one blil note, a live simulcast here on c-span radio and on c-span television. the results from illinois, the new york times reporting that the news media's presence in chicago, a clear reminder for some vote thrashers illinois will have a say in this presidential republican race that is turning to what the new york times is saying is a slog for delegates, leading up to a convention in august. we'll have speeches by rick santorum and mitt romney, all live tonight on c-span radio and c-span television, getting under way in about 25 minutes. the federal reserve is slightly cutting the estimate how much it paid the federal government in 2011, but the bank says the payment is still the second largest in nation's history. it paid the federal government $75.4 billion last year and it's down from the preliminary estimate of $79.9 billion. the money comes from earnings on investments the central bank made to bolster the economy. and it's down from the all-time record which w$79.3 billion in . the u.s. senate likely to vote on a scaled down bill about insider trading but

their speeches, your calls and reaction later tonight here on c-span radio and live on c-span televisionwell, let's begin with our lead story. as republicans rallying around an election year budget proposed by congressman paul ryan that would cut $5.3 trillion in spending over the next decade compared to the president's budget. it would also slash the tax rates for households and businesses. now, the blueprint for the ryan plan, he is the chair of the house budget committee, would collapse the tax code from six individual tax brackets into two. a 25% top rate as well as a 10% lower rate. it would also significantly cut taxes and reduce revenue that the government would be collecting over the next decade by about $4 trillion. it would increase defense spending compared to the president's budget and it would make changes to medicare, a plan that is causing a lot of debate within -- among democrats on capitol hill and around the country. so let's begin with congressman paul ryan as he outlined highlights of his budget at a news conference on capitol hill. >> this year, we're going to build

that will be here on c-span 3. and leading off prime time tonight at 8:00 on c-span, a senate armed services committee hearing on afghanistan with major -- marine general john allen, the afghanistan commander. he said in his testimony the u.s. will still need, quote, significant combat power in the country in 2013, despite the call for reducing the force. all of that hearing tonight, again, at 8:00 on c-span. >>> looks like it will be a few minutes before we hear from the director of the cdc, dr. thomas frieden. so while we wait for that, we'll bring you conversation from this morning's "washington journal," the president with his two-day, four-state energy tour wrapping up today. today he was in keystone in curbing, oklahoma talking about the keystone pipeline and wrapping up at ohio university. all of it focusing on energy. we asked our viewers about it this morning on "washington journal." >> and we're back. for the remainder of today's "washington journal," want to get your take on president obama's energy strat

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c-span radio and on c-span television. the results available online at c-span.org. it is 24 minutes past the hour. the president today issuing his strongest condemnation so far of the killings of the 16 afghan civilians over the weekend. he is promising that anyone who is involved will be held fully accountable. meanwhile defense secretary leon panetta says that could mean the death penalty for the u.s. soldier expected in the killings. a tell gags did visit the area where the killings took place early on sunday. many had to flee after the taliban insurgents opened fire on them. the associated press reporting that one afghan soldier was killed in that incident. today as the president talked about trade issues with china, he began with his comments about afghanistan. >> over the weekend as many of you know, there was a tragic incident in which a number of afghan civilians were killed. what i've made to president karzai when i spoke to him is that the united states takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our

this is "washington today" on c-span radio. we're coast to coast on xm channel 119. more in a minute. first some other news on wall street the dow dropped 203 closing at 12,759. nasdaq was down 40, s&p was down 20. there is a bit of relief at the gas pump. prices have finally dropped after 27 days. the nationwide average for regular unleaded is down less than a penny at $3.76 per gallon. prices jumped 28 cents since february 8th. experts still predict the national average could hit $4.25 next month. >>> a bipartisan transportation bill failed to clear procedural hurdle today in the senate. democrats fell eight votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate on this bill. it's a two-year, $109 billion bill. all but two republicans voted against the motion. senate minority leader harry reid accused republicans of political obstruction. republican senators say they were trying to pressure -- preserve their right to offer amendments, including on such issues as the keystone oil pipeline, and pollution controls by industrial boilers. th

