here on c-span. c-span has launched a new easy to navigate website for politics in the 2012 presidential race with bio information on the candidates, twitter fees and facebook updates from candidates and political reporters an links to media partners in the early primary and caucus states. visit us. next weekend, book t.v. and american history tv look at the history and literary life of savanna, georgia with events on c-span 2 including the home of flannery o'connor, a conversation with dorothy kingery, and also a tour of urban slavery sites with civil war savanna co-author and on american history t.v. on c-span 3, travel to the founding days of savanna as we visit the site of a plantation and explore civil war savanna. c-span's local content vehicles in savanna, georgia, next weekend on c-span 2 and 3. a discussion now on the future of media and telecommunications. you will hear remarks from cable executives on how they are adapting to new technologies and come petition from on-line disstrib tors and

that is on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m. eastern. on c-span 2 at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the former national security adviser brent scowcroft talks about foreign policy following the annual gerald ford foundation journalism award. also today, the senate commerce committee looks at threats to real security is members here from that of the transportation security administration and the amtrak police talk on c-span 3 at two o'clock 30 eastern. agriculture secretary tom vilsack was at the national press club monday to preview next week's meeting of the g- 20 agricultural meetings. will discuss how industrialized nations can help emerging countries. this about one hour. >> thank you very much and thanks to all who are here today. let me start off with a sobering statistic. the united nations food and agricultural organization says 925 million people were undernourished last year. this is an improvement from 2009 but still unacceptably high. our goal as a nation and as an international community is clear -- to bring down this number by increasing the availability and t

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. >> tonight, and james grant on his new biography of thomas read on c-span. u can download this and other podcasts online at c-span. >> monday on c-span, our road to the white house coverage continues with former senator rick santorum as he makes his official presidential campaign announcement. that is live from somerset, pa. at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> this week on "newmakers", we are joined by sander levin, democrat of michigan and the top democrat on the ways and means committee. we also have two reporters to help us with questioning -- alberto sanchez, budget and appropriation reporter with the "national journal," and ian swanson, news editor at "the hill" newspaper. ian, go ahead with the first question. >> thanks. >> glad to be here. we've known each other a few years. >> yes, and i'm looking forward to the talk today. i'm going to start out with a disappointing topic, at least -- the labor department today put out a report for jobs figures for may that found the economy only added 54,000 jobs last month. this came, of course, after a slew

eastern here on c-span. >> c-span has launched a new web site on the presidential campaign race. facebook updates from candidates and political reporters and links to c-span media partners in the early caucus states. >> you are watching c-span. bringing you politics and public affairs. every morning, it is "washington journal," connecting you with policy makers and journalists. weeknights, congressional hearings and policy forms. on the weekends, you can see our signature interview programs. on saturdays, "the communicators." you can also what our programming any time at booktv.org. -- c-span.org. >> president obama says he believes gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every other couple in the u.s. he made the remarks at the democratic national committee fundraiser. this was the first official fundraiser for gay supporters. it was held just before new york state legalized gay marriage. this is about 35 minutes. >> a round of applause is deserved for that voice of god. kind of creepy. ladies and gentlemen, the show will begin shortly. please remain in your seats. she scare

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we will have live coverage starting at 10:00 eastern on c-span. we want to share with you as we have been doing all weekend on both c-span 2's book tv and american history of c-span 3 our look at savannah, georgia. we have what we call a local content vehicle trampling around the country -- traveling around the country and we look at sites and sounds and history and we want to feature savannah. michelle hunter is the contract coordinator for the city talking about the jim crowe era and a document that is moving through city hall called ebb and flow. here is part of what we captured on that. >> savannah is very much like other cities in that it is always trying to brand itself. it is trying to understand what it is and as a community. what it means to be a citizen here. it is not unlike in chicago people in chicago want to find out what is unique about chicago and these projects really try to map what is unique about savannah, the citizens, seminal events, things that have shaped its development. over the past couple of years we have interviewed six

