Now, id like to invite Gleaves Whitney, executive director of the gerald dar ford president ial foundation, to the podium to introduce tonights speaker, gleaves. Thanks i would like to invite executive director of the president ial foundation to the podium to introduce tonight speaker. As joel just said, we are back. Look at this. It is great to have all these people in the auditorium after months of covid. I applaud you for being here. You came for a great program. For many years, almost two decades. But first, i want to welcome our cspan viewing audience. I want to welcome all of you in person. I think we have trustees we have president fords family members, greg ford, nephew of the president. Always glad you are here. Go ahead and applaud. Absolutely. Those of you who have into the skate for know that i have tried every which way possible, humanly possible to introduce bill in any way. One year, in fact, we used his haiku poetry. He is the author of a lot of haiku poetry that ended
Women, traditionally religious women left out. Critiques of feminism and feminism in contemporary American Culture led critics to label her antifeminist. Sunday, your questions live for three hours at noon eastern, and looking ahead to the new year on indepth, join mark levin january 5th. Booktvs indepth, the first sunday of every month on cspan2. Next, a hearing on a bill requiring greater disclosure of surveillance programs offered by the nsa. One of the witnesses from google said the bill is needed to restore Global Confidence in his firm and others which have been harmed by corporations that were with the nsa. This is a little more than an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. You ready . Yep. This hearing will come to order. Welcome to the Senate Judiciary Sub Committee on privacy, technology, and the law. The subject of the hearing is the surveillance Transparency Act of 2013. Im proud to say that two weeks ago i reintroduced this bill with th
Areas, and sustaining existing capabilities. But, again, that measure can be better. On the administrative management side, weve made progress in measuring our ability to effectively, efficiently release the funding, monitor programmatic use of the funds, monitor grantee Financial Management of the funds, monitor the closing of the awards and grantee draw down. Were making progress, mr. Chairman, weve got an opportunity to make even more. Thanks. Yes, sir. For us, i think its about getting good, quality information and data for us to make the right decisions on when we issue a card. Its about continuing to get that information after we issue the cards so we can monitor the individual to ensure they havent done something as to disqualify them. Whether its on a terrorism watch list or something through a criminal issue. I think the other thing that is going to make us better is installing readers. We believe that the coast guard, whom were close partners with, made the right decision to
This process. Ill just this is a long time ago, but ill share an experience with you. I bought a company in puerto rico, put it into four containers, all the equipment. Everything that was there. All four container arrived at one of my plants here. All the seals were there. When we opened the containers, everything of significant value that could have been marketed was gone. But the seals were still there. So the fact is, and that was way before 9 11. That was in the 70s. But the fact is, that people will try to do it. So my question is, is i guess my question is really this, do we have the capability to track ships from the time they leave a port until the time arrive here and know whether or not theyve been boarded or accessed between this embarkment and the embark here . Thats the question that i probably cant answer. Got you. All right. Thank you. Senator, did you want me to touch upon the metrics issue . Yes please. I think at the strategic level. A more detailed functional plan,
Both before january 20th and after january 20th. Thats something that the white house so far have said they dont have and they wont provide. Im sure sean spicer at the White House Briefing about to get lots of questions on what congressman Elijah Cummings had to say and these new documents released about general flynn. Manu raju, well get back you to. Republicans are trying to breathe new life into health care reform, but democrats are seriously pushing back. The new effort to repeal and replace obamacare is certain to be a focus of todays White House Briefing as well. Its set to get under way any minute now. Well have live coverage as you can see. Meantime, democrats say they may block the spending bill needed to keep the government running. The deadline is friday night. If republicans bring up Health Care Legislation between now and then. The House Speaker nancy pelosi says the republican bill will even hurt republicans. I think President Trump is really making fools of the members o