ó >>> this weekend book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of beaumont where the texas oil industry got its start. saturday beginning at noon eastern on book tv on c-span, book bazaar owner john roberts on beaumont's literary culture and the challenges of running an independent bookstore. also beaumont author on teddy roosevelt's year long post presidential expedition to africa and europe. and on american history teach on c-span3 sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern january 11th, 1901, the lucas gusher at spindle top hill changed the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. with the oil came the rough next and with the rough next advice. tour the dixie hotel an infamous brothel. decades of gambling, prostitution and other crime thrived until a 1960 james commission crackdown. beaumont, texas, this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >> by 2016, according to the imf the world's leading economy will be a dictatorship. if the imf you elect next november will be the last president of the united states to preside over the world's economy. >> columnist and author mark stein has published books his latest, "after america." he writes "the happy warner" column and

c- span, former new york gov. eliot spitzer talks about whether to prosecute mortgage banks for mortgage fraud. >> i/o is he to bring up occupy wall street, but they had a sign down there -- i always hate to bring up occupy wall street but they had a sign down there that made sense. we know that corporations are people when texas executes one. [laughter] the problem we have right now is that we have given corporations all of the upside, but none of the downside. we have given them the rights and privileges that we extend to individuals. yet when it comes to holding them accountable, because of the diffusion of responsibility, because of the layers and buffers built-in by lawyers accountants, investment bankers all of them do their job in good faith coming it is difficult to ascribe criminal intent. just as in the financial side we say that you keep the downside and we will guarantee you too big to fill on the downside. in the criminal context, we say you do bad things and we have no way of holding responsible. >> see his remarks as part of our wall street lineup. -- part of our presidents day lineup. it begins at 8:

that they have done, especially pulling this together, thanking c-span for coming out to cover us today as we move along, we expect more people ome. they have just called votes. i'm going to vote, and i only have two votes, and i will be back to enjoy this wonderful, rich session. i see our great honoree is here this morning, and let's give him a hand just as he enters the door. [applause] we're so pleased, this is just a great day in washington. it's a great day on cap top hill, and it's a -- capitol hill, and it's a great day for our nation. thank you so much. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, congresswoman. and now, please, welcome matt wasniewski. >> thank you very much, congresswoman wilson, for arranging this opportunity to discuss black history month with you and in particular the history of african-americans in congress. so many changes have occurred in this storyline in the recent past by historical standards that it really is, it's been an amazing amount of change. and certainly within the lifetimes of those of us in this room there's been tremendous change in this story. i'd like to throw two statistics a

c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] in c we give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. there have been many prayers this day rising to you from those engaged in the political discourse of this nation. we give you thanks for those who are able to gather at the national prayer breakfast and those across this land who joined their prayer intentions with the many who attended. bless the members of this people's house now as they gather to do the legislative work they are called to do. may their prayers this day be authentic and heard by you the living god. may their work be fruitful and beneficial to those whom you favor, the poor. and may all they do be done in humility and charity, knowing that they are all earthen vessels through whom your spirit might shine forth. . the speaker pro tempore: the pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison. mr. ellison: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for whi

o the companies, because they are an engine of growth. we cannot penalize these companies for being large contributors. thanks for your time. host: thank you. he is listening to c-spanshington d.c. area. john tweets -- let's listen to jay carney, the president's spokesperson talking about the president goes in new corporate tax proposal. it will create a lower tax rate for american businesses and that will make them more competitive, a broader base to ensure that the reform does not add a dime to the deficit, and a situation where the american manufacturing sector and in particular the advanced manufacturing sector is further incentivized to grow, and where small businesses , where the environment is made easier for them to deal with taxes by simplifying the tax code for them, allowing them for example to expense up to $1 million. there are a variety of other measures that would make american business is much more competitive. nec's host: to a call on this topic, albuquerque, betty, republican. caller: thanks for taking my call. it was released recently that 30 of our largest corporations paid more to lobbyists than they did in taxes. i don't see how anybody can say