At. Is the pleasure to be with you. The way l. A. To structure our conversation today is there is no shortage of hotspots in the world but i will start with the defense budget. The fiscal 16 budget coming indy 500 85 billion about 35 million is the cap so with those caps to make some of the tough choices what is appropriate to under the cap like the 2013 u. S. Been advocating defense reforms with military composition reform with backoffice personnel and the budget makes these recreations but it is not the first time you have seen these. And many do seem dead on arrival. With of bipartisan for sequestering these but how the Republican Congress handle this . With respect to sequestered there is an exercise of political malfeasance that you would endorse acrosstheboard cuts in respective of strategy is a forfeiture anyone that subscribes to that should be removed from office. And go back to appropriate and i encouraged they will do that . The answer is no. Even though they are in charge o
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome secretary of state john kerry. [applause] am pleased to share with you and i think all of you know this anyway, that the threat posed by violent extremism has been a top priority for president obama from the day that he became commanderinchief. A very few months after he took office he spoke to the university in cairo and stated clearly that on his watch, the United States would relentlessly confront violent extremist pose a grave threat to our security because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject, the killing of innocent men, women and children. He continued, its my first duty as president to protect the American People. In the year since, president obama has proven that he understands the best way to do that is to protect not only the American People but also innocent people everywhere. And to Work Together as a Global Community to fight back against the violent extremism that attacks all of us. Thats why he has literally spen
They would find most effective. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, madam secretary. The chair now recognize the chairman of the full committee for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. So the goal was to enroll seven americans by the end of march. 365,000 folks in rolled through the end of november. Premiums are due beginning middecember. I wonder, madam secretary, if you could tell us, after christmas somewhere between christmas and new years, as to how many people actually do pay the premium that is due, if you could share that number during the christmas break with us. Would that be possible . Chairman upton, the deadline to enroll is the 23rd. The deadline to pay is the end of the year so we will not have a number until can you let us know that first week as to how many speakers i will let you know as soon as we have the numbers. You indicated to mr. Pallone that, in fact, the launch was flawed. Knowing what you know today, do you wish in fact that you delayed the laun
The ones that come in, and if something happens to you and you get in the group that needs more attention but you dont need that much attention. Most americans would balk at that much attention. I dont think its that big a problem, as long as we get the infrastructure. Thanking join me in our panelists for shedding light on areas of consensus when we talk a lot about differences in this town. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] good points. Cspan could we bring a Public Affairs events from washington directly to you. Offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u. S. House, offered as a Public Service of the private industry. Cspan, created by the cable tv and funded years ago by your local cable or satellite provider. Now you can watch us in hd. The u. S. Senate has approved another of president Barack Obamas nominees as it wraps up a week of near roundtheclock confirmation votes.
Do believe in the motivation of what they are doing, but they are zealous and effective. They are in a position where they are able to gather a great deal of information. Interested . E absolutely. No doubt about it. You agree that our government oversight of our National Security establishment is far more interested in protect Civil Liberties . I cannot compare to other people. I do not know the details. I would hope that with our constitution we would have a very effective system. Good faith with the legal structure that allow this surveillance. I do not believe we have lived up to the Core Principles as faithfully as we could, but we do better than the totalitarian regimes, of course. You take a different view. Decisions havee historical positions. There is no present decision by any court that suggests that this is operated in violation of the fourth amendment. There would take a new decision, is that correct . Can you cite the case that supports that proposition . Know, i believe