Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This will not be the first time i heard most of this information. We had that meeting before. It will be the first time a lot of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. This is a critical there are a critical number of decisions we will have to make to make my va work. The new veterans choice work and make sure that va does what it does best well bu
The legislation were considering today in your judgment . I think it illustrates the point that the Supreme Court wants us to have rules so the Law Enforcement knows what to o do. Were not messing around with gray areas. That we recognize this right to americans, the privacy interest. That we have clear rules, and the rules should be to default to a warrant. My time has expired, mr. Chairman. The chair recognizes the gentleman. I thank the witnesses for your it testimony. First it was mentioned that theres a general agreement among the panel and others that would like to expand the dragnet i would like to ask mr. Cook and mr. Littlehail does anything expand the dragnet . Mr. Cook . Well, so im troubled by the characterization. Let me define dragnet so you dont have to and that would be, is there anything in the bill that expands your ability to do investigations and maybe makes innocent citizens more vulnerable . No, sir. I think it limits in a couple of unprecedented ways for Law Enfo
And those are very difficult and challenging things. Its not a large solution to every piece of it. They want to continue to address some of the challenges. I think theres more to be done there. Moving to a different servicer affords a different opportunity and some other tools to be able to move it. There is work to be done there, and nsi extension was certainly part of that, the neighborhood stabilization. And i think its also about treating different buckets of delinquent loans even differently. Selling off decent condition notes is very different than selling a bunch of vacants. We havent seen real different treatment from the bulk sales programs. Going forward, maybe we do trstop that a little bit more. If your fha and servicers cant, or you dont want to do principal reduction, there is this idea that the note buyers getting a discount will be in a better position than economically incentive to do principal reduction. But right now we dont have a requirement that they do that. Sim
Protected material theres also, frankly, some law that points to things called administrative searches that might be seen as validation of the secs position. If i were to judge it, i would probably say come down against it, but nobody makes a lot of money predicting the Supreme Court. Could it withstand the Fourth Amendment challenge in the courts do you think . I would say no. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Conyers. The chair recognizes the man from wisconsin for five minutes. Thank you. In the case of 2010 the sixth Circuit Court ruled that americas emails is protected by the Fourth Amendment. I agree with that holding. Since that decision, the sec has been unable to subpoena email content from Service Providers. Now mr. Cresny, i read your testimony and did you write it in 2009 . No, i wrote it okay, thank you very much. Now if the sec cannot currently subpoena email content from Service Providers, is it truthful to testify that if hr699 becomes law the s
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. We begin tonight with syria, where the Extremist Militant Group isis has increased its control in parts of that country and in neighboring iraq. The Syrian Government continues to battle the militants, who have taken control of three military bases in recent weeks. Late this week, the government sent in reinforcements to maintain control of the tabqa air base in eastern syria, the governments last stronghold in the region. After isis released a video on tuesday showing the beheading of american journalist james foley, the Obama Administration announced that it is reconsidering i