. >>> this is "washington today" on c-span radio. more in a moment. >> linda killian is our guest this friday on after words on c-span radio. she will be discussing her latest book "the swing vote." >> we get more and more extreme candidates on both end of the spectrum who are nominated by the party activists. and men that's who we are getting elected to congress. coupled with the way congressional districts are drawn another big problem which is leaving out the middle. middle is totally disappearing in congress. centrists are disappearing. you have the far left and far right and unable to cut deals, unable to govern which is why i think we have congress with a 9% approval rating right now. >> linda killian author of the book "the swing vote." that's friday 7:00 p.m. eastern on after word here on c-span radio. >>> welcome back to "washington today" here on c-span radio. if you smoke or are thinking about smoke new information tonight from the federal government. smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the

we're going to have that audio here on c-span 3 as well as on c-span radio and online. >>> afghanistan's president hamid karzai is demanding u.s. troops pull back immediately from combat zones in afghanistan. he says he's at the end of his rope because of the lack of u.s. cooperation in the recent shootings there allegedly by a u.s. soldier. we're getting your reaction and comments on our facebook page. facebook.com/c-span. you can also click on a link to an article about the recent visit of the secretary of defense there. >>> in congress today, capitol hill empty. both chambers of congress out today. the house returns monday from a week-long district work period. at 4:00 on monday they'll begin legislative business. budget committee chairman paul ryan is expected to present his budget next week. watch the house live as always on c-span and in the senate also in on monday starting the day at 2:00 eastern with general speeches. at 4:30 they'll return to work on a small business bill that aims to loosen securities regulations. and on tuesday, the chamber plans to take several votes includi

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would exist in a black community. >> maggie anderson discusses her book, one black year this friday on c-span radio, 7:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards. >>> c-span radio is wc -- around the country on xm satellite radio and washington today continues. > >>> we're getting the support i need to become the nominee. >> we had a good night but so did governor romney. that's why we have to start anew here. we have to do well here in kansas. no, we have to win here in kansas and win big. [ applause ] >> and so the campaigning continues one day after super tuesday which in past president primaries, kind of a benchmark into why we're going and coalescing around a candidate. we saw that four years ago with john mccain. but all four candidates vowing to stay in the race. the next focus will be kansas and next week two southern primaries in mississippi and alabama. welcome to hour two of washington today on c-span radio. i'm steve scully. thanks for being with us. mitt romney's campaign saying it raised over a million dollars in february. comparing to $9 million for rick santorum efforts. you get a sense th

dial 202-626-8888. >> you are listening to c span radio live on audio now. c span created by cable, brought to you as a public service. >> calling charges or plan charges may apply. that number again, 202-626-8888. >> and you are listening to washington today on c span radio. the "the wall street journal" reporting that u.s. officials have identified an american who was freed in iraq over the weekend sam dagger writing from baghdad to the u.s. embassy identifying the american citizen who was purportedly help captive for nine months by a militia local to a shiite cleric. randy michael holts transferred to the embassy was neither an employee nor a contractor of the u.s. government and that he had been in iraq on private business. the issue coming up today at the state department. >> he was at you know he had been held captive. he was released in the hands of the u.n. and then the u.n. turned him over to us since he's an american citizen when he came to the u.s. embassy he was in need of medical attention. he was open to being debriefed on his time in captivity,

this is "washington today" on c-span radio. some other news today on wall street the dow was up 28, closing at 12,980. nasdaq was up 22, s&p was up eight. the hill newspaper reporting on house majority lead eric cantor saying today that reps would bring up and pass their jobs bill next week. and the hill saying it was met by a cooperative house minority whip steny hoyer who is a democrat are expected to support it. the weekly cantor/hoyer colloquies are rhetoric battles in which each seek to blame each other for shortcomings. but today's cooperative tone between two leaders prompted one participant to remark at the end just within range of the microphone, calm how calm was that. the number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to the lowest point in four years. a seasonally adjusted 351,000 people sought unemployment aid down from 353,000 the previous week. this is all according to the labor department. applications for aid have fallen steadily since the early fall and are now down nearly 15% since octo

