we'll also be joined by two members of congress, sean duffy is a republican from wisconsin, and nick rayhall say democrat from west virginia. the "washington journal" begins every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 for those of you on the west coast. thanks for joining us on this thursday. enjoy the rest of your evening. >>> coming up on c-span3, a senate hearing on debris from last year's japanese tsunami that's now washing up on the u.s. coast. then a house oversight hearing on the u.s. fire administration. and today's pentagon briefing covered a meeting between defense secretary leon panetta and the israeli defense minister. >>> all day saturday on book tv, the gaithersburg book festival is live. it runs throughout the day. notables include timny noah at 12:20 on the have and have notes in the great diversage. ken ackerackerman on j. edgar h. and at 3:20, neuroscientist david lyndon on why the good stuff feels so good in "the compass of pleasure." also this weekend on afterwards, jay nordlinger. >> there's this myth that he established his prize for peace out of guilt over his inventi

republicans we can put a list up of the top ten we have on here are senator rand paul representative sean duffy. you know senator ron johnson and tom graves you know some of the more conservative people in congress and their speech levels in some cases of middle schoolers and i should say in some cases the same was true for lawmakers on the opposite side of the political spectrum or progressive democrats also tend to speak at a lower grade grade level and overall but the congress of today speaks today at about a ten point six grade level that's down from eleven point five in two thousand and five so what is up with this dumbing down well we are in the age of cable networks and pundits who use quick catchy phrases you may have noticed a long winded intelligent orations rarely make it onto our airwaves the shorter the sweeter the sound bite the better chance it has of being played over and over on c.n.n. but considering that the us constitution is written at a seventeen point eight grade level and the declaration of independence at a fifteen point one grade level which is not for a moment and ask

host: on our program last week, we had sean duffy of wisconsin. your group rated him a 58%.e was asked about the rating and what he thought about it. [video clip] >> i do not represent the club for growth. they have chosen to score votes i do not agree with. i was a lumberjack. i did lumberjack sports, chopping, logrolling, sawing. they said i didn't take a big enough axe to washington. some people say it is too big, some say not big enough. i will defend my votes. i think it was the right way to go. you have the club for growth and a lot of people, but they are not in central wisconsin. i do not care what they say. host: chris chocola? guest: every congressman, congressman duffy is no exception, astana vote the way they feel they should -- has to vote the way they feel they should. i am not saying that progress is not taking a big enough axe -- saying that congress is not taking a big enough axe. our entitlement reforms and spending are out of control. something has to happen. we are reporting to the congressman's constituents how we vote he voted. they will have to decide

. >> unpriced "washington journal", congressman sean duffy will discuss his first term in the house.and an update on transportation bills in congress, we will talk to democratic congressman, the ranking member of the transportation committee. "washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> when people are saying to him, don't take the vice presidency, right now you are the most -- you are a powerful majority leader, don't take the vice presidency, you won't have any power, johnson says, power is where power goes, meaning i can make power in any situation. his whole life, nothing in his life previously makes that seem like he is most -- because that is exactly what he had done. all of his life. >> sunday night, the conclusion of her conversation with robert caro on the passage of power. volume four in the years of lyndon johnson come his multivolume router b. of the 36th president. sunday night on c-span's "q&a." >> ahead of the federal communications commission say the plan is underway to spectrum relinquished by broadcasters, and is expected to bring in up to $15 bill