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Reports of prizewinning author lawrence wright, and your phone calls. Near the end of june, watch for the annual roosevelt reading festival could reading vessel. Then author interviews and panel discussions. At the beginning of september were live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival, celebrating its 15th year. Thats just a few of the events this summer on cspan2s book tv. President obama says this is the first memorial day since the end of military operations in afghanistan a...

Year. The last longterm bill we passed with safetealu in 2005. That was 10 years ago and that bill was underfunded because of the resistance of raising the gasoline tax or identifying new revenue sources. For over a decade we have failed to address the funding challenges necessary to break the cycle of underinvestment and put this country back on a competitive path with the rest of the world. Today we spend about 1. 7 of g. D. P. On infrastructure while china spends 9 , europe 4. 5 to 5 . We use...

United states. A quick followup on africa. Ways and means has pointed out that there could be a problem between the u. S. And africa u. S. And the event e. U. If the u. S. Begins to get preferences in the african market. You chose a different path. Two quick questions. One, will you have some flexibility so you dont harm u. S. Exports and, two, have you given any thought to a common origin rule perhaps being part of epa where excuse me being part of ttip where the u. S. Recking nices african inp...

No one wants to end up for these principles and again is that the role of you and i and everyone watching this program to understand what these principles are and to show up. That is the egos of the modern american political system. That is right we have to own and protect and defend it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about it, not everyone will come to the conclusion that you will wear that i might in reading a particular provision of the country. And they do need to understand where it ...

Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more pu...

America. And there are still barriers like in my state tragically and it gets back to the earlier question cynthia, about jobs. In new york state, we have the same shale gas resource that they do in pennsylvania. In pennsylvania, they have 60 to 80,000 jobs good paying jobs developing that domestic source of clean gas. In new york state, we have a moratorium we have nothing. And we need to develop resources like that. The second thing i do on energy is create an integrated north american concept...

Im certain i would not have done whatever good i did do, i would have done less well if i hadnt been here. Thank you. This is from dorea, a sophomore in the college. Sort of two pronged. Where do you see this generation of young adults going in in what way is our path going to be dirnt than before . What has happened in technology to this day, it will look like childs play. Over the next 20 to 30 years. I think most of you will live to be 90 years old or more, unless some accident where you have...

Protect our watershed. Were also involved in a project with the Forest Service, bureau of reclamation city and national tore rest foundation to treat the 634,000 acre watershed that drains into the cc craigen reservoir. The projects were currently involved with highlight the need to improve federal policy to more efficiently make progress in restoring our forests and protecting our watersheds. Specifically there is a need to improve both Fire Suppression budgeting and the planning and compliance...

They are they are becoming a critical partner for International Cooperation as well. One of our most significant cooperative efforts in codevelopment is with the advanced version of the sm3, the 2a, and that is being produced in japan. South korea is obviously has an immediate proximate stake in preventing missile strikes from north korea. Weve worked closely with south korea to ensure that as an alliance we can maintain the capacity to do that. Ive already talked about some of the things we bri...

Cameras before a a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Live on cspan 3. Theres been a lot of talk lready already on the 2016 campaign trail of the gap between the richest americans and everyone else. Welln be talking about that topic here in this special roundtable on the washington journal. Were joined by scott of d mich manhattanae institute and michael ent console of the roosevelt 2013 institute. C ineq michael, first, president obama in 2013 called this issue economic inequality issue woagu defin...