Bills werent getting passed; and those that did get passed were frequently drafted behind closed doors with republicans and many rankandfile democrats shut out of the process, which of course means that the American Peoples voices were shut out of the process. When republicans duke control, we know when republicans took control, we knew that getting things working again had to be our first priority. We opened up debate so senators from both parties could make their voices heard. We started drafting legislation in committee again so that bills were the result of discussion and compromise instead of being dictated by Democrat Party leaders. And we got the Senate Passing real substantial legislation again a bawrkts appropriations a balanced budget, Appropriations Bills, the first major energy bill since the bush administration, the first Significant Education reform since 2002. Mr. President , im particularly proud of two bills that the committee i chair the Commerce Committee worked on a
Bills werent getting passed; and those that did get passed were frequently drafted behind closed doors with republicans and many rankandfile democrats shut out of the process, which of course means that the American Peoples voices were shut out of the process. When republicans duke control, we know when republicans took control, we knew that getting things working again had to be our first priority. We opened up debate so senators from both parties could make their voices heard. We started drafting legislation in committee again so that bills were the result of discussion and compromise instead of being dictated by Democrat Party leaders. And we got the Senate Passing real substantial legislation again a bawrkts appropriations a balanced budget, Appropriations Bills, the first major energy bill since the bush administration, the first Significant Education reform since 2002. Mr. President , im particularly proud of two bills that the committee i chair the Commerce Committee worked on a
Issues that congress is confronting. Zoe lofgren, democrat of california, who represents a lot of the hightech companies in the Silicon Valley area. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and the internet subcommittee. She talks about some of the issues that they are facing. And john shimkus is a republican from illinois. Hes on the energy and commerce committee. That committee covers a lot of the Telecommunications Issues as well. Well, whenever we talk about the issue of privacy on the communicators, we often turn to representative zoe lofgren, a democrat from california. Guest right. Host whats your particular interest in all the privacy issues . Guest well, it really is rooted in the constitution. You know, if youre intimidated that the government is tracking everything you do, not only does it deal with the Fourth Amendment, but it also has an impact on the first amendment. Under our constitution the citizens have a right to speak their minds, to say what they think is right. And a
Its a really great to see you and its really great to be here on the show with you today. I know we have lots to talk about a lot of really really interesting things to talk about and were gonna be talking about your book majority minority. In fact, i wonder if we could first talk a little bit about um why you decided to do this book and with such a title something. Thats kind of been a little bit of a buzzword in washington in the last 10 years or so. So what drove you to do the book, you know, mark. Thanks so much. Our, you know interviewing me so many pieces of my earlier work feels like they came together with this work on you know here to four. Ive studied muslim politics the politics of a lot of minority out groups the politics of white workingclass people and nativism and backlash to diversity and minorities and nativism and i studied immigration policies both here in the United States and abroad across 30 different countries, and i think that overshadowing all of these differen
Many pieces of my earlier work feels like they came together with this work on you know here to four. Ive studied muslim politics the politics of a lot of minority out groups the politics of white workingclass people and nativism and backlash to diversity and minorities and nativism and i studied immigration policies both here in the United States and abroad across 30 different countries, and i think that overshadowing all of these different topics overshadowing our politics Public Opinion and our policy has been the specter. Of the majority minority milestone the moment when Minority Groups become become the majority group, they outnumber the original or native based ethnic or religious minority. And so i think that you know in acknowledging that shadow cast over all of our politics. I want to kind of take it on, you know head on and for for viewers. Im not quite sure everybody might know what majority minority is referring to but the nation has been under a lot of demographic change.