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>> jason collins becomes the first active athlete in major sports to announce he's gay. >> 34-year-old free agent made the announcement in an essay for sports illustrated. >> i expect more people coming out now. i hope there is not that much backlash. >> if you openly living that type of life-style, the bible says, you know, that is a sin. >> knowing there is a gay player in the nba, think anybody who thinks they didn't play with a gay player is an idiot. they should get to be who they want to be. female dna found on a bomb fragment from the boston marathon bomb. congressional ca...

we have a fourth line for parents and educators and202- 585-3883. send a state tweet or go to thisook.com/cspan or send an e-mail. story this press" morning about that report, prepaid spending is at the lowest level in a decade. here is the education secretary at the release of that report yesterday, which is c-span covered, talking about american competitiveness. [video clip] >> i have said many times before, budgets are not just numbers. the repeal our pap -- they reveal our values. you did not see high performing competitors defunding education and innovation via sequest ration. o...

a disaster. now in the beginning we're going to start with syria. president obama's holding a press conference, asked about syria. did they cross the red line when they might have used chemical weapons. we believe that it was probably that they did. well here's president obama's response. >> what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of syria but we don't know how they were used, when they were used, who used them. we don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened and when i am making decisions about america's national security and ...

it's a dance for these committees bause they don't want to weigh in heavily because they're not popular. host: we'll go to kevin now from our democratic line. good morning. >> good morning. thank for you c-span and want to thank your callers that call in and seem to me like they're all very intelligent and highly n-. it seems to me like the system of government we have here, this republic, is not working very well. you know, what is this, the senate, the house and president that basically makes the rules for us. i think if everything was put to a vote and the american people were all...

going to be imperfect. but i think it has improved dramatically since 9/11. host: our guest is a former white house special assistant for homeland security from 2001- 2003. alle, of course, welcome of us who join us on these occasions and on our heritage .org website and those joining on c-span. we would ask everyone here in- house if you would be so kind to see that cell phones are being turned off as we prepare to begin. all of us would appreciate that, especially those recording the event. we will post the program on the heritage homepage within 24 hours for your future reference ...