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The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for p...

Contributions, is that creating a problem more for democrats than republicans . Its the icing on the cake to a bad decision which was citizens united, and its going to lead to more money in politics, which i think is bad for democracy. But is it worse for democrats than for republicans . Hard to tell. I mean, i look at this in the democratic governors association, and again, not so loud like a broken record, but we get outspent. We understand that. Were in an environment where we need to raise money so that we can we compete, but weve got to spend our resources more wising than they do. When w...

Theedd4m struggle for, to use of the arabic words, karama dignity throughout the region. This isnt going away, and there are many historical events that are going to unfold in the years and decades to come that i think are going to rock these regimes or induce them to come to terms with the demands for dignity, accountability and popular sovereignty. So were going to have to do another edition of this book, mark. Thats the one thing i think we can say for sure. [laughter] mark, my coeditor, thank you very much. All of the staff at the journal of democracy, the National Endowment for democracy ...

All this and more on this memorial day weekend, three days of booktv, television for serious readers. For more information and this weekends Television Schedule visit us online at booktv. Org. Booktv continueues. Myra macpherson recounts the lives of sisters Victoria Ward hall and tennessee class of, whose professional pollutes pursuits challenge the mail status quo. This is about 40 minutes. I am supposed to be wired for sound. One of my dear friends when i did my last book on i s stone, he used to say is there any sex in this . And a little louder, i just had sex and scandal. I really hate i...

I want you also to note that at the end of the session 10 or 15 minutes before the end we will be taking questions from the audience. There is a microphone set up in one of the isles and if you are immobile reach her hand and we the mic to you. Let me start with myra macpherson. She is an author and a veteran journalist. She has had many years of the Washington Post writing for the papers legendary style section. She has interviewed serial killers, celebrities, International Leaders like Cubas Fidel Castro and when she was in and then she interviewed president kennedy. I was four. She wrote fo...