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>> you will notice the tilt in the air. we are a little below freezing for the most part. lets check on the weatherbug network. 25 in leesburg, frostburg, 28. 30 in la plata, 28 in stafford. 31 in rockville. reagan national, 35. mid 40s this afternoon. temperatures will not rise a lot. we will be near average later on. 44, mostly cloudy, with a few sprinkles. a brief hit of rain around a metro and farther south this midday. very nice right now of the beltway. interstate looks good. n...

their work visit invisiblehistory.com. >> we ask what are you reading this summer? heres what you had to say. send us a tweet at booktv using the tag summer reading to let us know what you plan on reading this summer. e-mail us at booktv/c-span.org. up next author and professor eric posner. the university of chicagos kirkland and ellis professor of law will speak on international law and the difficulty of a climate change treaty and the balance between security and liberty. mr. posner ...

is books he read monthly off their call-in program every feature one author with his or her body of work. were pleased to be sure eric posner year at "chicago tribune" printers row with press and also joined by a studio audience as well who will havene h questions for the professor. c start by giving as a snapshot of what youd do and what you write about. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago and have been there 15 years i read about a number of different topics and c...

had it not been for my mother, my father would have killed me as well. .. for my mother, my father would have killed me. >> because your mother intervened. >> you should get out of the way. >> now, whats interesting here, you just described yourself azteccally having been in jail for 20 years, 66 to 85. >> uh-huh. >> but the violence and the whole world of hatred that you describe, you say thats really been a jail for 40-plus years. >> oh, yes. >> let me read again from your book. this...

into a national symbol. its about 55 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon and thanks to all of you for coming. we at the washington papers are in the business of preserving and transcribing and publishing all of washingtons letters, so you can imagine our surprise a number of years ago when we received a letter from george washington. [laughter] written to us. and he was alive and well and living, where else, but in cincinnati. [laughter] actually, it was a gentleman who claimed to be...

another contender officially enters the presidential race, former senator rick santorum. will make it official tomorrow in somerset, pa. just outside of pittsburgh. we will have live coverage on the c-span network. the discussion this morning focuses primarily on what is in the sunday papers. the u.s. economy and a story we found from a gallup poll indicating that more americans think they will have to work after they retire. the numbers are on your screen. you can also keep track of o...

call-in program where we feature one of there and his or her body of work. we are pleased to feature eric pose honor. a law professor at the university of chicago. in fact, we are in chicago at the chicago tribunes printers row with vast and we are joined by a studio audience as well he will have questions. professor, if we could, start by giving us a snapshot of what you do and what you read about. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago. i write about a number of diff...

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with it, now the numbers disagree with it. today it takes the average unemployed 39.7 weeks to find a job. you have been 28 weeks with unemployment. you wonder why it has been more than 750 days and the democrats have not passed a budget. why would you wait without a long-term plan? this is a time for harry reid. this is the time for the president to put partisanship aside and put the country first. there are a number of bills that house republicans have passed to roll back regulations...

>> today the house took up a pair of resolutions dealing with u.s. military operations in libya. the first offered by john boehner called for the president to detail his plans for military operations in libya within 14 days. that resolution passed. the second was a better from representative dennis kucinich of ohio that call for the immediate withdrawal of u.s. forces from the libyan mission based on the 1973 war powers act. the resolution failed. here is the floor debate on those meas...