i built on that. c-span: why would this happen in "the weekly standard" and we ask why are we doing this on booknotes. >> guest: i haven't figured out why they did it because it really is where's the beef is what most people said after raising that experts say. the author of the peace centiliter 20 minutes would give character, and i have to say that when this came out shortly after it hit the stands it was revealed that this character had promoted himself as tennessee. well, the tennessee ranch center a letter and would sue her if she would promote herself because she had not been so that does speak to her c-span: tuna how many times you've been interviewed the last two or three years? >> guest: over 100 times, never at list laing, must say on air. c-span: what do you think of the media looking at it from the other side? >> guest: amine step p inaccuracies. there are interviewers who taped interviews with me and i can tell when they haven't listened to the tape because there simply to the cruiser to locatio

eastern on c-span. in our series of reviews -- and our series of interviews with republican candidates for president continues tomorrow night with ron paul. "wrote to the white house" tomorrow night on c-span. >> this weekend, "book tv" and "american history tv" look at life in savannah, georgia. also, a tour of urban slavery sites with civil wars of amoco offer bonn had good-walker. explore and develop and civil war savannah. c-span cozy local content vehicles in savannah, ga., this weekend on c-span3. >> next, the chairman of the federal deposit insurance corp. sheila bear giving a speech before she steps down next month. she criticized financial industry leaders for supporting "short-term policies that would overturn the dodd-frank and has regulatory law." this is about an hour. [applause] >> that was a very nice introduction. i spoke recently to my elementary school daughter's principal. we got to talking about banks and interest rates and all the things they like to ask about. and i asked if they ha

on the air. st. louis. hi, donna. caller: i enjoy watching c-span, and i trust the info i get because i am getting it from the horse's mouth. my cable company kept c-span1, it was on the house, but it left the senate channeled it 91, 97, i don't think most people know where it is any more. if you could do something with my local cable company, that would be nice. host: what channel is c-span2 on? caller: the move it to 997 -- i accidently found it myself. i get the basic cable from 1 to 100, and they moved c-span2 way up to 997, and i doubt that eianybody sees it anymore, and that is the senate and on the one i'd like to watch the most. host: that is booktv, too. caller: i don't know why they moved it so far down the numbers. host: to you think there's a downside to having the senate on tv? caller: absolutely not. i watched the senate the most. host: the first senator to speak in 1986 was also the first representative to speak when the house opened its proceedings in 1979, representative al gore, june 2, 1986, senator al gore. >> today marks the fir

we have >> each week the house of commons is in session, we air prime minister's questions live on c-span 2 at 7:00 a.m. eastern, and again on c-span at 9:00 p.m. eastern. you can find more on our website. next, an interview with republican presidential candidate, texas congressman ron paul. then they looked at the 2012 republican presidential candidates. after that, a joint hearing on the future of u.s. manufacturing. >> today, a book tv and american history tv looked at literary life in savannah georgia, with a literary events on c-span to. this includes a conversation with plenary -- a conversation about flannery o'connor, "midnight in the garden of good and evil," and a tour of civil war sites in savannah, georgia. trouble with us as we visit the site of a plantation, and explore it antebellum with a historian. >> this week on "road to the white house," our series of interviews with gop presidential candidates continues with texas republican ron paul. he talks about his previous presidential bids, monetary policy, the federal reserve, abortion, and the republican party. he assesses th

eastern here on c-span. here is presidential candidate newt gingrich at the republican leadership conference last night in new orleans. this is 40 minutes. >> i want to cut through the challenge we have over the next 80 months. i want to ask some of these questions. how many of you think america is currently on the wrong track? raise your hand if you agree. virtually all of you, right? how many of you believe that washington will fight very hard against to getting back on the right track? think about this. this is the key question about the 2012 campaign. i want to make his case to you. it is very important to defeat president obama but that is not enough. we need to pick up 12 u.s. senate seats -- [applause] and we need to pick up 30-40 seats in the u.s. house -- [applause] and we need to strengthen our position with state legislators and governors and local city councils and county commissions because if we are going to implement the 10th amendment and return power back home, we'd better make sure we have

you can listen to it on c-span radio. e president is in raleigh, n.c., to meet with his jobs counsel for proposals on job creation. the chairman of the jobs council has that op-ed today. co-written by him and the american express ceo. "how we are meeting the job creation challenge" is the headline. host: every city in america has a commercial building that can be made more efficient, both private and public sectors. on the screen as you just saw, highlights from the job council as the talk about ideas in job creation being discussed in raleigh, north carolina. for the next 40 minutes or so we wanted to take a look at the ideas they have come up with and we want your thoughts on them maybe it is boosting travel and tourism. tell us what you would add to the list or things that you disagree with. here is how you can do so as to comment on these proposals. republicans, 202-624-1115. democrats, 202-624-1111. independents, 202-624-0760. they have called for training workers for today's open jobs, a streamlining of the permittin

