Way. Whereas the house of representatives may have about 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production represents Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production. That includes from the smallest states of rhode island and delaware to, of course, the largest states. And historically, those interests were dominated from people by the midwest and the heartland states. So illinois, indiana, missouri, my own state of kansas. And the midwest, up through the dakotas. And states in the south where you had members of congress and especially members of the United States who were elected forever. They accumulated great amounts of power, and they were able to influence the political process rather significantly so the states of mississippi, which was one state that had accumulated a large amount of power over the years. But all of the southern states, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, called the southern crops had very, very powerful
Negotiations are going on right now to get these things passed . Guest what has happened so far is that the senate has pushed for this trade bill and got an advance only with lastminute maneuvering on the Chamber Floor yesterday. You had a band of senators who really want to get the Exportimport Bank passed and that also has a time sensitive deadline at the end of next month. And mcconnell got these senators on board and that bill was advance. Now they are tried to push through today and bunch of amendments and maybe final passage of this trade promotion authority, which would pave the way for future trade pacts by limiting congressional debate that congress will not be able to tinker too much with these major trade deals that are coming down the line. After that, it is going to be this big debate on the nsas bulk collection of telephone metadata. There are two Different Things that are going to go through. There is going to be a vote on the house nsa freedom act. That passed overwhelm
Considered within the f. C. C. . Chairman wheeler yes, sir. Thats what we were saying when the three commissioners offices got together with them and said, hey where you stand, depends where you sit, sir. We have to make sure everybody understands they are sitting in the same place. Senator moran how long do you see a transition making . Chairman wheeler to . Senator moran to that broadband support. Chairman wheeler i hope we could have the plans in place this year. Senator moran let me ask about call completion. What progress is or isnt being made . Chairman wheeler there are three components to call completion. One is enforcement. We fined wind stream 2. 5 million. Level three almost 1 million. The second is that they had this fraudulent activity going on where you would hear a ring even though the call wasnt being completed. We have passed a rule and commissioner pai and i again worked together on this to make that illegal and to be able to take Enforcement Actions against that. And
Now joining us on booktv is robert george, professor of Juris Prudence here at princeton, university. Way want to talk to him about his recent book conscience and its enemies confronting the dog mas of liberal secularism. Dr. George oh, do you you define liberal secular system. Guest a view about human detonation and dignity that competes with other views some secular but not liberal, some religious. Its a view that is very common in places like the one where we are right now university communities. I would venture to say its the predominant view in the elite sector our our culture and prominent in europe, which has become a very secular society. It embraces ideas about liberty and the personality, about the nature of human beings about ethics that are distinctive in our own time. Its associated with socially liberal views about matters of sexuality, abortion life and death issues. Generally identity issues. Kind of the spectrum of socalled hot button morally charged issues in our own
Eisenhower administration. I spent close to a decade trying to understand the unique character of poverty in the United States and i think i think of this research in this book as reflecting processes that are typical of cities throughout the nation. It is baltimore that tells an american story not just an accident of nature but about how our government and our society interacts with impoverished people a a disproportionate number of whom afferent happen to be africanamerican after one what are the demographics . Guest the neighborhoods where i conducted my research are predominantly black, more than one 3rd of young women are in their teens and that had at least one child, income levels never surpass ten to 15000 per year and where most significantly government institutions are repressive. I believe we show for the 1st time the extent to which poverty in the United States is characterized not just by material but also the overwhelming precedent of government officials and the likes of