institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> this week: "q&a," major- general marsha anderson discusses their rank as the highest ranking female african- american general in the united states army. >> major general marsha anderson, marcia, you were shot? >> i was kind of a book warm in school and was much happier reading -- you were shy? i hated to be called on in class. i knew the answer, but i was not the one to be popping up to answer the teacher, and unfortunately, when you are one of the smartest kids in the class, and the teacher wants someone to answer, you get called on, but my palms were always sweaty. i would get physically ill when i had to answer questions in class or stand up and read a book report. of course, over time, that has changed, and the military is a big part of the reason that changed it is you are compelled to give motivational talks to soldiers, and you have to put that all aside and either at some point learn how to do it or kind of gut your way through it. >> you did a speech that i want to run 30 seconds of that share issue in your professional uni

major general marsha anderson, thank you very much for being here.he's from wisconsin so i'll say she's a green bay packers fan. >> i'll say yes to that. >> it was a little hesitant. good to know, i'm a vikings fan and the packers are doing way better this year. major general, great to see you. >> thank you very much. >> coming up on the show, rick perry channelling tim tebow? >> let me tell you, i hope i am the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. >> that joke worked but some of the other candidate, their jokes, did they fall flat? hear for yourself when we come back and speaking of tim tebow, praying at school got these students suspended. but was it a fair punishment? we report, you decide. ugh, my sinus congestion, and it's your fault. instead of blaming me try advil congestion relief. often the real problem is swelling, not mucus. advil congestion relief reduces swelling due to nasal inflammation. so i can breathe. [ mucus ] advil congestion relief. and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wron

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. >> major-general marsha anderson on her career as the highest a shrinking female in the united statesunday night at 8:00 eastern and -- "ic on c-span's q 9 q&a." >> which part of the u.s. constitution is important to you? make a video documentary five to eight minutes long and tell us the part of the constitution that is important to you and why. be sure to include more than one point of view and video of c- span programming. entries are due by january 20, 2012. for all the details, go to studentcam.org. >> "washington journal" continues. >> thomas paul is the assistant director of financial practices and is here to talk to us about that collection practices. debt collectors -- what they can and cannot do when calling those who are behind in their financial obligations. the ftc says in 2010, they received over 140,000 consumer complaints about that collectors. welcome to the program. what seems to be driving up the number of complaints against debt collectors? is it that the debt collectors are more aggressive in what they are doing for that more people are, in fact, in that? >> -- in

. >> major-general marsha anderson, the highest-ranking female african-american in the u.s. army.onight, on a "q&a." >> this week, on "prime minister's questions," david cameron discussed -- discusses safeguarding the u.k. interests while protecting brussels. they are a member of the european union, though not the euro zone. tonight, o'clock p.m. eastern, on c-span. >> the house financial committee held a hearing on tuesday to consider legislation that would prohibit members of congress from buying or selling stock based on insider information. the bill was reintroduced in the house and senate after a new story reported that members of congress are not legally bound to report profits from day trading. this portion is about one hour 10 minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. today we will examine an issue that has received a significant amount of attention in recent weeks. the american people deserve an answer to the questions about whether insider-trading laws apply to members of congress and their staff. they have the right to demand that the people elected to represent them

. >> major-general marsha anderson on her career as the highest-ranking female african- american in the united states army. >> president obama spoke to reporters at the white house today about his nominee to head the consumer financial protection bureau. his remarks came shortly after the nomination was blocked when 45 senators voted against the confirmation vote. this is 20 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. a couple of days ago, i said we were in a make-or-break moment when it comes to america's middle-class. we are in a country where everyone stands for themselves or we create a country where everybody does their fair share, everybody has a fair chance, and we ensure that there is fair play out there. to ensure fair play, one of the things i talked about was the importance of making sure we implement financial reform, wall street reform, that was passed last year. the key component of that was to make sure we have a consumer watchdog in place who can police what mortgage brokers and pay- day lenders and other non- financial entities are able to do when it comes to consumers. this i

. >> major general marsha anderson on her life and cover as the highest-ranking female african-americanin history of the united states army. sunday night at eight eastern and specific. >> the senate banking committee held a hearing on implementing the dodd-frank financial regulation law. testifying before the committee, the deputy treasury secretary and the heads of the security and exchange commission, the commodity futures trading commission, and the fdic. south dakota senator tim johnson chaired the hearing. >> good morning. i call this hearing to order. today, this committee continues its oversight of the implementation of wall street reform act. since the last implementation hearing in july there have been significant developments regarding rural proposals, and more broadly additional concerns about the impact of the crisis in europe. we don't have to imagine to be reminded of why we passed wall street reform. the current situation in europe under those the importance of implementing new rules that enhanced supervision of large, complex financial firms, and the financial system as

. >> marsha anderson on her career as the highest ranking female african-american general -- >> dan quayle romney for president, saying he was the most likely to defeat obama in the election. last week in the state of texas, mitt romney met with george h. w. bush,. paradise valley is represented in the house by the son of the former vice president. this is just over 15 minutes. ♪ >> thank you, guys. thank you. welcome, everyone. the american dream. the american dream, you don't wake up one day and all of your dreams become reality. you have to earn less in america. that is the way our country has made such great strides, freedom, not only in freedom of speech but freedom of religion. many of us who are attracted to governor mitt romney understand that our economy is struggling. the very economy that has made us strong and kept us free must be preserved. when we look at the future of america, many of us see that this is uncertain and we have a president who is wrong on the economy. and we have so many candidates out there seeking the office of president but there is only one who has worked