a weekend of politics here on c- span. c-span2, an american history on c-span 3. if you can check it out on c- span.org. thank you for joining us. enjoy the rest of your day and have a great weekend. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the 2011 republican leadership conference is under way in new orleans, today with president candidates michelle bachmann, ron paul, rick santorum and herman cain and other speakers include haley barbour of mississippi and louisiana's bobby jindal. saturday, a presidential candidate buddy roemer, texas gov. rick perry and marsha blackburn of tennessee and george p. bush and rnc chairman reince priebus. newt gingrich spoke last night and you can watch it now on c- span 3. for more information you can go to c-span.org and what many of the events we cover this weekend also in our video library. >> c-span launched a new easy- to-navigate web site for politics and the presidential race. information on the candidates, twitter feeds and facebook updates and links

live house coverage is here on c-span. coming up this hour, we will talk with a california congressman about his recent trip to the middle east and get his perspective on the u.s. military involvement in libya. military involvement in libya.

eastern here on c-span. and we'll also have live coverage of the conference during the day on c-span2. the president will be in toledo, ohio, today to talk about the auto industry. the president will tour the chrysler group's toledo supplier park and meet with plant workers. we'll have live coverage at 1:00 eastern on c-span3. >> today marks the first time when our legislative branch in its entirety will appear on that medium of communication through which most americans get their information about what our government and our country does. >> several times today this has been referred to as an historic occasion. whether or not it will be an historic occasion is, i think, a subject for the judgment of history. a thaw week marks 25 years of televised coverage of the u.s. senate. on that first day in 1986, c-span2 was carrying a little more than 6.5 million homes. today it's available in over 89 million homes. watch that first day or any of the 21,000 hours of senate coverage online at the c-span video library.

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c-span: and what year again? >> guest: i think it was--was it '98? one of my colleagues was there, john noble wilford of the new york times. c-span: a writer for the new york times. >> guest: yeah. everybody went. i mean, everybody went there. c-span: and they're all standing there, as they're about to try to take a sample. >> guest: well, they couldn't get near the grave... c-span: they couldn't. >> guest: ... because they said, 'what if there's a virus?' c-span: oh. >> guest: they were all sort of herded off in the distance. and they started to dig into this grave site, and she--every day, she would issue a press release. and what happened was it turned out the ground wasn't frozen. they had done elaborate radar work ahead of time, and they said, 'the ground is frozen. it's permafrost. and we see the--we see the bodies, and it's going to be fine.' and when they started to dig, they found out that the miners were buried above the permafrost in ground that was not frozen. so she said--she issued a press release that said, 'we have succeeded. we've gotten

>>c-span: how did you get on the national lampoon? >> guest: the harvard lampoon. >>c-span: i am sorry. [laughter] >> guest: you go out and the competition goes on for a number of weeks and you write each week stories are essays and i wrote poetry. >>c-span: doesn't have to be funny? >> guest: i hope it is i was elected then we had a week in which you are humiliated which is their form of fraternities and we were told we had to where we are a black suit for one week with the black eye patch i almost got hit by a car crossing the street and we were called phools you had to go through a humiliating few days such a great institution such as john updike but nevertheless lock all of the gates of 19 gates just before a night class is were really so big crowds are gathered and then for four years i was editor of the harvard lampoon which culminated just before i graduated, we had done a parity of the saturday review. it was a lovely literary magazine and the editors of psat and liked a lot. they got in touch with us and said lourdes you do a parody of us it as the july iss

on social media networking sites. view our content anytime at the c-span video library. we take you on the road with our digital content vehicle. it is washington your way. the c-span networks -- now available in more than 100 million homes, created by cable, provided as a public service. >> a bill that would you -- raise the u.s. debt limit by $four point to a trillion failed on tuesday. 318 opposed. now look at house debate on the issue. this is about an hour. >> the president ignored the advice and provided no plan to rein in deficits and debt. last month, standard and poured down credit the outlook for the u.s. credit rating because washington appeared to have no plan to rein in a budget deficit and debt. in recent weeks, many congressional democrats were preparing the right when over 100 of them called for an unconditional increase in the u.s. debt limit. they signed a letter calling on their colleagues to establish " the democratic position" in favor of a clean extension of the debt ceiling, something that secretary geithner has also repeatedly called for. it is tim

