mabus, he said i had a lot of great days. i got to do some of the coolest things on earth. what are you talking about? >> i get to do things like go see sailors and marines around the world and talk to them. i get to go out on navy ships and fly into them on and at 1 -- an f-18.. i get to name every ship that is named for the u.s. navy. the best thing i get to do is to lead this group of extraordinary men and women who make up our armed forces today. i was in the navy over four days ago. i served a lot of good and dedicated people. we cannot touch the force we got today. just to deal with those people on a day-to-day basis and deal with the sailors and marines and their families and to see the dedication and the skill level, to see what this generation of americans is giving to this country is the coolest thing anybody can do. >> how does this job compare with their time as governor as mississippi or ambassador to saudia arabia? >> i have had an incredibly fortunate career. i have had some of the great job you can have in gov

we trained sailors and marines less. >> more greater thanray mabus sunday night at o'clock eastern. >> janet napolitano said u.s. immigration laws are outdated. the department is doing the best it can to secure the borders under current law. mistakes were made in the fast and furious program which was a sting operation. these are some of the comments she made during the homeland security address she made to the national press club. this is about one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. i am the 105th president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization to journalists committed to the future through our programming such as this one this afternoon while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information please visit our web site at www.press.org. it's been glared national press club week so thank for you

our ships steam less or planes fly less. >> more with the 75th navy secretary ray mabus sunday night at 8:00 eastern. >>> the head of the congressional budget office testified again today on capitol hill about the 2012 economic outlook. douglas elmendorf told the senate budget committee there will be slow economic growth this year with an unemployment rate of about 9%. this is a little more than two hours. >> the hearing will come to order. i want to welcome everyone to the budget committee today. today's hearing will focus on cbo's budget economic outlook which was released on tuesday. our witness is cbo's director douglas elmendorf. i might say very distinguished director. and i want to say how much i appreciate the work of the congressional budget office. how credible i find it to be. how transparent i find it to be. and, look, sometimes they strenuously disagree with me. i remember very well on health care, my major initiative, cbo critiques very heavily. that's the way it should be. not that my proposal should have been critiqued as heavily as it was, but that's the way it works

ray mabus, navy secretary, this sunday, 8:00 p.m. eastern on q & a here on c-span radio. >> and welcome back to washington today on c-span radio. it's official. after months

. >> more with the 75th navy secretary ray mabus, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a". >> on saturday, russia and china vetoed a resolution backing an arab league plan calling for a syrian president asasad to step down. we got an update on today's "washington journal". envoy to tr in the program. we're joined from cairo. thank you for being with us. what are you seeing from your vantage point? >> obviously, among the syrian opposition and members of the arab league who pushed for this opposition, this is a setback. they are saying that this means there is no political resolution to this crisis. that will mean that the syrian opposition could tehran increasingly toward armed struggle and any strength they could show in terms of convincing me international community to get behind them. host: the "in new york times" has a picture of the embassy in cairo and there was the illustrations and other embassies including here in washington, d.c. what are you seeing in egypt? >> the embassy was stormed. the syrian opposition has a tent set up here. i think that this will not be on the streets he

. >> navy secretary ray mabus on the reason frs a new energy standard for the fleet. >> we are too dependent on volatile places on earth to get our energy. we're susceptible to supply shocks and we're susceptible to price shocks. when libya, the libya situation started and the price of oil went up $40 a barrel. the only place we've got to go get that money is operations or training. our ship steam less. our planes fly less. we train our sailors and marines less. professor foster discusses the use of the "n" word in american literature and culture with a focus on "uncle tom's cabin" and "adventures of huckleberry finn". >> good afternoon. we're going to be talking about two different things. we're going to start off our discussion talking about the use of the "n" word in "uncle tom's cabin" and "huckleberry finn". a publisher is changing the "n" word to slave and the engine word to indian. this is not a controversy that's just started. it's been going on since day one. these novels came out in the 1860s. the idea is since that bit of time there's been a bit of controversy. many times in class

. >> the first to use nuclear power for transportation, ray mabus on the reasons for a new energy standard for the fleet. >> we are too dependent on either potentially or volatile plays on earth to get our energy. we're susceptible to supply shocks and even

. >> more with the 75th navy secretary ray mabus sunday night at 8:00 eastern. >> each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the country's college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 11:00 a.m. naugatuck valley community college professor william foster teaches an english class in which students investigate relationships between literature and society. in this lecture, professor foster discusses the history of the use of the n word in american literature and culture. with a focus on uncle tom's cabin" by harriet beecher stow and "adventures of huckleberry finn"" by mark twain. naugatuck community college is located in waterbury, connecticut. also please note some viewers may find language in this hour long program offensive. >> good afternoon, class. today we're in english 102, composition and literature. we're going to be talking about two different things. we're going to start off our discussion talking about the use of the n word in both harriet -- don't even try it, harriet beecher stowe's