we'll have highlights on the c-span networks. you can check it out all day or any time at c-spanorg. it's 42 minutes past the hour. you're listening to "washington today" heard coast to coast on xm channel 119. iran today rejecting allegations that it attempted to clean up radioactive traces possibly left by a secret nuclear operative at a key military site in iran before granting u.n. inspectors permission to visit the facility. saying the allegations were misleading and false and said such traces could not be cleaned up. satellite images of a military facility in iran indicating that trucks and earth moving vehicles were at that location setting off assertions by diplomats as well as nuclear experts accredited by the u.n. nuclear agency in vienna about the cleanup operation. the diplomats saying the crews may be trying to erase evidence of the testing of a small nuclear weapon trigger. iran's activities elsewhere in the world are the topic of a conversation today, a hearing with questions from senator joe lieberman, an independe

eastern on american history tv here on c-span 3. >> follow c-span's local content vehicles throughout the weekend as book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of little rock, arkansas. saturday, starting at noon eastern on book tv on c-span 2, author griff stockily on the little known riots and killing of at least 20 african-american share croppers. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta, and saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning, between 600 and a thousand men, white men, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tv on c-span 3, sunday at 5:00 p.m., former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> as if they know what is going to happen. but we don't know what is going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem to, because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us. and they are pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little r

on c-span 2. coming up a conversation with senator joe lieberman of connecticut, senator susan collins of maine, working through legislation in the house and senate on cyber security. >> what is the goal of the cyber security legislation that you have introduced? >> well, the goal simply stated is to protect all that we americans of that in cyberspace from being stolen and from being attacked. and the theft is going on thousands of times every day. most of which people are not aware of. that is to say, people from -- some from inside, mostly from outside the country, actually going into the internet systems, computer systems of countries, and stealing industrial, intellectual property, taking it and building the stuff that american companies spent millions or billions of dollars to develop. it also takes a lot of jobs from america. the other thing, the name of the legislation is to protect all of the cyber structure in america that's privately owned from becoming targets of an enemy wanting to atta

watch live coverage at 2:35 eastern this afternoon on c-span. in washington the clinton global initiative is kick off their fifth annual student conference this evening with a discussion on the power of public service. founding chair and 42nd president bill clinton will host a panel that will include former secretary of state madeleine albright. the event's being hosted by george washington university. live coverage starts at 7:30 eastern on c-span. coming up this weekend, c-span will re-air the supreme court oral arguments dealing with the constitutionality of the nation's health care law. tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 eastern, justices examine whether the penalty for failing to purchase insurance constitutes a tax and there be removing the case from the court's jurisdiction. at 5:00 eastern, the question of whether the law's expansion of medicaid is an intrusion on the states. sunday, arguments on the constitutionality of the individual mandate that's at 10:30 a.m. eastern. and later at 4:25 if the mandate is found unconstitutional, can the rest o

we'll have them here on c-span 3. on c-span radio and c-span.org. >>> in march of 1979, c-span began televising the u.s. house of representatives to households nationwide. and today our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books and american history is available on tv, radio and online. >> when we put that force together to go to desert storm, i viewed every one of those youngsters as somebody that i had a personal responsibility for. i know that general schwartz cough felt the same way. we knew they were going into a very dangerous conflict, perhaps, and we wanted to give them every benefit that would allow them to come home safely. i am as distressed -- more distressed than any member of this committee could ever be that there are veterans who are suffering illnesses that may have an a result of their service in the gulf. i do not know if those illnesses are a result of the service in the gulf or not. but i think we have to keep that as an operating hypothesis until we find out otherwise. we have to get

eastern on c-span radio. >> welcome back. this is "washington today" on c-span radio. i'm steve scully. secretary of state hillary clinton joined today by michelle obama honoring then women from around the world honored for their courage and leadership in advocating for women's rights and empowerment, often at great personal risk. the secretary of state as we said joined by the first lady, michelle obama saying they saw corruption and worked to expose it. this is international women's day in the sixth annual award by the secretary of state for women of courage. the first lady recounted stories of honorees from miramar, pakistan, columbia and brazil who were imprisoned, silenced tortured and kidnapped for speaking out for women's rights, social justice, peace for democracy. among those on hand, zin mar ong, a pro democracy activist inch prison for writing a letter demanding that the elected civilian government be permitted to take over power in her country. now, after her release, she started advocating for women and little prisoners. here are her remarks today at the s

