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it is all available on television, radio, online and on social media networking sites. find our content any time through c-span video library. we take c-span on the road with our digital bus and local content vehicle bringing resources to your community. it is washington your way, the c-span networks now available in american 100 million homes created by cable, provided as a public service. year's student kacam competition ask students to consider washington, d.c. through their lens. today's third prize winner addressed a topic that better helped them understand the role of the federal government. >> when we ask a service member go to a fortune count -- a forn country to defend the freedoms we don't ask what the cost is to them. we don't ask are they ready to go. they pick up that pride of service and go without question. we as a nation shouldn't question the cost that it will take us to provide for them when they return from combat. >> due to personal involvement of my father and issues related to service and war i chose that. >> i talked to him about his aspect of what congress should do with legislation. you think that congress should provide

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c-span 2. >> the c-span networks. it is all availableon television, on-line, and on social meet networking sites. find our content any time at the c-span video library. it is washed in your way -- it is washington your way. provided as a public-service. >> a discussion on political unrest in the arab world. speakers include peter ackerman, founding chair of the international center on nonviolent conflict. also, jack goldstone, a george mason professor. >> thank you, david. it's a pleasure to be here at cato. thank you ev >> thank you for coming. curiosity about events and north africa. why did the dictators who seem to be immovable suddenly find the strength of their regimes fail and their power dissipate. i think peter is absolutely correct, the skills and the power of the deliberate campaign of the nonviolent resistance are the immediate answer, these movements in tunisia and egypt were not spontaneous outpourings , they were the fruit of years of oanizing which had produced numerous student demonstrations and labor strikes but it took

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we have been watching it from the start right here on the c- span networks but we have it all available online at c-span.org. you can watch hearings, read briefings, and see the analysis. you can track your representative who has voted on some of the issues related to this spending and budget debate. all of that is at our website, c-span.org. >> is washington works on funding for the current fiscal year, debate has also started on next year's federal budget. see what has been said from capitol hill to the white house, on line at the c-span video library. search, watched from a cliff, and a share, with everything we have covered since 1987. it is what you want, when you want. >> and we expect the house of representatives to come back in in about 15 minutes or so, we're told it up until then, more on the spending into the budget with a member of the budget committee. host: we want to welcome back paul tonko, a member of the budget committee. thank you for being with us. guest: it is good to be with you. host: where do we stand? guest: i am hopeful we can come to a successful conclusion. i

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the friday spending deal. we will have his remarks live from george washington university on c-span radio and c-span3. >> the c-span network. we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, in history. it is availablen radio, television, on-line, and social media networking site. go to our video library on the internet. we also have a local content vehicle bringing news to your community. washington your way. the c-span network. created by cable, provided as a public service. >> the nasa administrator testifies about his agency's 2012 budget request. the request is for $18.7 billion. if approved, it would be for the next fiscal year. this senate appropriations subcommittee hearing is for 1 hour 25 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] 1] >> the subcommittee on science will come together. today, we take the testimony of administrator hon. astronauts and general charles boden for the fy12 request and talked- about how this might be in light of what we have just gone through. the administrator, we are glad to see you. we want to thank you for coming and we remind you that this hearing normally occurs on thursday mornin

the aspen institute tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on a c-span2. >> the c-span networks. we provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is available on television, radio, online, and the social media sites, and find our content any time on line at the c-span video library pratt and we take our -- and time on line on the c-span video library. created by cable, provided as a public-service. >a discussion now on the afghanistan war strategy, troop costs, counterinsurgency operations, peace negotiations. speakers include thomas pickering, a former undersecretary of state, along with a co-founder of the afghanistan it study group. the group offered to a report last year calling for the obama administration to change its strategy on afghanistan. this is an hour and half. >> morning. thank you all for joining us. i am at steve clemons of the new america foundation and i block note.he washington there are lots of blogs running this concurrently this morning and afternoon. we will discuss u.s. policy on the afghanistan war. we have a very dynamic session with the voices and people that captured not only, i think, the political spectrum, bu

. >> the c-span networks provide coverage of policy, public affairs, non-fiction books, and american history. it is all available on radio, television, on-line, and on social media at networks. find are content through the video library. we take it on the road with our bus, bringing it to your community. we are now available in more than 100 million homes. created by cable, provided as a public service. >> republicans can win a the 2012 election if they can make it about politics. there were several stops in new hampshire. our is considering running for president in 2012. and he has some remarks. this is about one hour. [unintelligible] >> welcome. this is my wife. >> hi. i have a wife of [unintelligible] [unintelligible] how are you doing? great to see you. thanks for having me. >> governor. meridian, mississippi, 1982. naval air station. >> we teach you how to fly? >> you did. >> looks like it worked. >> i miss ad few birds and a few people. >> we're not very good at that. >> i'm the manchester committee chairman. pleased to meet you. mike and i go back a long ways. >> great guy. >> good to see you here in new

the videos online anytime at studentcam.org. >> pcs and networks provide coverage of public affairs, non- fiction books come and american history available on television, radio come on line. find our content than the time for c-span video library. -- c-span on the road for our digital boss, the local content vehicle. bring a resources to your community. now available in more than 100 million homes. created by cable and provided as a public service. host: august now is financial reporter for "the washington post" is ylan mui. were prices now and where are they headed? what does the future look like? guest: the national average for a gallon of gasoline is about $3.79 which is significantly up from last year. we have seen sales rise 2.6% compared to the previous month. we know they are higher, but the question is how high will they go and how long will it take to get there? that is something being debated right now. unrest in the middle east, libya, this is all coming together to push gas prices up. are we entering a new era in which rising global demand from emerging markets like china, india are going to be pushing a gas prices overall for quite some time? if that happens, that can mean big changes for the domesti