welcome you to the united states. [ applause ] >>> this weekend on c-span's newsmakers, senator jeff bingaman from the natural resources committee he'll answer questions about the energy and environmental policy. you can watch newsmakers sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> when i first started the book, i thought, this must be an american story. this is about a country that worships the religion of self-reliance and individualism. this is a legacy of thorough and emerson. it turns out we're laggards when it comes to living alone, much more common in european nations, especially scandinavia, even more common in japan. >>> afterwards on going solo, he looks at the growing trend of american adults choosing to live alone and what that means for the country saturday night at 10:00 eastern. also this weekend on book tv sunday at 3:00, the second cousin of former secretary of state condoleezza rice, connie rice, on her work to reduce gang violence in l.a. and starting a dialogue between gang leaders and police. and at 8:15 georgetown university bonnie morris on her one-woman play and book

. >> jeff bingaman, a democrat of new mexico. two reporters to help us. publishing and darren sameulson. he is with politico pro. alana, go ahead with your first question. >> a topic that you considered holding a hearing on as the solyndra scandal was becoming a political football. are you now considering a more public investigation into the program? >> there have been a lot of investigations. i do not know if it would be appropriate for our committee to try to do another investigation. we want to know what the new report says and what conclusions have been reached and what actions demonstration is going to take. we have secretary chu testifying on his new budget proposal for the department of energy on thursday. we need to figure out what additional steps we might take. there has been a lot of politics and not a whole lot of new substantive in sight -- insight in the coverage so far. everyone wants the loan guarantee program to work in the right way. we do not want to waste taxpayer money. as far as i can tell, you have professional people making judgmen

senator jeff bingaman. he'll ask questions about the energy and natural resources committee. you can watch that at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern, sunday. >>> now for a look at the situation in syria and global oil supply. he is secretary of state for the middle east and south asia, and he spoke and took questions recently in houston. >> it is a great pleasure to be here. my connections and my fondness for the united states goes way back. in 1964, i was nine years old and just beginning to have a consciousness of what politics was all about. some of you may remember a satellite called telstar, and telstar was the first method we had of receiving live pictures from each other across the atlantic. in 1964, some of you gentlemen will remember, none of you ladies in the room, of course, are old enough to remember 1964, but some of you gentlemen will remember it was a presidential year, so conventions were in full swing. and for a small boy in england watching live, flickering pictures of party conventions where there were balloons, there were hats, there were streamers and grow

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. >> this weekend on c-spannews makers, senator jeff bingaman will answer questions from reporters about the agenda and congress for energy and environmental policy. you can watch news makers on sunday on c-span at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs on our web sites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> executives with fedex and time warn they are week said they would favor eliminating all special tax credits and tax deductions for corporations if the overall corporate tax rate were lowered to about 25%. they made the comments while testifying before a house ways and means committee hearing on financial accounting and corporate taxes. congressman dave camp of michigan chaired this 2 1/2 hour hearing. >> good morning. today we're continuing our series of hearings on comprehensive tax reform. a later hearing will look at the special challenges faced

>>> this weekend on c-span's nukz maker, senator jeff bingaman will answer questions from reporters about the agenda in congress for energy and environmental policy. you can watch news makers on sunday on c-span at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. >>> c-span's washington classroom is a partnership with the washington center and george mason university. this week we look at the tea party movement. >> to the students at the washington center here in washington, d.c. and across the potomac at george mason university in fairfax, virginia, we want to welcome the students. we also want to welcome to the george mason campus peter mara of cbs news. he's covered the white house since the reagan administration and here in our studios a professor at harvard. thank you for being with us. let's dig into the book, and one of the points i want to highlight as we focus the on the tea party, it's role in the 2012 campaign and the president's own re-election effort. you write in the book that the tea party p in all of its manifestations has pulled want the republican party sharply toward the right and shi

the only senators to vote no were senator jeff bingaman, senator richard burr and senator tom coburn. officials are telling consumers throw away any raw milk from the family cow farm in chambersburg, p.a. they've seen growing demand because of concerns in hormones or traditional dairy products. >> back to that breaking news from egypt where two american women kidnapped earlier today have just been released. nbc's eamon modin has the latest from cairo. eamon. >> reporter: good morning, thomas. two american tourists have been released after being kidnapped on friday morning according to security officials. there was a group of tourists. it was there that armed bedouins intercepted this group of americans. two were kidnapped. they began intense negotiations with the local bedouin tribes to try to secure their release. we don't believe it was politically motivated for any reason. so we understand that they have now been released. all of this coming against the backup of a lot of political upheaval in the country for a third day in a row. protesters are clashing with security forces in cai

on newsmakers, he mexico senator jeff bingaman discusses whether a divided congress can tackle energy.m. eastern. >> just so i remember, here is the wonderful moment when the senator lott revealed his install just four states right segregationist south. take a look. >> when strom said -- >> josh marshall on the internet and his websites the emergence into the breaking news business. >> the ecosystem is such a different world today than it was 10 years ago. i think things like that happen all of the time now. i know there is certainly many big stories that they have had over the last decade. now more and more we have an editorial staff of more than breaking -- 20 people breaking stories right and left. it has become almost commonplace. it is not nearly as rising today as it was back then. he talks more about t p.m. and a josh marshall on c-span is "q &a." >> this is a country that worships self-reliance and individualism. it turns out we are laggers when it comes to going along. that is much more common in the european nations. it is even more common in japan. >> afterwards on "going s

. >> on "newsmakers," senator jeff bingaman. he also talks a lot a clean energy standard and negotiations to advance green energy credits using the payroll tax-cut bill. "newsmakers" today at 6:00 p.m. on c-span. >> here is that wonderful moment when the senator revealed his nostalgia for the states' rights segregation in the south. take a look. >> when he ran for president, we voted for him. we are proud of him. >> talking points -- the immediate ecosystem is such a different world today than it was 10 years ago. i think things like that happen all the time now. i know there are certainly many big stories that were had over the last decade. now we have an editorial staff of 20 people. we are breaking stories right and left. it has almost become commonplace. it is not nearly as surprising today as it was back then. >> more about josh marshall tonight at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's "q&a." >> a hearing focused on cyber security threats to the u.s. and the role of private sector and the federal government. they heard from several interne