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Welcome to the event. I am Jonathan Yardley the book critic of the Washington Post. The Washington Post has been a charter sponsor of the National Book festival since the inception 13 years ago. They play an active role in many of the planning and promotion. I am instructed to remind you this presentation is being taped. And you should stay off the camera rises in the back of the pavilion. At the National Book event, the final day of the oneday festival was a presentation by scott berg about this book about charles wilson. He is back now. He was promoting his book of maxwell perkins. We have h...

The senate is in at 1 00 eastern time. Votes are scheduled at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Majority leader harry reid and minority leader mcconnell had set a deadline of 3 00 p. M. When theyre planning to convene a caucus meetings and update members of the parties on a possible plan for taxes and spending on the new year. Will bring you live coverage of the senate on cspan2 started at 1 00 eastern. In the house, the return of 2 00 p. M. Youll be considering a number of pieces of legislation. What the live coverage of the house here and cspan. Next, retiring senator kent conrad reflects on his career in...

Up to five years. Say you multiply one million times five, you get about 5 million professional workers in the United States at the present time taking jobs and some Academic Studies that are done, basically pointing out that we have much higher Unemployment Rate among professional workers than we have experienced in the past and that wages for those professional workers are basically stagnant over the past about a decade which would not be true if there were a shortage and if there were bidding among the employers for those high skilled workers. And with regard to the lower end of the skill l...

Minutes talking about iraq and what the u. S. Forces role should be there. Journalo washington this morning. It is monday, january 6. The numbers to color on your screen. The numbers to call are on your screen. Secretary of state john kerry again making news traveling in jerusalem this weekend. He says there will be no american boots on the ground in iraq. That is the headline this morning in the financial times. They write lets take a listen to what he had to say. This is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. That is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left ir...

Three weeks left to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff. Lawmakers from both sides hit the sunday shows to late out the latest battle lines in the fight. On meet the press, the number three House Republican reiterated that any new revenues should come from closing loopholes, not raising tax rates. The president wants the rates to go up, that doesnt solve the problem. If the president is asking for higher rates, hes asking for more revenue. Most economists agree the best way to get that is through closing special loopholes. On the same program, Number Two Senate democrat, dick durbin declared that...