Court opened the floodgate of corporate spending on elections, a movement is growing to amend the constitution overturn the doctrine of corporate personhood. But some lawyers say the effort could backfire and make it hard to hold corporations accountable. We will host a debate. Then to the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world. Russia, china, iran tunisia are trying to push an internet sovereignty, nationalism movement, that gives them the ability and permission to subvert it on their citizens, whether it is surveillance or propaganda, censorship. These are all on the rise. The United States is, quite sensibly, pushing down against that that we need a free and open internet. It turns out at the same time theyre doing these exact same things. Amy leading security and Privacy Research Bruce Schneier on his new book, data and goliath. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraqi Officials S
Healthcare while at the same time again reducing costs. That task force and its finding will be discussed at the february meeting in washington. Governors are taking a variety of different leads on this issue. His entire state of the state address to the issue of drug abuse including the abuse of Prescription Drugs and how it leads to more serious concerns about heroin addiction. If you have not read his state of the state, i would advise you to do so. Its remarkable. This nations infrastructure provides the skeletal structure that connects us to one another. We talk about infrastructure but you only think about highways, transit systems that connect people and places. Infrastructure is more than surface transportation. It includes utility systems that connects us to power and water, schools, public buildings that connect us to opportunity and participation. A states emerge from the economic downturn, its critical we work with our partners to rebuild and invest in roads, rail, bridges,
Children. Idea for children with disabilities, two fundamental Building Blocks of our k through 12 education, only restored by 85 . This bill does include welcome and funding for other priorities, to that i am grate to feel Ranking Member lowey and the devoted staff david and lisa. Those priorities include mental pelt mental health, head start, child care. We need to do more. Given the decadeslong trends downward, labor funding is not enough. We endanger our families and future by shortchanging these programs and while i support this budget as we move forward, we can and we must do better by americas families. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york reserves. The gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Ms. Rogers i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey may i ask the time remaining on both sides . The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from new york has 17 1 2 minutes remaining. The gentleman from kentucky has
Not discussing a transition, and if he thinks hes going to be part of that future. Its not going to happen. The people who are the opponents of this regime will never, ever stop. They will be an insurgency at least and worse potentially even than a civil war if it continues, because they will not stop. Now we also are not out of options with respect to what we may be able to do to increase the pressure and further change the calculation. And i think weve made that clear to the Russian Foreign minister and others. Nor are the other players short of an ability to be yet to have an impact here. So i think they can bolster, they can protest, they can put out distortions. At the bottom line is we are going to geneva to implement jimmy fell one. And if assad doesnt do that he will invite greater response in various ways for various people over a period of time. So im not particularly surprised that hes trying to divert this, hes been doing this for months to make himself the protector agains
Leader simply is asking us to appropriate money and do nothing to fix the problem that weve attempted to address in the humane act with congressman cuellar that i mention add moment ago. That i mentioned a moment ago. So, in essence, the president has asked for a blank check, when he himself acknowledged this morning in my presence that he knows we need to address this problem and it will just get worse if we dont. So its quite remark to believe me that the president of the United States acknowledges we have a problem we need to address when the secretary of Homeland Security, who is trying to use the tools available to him to solv solve this crisis bt knows he needs more tools and more authority. At the same time the president makes that acknowledgment, at the same time his own secretary of Homeland Security identifies more authority, the president , its reported, that he actually wanted to expand this deferred action executive order that he issued in 2012 and say to more people who h