Lankford has released his report. In the first 45 minutes we will take a look at some of the findings but we also went to hear from you. If you had the ability to cut a Government Program, what program would you cut and why . For republicans, 202 7488001 for democrats, 202 7488002 for independents. If you are to share your thoughts on what Government Programs to cut on email that is journal at cspan. Org. The Washington Times takes a look at this report released yesterday from the oklahoma freshman republican james lankford. He writes that he replace senator tom coburn who for years was singling out 100 item spending 105 billion in spending and 800 billion and regulatory constraints on the economy that he says the government should rethink. One of the things he found targeted the small and the big. Of those programs the 5,000 National Parks documentary on roger howell. Social securitys practice of Social Security benefits and Unemployment Benefits of the same person. There are other fa
2027488001 for republicans. You can send an email to journal cspan. Org. All front pages have essentially the same lead story. Court calls nsa data sweep illegal. There is the l. A. Times, the new york times. Nsa collection of bulk call data is ruled illegal. In the Washington Times lead editorial big brother takes a hit. Senator Mitch Mcconnell has made it clear to his colleagues that he wants the usa patriot act including the parts of the legislation scheduled to expire at the end of june, fully extended. He seems ready to do whatever he can to get his way. The usa patriot act was enacted in the days following 9 11 when the nation trembled on the verge of panic, with little debate and little opposition in congress the usa freedom act would modify the patriot act. The freedom act is expected to pass in the house the attorney general Loretta Lynch was asked about it in testimony yesterday. Lynch section 215 has been a vital tool in our National Security arsenal, but the department has
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About corruption as an obstacle to the development. But she titled directly between corruption and poor countries and corruption in the United States inside the beltway contracts that are fed back and she talks about the development. We can talk about a lot of other systems, and tying the line that we are also a part of the world subject to the same kind of forces to the incumbent economic interests capturing the political process, getting the government contracts and affecting outcomes we are also subject to that. And to see somebody say those things is a lot more than i say in my book but what you are saying is true in its deeply important. Philip auerswald, you write about the Current Telecommunications revolution that we are all living and trying to understand and manage. Helpless. So, first of all, we have to understand the difference between a mobile phone and a rich country and a mobile phone and most of the world. So, before the mobile phone only to technologies had spread as w
Here are some things we would like to encourage. Other avenues. Just this week the Nobel Committee announced a researcher, who discovered induced stem cells in particular, gord had done cloning work with frogs decade ago. But yaminaka discovered a kind of stem cell that prevents the need to tee destroy human embryos and create embryonic stem cells. He would be sharing the nobel prize this year. Coming around to the question. Heres president bushs policy, put in place to stop incentivizing and stop the funding prevent the funding of the destruction of human embree wyoming in the name of research, creation and destruction of human embree imby embryos, and it encouraged ended in a nobel prize. So heres the question. I think thats is a challenge the antiscience and pro science rubric, and i wonder if youd say that in fact it can withstand that sort of thing as we look at it over time, whether its a little bit of a too shallow way of looking at things whether its chris mooney on the left an