districts and to talk to your constituents about their experiences struggling to pay for lifesaving