live coverage today and throughout the weekend here on c-span. if we want to begin with looking back at the role that defense secretary bob gates has had. our numbers are on the screen. let's look at some of the headlines on this friday morning, beginning with the "* piggee euan." newt gingrich -- with the times picayune. newt gingrich speech fires of car. and another headline that of giving a lot of attention is from los angeles. this is the veto by gov. jerry brown. this is the budget with dinner -- disagreements. the headline from the "l.a. times" brown vetoed dismays. and this one from "time" -- did bob gates service masters to well? and today from the "new york times" this have line stresses the importance of ties with pakistan. our numbers are on the screen. our first call is from detroit. jesse is on the phone. good morning. what impact did bob gates have on his job? good morning, jesse. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i am a listener for years and years. i think the secretary of defense is a great experience leader, who has giv

on c-span. that's our discussion regarding your message to the president and -- back to our discussion regarding your message to the president and congress. sharon, you are on the washington journal. caller: my message is to all your southern white republicans. you had 10 years of the bush administration, you had it 10 years of his policies. you had 10 years of not only his tax cuts, the republican way. what did we get? we got a housing prices and two wars off the books -- we got the housing crisis. and we got two wars of the books. they want people to die while they profiteer off of the tax dollars. where have you been sitting, southern white republicans? how did you benefit? host: ken in cincinnati, ohio. caller: i host a talk show in cincinnati. one thing i notice is we have major class warfare. my message would be to end the class warfare -- from the president on down. and you cannot raise enough taxes to pay for the wild spending. if you were to compare $1.20 trillion to $20 billion, it is l

watch it here on c-span. they'll come back at 2:00 p.m. eastern. commerce secretary nominee, john bryson, is going before the senate commerce committee. that will be on c-span3. just a short while ago the white house announced that president obama will be making a speech to the nation about the reduction enforces of the surge forces in afghanistan. the associated press says that the president -- a senior defense official says the withdrawal announcement will include 10,000 troops by the end of this year. meanwhile, cnn reports that the president is expected to announce that 30,000 u.s. surge forces will be fully withdrawn from afghanistan by the end of 2012. that's according to an administration official speaking to cnn. that speech tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern. we'll have live coverage on the we'll have live coverage on the c-span networks.

watch live senate coverage on c- span 2. -span 3, several of president obama's ambassador nominations will testify before the senate foreign relations committee. they include m paterson and cu is fortter and kuwait. live coverage is under way at 10:00 eastern. "washington journal" is next and we will take your phone calls and then republican presidential hopeful john huntsman makes his official presidential announcement at liberty state park in new jersey with live coverage at 10:00 eastern. the houses back in at noon, eastern and legislative work starts at 2:00. they will begin work on 2012 defense spending. live house coverage is here on c-span. >> i have the honor of representing the great people of the state of florida and i am here in the senate. today as the for the first time on this floor on their behalf. >> all 13 freshmen senators have given their speeches on the senate floor. see them at the congressional chronicle, a resource on your elected officials. keep up-to-date c-span.org/ congress. >> coming up this hour,

we will have live coverage, by the way, on the c-span networks including c-span.org and c-span radio. check it all out on our new page for politics, c- span.org/campaign2012. bill has this point from the twitter page. you can weigh in on the conversation twitter.com/c- spanwj or send us an e-mail. we will go next two when in detroit, democrats' line. good morning. caller: good morning. what i was interested in was you always cover the republican conventions, all of them. i wanted to know did you cover the democratic convention that was going on. is it on line? or what? i don't understand why you don't cover all of the democratic conventions. host:? netroots? we covered that as well. it is always available on our website, c-span.org. caller: over the weekend you had all republicans, no democratic convention coverage. host: we did cover netroots. i was not here over the weekend so i do not know exactly when we aired it but we were covering it. it will be airing i promise you that. new brunswick, new jersey. good morning. go ahead. caller: i want to talk specifically about the debt and t

thank you very much for joining us here on c-span. guest: great to be here. st: and the senate set to vote on the swipe fee cap. and from "time" magazine it's money land blog. senator john tester writing the montana democrat who was kicked montana democrat who was kicked off the floor of lobbying presenting his own proposal. you can read more by logging on to time.com. want to hear from you as the senate takes i this up today. live coverage on the debate. the vote at 2:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon. joe is joining us from huntsville, alabama. good morning. independent line. caller: i'm calling because i think the debit card swipe fees will change the way people do business in general. debit cards are so quickly becoming the new currency that the more fees there are, the more of problem it will cause for commerce. people who will take a 40-cent coupon will wait to use a debit card. host: when millions of americans are out of work, it is crazy for congress to pave the way for higher costs to consumers and retailers and cut off an avenue for job creation. that i