the c-span radio app, free at the itunes app store or blackberry app world. >> welcome back. you're listening to washington today on c-span radio. heard coast to coast on xm channel 119. we're streamed on the web and in the washington baltimore area, we're 90.1 fm wcsp. the date line is afghanistan. the reporting of the telegraph newspaper, six british soldiers believed to have been killed after an explosion hit their armored vehicle. that confirmation from the uk defense ministry today. the soldiers, they were on patrol in the helman province at the time took place last night. the military did not explain why they were unable to confirm whether the soldiers were killed f confirmed, however, it would be the biggest loss of life for british forces in the country since a plane crash back in 2006. it is wednesday which means it's prime minister's questions. this issue coming up as well as prime minister david cameron's visit next week to washington, d.c. >> for questions to the prime minister. number one, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hope you'll permit answering questions, mr. speaker, to make the following anno

eastern on american history tv, this weekend on c-span 3. >>> live sunday on founding fathers. your questions for author and national review editor richard brookhiezer. his book he'll take your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets sunday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> the atlantic magazine recently held a summit here in washington. among the guest speakers was robert reuben who served as treasury secretary. he spoke about the pressing need for an agreement on reducing the debt. the progress wouldn't come until after the november elections. >>> welcome to the economy summ summit. thank you for being here. i'm going to resist asking you my first question what that choke was that you just shared. >> i suggested that you ask the first question which is a better fly fisherman. paul or me? >> and his answer? >> we each had a different answer. i said me, and he said he. >> i think this is an interesting time to be having a conversation about the economy because how much has changed in terms of the perception of the landscape. if we were having this conversation at the end of de

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you can watch the hearing live here on c-span 3. up next here on c-span 3, a simulcast of c-span radio's "washington today" from earlier this afternoon. >> with the backdrop of a statue of ronald reagan in dixon, illinois, rick santorum on the campaign trail. one day before the primary there. mitt romney as he talked about jobs and the u.s. economy. mitt romney winning in puerto rico over the weekend with its 20 delegates. now all roads lead to illinois tomorrow. a key primary battle in the road to the white house. welcome to hour one of "washington today" here on c-span radio. thanks for being with us. in france, a massive manhunt is under way. the terrorism alert has been raised to a hire leagher level much of the southern part of the country. a man opening fire with two handguns today in front a jewish school, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a girl. news on politics today, as president obama picking up the pace of his fund-raising for his re-election bid. his campaign collecting $45 million in february. nearly twice as muc

across the country law professorers said -- >> later on c-span you'll be nt conference live. that was being held on the capitol grounds right across the street from the supreme court. you can see some ofaving, and b first street to the supreme court. i want to show you some of the sights and sounds that are happening there as well. as we continue to take your calls. now, the audio transcripts from today's two-hour hearing on the individual mandate should be released in about 40 -- 30 to 40 minutes or so, and we will bring those to you here on c-span as soon as they are released, so you'll be able to watch them in their inteernty. back to your phone calls. george from san antonio, texas, is our next call on our republican line. hi, george. >> caller: how you doing, sir? >> i'm good. >> caller: fine. yes, i'm very interested in this case. i think it's very vital that all judges take into consideration what the right to americans' open to deciding what kind of insurance you're going to have. some people need health care insurance for chronic diseases. some have acuteitll has to f

on capitol hill. thanks very much for being with us. >> happy anniversary, c-span. you know, you've brought the congress its floor activity, its committees, to the american people. and you've not only made history, but had a big influence on history. >> in fact, you saw the advent of c-span two years after being first elected to the house of representatives. >> yes. it was electrifying. >> let me ask you about your first run for the house and when you ran in 1976, did you expect to serve 35 years? >> when i ran for the house of representatives in 1976, it was the bicentennial year of our country, 250 years. and i was excited to be part of a great reform movement. we were in a post watergate era, and we wanted to change the way congress functioned and open it up to the american people and do things certainly very differently. the other was i wanted to be part of the new wave of women that was coming in to the congress that was an outgrowth of the women's movement. so the face of the -- of both the house and the senate have changed, and i would also say the whole demea

