morning at 8:45 eastern, for an all day event on the end of the civil war speakers include harold holzer caroline janney, james mcfear condition and barbara gannon. sunday at 8 and 10 p.m. the 150th anniversary of president lincoln's assassination with the ceremony at lincoln's cottage. recreations from ford's theater and we'll take a tour of peterson house where the president died. get our complete schedule at c-span.org. >>> iraq's ambassador to the u.s. spoke at the middle east institute in washington recently about the political security and economic challenges facing his country. after a brief introduction he spoke and took questions for almost 90 minutes. >> thank you. thank you. [ speaking a foreign language ] >>> good afternoon. my name is daniel serwer, a professor here at johns hopkins as well as a scholar at the middle east institute so it's a particular pleasure for me to welcome ambassador luqmaan filey and a co-professor here to this session on the future of iraq. we are meeting at a time of particular sensitivity for a country that many of us have been engaged with one way or another anot

speakers include, harold holzer. caroline janney, james mack fear son. 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. eastern, 150th anniversary of president lincoln's assassination, with ceremony at lincoln's cottage re-creations of ford's theater and tour of the peterson house where the president died. our complete schedule is at c-span.org. >>> education secretary arne duncan testified on his department's 2016 budget and discussed the impact of sequestration on the classroom with members of a senate appropriations subcommittee. this is an hour and who minutes. -- 40 minutes. >> appropriation of subcommittee on education and services will come to order. glad to have certainly secretary duncan with us today. and mr. secretary, thank you for being here and thank you for the conversations we've had prior to this hearing today. we look forward to working with you. one of the long-term commitments to the national government, even before it was the government under the constitution was to do things to encourage education. i think the land ordinance of 1785, set aside a section in all developed territory