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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 our e-mail address, journal @journal.org. let's begin with a look at some of the headlines. we want t...

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 tribune's printer's 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 different topics. constitutional law and particularly the powers of the presidency. international law,...

[inaudible conversations] >> welcome to the 27th an yiewg chicago tribune printers row lit fest. please turn off your cell phone and all other electronic devices. photography is not permitted. today's program will be broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end for a q and a session, we ask you to use the microphone at the center of the room so that the home viewing audience can hear your questions. if you would like to watch this program again, our coverage will be reaired tonight beginning at 11 a.m. central time. please welcome our moderator, kimberly your rack c...

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, to focus on small business. 70% of all new jobs start with small business. let's put people before...

>> 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 measures. this is 2.5 hours. and i'd like to yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro te...