book tv every weekend on c-span 2. >> i was confided a radical as a young person and i was the one that thought that the, you know, we shall overcome was really not a very effective way of gaining civil rights and i think that i thought that more confrontation was needed. >> economics professor, columnist and substitute host for rush limbaugh, walter williams on acradical. >> i believe that a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical. and i've always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing so long as i don't violate the rights of other people. >> more with walter williams sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on q and a. >>> now politics on policy news on c-span's radio "washington today." >>> washington around the country we're on xm satellite channel 119. "washington today" is coming up in one minute. >> on march 26th, 27th and 28th the u.s. supreme court hears challenges to the health care law. you'll hear an argument cited in some o

that's live at 3:15 on c-span 2. ow, defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs of staff chairman general martin dempsey will be on capitol hill testifying about the situation in syria. they will be before the senate armed services committee. we'll have live coverage on c-span 3 at 9:00 in the morning. today, super tuesday, where voters go to the polls in ten states to choose a republican presidential candidate. 419 delegates are at stake today and we'll have live coverage of election results tonight on the c-span networks, cspan.org and c-span radio. >> watch super tuesday election results tonight on the c-span networks. while you watch, use our second screen web page with your tablet or laptop computer to see result maps, social media quotes from candidates and reporters and a public forum for your tweets and those of other viewers. you can also monitor our mentioned on c-span blog where we will post super tuesday news stories. use a laptop or tablet to expand your viewing on our web page made especially for su

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rights of other people. >> more with walter williams sunday night at 8:00 eastern and president on c-span's "q & a." >> a house committee gave the federal government a c-minus grade on the freedom of information act it receives. the report came out as american university law school held an event on tyrants appearance and -- on transparency and open government. this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> we are going to start in again on our first panel. if everyone could quiet down. i know there are a lot of conversations going on upstairs where the hand-outs are. and the refreshments. we call that the foyer. we don't do that just during sunshine. we call it that all year long. by the way, it does look like the sun is beginning to peek out a bit as befitting this freedom of information day during sunshine week. i want to make sure that everyone here in the audience knows that we do have hand-outs, many hand-outs up there, including detailed boy graphical sketches on everyone who is speaking today. you will find the moderators, including myself, we will not spend a lot of time with respect to boy gra

eastern on american history tv here on c-span 3. >> follow c-span's local content vehicles throughout the weekend as book tv and american history tv explore the history and literary culture of little rock, arkansas. saturday, starting at noon eastern on book tv on c-span 2, author griff stockily on the little known riots and killing of at least 20 african-american share croppers. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta, in revolt. and the next morning, between 600 and a thousand men, white men, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tv on c-span 3, sunday at

every morning on c-span. >>> one year ago the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan melted down an after earthquake and tsunami hit japan. you can see the hearing live thursday here on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m. >>> the center for responsive politics reports super pacs have raised $130 million this election cycle. mitt romney has raised the most money followed by american crossroads. further down the list are those backing newt gingrich and president obama. the common cause today hosted a discussion on theol. >>> good morning. everyone ready? good morning, my name is bill deblasio, i'm the new york city advocate, and also a member of the new york city retirement system boards. $40 billion pension fund and i'm wearing a green tie. why? in honor of st. patrick's day and as a statement on the corrosive impact of money in our political system. and that is what is bringing us all here today. this unpress departmented -- unprecedented coalition of organizations that for decades have fought to protect our democracy, our electoral process, to fight for transparency. and make sure the people's role i

a you can watch it on c-span television. >>> and on the democratic side of the aisle, union workers planning to flex their muscle it's endorsing the president in his own re-election bid and it says it will mount a massive door to door effort across the board in a way to counter a flood of money. >>> our lead story this hour the transportation bill, you heard from senator harry reid. the senate is undertaking a series of votes on packages of amendments that have been akreeed to by both senate and house. we begin with senator jim demint. it will end all energy tax subsidies. part of this transportation bill. >>> we have all complained about these major corporations that don't pay any taxes. >> please, let there be order. thank you. the senator from south carolina may begin at this time. >> we all complained about the corporations that don't pay any taxes only to find that many times that's because we offer some tax subsidy that allows them to get out of taxes. we complained for subsidies for big oil and natural gas, we have given subsidies for companies that got out of business. temporary tax

