frank norris of nebraska, senator, was looking to help improve the quality of life in the tennessee river valley to bring flood control to generate some electrical power and to improve the lives of the people living in the tennessee river valley one of the poorest regions at the end of the 1920s and it's a serious attempt at remaking the social and economic lives of the people living in the river valley. >> this weekend on book tv and american history tv, a look at the history and literary life of chattanooga tennessee. >> president obama outlined changes friday to some of the government's surveillance programs. specifically both phone and data record collection. he also spoke about monitoring communications of leaders and u.s. allies. his remarks are about 45 minutes. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you so much. please, have a seat. at the dawn of our public, a small secret surveillance committee born out of the sons of liberty was established in boston. the group's members included paul revere. they would patrol the streets at night, reporting any signs that the british were pr

frank norris of nebraska, a senator was looking to help improve the quality of life in the tennesseeriver valley, to bring flood control, to generate electrical power and improve the lives of the people living in the tennessee river valley. one of the poorest regions of the country at the end of the 1920's and it was a serious attempt of making the social and economic lives of the people. >> this weekend on book tv and american history tv, a look at the history and literary life of chattanooga, tennessee. today at noon on c-span 2 and tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. on c-span 3. >> treasury secretary jack lew spoke thursday about the health of the u.s. economy. his remarks came before president obama signed the $1.1 trillion deal funding the government through september of this year. this is 45 minutes. >> welcome everybody. we're going to go a few minutes later than planned and we'll have a good opportunity for a robust question and answer session so please be thinking of some robust questions as we go along in your conversation this morning. just a reminder this is on the record. when you as

frank norris of nebraska was looking to help improve the quality of live in the tennessee river valley, to bring flood control and generate electrical power and to improve the lives of the people living in the tennessee river valley. it was one of the poorest regions in the country at the end of the 1920's and it was a serious attempt at remaking the social and economic lives of the people living in the river valley from knoxville to the ohio river. >> this weekend on book tv a ook at the history and life of chootnoogga, tennessee. -- chattanooga, tennessee. >> treasury secretary jack lew stressed congress need to act on the debt ceiling ahead of february 7 this. is 45 minutes. >> welcome everybody. we're going to go a few minutes later than planned and we'll have a good opportunity for a robust question and answer session so please be thinking of some robust questions as we go along in your conversation this morning. just a reminder this is on the record. when you ask your questions, i'll ask you to identify yourself. if you can put your ringers off on your cell phones and put it on s

frank norris of nebraska, senator was looking to help improve the quality of life and the tennessee riverley to bring flood control to generation electrical power, and to improve the lives of the people living in the tennessee river valley. it's one of the poorest regions in the country at the end of the 1920s. and a serious attempt at remaining the social and economic lives of the people living in the river valley from knoxville to the ohio river. >>> this weekend on booktv and american history tv a look at the history and literary life of chattanooga, tennessee. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee on homeland security will come order. the democratic national committee meeting to exam the danger to the threat of extremism. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. today the president's rhetoric on the threat of al qaeda and the franchises are in stark contrast to the reality we are witnessing in the middle east and northern africa. whether or not the down playing of the spread of these islamic extremist groups and the real threat they pose, which are

frank norris of nebraska, senator, was looking to help improve the quality of life in the tennessee rivery, to bring flood control to generate some electrical power and improve the lives of the people living in the tennessee river valley. it is one of the poorest regions of the valley at the end of the 1920s. remakingus attempt at the social and economic lives of the people living in the river valley. chattanooga had been struggling with flooding problems. this is a town that had become the center of the national railroad network in the 1850s. 1940,this dam goes in in the city experienced massive flooding. be sure to tune in on c-span three at 5:00 this afternoon. you can catch all of this and you can check out all of our coverage of chattanooga, tennessee on c-span three and c- span two and online anytime at www.c-span.org/local content. eric washington of " the hill newspaper" host: you are really looking at these numbers, the 1.1 trillion dollar spending plan that was passed by the house and later the senate last week, signed by the president late friday. walk us through this. what is