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speaker on c-span q&a. you can down on one of our signature interview programs online at c-span.org/podcasts. and eileen shanahan talks about reporting this weekend on "american history" television. we will also look at american artifacts, the museum resource center and the history of overflowing fidel castro. "washington journal" continues. host: we are talking with the executive to rector of the faith coalition wrapping up his weekend conference here in washington, d.c. the fifth tryout for presidential hopefuls. >> they needed to come out and speak to the core audience. i think they had an opportunity to make their case in unique and different ways. some more new candidates. i think we are looking forward to continue to meet with them. we will continue to have canada it forms in florida, south carolina. they will have multiple opportunities to reach out during the primary process. a majority of the primary states. t party voters will know this is the corps base that everyone has to have to win the nominat

we will have live coverage here on c-span. pan2 today, the house oversight committee on national security is holding a hearing on venezuela and that will be alive today on c-span3 beginning at 9:00 eastern. we hope to have technical difficulties result surely here on c-span. -- resolved shortly here on c- span. >> again, we are having some technical difficulties this morning with our "washington journal" program this morning. we have been talking to congressman mcgovern. schedule later this hour, tom cole. the only business in the house is a couple of resolutions dealing with libya expected to get underway at 9:00 a.m. eastern. once they finish their work today, the house is done for through the july 4 week. the senate is in or will be back in it next week. today, a house subcommittee looking at of venezuela and the house subcommittee looking at mutual funds at 9:30 on c-span3. president obama today is headed to carnegie-mellon university in pittsburgh. he will be delivering a speech and talking about manufacturing. we will hav

eastern on c-span. [no audio] host: regular followers of telecommunications policy were recognized our guests on "the communicators". blair levin, former broadband plan executive director, now with the aspen institute. thank you for coming back. also joining us this eliza krigman of politico. it has been about a year since the national broadband plan was introduced. give us your assessment of the past year and its progress . guest: i think you have to understand what the plan was. it was an agenda-setting and target clarifying device. it was supposed to said, here is the things we need to do over the next few years. and here are targets we need to shoot for or shoot at, some concrete proposals to move us toward action. it has been a very successful year. every debate that is going on, with this -- the exception of debates about mergers, our debates that are about how we accomplish the goals of the broadband plan. in terms of agenda setting, it did prove to be a very unifying and consensus kind of docume

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eastern here on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] --2011. on to attack washington journal", -- on "washington journal" we will speak with erik telford. it begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate web site. you can see the latest events from the campaign trail, twitter feet and campaign updates. visit us at c-span dot org/cam paign2012. we want to focus on the succession of the ninth congressional district leader. is david wasserman. but we appreciate your time on c-span. thanks caller: for having me -- guest: thanks for having me. host: i know it is early, but what names have been mentioned to replace him? in guest: amazingly enough, this will be the third special luncheon in new york state in recent years. to we have had two sex scandals that have already created a special alexians in republican leaning seats in -- specialty elections in republican-leaning seats in upstate.

those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-spanedward cox talks about president richard nixon. get the complete weekend schedule and at cspan.org/history. >> this weekend on cspan2 tv. the government concealed the true magnitude of terrace concealment in the u.s.. matthew algeo recalls of the president's secret surgery. sign up for booktv alerts to receive updates in your in box. washington journal continues. host: president obama announced that the afghanistan mission would and by 2014. 2000 troops out by the end of this year and another 23,000 troops out by the end of 2012. we want to get your reaction to what you heard this morning and president obama's speech was night. we will put the numbers up on the screen. we will begin with a call from afghanistan war veteran, john in columbus, ohio. good morning. caller: hello. host: tell us about your service and your opinion of president obama's speech last night. caller: my service in afghanistan were short. i was wounded. i just want to say the american troops will do anything that t