you very much for your time and perspective tonight. >> thank you. >> this is "washington today" on c-span radio heard coast the coast on xm 119 and simulcast on c-span3 and we are also on the web at cspan.org. >>> the president is traveling to north carolina, a key battleground state, and the campaign that the obama campaign hopes to win. today, the president was talking about gas prices to the auto workers in north carolina as he double downs to paint the republicans as out of touch with the middle-class. that is the story of the correspondents traveling with him. he spoke to mount holly plant in north carolina. he says that republicans have not gotten behind his proposal to cut the subsidies for the big oil companies. here is a portion of what the president had to say today in north carolina. >> a lot of you may have the drive a distance to work. and higher gas prices are just like a tax right out of the pay check. and for companies that operate a whole fleet of trucks, the entire cost can make a difference in the profitability of the company. now, here's the thing though, this is not t

eastern on c-span raid dwroe. >>> it's half past the hour. news from the louisville courier-journal reporting on a hearing that took place in washington earlier today. the top emergency management official from fema saying that more kentucky counties damaged by the storms last week could be added to the federal disaster declaration making them eligible for federal aid. congress rogers from the fifth congressional district in kentucky and the chair of the house appropriations committee. he told craig fugate there are a number of

c-span: go back to robert capa and that famous photo that we've seen--i think it was on stephen ambrose's d-day book cover. >> guest: right. c-span: where was it taken and when did he take it and how did you play a role in all this? >> guest: well, i was the london picture editor for life, and there were six life photographers assigned to cover d-day. the one we counted on the most was robert capa, who had so much experience in covering wars. he had covered the spanish war, the war in china, the war in north africa and italy. so we all looked to capa. and, indeed, he volunteered to land with the first wave on omaha beach. tuesday--it was--tuesday, june 6th, 1944, was d-day. and we waited all day tuesday for pictures. and we waited all day wednesday, but we--we--where was--where were the pictures? where was capa? finally, wednesday evening, a currier came into the--the life office with four rolls of film from capa and a handwritten note saying, 'john, that's where the action is.' so i told the darkroom to rush me contact prints for editing. we were under terrible deadline pressure. the who

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we recent featured him on c-span's q and a program on sunday night. n you watch that interview any time at c-span.org. this is "washington today." >>> in some other news today on wall street the dow was up 58, nasdaq up 15 and s&p up 8. >>> fewer people saw unemployment benefits last week adding to find that the job market is strengthening. applications for aid dropping 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 351,000 according to the labor department. when applications dropped consistently below 375,000 it usually signals that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate. >>> to the chagrin of some democrats it's being reported senate majority leader harry reid moved to limit amendments on a house jobs act for fwroed did youral votes next tuesday. only two aemts expected to be offered. another democrat said i'm fearful of that. he thinks it opens up receives to stock scams. the senate should have worked its will and approved a deeply flawed house bill. >>> the agriculture department says starting next fall schools can stop feeding students a common a

eastern on c-span. the sea spend hours will show several live events a day here on c-span at 11:00 eastern, the u.s. chamber of commerce will host a forum looking at business parties this year for the world trade organization. among the panelists, representatives from cisco, boeing, and microsoft. over on c-span the space three, -- c-span3 there was talk about ways to increase the high school graduation rates. live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern -- a o'clock a.m. eastern -- 8:00 a.m. eastern. mitt romney upheld a meeting in rockford, ill. at the machine shed a restaurant. 69 total delegates are up for grabs. >> we are so delighted to be here. it should be stalling and cold. that might happen again. mitt and i have had the opportunity to go across the country. it has been a blessing to see all of the wonderful people. we love meeting you folks and having the chance to see what america is really about. i wish everyone could have the opportunity to see the goodness of the american people. the heartlan

eastern on c-span "q&a." >> interior secretary ken salazar testified on capitol hill this week aboutis department's 2013 budget request. he also responded to questions about the nation's rising gas prices and whether the administration is considering tapping into the strategic petroleum reserve. the $3.80 trillion proposed budget includes $11.4 billion for the interior department. this hearing is just under two hours. >> ok, why don't we get started? this morning, the committee is reviewing the president's proposed budget for the department a stereo for fiscal year 2013. -- department of interior for 2013. we're pleased to have secretary sellers are back with us in his own committee room. the department's proposed budget of $11.7 billion appropriated funds represents a slight increase over current funding levels. in my view, it is a reasonable proposal that reflects the difficult choices the president is required to make given the current fiscal environment. there are a number of programs such as the land and water conservation fund that i wish were funded at higher levels, but i und

