Before 1978, surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes was conducted by the president without Court Approval, and the courts have consistently said that the president has authority to undertake such surveillance without Court Approval, where the target is a foreign intelligence threats. , but fisao abuses was created as a compromise between branches to enable that surveillance, but to involve article three courts in the review and approval, and congress, the oversight, creating the intelligence oversight i am going to have to be very tough. You have covered and a normas amount. Im very sure you can pick up any individual questions. Thank you thoma. Jameel . Limits start by addressing a degree of frustration by wainsteinthat mr. Said. When we were before the Supreme Court for clapper last year, the government really did repeatedly said that the assertion that the nsa was engaged in largescale surveillance of Americans International to medications under section 702 was speculative a
If Congress Wants to say maybe we should go to a more modest restaurant, thats fine. In order to curb our appetite, were not going to pay the people who already provided the insurance, already front of the money. That is not showing any discipline. That is just not meeting obligations. You cannot do that. That is not a credible way to run the government. We cannot going from crisis to crisis when there is a path in front of us that require stability and compromise. Thats how this goes. That is how this needs to work. Thank you, mr. President. Binding votes for the debt ceiling can sometimes be complicated. In previous aspects of American History, president reagan, president h. W. Bush, president clinton all signed Debt Reduction deals. You have done this three times. Four times was related to budget maneuvers. What many people are curious about is this new madam a desire on your part not to negotiate but that seems to conflict with the modern era of president s with the debt ceiling an
Back toward its longer run objective, the committee will likely reduce the peace of asset purchases in further measured steps at future meetings. There isnt a big move to the markets this morning, but after those gains, youll take a look at u. S. Equity futures this morning and see green arrows once again. Dow futures up by about 16 points. S p futures up by just over 1 points and the nasdaq futures up by about 3 points. More on the markets still to come. But first, the south is in the middle of snow and ice once again. The weather channels alex wallace has the forecast for this mega storm that will be at our front door this time tomorrow morning. Alex. Weve got wide reaching impacts. Right now, weve got the cold air rushing into northern sections of georgia, the carolina and the moisture all meeting up. Thats not a happy marriage for us. Were seeing the reports for us here across north georgia into the carolinas. Freezing rain out there. Weve got several more hours to go of this. This
Available. Host from National Journal is yes come in the house is going home already. No, this isnt some kind of record. Mccarthyan kevin announced that the Lower Chamber would be going home not for a week as originally planned but for almost two months so that members could go home and campaign for election day. All those to look at Vacation Days and assume that this is the least Productive Congress ever. By some measures it is a difficult point to argue with. House democrats were quick to jump on the bandwagon, presenting the early adjournment date as another sign of a donothing congress and pinning the blame on Republican Leadership. In truth, the house has been in so far this117 days year, more days and then the chamber work in most recent Election Years. The real record setter, the 109th congress, which worked 96 days before the election under speaker Dennis Hastert. Even the 111th congress led by nancy pelosi herself work for just 109 days before the 2010 election. Newspaper this
Country. And the fact is, that would be an Important Role for those caucuses to play. We need to share the many faces of immigrants, including the undocumented in our nation. Do you believe that the 1965 Immigration Reform law that ended Northern European preference expanded the diversity that were experiencing in america . I think it played some role. So do birth rates and the like. I will say that even, again, i do think we have to be more realistic on the quotas. We have people with families for in some cases, decades and decades and beyond. It would seem to me to take that into account and reunifighting families. What is the likely timeline for congress to start debating an actual immigration bill . What is plan b if the republicans dont go for a full package . Im hoping on plan a. I will say this, we dont expect that this will just be up to the congress. Weve seen in the past, particularly, with this donothing congress of last session that they respond to public pressure. I think