. >> they the secretary ray mabus on the reason for an energy efficient fleets. >> we are successor -- susceptible to supply shocks. when the libyan situation started and the price of oil went up $40 a barrel, that was almost a $1 billion additional fuel bill. the only place we have to go get that money is operations and training. our ships -- our planes fly less. >> more with ray mabus sunday night on c-span's "q & a." >> the president's home financing plan would allow homeowners to take advantage of low interest rates. pennsylvania congressman pat meehan delivers the republican address. he delivers the republican plan that includes plans for more domestic energy and a plan to build more bridges and roads. >> i have been traveling around the country talking to people about my blueprint for the economy to last. it is about restoring the things we have always done best. american manufacturing, american energy, the skills and education of american workers. most importantly, american values like fairness and responsibility. we know what happened when we trade -- strayed from those values

>> i think ray mabus is sending the ultimate signal there. talk about raised eyebrows.y are commanding women on the front lines. women are not serving in infantry units, in small sniper platoons, in special operations forces. but the reality is over 800 women have been wounded in the last ten years in battle. more than 140 have lost their lives. i talked to one female iraq veteran today, a sergeant we've known for many years now. she said she considered santorum's remarks an insult to the troops. but let me give you the other side of it. i spoke to an army colonel, a man i have been under fire with in afghanistan. he said he was raised in texas and he would -- was raised to protect women. i said would you put the mission at jeopardy to protect some woman? he said absolutely not. troops understand when they are in the war zone this is not a gender issue. >> and senator santorum was speaking, barbara, because of the pentagon has eased some rules to have women along the front lines as medics and communication roles and such. where is this debate heading? >> we see it playi

. >> the first to use nuclear power for transportation, navy secretary ray mabus on the reasons for a new energy standard for the fleet. >> we are too dependent on eith pour tensionly or actually volatile places on earth to get our energy. we're you is september to be supply shocks and even if we've got enough we're susceptible to price shocks. when little bitia, when the libya situation started and the price of oil wept up $40 a barrel, that was almost $1 billion additional fuel bill for the u.s. navy. $1 billion. the only place we've got to go get that money is operations or training. so our ships steam less, our planes fly less, we train our sailors and ma rinse less. >> more with ray mabus tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> now a house oversight committee hearing over justice department documents relate lt to -- related to the fast and furious gun trafficking investigation. attorney generic holder testified on the program. run by the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives out of phoenix. it involves allowing gunsing to smuggled into mexico with the goal of

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we train less. >> more with ray mabus sunday night on c-span "q &a." >> airforce secretary michael donleyschwartz talk about the proposed reduction of aircraft personnel and how they will maintain their capabilities with a budget reductions. from the pentagon this is half an hour. >> thank you. good afternoon and thank you for joining us. i wanted to take a few minutes to outline the the year force priorities and the choices that we make in response to the new strategic guidance and also in response to the air force pieces of the budget control act and the work that has been done over the past several months undersecretary panetta and chairman dempsey's leadership with a lot of direct input from the president along the way. as you may know, we issued a white paper on wednesday that summarized. there is a longer paper that has been published today that describes structure changes by the air force in more detail. we have made some hard choices to closely look at the new strategic guidance in our 2013 budget submission. our decision for the air force was that we were better off -- the best c

. >> more with ray mabus tonight on c-span's "q & a." the payroll tax cuts expire at the end of the month and all sides agree they should continue. the discussion focuses on how to pay for them. >> if people get a g.e.d., that enhances their lives and their ability to get a job down the road. i hear an excuse as to why not to do its and the fundamental philosophy to try to harm people with an education so that they have an additional tool in the work force. >> to link a social insurance program designed and for 70 years to function to provide financial support when you lose your job to a requirement that you have to be in training will not work for some of the practical considerations. secondly, it contradicts the notion that the more education you have today, the better off you will be in this economy. >> watch the rest of this meeting online at the c-span video library. >> this week on "newsmakers" we have democratic congressional committee chair dougs elmendorf. -- steve israel. >> the wall street journal had you up 6% -- six points.

later, q&a with navy secretary ray mabus. >> for more resources on the campaign, used embassies done website to watching videos, see what the candidates have said, and read the latest from social span.org.tes at c- >> douglas elmendorf testified about when new outlook. government spending and entitlement programs was one topic. other topics included the bush era who payroll tax cuts. overall they predict the deficit will run of 1.2 trillion dollars and economic recovery will remain slow with unemployment near 8%. this is to in a half hours. -- this is to end a half hours -- 2 and a half hours. >> the committee will come to order. there are difficult economic times ahead of us. i want to welcome the political director. good i want to thank your entire staff for their release. we have a compressed size line, given easter coming earlier, so we know that cdo is going to get pushed extra hard, and i know you are working around the clock, so i first want to start by saying thank you for all you have done. furs are one to say the cbo projects economic growth remains refers to want to say th