. >> mary clare and her team work on a voluntary basis.he seeds are paid for by donations, and the team plans them everywhere, especially where lower income families live. vegetables are expensive in the supermarket, but here they are free. >> you use the stem, actually. taste that. that everybody was a bit dubious whher they could take anything. they felt guilty, bending down to take plants and run away, but it is the normal thing now. it is great. >> after all, with the government tightening its belt, the english do not get much else for free. the economic crisis has led people short of many things, but not community spirit. here people share vegetables. nearby, they share a pub. the customers have bought it. when illness forced the previous owners to sell, everyone pitched in to rescue their regular. >> people from all around town come here. they do not want to see it go. it is a great club. we have already had two cubs shut down. we do not want to see another when added to it. >> the regular stable turn the pot into a cooperative. many

. >> back now to the clare boothe luce policy institute, where mary katharine and is talking about the importance of speaking out as a young conservative. she has been speaking out for a couple minutes. >> you could tune in for years later and it would be the same thing. that is how they look at politics. for years go by and they do not see concrete changes that are changing their lives. they look and say this is the same thing over and over again, and you people are crazy because you pay attention every day. is this ok not to be normal, but we have to keep that in mind when we are here. i think you should take the time to visit the normal people, and this is presumably what congress meant and congress people are supposed to do that, but they forget that and it does not help their perspective. presumably we were all normal at some point before we got into this, and we still have that inside a bus. i am from north carolina, and i try to get down there, to be outside the belt way can be helpful. most of port bay it makes what ever you are fighting for up here easier to get because if you

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> next from the clare boothe luce leadership seminar, remarks by newt gingrich and mary catherine ham. then a discussion about congressional action on the economy. tomorrow, a look at mitt romney's work as president and ceo of the salt lake organizing committee for the 2002 winter olympics. using c-span archival video, we look back at his role in lobbying congress for funding of the game. we also talk with time aboutne's alex altman his recent article. that is tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> the political parties are holding their platform hearings in advance of the summer conventions, democrats hold hearings in minnesota this weekend followed with their final platform recommendations in detroit. in august, republicans start the project -- platform process in tampa, florida. our coverage of the conventions continues august 10 with the reform party in philadelphia, followed by the republican national convention with live coverage and beginning monday, august 27 and from camp up. and the democratic national convention live from charlotte, north carolina. monda

clare boothe luce policy institute seminar lining up. we just heard from newt gingrich and we will hear next from mary katharine ham who will discuss her journalism career and the importance of speaking out as young conservatives and becoming activists. what she talked to the people about her journalism and the work and politics. this is about 35 minutes. >> hello. i am the summer intern. in such a student at the university of virginia. i will introduce mary catherine ham. she got involved in the conservative movement. she worked at the heritage foundation and has written for such prominent complications -- publications and has also been featured on town hall.com. she is known for her success as an articulate a radio talk-show personality. her show when rick days and not washington g.t. -- her show ran weekdays in washington d.c.. she ran a successful video blog known as hmam nation. her videos disclosed questionable washington in transactions and secrets. it won the video of the year award. she covers everything from education to personal stories to economic and current events. she loves and focuses on conservative fiscal and security issues. sh

clare boothe luce policy institute. >> i'm a student at the university of virginia. i've had the pleasure today introducing mary katherine ham. mary katherine graduated from the university of georgia with a degree in journalism and worked in sports journalism before getting involved in the conservative movement at the writer and commentator. she worked at the heritage foundation and has written for such prominent be publications as the daily caller and the weekly standard and has also been featured on townhall.com. mary katherine ham is known for her success as an articulate radio talk show person because of until march of 2012 she was co-host of the morning majority which ran weekdays in washington d.c. she's also a frequent fox news cribber and -- contributor and analyst appearing often with juan williams on "the o'reilly factor." mary katherine ran a very successful video blog known as ham nation, and her video sopranos d.c. exposing questionable washington transactions and secrets won the 2007 web blog video of the year award. her articles and videos coffer everything from -- cover everything from education

clare boothe luce policy institute seminar lining up. we just heard from newt gingrich and we will hear next from mary katharine ham who will discuss her journalismareer and the importance of speaking out as young conservatives and becoming activists. then we will hear from kate obenshain discussing the phony conservative war on women and how the left is really waging this war. in the meantime, let's take a look at what congress is up to next week. "congressional quarterly" reports that the debate over extending the bush era tax cuts will move from the senate to the house next week with a measure to extend the expiring tax cut as well as legislation to help establish an expedited timelines for congressional consideration of the gop plan to overhaul the tax code. the senate goes into executive session to consider the nomination of robert bacharach from oklahoma to be a judge. and lawmakers macon sinew situation of the cybersecurity bill