we're talking about elana kagan confirmation hearings beginning on monday. fact the washington times has a two thirds after page editorial this morning. the case against kagan. mr. hillyer, it seems, before we get into the specifics, it seems that not a lot of people have paid attention to this supreme court nominees. that affair statement? >> i think that's fair with the oil spill in the gulf and everything going on in afghanistan. this just hasn't made it to the top of the news. next week, it will. the hearings start. host: case against kagan. this is what the washington times and i presume you wrote this one. this is what quin hillyer and the washington times write. kagan is too political, too leftist and too experienced and too disrespectful towards existing law to be confirmd for the u.s. supreme court. let's take that one-by-one. too political? guest: too political. the memos from both her time with chief justice marshall, and her time at the clinton white house show that she consistently is results oriented where she tries to figure out what political

this week on c-span3, we have a live confirmation hearing coverage for supreme court nominee an elana kagan. you can watch this on c- span.org, and each day we read or -- reair in its entirety on c-span2. the house-senate regulation confirmation reconvene to make changes because of a number of republican objection. you need 60 votes in the senate to move this forward which the democrats did not believe that they had. [inaudible] >> i am sorry. i thought it was on. no bill has been reported and i'll have reconsideration of the acceptance of the title involving the paid for it in the house. all those in favor of reconsideration, say aye. it is being reconsidered. the center is going to make a motion and then we will debate -- i wanted to knowledge that hard time will be satisfied. >> it will be open for debate at. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and let me thank all of our fellow conferees and those of gathered together. i appreciated very much to reopen the conference for the consideration of a new proposal on the pay bofor provision from the bill. there was a reaction to that proposal. i though

elsewhere in washington, confirmation hearings are under way for ileana kagen -- elana kagan.we plan on hearing from her sometime shortly. you can hear the cheering and live on our companion network, c-span3. a short time ago there was a briefing at the state department to outlined a strategy for making programs more effective and cost-effective. we hear first from secretary gates and then by ashton carter. >> i in the warm up act today. -- i am the warmup act today. [laughter] over the past month i have directed the pentagon to take a hard look at how the department is staffed, organize, and operated. the purpose is to significantly reduce the overhead costs and overt -- in order to modernize and create future combat capabilities. the department has set a goal of finding more than 100 billions in overhead savings over the next five fiscal years starting in 2012. and as a matter unprincipled, we must do everything possible to make every taxpayer dollar counts. some of the savings can be found by eliminating unneeded activities. the leadership has already taken action in this a

we're talking about elana kagan confirmation hearings beginning on monday. in fact the washingtonimes has a two thirds after page editorial this morning. the case against kagan. mr. hillyer, it seems, before we get into the specifics, it seems that not a lot of people have paid attention to this supreme court nominees. that affair statement? >> i think that's fair with the oil spill in the gulf and everything going on in afghanistan. this just hasn't made it to the top of the news. next week, it will. the hearings start. host: case against kagan. this is what the washington times and i presume you wrote this one. this is what quin hillyer and the washington times wre. kagan is too political, too leftist and too experienced and too disrespectful towards existing law to beconfirmd for the u.s. supreme court. let's take that one-by-one. too political? guest: too political. the memos from both her time with chief justice marshall, and he time at the clinton white house show that she consistently is results oriented where she tries to figure out what political res