Are buying in order to figure out what each cost and also i would note that on the songwriter side, Songwriters Guild featured Music Coalition that have brought up issues of transparency because arbitration might lead to issues where the artists themselves dont necessarily know what the rate is or how it was decided. I think my time is up mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator franken. Thank you mr. Chairman for this hearing. Mr. Harris and you talked about this 150,000dollar fine that could be imposed for infringing. Have you ever paid such a fine . No sir. How many times has that fine in your experience your knowledge been imposed . Well in the context of pandora. Just in the whole ego system of this . Oh hundreds if not thousands of Copyright Infringement cases going on right now. Farah williams is involved with a lawsuit over marvin gayes estate of her blurred lines were statutory damages and willful infringement are being sought by the plaintiffs. I go back to the question, how many tim
By the house for a conference and authorize the presiding officer to appoint conferees. Mr. Cornyn ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 54 and the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman i ask for unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes. The presiding officer without objection. A senator today we honor the 150th anniversary of abraham lincolns death. Mr. Cotton on the evening of april 14, 1865, the fouryear anniversary of the beginning of the civil war and just days after its end in appomattox, president lincoln was shot while attending the theater. The next morning his last labored breathing ceased. His fanatically unreconciled assassin was enraged by lin
The presiding officer who yells time . If no one yields time, time will be charged equally. Sans sand mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders thank you. Mr. President , i send to the desk my motion to instruct conferees. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion. The clerk the senator from vermont, mr. Sanders, moves that the mearption on the part of the senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the house amendment to the resolution, s. Concurrent resolution 11, be instructed to insist mr. Sanders mr. President , i would ask that the motion be dispensed with. The presiding officer wowcts. Without objection. Mr. Sanders mr. President as i mentioned earlier i happen to believe that the republican budget that we will be discussing today moves us in exactly the wrong direction. At a time when the middle class is in decline and the gap between the very, very rich and everybody else is growing wider what the republ
Any further debate . Very briefly. It is hard to understand how having cast the votes in the senate on Human Trafficking and then say that has a negotiating objective, our own country that puts out a trafficking persons report and labels countries by tiers of how good to how bad they are that some of the worst offenders should get access to our market. Now somebody can get off the tier three provision by cleaning up their act and then they are eligible. But i dont understand how it is a problem to make that determination and make that one of our negotiating objectives. We reached an agreement that solves the problem. All i can say is i appreciate the senator and his feelings about this but i hope we vote it down. Clerk will call the role. Mr. Graphing . No. Mr. Roberts . No. Mr. Roberts no. Mr. Cornan . [inaudible conversation] mr. Thuscott . No. Inaudible roll call mr. Nelson . Mr. Menendez . Mr. Corker . Mr. Bennett . Mr. Warner . Chairman votes no. The amendment is agreed to. Who is
Who would like to work and like to be a citizen, to demand that contrary to the laws of the United States . And when congress doesnt pass it is that a right that they are entitled to demand . Sir, i think that citizenship is privilege certainly a right for those of us born here. I think it is a privilege that has to be earned. With the panoply of civil rights recognized by jurisprudence i dont see one that youre describing. I certainly agree. Surprised it took you that long but the attorney general statement was breath taking to me. Peter curseneau commission of civil rights responded to that some sometime ago. He said, quote to equate amnesty for breaking immigration laws with civil rights betrays incoherent and ahistorical understanding of the Civil Rights Movement. Lawabiding, black citizens, of the nights United States were not seeking exemption from law. They were seeking application of such laws in the same manner that was applied to whites. Close quote. Would you agree with his