Pension had enough money. Account and by this clearly this reporter is not saying this is every business where everyone in the retirement industry. I would be interested and start you, mr. Mr. Baker and biggs. How serious is this problem of siphoning dollars from pension ofds to finance, the kind wheeling and dealing that was described and specific kind of instances. Effortnd of enforcement could be put in place to deal with this . This really looks to me like it is way over the line if not looting of private Pension Funds is pretty serious financial misconduct and should not be tolerated. We will start with mr. Baker and then mr. Biggs. I do think it is a serious problem. I do not think that explains the issue in terms of workers facing in adequate retirements. You have a number of instances where certainly people were violating the intent of the law. Ite money is in a pension, is supposed to stay in the pension. She gives several accounts in which companies were able to pull money fr
Senator, im not familiar with that issue. Id be glad to take a question for the record be, if youd like. Okay, thank you. Thats it, madam chair. Thank you very much. [inaudible] verify one thing on the nsa situation. Its my understanding that this judge, judge leon, made his restraining order which has been or his injunction which has been stayed, and that was announced last month, a District Court judge in southern california, jeffrey miller, announced his opinion in a case which involves a bacilli malawi who was convicted on three counts of support for terrorism, specifically financial and monetary, specifically involving alshabaab. He was tried, he was convicted, and then a case was brought exactly on this point. And the judges opinion last month said that the program essentially was constitutional, that no one had a Fourth Amendment right on metadata. Just my view of the situation is that i welcome a Supreme Court review. Its been more than 30 years. We didnt have terrorism when sm
The presiding officer the senator from michigan. Mr. Levin mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Levin mr. President , the bill that we are about to vote on is a good bill. Its the product of a an extensive bipartisan, bicameral agreement between the Armed Services committees of the senate and the house of representatives. We have passed a defense bill every year for the last 51 years. This bill deserves to be the 52nd, because like our previous bills, it does the right thing for our troops, their families and our nations security. It passed the house with a vote of 35069, and it deserves an equally strong bipartisan vote in the senate tonight. Now, yesterday, i praised the members of our committee, and i also noted the amazing work of our staff, and im not going to repeat that. This bill is not a Christmas Gift to our troops and their families, authorizing funding for our t
That makes my day. I like an abundance of time. More with hugh hewitt. Now a discussion with u. S. saudi relations and how it has been impacted by the nuclear deal with the ran an series of nuclear war. This runs 1. 5 hours. Good morning. Thank you for being here. We are going to go for an hour and a half year. Were going to speak for 45 minutes to an hour, then open for questions and answers. Thank you for coming to hudson. Thank you to our cspan audience. Thank you for this wonderful panel. Elliott abrams was debbie National Security advisor for global democracy strategy. He is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. Brian is a senior fellow at the center for American Progress focusing on the middle east and north africa. He is author of the prosperity agenda. In the meantime, i want mr. Abrams to make a few comments and first. Then we will have a discussion. Thank you. Thank you for being here today. I wanted to start by saying some of the discussion of u. S. Saudi rela
Of the hotel in tunisia where a gunman went on a shooting rampage killing at least 38 people. Now the attack on this hotel behind me the imperial left this country fleeing this country last night. We saw demonstrators denouncing this attack and demanding better security. Well have a lot more in a moment including lives lost in tunisia and now those visiting are trying to cope. I want to get to some breaking news out of athens where the Greek Parliament has approved a bailout referendum set for july 5th. That is almost a week after tuesdays deadline for what is a near 1. 8 billion debt payment to the International Monetary fund. That payment is most likely in jeopardy after debt extension talks with its creditors broke down on saturday. Now the result a very real concern that banks in greece may not open on monday. Over the weekend, people have been queueing up at cash machines and at banks across the country. Our editor is joining us now with more with you this morning. Greece has been