Of this week, senator Patrick Leahy on a democrat of vermont, joins us to talk about the nsa surveillance program. John s is a White House Reporter covering issues for politico and the wall street journal. Thank you for coming. I wanted to Start Talking about the legislation you have on the programs that collects nearly all americans phone records. Section 215. We voted on another Collection Program that the sichuan Intelligence Agency has that tracks International Money transfers. By the international transfers, it picks up a fair amount of american data as well. I was wondering whether that also raises concerns. You talked a lot about the privacy and locations of that. It does add to this. I where he about any kind of bulk collection. Ofi worry about any kind bulk collection for a couple of region. What have you collected . So much, do you have anything . These intelligence agencies and others if you want the police to go into your home and go through all their records, Everybody Kno
The trends and recommendations that were seeing from the Domestic Violence perspective. Domestic violence has been worked on much longer in San Francisco at a policy level and you will see that reflected in the numbers, but again when you combine elder abuse and child abuse and Domestic Violence its San Franciscos most reported crime, Family Violence. So you will see that still the majority of the calls that are coming in thank you come in to the community. As many of you know, and as the president of the Police Commission said its rarely the first time by the time the police are called or there is a criminal justice response and not Everyone Wants a criminal justice response so we are proud to be part of a community that speaks over 60 languages; that operates crisis l shelters and Legal Services for over 30 years and we are very proud of that. We are very proud of the probably 20 years, but certainly the last 10, of really working closely with the criminal Justice System as well, so
Well, the United States, we have 350 Million People here. We have such a diverse we do not have a homogenous society, which is much more typical in many other countries around the world. I did want to make a point about life expect answery, and the w. H. O. Often says the United States ranked 37th out of 190 countries. As professor steven wolf in the institute of medicine study, which was really based on Life Expectancy, he said Life Expectancy and other noted Health Outcomes are determined by much more than health care. Here in america, when you look at our lifestyle choices, we have a huge obesity problem. We have homicides and car accident deaths at a much higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. When you look at the numbers for fiveyear survival rates for cancer, the United States ranks number one in the world on 13 of the 16 most popular cancers. You have to compare apples to apples. Thank you very much. My time is expired, mr. Chairman. Let me say before i ask
A look at the cost of health care and the role of Accountable Care organisations. Seized mans he coverage of the kansas governor debate. On wednesday a panel of educational experts will agree that one challenge to the common store in issues to right now is a lack of material available to educators. The panellists analyse the cons of the initiative. This is 90 minutes. Afternoon everybody, thank you, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. As we talk about back water issue that no one is really talking about, today we are about the common core, an issue that has an incredible amount of salience in the media and in politics and we have three outstanding panellists to discuss. Introduce them to you that is a veteran education reporter Education Week, she coauthors the curricular matters and if you want to get up to speed on the common core and how it has been playing out in classrooms the country, catherine and her reporting has some of the best. That would be ricks director of poli
This is in the law that congress created. There are several ways to comply with the law and if you are the victim of trafficking in the antislavery law that we passed unanimously for this committee you are eligible as a victim of trafficking. The United States requested you are eligible for a new visa and if you are a child that has been abandoned then you have no one here you can be eligible for a special immigrant juvenile visa that was created because we had kids. This goes back to the 70s. You have a child that appeared five years old and no parents. They are in foster care but what is their status. Extraordinary delays because we do not have enough personnel, but we do not have enough Immigration Law judges to actually and lawyers to actually adjudicate these matters. Are you able to comment on that . That is our experience. It would like to see those cycle faster which is part of the work were done with in the unified command group. One final question. His administration recently