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us. the other imminent threat is giving up a piece of the grid. and giving law enforcement the tools of intelligence, the single greatest asset we need have and also giving them the electronic tools, i don t think we do nearly the job we should be doing in terms of protecting against cyber attacks. we ve seen just last week what happens when supposedly the chinese have now hacked into the personnel records of upwards of 20 million government employees. the one positive out of all of that, it is the only hope we have of maybe recovering lois lerner s emails from the i.r.s., get them from the chinese. but it is a serious issue that we need to put first and foremost as a serious threat to the safety and security of our communities. i know that there are some sheriffs representing interesting states, maybe like iowa, might have interests there. some other states like florida. i see one of those sheriffs is about to take the stage and i d like to ask him to take the next q ....
there are other areas, where i come as someone who prides myself and working in a bipartisan way, we developed a leadership model and in 16 months were able to pass the best g.i. bill in history, and on this issue, there are other areas where we need to be working together a list, and i would be grateful and honored to be working with your organization in the future to make sure that we can look at these issues in a continuously creative way, in order to enable our law enforcement officials to do their jobs, and at the bottom of this, to work toward the harmony and the respect that we need in our communities. with that, i m happy john, if you want to sit down and spend the rest of this time and discussion. thank you very much. [applause] i m sitting here, but you can sit there if you want. you re on the right, i m on the left. [laughter] it really is a pleasure to have you here. as you know, c-span has reached out, using a multitude of its viewers. this is a great opp ....
at the law center. at the law center she founded the federal administration and law clinic the national disability rights network and the lounge center for mental health law. she also founded and codirected workplace possibility. a place focused on finding common ground. as legislative council for the american civil liberties union from 1988-1991, chai played a leading role in the groundbreaking disabilities act of 1990 and i had an opportunity to work with chai in my role as the president of the leadership conference as we worked to get the americans with disability act amendments and 2008 which overturned supreme court decisions that had reduced protections for certain people with disabilities. those who were originally intended to be covered by the ada. in addition chai helped to draft the employment nondiscrimination act, i bill that would prohibit employment destroyed nation based on sexual orientation and gender identity. neither john nor i could think of a bett ....
we brought in people from the aclu, from the marijuana project, from the national bar association, from your organization, from the international association of chiefs of police. we brought in 100 different stakeholders, listen to them got them to talk and put together a bill which i think was as good as any piece of legislation like this could be. it was for 18 months, $14 million. that s like one helicopter $40 million. we could get these minds together, show was for the first time since the commission in 1965 how we can streamline and improve this process. we finally got it on to the senate floor in october of 2011 having worked on this for almost five years. and we hit the great stone wall of filibusters that preceded the 2012 election. we got our partisan support but we had 57 votes. we needed 60 votes to break a filibuster. we got only 57. we had four republicans including orrin hatch by the way was a stron ....