Starting at eight eastern on cspan. Cspan2, providing live coverage of the u. S. Senate floor proceedings and key Public Policy events. And every weekend, booktv. Now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Iraq war veteran Travis Fugate says he may have gone p blind because his v. A. Center doctor didnt have the right information. Mr. Fugate says the v. A. s failure to fix issues was depressing. Veterans Affairs Department officials also testified at this hearing with members questioning why it was taking so long for the departments records to mirror the defense departments. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to welcome everybody to todays hearing titled assessing inadequacies in v. A. Dat
This morning, president obama nominated former Defense Department official Ashton Carter to be his fourth defense secretary. He would replace chuck hagel. Mr. Carter has served in a number of roles within the department as defense secretary from 2011 to 2013. Watch the president s announcement of his nomination at cspan. Org. The cspan cities tour takes book tv and American History tv on the road traveling to u. S. Cities to learn about their history. This weekend we visit waco, texas. As we began to receive the vinyl to be saved, we began turning over the b sides of the 45s that we received. First off, gospel music was not widely heard in the white community. What it was, it was only the hits, if that. The b or flip side would be heard less. What we discovered quickly was how many of the b side songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. Since theres few databases and none of them are complete on gospel music, didnt know that. We didnt know the sheer number of songs that
So we specialize in only north korea. We do it daytoday, which is in the slow summer days of august can be very, very difficult. You know, we are really struggling sometimes to find leads for stories to do something original and its those times when personally it does get to you and you just wish this could be a bit more of a normal country and access and get in and interview various people and find leads for content. Thats something that troubles me a lot. And its something in the long term if we cant resolve well, i think, drive good journalists away from the subject because they will just find to it be such a challenge to continue working on. The other thing which has been alluded to is we have an issue, a difficulty with reports from north korea that its quite unique to international relations. So we often hire south korean nationals, be they interns or staffers in seoul and we actually have a problem with quite a high turn over rate with these people because oftentimes they will a
General steve lenic. That starts at 10 00 a. M. Eastern live on c span 3. Here a few of the comments weve recently received from our viewers. Im in my 80s and im a big fan on c span, i want to complement them on being able to bring together two different ie deologies like they did this morning from the Kato Institute and the immigration policy center. I think you need more programming that way among people that can conduct themselves with a very civil tone. I applaud you for that. Thank you very much for c span. I listen to c span pretty much on a daily regular basis. I find it to be very informative. Its a very good look at all of our different politicians so that citizens can understand exactly who we elect and whats being done in congress because it seems to be that congress is undecided or always fighting. Its important that the citizens have a nice outlet for them to see the proceedings that go on. So i appreciate c span, and regardless whether or not its popular with mainstream c
Outside the box. I began my education in fort greeley while the School Facilities were a bit rustic the high quality of education i received inside those walls is what i remember so much. I thank each and every teacher who has taken on the high calling of educating our children. While we certainly have room for improvement in our schools, we should also celebrate our achievements. In nevada last month, at one of the toughest High School Wrestling tornments in the country, senior josh roteman won his weight class and earned the tournaments outstanding wrestling award. Josh is the first allamerican athlete from the high school and has been accepted to the u. S. Naval academy. This past spring, kristine fenderson of fair banks captured a silver medal at the United States decathlon super quiz. A competition that attract teams from around the world. These individual successes serve as reminder that the next generation has the talent and drive to succeed. Its up to us to provide the opportun