here to explain why that is is elizabeth foley.institute for justice a group that fights stupid rules. explain this one. >> thank you. >> one of the things we do at the institution for justice time and time again is fight crazy laws like this that interfere with your constitutional right to pursue a lawful occupation which most people don't even know you have that constitutional right but you do. here in florida, we have been in the local drugstore and you can g go in and buy the produc. the ones with the trays and the fancier more expensive one with the little light that you use. anybody can buy that. i have an 11-year-old daughter and she can walk into the walgreen's and buy this product and take it home and put it on her own teeth and my teeth, your teeth, her friend's teeth. perfectly legal. >> let's say i'm a little dumb and i want her to help me and ile pay her ten bucks. >> the florida dental board has taken the position anybody other than a licensed dentist who assists or instructs any one in applying a teeth whitening prod

i'm delighted to introduce you to our last author of this two days, elizabeth price-foley, who has writtenook on the tea party, "tea party: three principles." you make the point that the tea party is not a party, it is a movement. what's the distinction that's worth knowing about? >> guest: well, yeah. it's not the party in the sense that it has no interest in anointing some sort of central leader. it really is a movement that's defined by what i talk about in the book, three very clear, very old constitutional principles. so you've noticed that the tea party, you know, through the november 2010 elections and continuing to today has been sort of ruthless about throwing its support behind candidates who espouse these principles, and they don't really care much whether those candidates have an r or d after their name, and they certainly don't seem to care that they might be well-entrenched, well-funded incumbent republicans. all they care about is getting their principles embraced by our politicians. >> host: and, in fact, the -- you say the media makes a mistake by thinking that the tea par

. >> host: the book we talk about, elizabeth foley's book is "the tea party: three principles" available wherever you buy your books. thank you so much for wrapping up our coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. and for being with us this weekend. great to be in los angeles for two days every year. if you miss coverage, panels and authors are all available on the c-span video library. have a good rest of your day. >> up next, guy gugliotta recounts the social and political landscape of the time. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thank you are coming out today. my name is donald cannon, vice president of the u.s. capitol historical society, where i oversee our scholarship and educational programs. my pleasure to welcome you to today's brownbag book lecture. i would like to invite you back again on thursday when we will have our second mark brown bag lecture featuring a book is joseph wilkins, an historical novel. the first time at a book discussion of a historical novel. it is about speaker thomas bracken read and a contentious 51st congress. if

. >> host: the book we talk about, elizabeth foley's book is "the tea party: three principles" available wherever you buy your books. thank you so much for wrapping up our coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. and for being with us this weekend. great to be in los angeles for two days every year. if you miss >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening this month. >> we'd like to hear from. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up next on booktv, nikki haley, recounts her life and political cricket she was elected south carolina's first female governor in 2010. governor haley is the daughter of sikh parents who immigrated to the u.s. and settled in bamberg, south carolina, describes her childhood and the prejudice her family faced. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you, arthur, and it's a privilege to be here. i noted that at about this time yesterday you were on the view be

>> joining us right now to weigh in is elizabeth price foley, professor of constitutional law at floridanational university and author of tea party, three principles. good morning to you, elizabeth. >> good morning to you both. this boondoggle, another 2% tax. just what we need! as everything is just going along so well. >> it reminds me of alice in wond wonderland when i read this report. it would be nice if everything made sense for a change. here they are, trying to tax every single transaction that we've had with health care providers so every time you see the doctors, every time you fill a prescription, you pay this tax. this isn't going to do nothing to raise the cost of health care. you raise the cost of health care, it decreases access to health care. exact opposite of what they're trying to accomplish. >> is this something that the lawmakers didn't bother to read before they passed the bill or something that was a result of it after it was passed? >> well, you know, i mean, this isn't law yet. this is just an expert report from the institute, and i've been win of those experts a