charles marsh with can i get a witness, and authors lori anderson was shocked and jason reynolds with his book long way down. watch coverage of the virginia festival today. at 1:00 p.m. eastern public tv on c-span2. >> book tb offers live coverage of numerous pictures and festivals throughout the year. recently at the tucson festival of books albert recalled his time in solitary confinement. >> solitary is the most cruel and ambitious nonphysical form of charges. that a human being can inflict upon another human being. it took a find a person to a nine by six area 23 hours out of the day. in doing that time you have to apply for your own sanity but you have to watch other men around you become insane and some men took their own lives. and doing this without you became cin, when you're in a situation in your working toward the end. so you say what i have to do is get out and then i can think about doing something else. that is not the case in solitary and particularly in prison. and i spent and i spent four years and ten months in solitary confinement. in holding me in solitary confine

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and authors lori anderson with shout and jason reynolds with his book, long way down. watch coverage of the inia festival of the book saturday at 1 pm eastern on book tv on c- span2. >> now a discussion on the u.s. postal service and e-commerce. topics include the increasing rate of business conducted online. the impact on the postal service. revenues associated with packaged delivery services. and competition. the information technology and innovation foundation hosted the event. it is one hour 20 minutes.

and lori holtz anderson with "shout," and jason reynolds with his book "long way down."ch coverage of the virginia festival of the book saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. the c-span bus is stopping at the schools of our studentcam columbia, out to alina, to award the second prize -- columbia, south carolina, to award the second prize. >> when we saw the topic, we thought about the constitution and the first thing the came to mind was the bill of rights. especially freedom of speech because that is something that is so ingrained in the american identity and it is a topic that has been at the forefront, especially the past few years in terms of the press and are increasingly develop -- our increasingly divided political climate. >> see the top 21 winning entries on c-span in april. you can watch every winning studentcam documentary online. >> "washington journal" continues. host: center buddy card -- representative buddy carter serves on the house select committee on the climate crisis. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: what

anderson. >> you were saying that they allegedly paying $15,000. lorilin and her husband allegedly paid a lot more. she's not appeared yet, is that right? >> reporter: yeah. no. so she, we believe, was in vancouver shooting when there was a knock on her door here in los angeles this morning. her husband was arrested this morning. she got on a plane, flew back to los angeles and is going to turn herself in. it's unclear when she will actually appear in court. but you're right. they allegedly paid half a million dollars in bribes through this guy singer. some of that money went to an athletic director at usc. a couple of little interesting tidbits on that. her husband apparently sent in photos of his daughters on rowing machines to try and bolster the case that they were rowers. they were admitted to usc, the idea was they would be admitted as coxins in the crew program although they had never been involved in any crew endeavors prior to that. so he appeared in court and he was released on a million dollar secure bonding so that means t put up property fo

and authors lori anderson with shout and jason reynolds with his book, long way down. watch coverage of the inia festival of the book saturday at 1 pm eastern on book tv on c- span2. >> now a discussion on the u.s. postal service and e-commerce. topics include the increasing rate of business conducted online. the impact on the postal service. revenues associated with packaged delivery services. and competition. the information technology and innovation foundation hosted the event. it is one hour 20 minutes. >> good afternoon everyone. and president of the information technology and innovation foundation. and i am really pleased to welcome you today to i tif's event on better understanding of e-commerce and postal reform. how many people here have gotten something in the mail to you ordered through e-commerce in the last week? how about this morning? several of us. i looked at my deliveries in the last few days, for family, light bulbs, guitar strings, book on japanese technology and some household supplies. that is really the more world we are moving into. e-commerce p

authors lori anderson with shout and jason reynolds with his book long way down. what coverage of the book saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. booktv on c-span2. we are covering a form with the number of trump administration officials including kevin, the chair white house counsel economic advisers education secretary betsy devos and fcc chair. hosted by the national institute c-span2. the committee met to consider amendments to a 2020 budget resolution proposed by committee chair mike. you just tax issues, order security, housing portability, disaster relief, agriculture programs and prescription drug pricing. this is the second they committee met on the legislation. markup is three hours and 15 minutes. on your screen, chairman and ranking chairman bernie sanders. >> good morning. welcome to the second day committee markup the budget resolution. i called my back to order. the committee resumes its meeting today for the purpose of considering the budget resolution for fiscal year 2020. ordering the report consistent requirements the budget act. as i noted yesterday, f