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[applause] if you would like to get a book signed, we are going to line up right here in front of the stage. [inaudible conversations] elizabeth kolbert, author of the sixth extinction and this years winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. You can see this program anytime online at cspan. Org. Remarkable partnerships, iconic women. Their stories in first ladies, the book. She did save the portrait of washington which was one of the things that endeared her to the entire nation. Whoever could find out where francis was staying what she was wearing what she was doing who she was seeing, tha...

Host we have been talking with sam goldfarb from cq roll call. Thank you very much. Explores the history and literary culture of all money of albany. Tonight on cspan, a Senate Debate on the fiscal cliff. Shaun donovan discusses it. Harry reid and Mitch Mcconnell when backandforth on fiscal cliff issues and a proposal to raise the debt ceiling. Here is part of their exchange. Yesterday afternoon, i came to the floor and offered president obamas proposal on the fiscal cliff to show that neither he nor democrats in congress are acting in good faith in these negotiations. With just a few weeks ag...

Authors who have a very cool index of economic uncertainty. It is a very innovative paper. They estimated that the debt limit struggle probably subtracted about 1. 5 from gdp growth during that summer when it was happening egos of the uncertainty and inactivity that was caused by levels of uncertainty. Each time we go through that, there are consequences. I would like to add if that is what it takes to get spending under control, we need to concede that in the long run there will be a benefit, which means we do not have these deficits. In the fullness of time, whether a struggle last summer wa...

Gross margin bottom will fall by half a percentage point. We will reverse the hardfought gains over the past few years. We cannot afford to go backwards. Instead we need a balanced and bipartisan approach. One that balances the short and longterm needs, distinguishes between Foreign Investments and the Core Investments that must be reserved, and spending that we can live without that utilizes both spending cuts and revenue increase. The first order of business should be to protect those middle income families i talked about and protecting them from a tax increase. The cbo estimates that simply...

Caller right now i lost my job because my boss was fired from the university. And recently got my doctoral degree from that university, and i am spending eight hours a day on the computer, trying to network. I want to buck the contention that it is a mismatch of skills between the employer and the people that are unemployed. There was a recent wall street journal saying that part of the problem is how employers conduct searches of candidates, and her recruiting is done. How recruiting is done. I think the Unemployment Benefits should be extended, because sometimes there are highly skilled work...