ruby black, of course, cornelia's mother. and ruby black helped arrange this trip because ruby black was a correspondent for a newspaper in puerto rico. she spoke spanish, she was quite involved in puerto rican politics, and she repped arrange for -- helps arrange the trip. these other people are devoted admirers of eleanor, they covered eleanor's press concernses for women only. lorena hickok who had to leave the associated press because she was so close to eleanor, she had no more journalistic integrity or objectivity. had given the idea of having press conferences for women reporters only to give women something that the men couldn't get. ruby black was extremely involved in these press conferences, and it was because of this woman-only rule that ruby black was hired by the united press which in those days had a rule agains

cornelia orr will have the nation's report card on u.s. history. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] host: the senate has decided to cancel its for the july recess. they will stay around next week in hopes of getting progress on the stalled budget negotiations. a new deadline has been set for the first week of july. we are going to be talking about all this later on with david keating and blanche lincoln, the former arkansas senator. in our final segment this morning, we will learn more about how u.s. students are doing on american history studies. as we began this morning, we are going to look at a provocative ad we saw in usa today. they ask the question "is the american dream dead? kep good friday morning to you. you can also send us a twitter message this morning if you would like to talk about our question this morning -- is the american dream dad? twitter.com/cspanwj. this is a full-page ad in "usa today." it is

and we will be joined by at cornelia orr for the nation's report card on the nation's history. that is live everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> every saturday in july, historic supreme court or arguments on c-span radio about 14th amendment cases, including sexual orientation and gender and race discrimination. this saturday, single-sex admission policies in mississippi university for women vs. hogan. c-span ready yet, 90.1 in washington, d.c., nationwide on xm satellite radio, and one line at c-span.org. we used to not released transcripts of arguments. now we did not release them within a half hour. at least to be audio recordings were released into the term. now they are released at the end of every week. so we are moving in a particular direction. cameras present all sorts of challenges that these other areas do not. >> right now on that youtube, watched chief justice john roberts comments on cameras in the courtroom. also, american history tt, online at youtube/cspan. >> outgoing defense secretary robert gates was presented the presidential medal of freedom today, the nation

and we'll be joined by blanche lincoln and cornelia orr."washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. now administrator speaks at the national press club today. live on c-span. the last space shuttle launch is scheduled for friday, july 8. there are three days of book tv programming. eli argues corporations are undermining the original intent of the internet. her new book is demonic. endangering america. that's sunday in-depth with linda hogan. she writes about the responsibility we have for the environment. sign up for book tv alert, weekend schedules in your inbox. congress passed a law last year substantially lowering sentencing for those convicted of crack cocaine. lowering sentencing guidelines for prisoners already serving time. the commissioner estimates 12,000 inmates in federal prisons will be eligible to have their sentences reduced. this is a little more than an hour. >> the meeting is called to order. the first order is to adopt the minutes. is there a motion to do so? >> i move. >> is there a second? >>