taken book-tv and american history tv on the road from tampa to savanna, charleston to notszville, birming ham and baton rouge, and last month in oklahoma city. the lcd crews have visited the places that define a city's heritage and literary life. june 2nd and 3rd, watch for our special programming from wichita, kansas, on book-tv and american history tv on c-span2 and c-span3. >>> the senate armed services committee recently held a hearing on how u.s. military readiness could be affected by defense budget cuts agreed to by lawmaker as part of the deal to work on the debt. the cuts, known as sequester, would kick in next year. this is about an hour and 40 minutes. >> the readiness subcommittee of the senate armed services committee will come to order. and i will have brief opening remarks. welcome to our important witnesses today. thank you all four of you for taking time from what i know are heavy demands on your time to spend some time visiting with us this morning about the overall holistic readiness of our military. and we look forward to your testimony. we are pleased to be joined by

the president of georgetown is standing birm.ry strong support of sandra fluke when that controversy emerged that kathleen sebelius should be the commencement speaker. again, engaging on this whole question of contraception and what will women should have access to. >> right, and this whole question about the war on women and women at the center of the campaign is not going away. you know, it depends on which way you frame it. some people are framing it as reproductive freedom and some as religious freedom. the white house wants women's votes. the obama campaign is focused on women. we saw the barnard speech monday, "the view" on monday, the life of julia be the week before. i think this whole discussion cuts both ways because in some ways are you going to a yinnate people who would be your natural allies but women stay at the center of the discussion. >> women stay at the center of the discussion here at home, this whole contraceptive debate, 30 or more states now rolling back contraceptive rights. at the same time, you have foc

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