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you can watch it live here on c-span 3 and online at c-span.org. >> starting april 1, see the winners in this year's c-span student cam documentary on the theme the constitution and you, as middle and high school students from across the country showed which part of the constitution was important to them and why. we'll air the top 27 videos, mornings at 6:50 eastern on c-span, and meet the students who created them during "washington journal" each day. for a preview of the winning videos check studentcam.org. and congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's competition. >>> abdel rahim el-keib was named the interim prime minister of libya in november after the fall of moammar gadhafi. in a recent individual to washington, he spoke with the carnegie endowment for international peace about the effort to establish democracy in libya. this is an hour. >> good morning. let me just before we start mention that for security reasons, the doors of the room will be closed for the duration of the event. i hope we can call on your understanding. good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> tomorrow, our live coverage of the american/israel conference continues. speakers include rick santorum, mitt romney and newt gingrich. coverage starts on c-span 3. >>> next, a look at the 2013 national nuclear safety administration budget. this is about 35 minutes. >> every monday morning at 9:15 eastern time is our featured segment "your money." that is when we put the spotlight on the federal program on who is involved and how much it costs. we look at the agency that secures nuclear weapons and materials. our guest is todd jacobson. he is a senior reporter. >> thanks for having me. >> what is the mission of the national nuclear safety administration? we hear so much about agencies. >> there are several parts of the mission. the main part is protecting and maintaining the warheads. that is probably about half of what they do. then the other part is kind of the -- two other parts i should say. the nonproliferation part that is in charge of securing nuclear material aroun

we'll air the top 27 videos, mornings at 6:50 eastern on c-span. and meet the students who created them on washington journal each day. for a preview check studentcam.org and congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's competition. >>> in march of 1979, c-span began televising to households nationwide, and today our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history is available on tv, radio, and online. >> we're talking now about the supreme court. but they are the ones that changed this country inevitably with what we call the march toward progress. the march towards knocking down the walls of discrimination. that permitted us to pass a 1964 civil right act and public accommodations. so people whose skin was not white could go into restaurants and go into hotels, public accommodation, the '65 act, voting, voting rights, '68 act, the public accommodation, the 1973 act that says women are going to be treated equally, the americans of disability act that said the disabled are going to be part of the america

free at the itunes app store or blackberry app world. >>> welcome back to "washington today" here on c-span radio. we're streamed on web at c-spanradio.org and being carried on c-span 3. news from afghanistan. the president's top commander in that country making recommendations about how quickly the u.s. should pull out of this long and costly war. saying that some final decisions will come in early 2013. the testimony of general john allen who, by the way, commands u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan saying that he would present recommendations to the president on troop levels in 2013 and beyond during the last three months of this year. he would do so after assessing the military campaign following the departure of 33,000 u.s. troops due by the end of october. reuters reporting that questions have mounted about u.s. intentions in afghanistan, including how quickly the remaining 90,000 troops will leave, as the white house continues to grapple with a number of setbacks. they include, of course, the burning of the koran at the nato base last month and the killing last week of those 16 afgha

and here on c-span 3, c-spano,n. >> starting april 1st, on the theme the constitution and ddle show which part of the constitution is important to wh. meet the students who feature them. and for everyone participated in this year's competition significance. >> former pennsylvania senator arlen specter talks about the current health care debate and his new book. this is an hour. >> arlen specter, republican of pennsylvania, was switched to democrat, wrote a book, life among the cannibals. how did you come up with this title and for the united state senate, customers make a farewell address. i made what i called a closing argument and the fact that they were cannibals were in operation, can anybody baizing other senators. i wanted the title to be cannibals devouring senators and she said it's not too stark for what goes on in the senate but situations like senator bob bennett from utah with 93% conservative rating because of one vote, supporting the bailout of the auto industry which was really very important and you have lisa murkowski in alaska being beaten in a primary by the tea party a