when you go to c-span.org. join us a little bit later today for remarks from house speaker paul ryan. the wisconsin republican is talking with politico this afternoon. and you can watch that live in about two hours at 3:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span. and next week, the u.s. senate is poised to debate and vote on rex tillerson's nomination to be the next secretary of state. earlier today, senate democratic leader chuck schumer announced his opposition to that appointment. the full senate will begin debate on that matter at 5:00 p.m. eastern with a vote to move it forward at 5:30. see the senate live monday on c-span2. every weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors and here's what's coming up this weekend. saturday night at 8:30 eastern, peter hayes, academic committee chair at the holocaust memorial museum and author of "why, explaining the holocaust". >> so why were the jews killed?

because of a long-standing tradition of hatred, activated under particular political circumstances, fomented by a regime that was thoroughly capable of whipping up the population to participate in it, then undertook a war into a region where there were hundreds of thousands of the people it had defined as enemies and it resolved under the conditions of war time to wipe these people out. >> and then at 10:00 p.m. eastern on after words, alfred university professor emriis westcot looks at the wisdom behind frugal living in his book, "the wisdom of frugality." >> the crucial thing isn't to never spend money on any kind of luxury at all. the crucial thing is to be self-aware about what it is you really value. what is really worth spending

money on and what is something where you just are wasting money or just spending it just because people tell you this is the kind of thing you ought to be doing or the kind of thing you ought to be buying. >> sunday at 7:30 p.m. eastern, georgetown university profess area michael eric dyson, author of "tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white america," looks at the country's racial divide. >> so what we want is a cessation of the velocity of stereotype. and a granting to us of the same humanity that you grant each other. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule. this weekend, on american history tv on c-span3, saturday night at 8:00 eastern, lectures in history, james madison university professor evan frise on the evolution of suburbs from the early 1900s to present day. >> the suburban kind of style really takes off after the civil

war. and people begin to emphasize having a detached home, a cottage style house, having fresh air, accessible, space, a yard, a garden. >> and then at 9:05 p.m. eastern, duquesne university history professor elaine france parsons talks about the costumes of the ku klux klan and how they were used as toolz s of intimidation and terrorism. >> they wrapped a layer of meaning around the acts of violence and ended up, you know, the costumes interpreted what the violence meant and helped the violence to tell a story. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 on reel america, the 1967 cbs news report on the apollo one disaster that killed gr eed gusm and roger white. >> there was a flash and that was it according to a nasa spokesman watching the television screen in the block house a few hundred yards away from launchpad 34.

the screen went blank and he said there was no communication from the astronauts. they died silently and apparently swiftly. >> and at 8:00, on the presidency, sydney blumenthal, author of "a self-made man: the political life of abraham lincoln 1809 to 1849" about the political forces that shaped our 16th president's views on slavery. >> the fight must go on he would write to a friend, two weeks after his defeat, to douglas in the 1858 senate race. the cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even 100 defeats. >> for a complete american hftry tv schedule, go to c-span.org. remarks now from house ways and means committee chair kevin brady. he spoke recently about republican plans to change tax policy under the trump administration. the congressman's