off the floor, senators are working on setting up federal spending levels for 2018 before the start of the next budget year which begins in october. live coverage when the senators return here on c-span two. >> congress is going ahead with the annual baseball game tonight, a day after a shooting the republican teams practice where majority whip steve scalise was shot and injured. since the shooting, donations to the charity event have surged, organizers report they raised more than $1 million so far. c-span will have live coverage of tonight's game at 7:00 p.m. eastern. >> this weekend, but tv on c-span two features a panel discussion on race in america on saturday at 5:15 p.m. eastern, moderated by april ryan, washington bureau chief for american urban radio networks and author of, at mom's knee and

the presidency in black and white. >> these two ladies right here i remember watching them march for us, talk for us, when we did have voices. they basically let us know that we count in matter in the time when many of us are not at the table. if you don't have a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. >> mary frances berry, author of $5 and a pork chop sandwich, avis jones d weaver, author of how exceptional black women lead, wesley lowery, author of i can't kill us all and julianna mumbo, author of are we better off. on sunday at 1:15 p.m. eastern, pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough starts with warmer news anchor charles gibson about his collection of speeches on american principles. >> i began to think about the great presidents down the years who have been avid readers of

history, many of them wrote history, including john kennedy. even those who didn't benefit have a college education like harry truman, read history all their life. i realized that it's essential to the role of a leader, whether it's the presidency or leadership of any kind. it's a cause and effect. history matters. >> go to but tv .org for the complete weekend schedule. this weekend cities booked were takes tv and american history tv to hyde park new york as we explore the history and literary life of a town that come to be synonymous with the story of franklin roosevelt eleanor roosevelt and the extended

roosevelt family. saturday at noon eastern on the tv an exclusive interview with david roosevelt, grandson of fdr and eleanor as he talks about his memoir, grandeur, personal history of elinor roosevelt from his home on the roosevelt hyde park estate. >> it really was not until my grandmother's funeral that i realized she was a special person. and something of a celebrity. we never thought of her in that way, we never viewed my grandmother, she was only a grandmother to us. that's all she ever wanted to be. >> author tony, his book fdr and the post office. >> i found four letters in the archive in his handwriting, not type with, that actually credited stamp collecting with saving his life after he became ill and ended up being confined to a wheelchair.

>> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, which were the fdr presidential library, the first presidential library in the national archives system. >> it was established by resident frank roosevelt, he was looking for a way to preserve the papers of his administration and also his personal papers. so, he created a library on the grounds of the state in hyde park, new york. when he decided to do was raise private money to build the library and then he gave it to the government to be operated by the national archives. >> watch the cities to run hyde park, new york at saturday at noon eastern on c-span to but tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span three. working with the cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> next, a hearing on the budget for the us