ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. barrasso: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to oppose the nomination of dr. dr. vivek murthy to be surgeon general of the united states. surgeon general is known as america s doctor. americans have great respect for this important position. they expect their surgeon general to be someone who has substantial experience in helping patients, helping them improve their health and in helping them reduce their risk of illness and injury. this important position has been vacant since july of 2013, so about a year and a half. it s far too long, and it s been completely avoidable. now, we have seen how the obama administration has struggled in response to important health issues like the ebola crisis. america should have had an experienced doctor in the job as surgeon general to lead our fight against ebola. and to take
when we are doing automatic adjustments? with that said i think it would be an improvement however we did it so if we to indexing when it came to when it came to individual parameters that would make sense as well. one thing i would notice we should be sure to index both the benefit side and the revenue side as in fact peter diamond suggests. to be critical of such an automatic mechanism would not simply be solvency. our current system would probably be made solvent. congress will just get around to it later and focus changes on later generations. so the idea here is to spread the adjustment of properly and especially to share risk across generations but i also don t mean to suggest this is the way we will get to solvency from where we are today. right now congress and the president do need to agree eventually a compromise. the point is we can build on these kinds of mechanisms and to compromise legislation so as to preserve the dealer has made an spread risks across generati
that store data. . you think this precludes the need for a federal dado security ? no, i don t. we have used our authority under section five of the ftc act. we think we have used it effectively. in particular, we think there are three areas we could issue authority. we would like to see legislation that would give the fcc civil penalty authorities. that will enable us to deter more effectively. we also believe that we need jurisdiction over nonprofits. we found that a number of breaches occur at nonprofits. we lack authority over nonprofits. that is a gap we would like to see filled. in addition, to implement data security effectively, we would think it is appropriate to give the ftc, rulemaking authority to enable us to deal with the in this risks and harms area. thank you. this is why it is important we get this legislation. i want to ask. this is unrelated. it is something i have been interested in. testimony, hen said the department can use better tools to go after o
richard carmona will give an update on the latest research to improve survival rates from ied s and mass shooting incidents. we will also take your phone calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. journal, live each morning at seven eastern on c-span. an executive from target said the company is investing $100 million to upgrade to a more advanced credit card system following the hacking of customer data. testifying before a senate committee, the target cfo was asked about the holiday season cyber theft that has exposed the personal or financial data of millions of u.s. shoppers. because of the time of the opening of the senate, we are starting a little bit late. i apologize for that but i appreciate everybody who is here , from all over the state, including now snowing colorado. we re going to need to examine how we can protect americans, the growing danger of data breaches and cyber crime in the digital age. safeguarding american consumers and busi
folks who have an oepiate disorder, they will often tell you and you will see they started with early tobacco, early alcohol and early marijuana use. but mr. botticelli, that s a logical fallacy, that s true but that begs the question that millions of americans, 4 50 million, have used marijuana and didn t go on to other drugs. we have to desegregate the addictive personality from the recreational occasional user. i mean nothing norm tif by this. i said in my opening statement, i m a child of the 60s and leery of legalizing any drugs. i ve seen the damage. but i want us to be basing fact on the matter is the war of drugs doesn t look like it work very well in public opinion and demand. whereas other campaigns that are voluntary. actually have worked. so maybe we could learn something from that as opposed to incarcerating, especially minority populations in this country and that doesn t seem to work either and doesn t seem to reduce demand. representative connolly, i thin