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Dont you think it would be a great book . Youve covered congress over the years. You have six months. How is the deadline. I thought great, that will be great. This would be all the people and i had the experience of covering the republicans and the Tea Party Wave and what that was like to have a whole new part in time and i thought that was the end. From your book, he tells a lot of stories many of them personal to me. What once stand out to you as being the most remarkable stories, if you had ...

Tack to time to write down the stories i have lived in the last year and a half. What inspired you to write this book. Guest my editor of the bork called me right after the election and said, my gosh, we have this Record Number of women in congress, and such an interesting mix of women in congress so many firsts for so many different districts and for congress, period. Dont you think that would be great book . You have covered congress over the years. Id love you to do it. You have six months or...

Public speaker who has given talks on four continents. He is also advised governments both domestically and abroad and even served in president obamas education policy team. Lastly, david kirp is a contributor to the New York Times and awardwinning author of 17 books including improbable scholars, kids first, and the sandbox investment. The College Dropout scandal, the authors latest work, exposes several Shocking Facts about the Higher Education system today. Almost 40 of students leave univers...

Through the glass doors you can almost see the Supreme Court building across the street. The Supreme Court is many times the last stop when it comes to c human rights, civil rights, after all the work thats been done by the congress but by ther president many times is the Supreme Court that has the last word. In the case of plessy versus ferguson when the supreme fecou held segregation was constitutional the last word was a disappointment. In abversus United States and the Supreme Court upheld t...

Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of...

Remote village in laos high above the clouds the people here speak their own language. Time seems almost to have stood still. We meet a family that is holding fast to the old traditions while also making small steps out into the wider world. Today is a special day a photographer has come to the village. Well im going to put it on. The father how caring has wanted a family photo like this for a long time. He wants to put it in a golden frame and hang it up at home. With. His youngest son is only ...

Welcome ladies and gentlemen forhe robert c. Byrd center congressional history and education. I am the director here at the bird center. Thank you for joining us as we celebrate Constitution Day. Constitution day, as im sure many of you know, was yesterday. We are belated in celebrating, but thats ok. Before i get started i want to take a minute to recognize the passing of Cokie Roberts. Many of you were here in july when cokie and Steve Roberts very graciously came out and participated in an ad...

I dont consider myself a journalist. No one else would consider me a journalist. Ofegan to take on the life being an interviewer. What is it that makes someone tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning, how does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . It encouraging. , itancer survivors know helps to know people are rooting for you. It is not universal. Pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator whose name ...

His presidency. Many hoping that the vietnam war would end soon. It did not. After a raucous 1968, a lot of people were optimistic that the economy was on the mend and it was all clear sailing ahead. That was then. Similar hopes today. A lot of it built on an unemployment report that shock ad lot of people, it was more like a goldilocks number. Very low Unemployment Rate. Even though the number of overall jobs gained. That was a little less than thought but it continue as trend of jobs that are ...

Everyone. Fternoon yall find seats and will get our panel going. Good morning. Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of archives and history. If you havent done so, please silence your cell phone. This panel on the u. S. Civil war is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and Mississippi State university. One of the book festivals Board Members from Mississippi State John Marszalek is on the panel. Is Francis Coleman here . D...