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. >> monday on c-span, are road to the white house coverage continues. >> this is not unprecedented in the sense of loss of well controlled and nearly led to blow up. this is the only actual blow up your the president's commission found there were 79 instances of loss of well control between 2006. >> the idea this is a unique event -- and something like that is misleading. >> it was unique in terms of the fact that the well totally blew, but in terms of the problems that arise in deep water, with high pressures, no. it is not so far of the norm. >> one of the things the obama administration did that some might view as prudent after such high magnitude accident was a temporary moratorium on an additional permitting until we had our arms around the causes and prevention. in and reading some signs, we see -- one would have the impression that moratorium has led to a plummet in domestic production. >> no. production was never stop or delay occurred >> domestic oil production is higher than that of the bush administration. >> as of the end of 2010, that is exactly right. >> permits to drill

. >> on c-span's "q&a." >> chief justice john roberts was the featured speaker at the court of appeals annual conference. he began on the case load and later took questions on his work and possibilities of the cameras in the courts. this runs about 50 minutes. >> good morning, i'm joe goodwin. district judge here in the southern virginia district. i trust you're having a wonderful and informative conference. we're going to begin this session with what the program calls an informal conversation with the chief justice. i ask judge wil kinson about that. and he said, informal? informal in the sense that he and the chief justice would be sitting in wing backed chairs in dark suits before a live audience of about 1,000 people being televised on c-span. >> it is my high honor and distinct pleasure to introduce the chief justice of the united states the honorable john roberts jr. and -- credit >> good morning. good morning. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much. thank you for getting up so early today. i am delighted to be here. one of the great privileges of being th

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-- the latest on c- span from the campaign trail. visit us at c-span.org/2012. >> remarks from the house ways and means committee chairman on with the congress will take on the u.s. tax code before next year's election. it is part of the chief officers network conference. this is a little over one hour. >> secretary geithner has taken some time out from his trouble- free existence to join us. i noted the other day that commencement exercises happened at dartmouth. you would think they could have invited such a distinguished alumnus as you to be the commencement speaker. instead, they invited conan o'brien. he described a visiting dartmouth -- you are going up on friday to conduct a seminar at dartmouth. i will tell you what he said about dartmouth when you were student debt. he said dartmouth was a different place back then. after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this beautiful campus. no dormitories had been built yet. i stayed with a family of fur traders. it's snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there --

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you canner that live on c-span radio or watch it on c-span. secretary robert gates is responding to questions from marines in afghanistan. he says they won't be able to opt out of their enlistment just because they disagree with the government decision to end a ban on gays serving openly in the military. congress voted in december to reveal the so-called don't ask, don't tell policy. the new policy will not go into force until 60 days after the president, defense secretary, and nation's top uniform military officers certify that it can be implemented without affecting military readiness. and more violence today in iraq. the u.s. military says at least three rockets hit an iraqi base in eastern baghdad this morning, killing five american troops. the deaths raise to 4,459 the number of american service members who have died in iraq. and today is the anniversary of d-day, the landings in normandy and some world war ii veterans are commemorating the day in normandy. it's just one of several events taking place along that coast. today marks 6 years

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we are going to be following his announcement today at 11:00 on c-span. an get more affirmation on the our website at c-span.org. he will make his official presidential announcement later on today. looking at more political stories. the "question imposed" looks at michelle bachman and sarah palin. -- washington post" looks at michele bachman and sarah palin . other stories in politic news that sarah palin was on fox news yesterday. in the utah, there may be a bid for the seat of orrin hatch. that story coming to us from the "washington times." what should businesses to when it comes to the workplace and getting prospective employees ready? should they boost skills and be in the education system? let's go to south carolina, where mary joins us on the democratic line. caller: what they do here in our school district is they call it chatelin. the students get a chance to go to different jobs -- chatelin. shadowing. the students get a chance to go to different jobs to see how they work. they can come back to class, and each student discusses what they learned

on c-span 2 at 9:30 eastern, the house oversight committee holds a hearing on the recovery from last year's gulf oil spill. the mississippi governor and local officials will testify. on c-span 3, the house energy subcommittee looks into data privacy and security of information stored on line. live coverage begins at 10:00 eastern. here on c-" is next live with ye calls. followed

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