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I now recognize myself for an opening statement. The parent of homeless security is beating to examine the Homeland Securitys use of facial wreck mission and other Biometric Technologies. Government use of biometrics is not entirely new area fingerprints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Dna andometrics include palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen form of Biometric Technology, as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the government its use by the government in the private sector has also increased. Dhs is collect ding and storing different kinds of biometric information and using this information for multiple purposes. Cpv and tsa are using biometrics confirm the identities of travelers. Opposed to Biometric Technology and recognized it can be valuable to Homeland Security. However, it proliferation a phrases across dhs questions about privacy, security, transparency and accuracy. People deserve an answer
P and move, and all the calamity and disruption a left of peoples lives, the way that opioids and other unhappy things came in and destructive things came in to fill the void. The over policing, the sense that the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are things folks are feeling in a lot more places than the southside of chicago. We have that in common. So the opportunity to have broad, focused, and sustained attention in solving those problems, and bringing all the perspectives we know we need from all of these different in which i have solved problems in the past, i think it is a service i want to be able to offer i want to talk about your chicago roots. First, lets talk about your entry in the race. It has only been a couple of weeks. Goin fact, we were ready to about a year ago and some change. We were within a week and half of announcing when my wife was a diagnosed with uterine cancer. It made s
[a and as lincoln said at gettysburg, it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this perhaps no justice in the history of the Supreme Court has been more associated with the word liberty than Justice Kennedy. Called thet it is tie goes to freedom, Justice Kennedy on liberty. In 554 Supreme Court countless speeches, he thelessly returns to importance of Civic Education for equal liberty for all. The importance of individual liberty and speech and preserving civil dialogue and debate, and the importance of equal dignity and freedom. s first theme is Civic Education for all because he is always and everywhere, a teacher. It aims with Reese Witherspoons commencement address and legally blind. I watched it on youtube and it is a fine speech. Reese witherspoon concludes that with no offense to aristotle, passion is a key ingredient for law and life. Extraordinary experience. We had a tour of the civil war gallery. When he came to the declaration of independence, he emphasized tha