dr. ron paul. we heard discussion back-and-forth about liberty and that sort of thing on the two parties but i think dr. paul kneal did in terms of the linchpin that's caused so many problems in the federal reserve system. it is a wonderful book, very well written, very down-to-earth and his humanity comes through. i would highly recommend it and the fed to everyone a merry christmas to you and all the listeners. >> host: and we covered congressmen ron paul talking about his book at ebook event this year on book tv. here is a look. scaap next federal reserve chairman i had some confrontations with and discussion with was alan greenspan and i tell the story about the time i think most of you here in this audience would know the story that alan greenspan of course was a supporter of and friend of ayn rand and was in their group of people but in the 1960's he approached this fantastic article about how bad that debt was and how bad the federal central bank was and we confiscated wealth by printing mone

dr. ron paul. and these are the people who understood and knew that the mass we are in was coming before it actually had us. they also fall -- dr. thomas e. woods literally breaks out of a very good case and a case of how government created this mess, including the federal reserve, which allowed all of this to occur. >> host: jeff, thank you for the input. richard on our democrat fine. your favorite book of 2009 nonfiction? >> caller: thank you for c-span. richard dawkins, the raiders joiners. the evidence for evolution. i'm just amazed that people are calling and and citing the bible as a nonfiction book. thank you. >> host: thank you for your call. a look at richard dawkins book. one of the many books recovered, the invention of air earlier this year and that steven johnson's book. here's a look at his comments in the book reading. >> i stumbled across this story about joseph priestley and i knew a little bit about briefly. like most people i think i'd heard about him is the guy who i discovered

dr. ron paul in stopping the next automatic pay raise from taking effect by supporting h.r. 4255, the stop automatic pay raise for members of congress. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maine rise? ms. pingree: madam speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 976, resolution providing for consideration of the senate amendment to the bill h.r. 3326, making appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2010, and for other purposes. for consideration of the joint resolution, house joint resolution 64, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2010 and for other purposes. for consideration of the bill h.r. 4314, to permit continued financing of government operations for consideration of the senate amendment to the bill h.r. 2847, making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice and science and

dr. fauci, f thank you for being with us today. >> guest: great pleasure. thank you. >>> congressman ron paul recently spoke in valley forge pennsylvania about his book, "end the fed" to be arguing that the federal reserve should be abolished and monetary policy should be based on the gold standard. dr. paul is on a very chairman of the campaign for liberty which posted this hour-long event. >> i appreciate your much you coming this morning and talking about a subject i've been talking about a long time to read a lot of people ask when and how did i get the title for the book and i do tell a little bit about how that happened. i really didn't create the title. it came to us naturally because it was during the campaign that on a college campus i believe it was that an arbor, university of michigan all of a sudden the students started chanting and was to my pleasant surprise they kept saying "end the fed." as it was a spontaneous outburst and gave me the idea maybe we could follow up with a book. but to me it is a very important subject because the significance of it and it's becoming more and

congressman ron paul recently spoke in valley forge pennsylvania about his book "end the fed" arguing the federal reserve should be abolished and monetary policy should be based on the gold standard. dr. paul is hon their chairman which hosted the hour-long event. >> appreciate you very much you coming this morning. and talk about a subject that i've been talking about for a long time. a lot of people ask when and how did i get the title for the book. and i do tell a little bit how that happened. i really didn't create the title. it came to us naturally. it was during the campaign on the college campus in ann arbor. all the sudden the students started chanting. they kept saying end the fed. it was a spontaneous outburst. it gave me the idea that maybe we could follow up with a book. but it to me is a very important subject. because of the significance of it. it's becoming more important all the time. now the book was written with the intent of explaining to my best ability the role of the federal reserve, and our financial system. but there's a lot more to it than just that. the bottom line really becomes the nature of money itself. and the book is sort of in certain -- broken down i