here's tom goldstein. [video clip] >> washington has been abuzz with the historic confirmation of justice sonia sotomayor. i correctly predicted justice sotomayor. thankfully nobody remembers those posts. i'm not saying that i deserve all of the credit for justice sonya sotomayor's confirmation. that matters because no publication is so devoted to the comprehensive coverage of the intersection between politics and power in america as g.q. magazine. >> where did you develop your sense of humor? >> i would say it'll a work in progress. i think it is a little bit -- i like to talk in front of people. if you're really stayed and boring and tired, then you're not going to have a good experience. my big thing is high school and college student was debate. public speech has been part of my favorite. >> where did you grow up? >> i grew up a lot of places on the east coast. i was born in new jersey, princeton. lived wherever around new jersey. there was rutgers campus. my mom and dad, my folks moved to south caroli

next, q and a with tom goldstein. then, president obama tour is more to see damage done by last weeks tornado. after that, another chance to see members of the european parliament have a trade deal with the u.s. >> after president grover cleveland loses the election in 1888, his life tells the staff? -- i want to find everything just as it is now. >> they did return to the white house, winning the election. we continue our series on first ladies live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span, c-span3, c-span radio, and c-span.org. >> this week on "q & a," our guest is goldstein. >> tom goldstein, can you remember when you named scotus blog and why? >> i think it was the very first day when we imagined, hey, what if we created a website? my wife, amy, and i who is the editor and we used the initials of supreme court of the united states, there was this thing called blogging, we called scotus blog.

. >> tom goldstein can you remember when you named scotus blog and why? >> i think it was the very first day when we imagined hey what if we created a website my wife amy and i who is the editor it supreme court of the united states, there was this thing called blogging, we called scotus blog. >> why is what you're doing necessary? >> it's amazing the supreme court is really important institution. everybody got to agree with that to the healthcare decision to affirmative action and same sex marriage. yet with all the coverage of congress and the president, there was no place that was paying complete attention to what the justice was doing. >> why do you think there's so little interest on the part of the general media and

scotusblog founder tom goldstein on sunday at 8:00. >> the senate transportation committee held a nomination during for transportation secretary nominee anthony foxx. he would replace secretary ray -- retiredresigned earlier this year. as is just under two hours. -- this is just under two hours. >> ladies and gentlemen, the hearing will come to order. we have a very distinguished by twoo be introduced very distinguished senators who are good friends of mine. senator burr, do you want to introduce? >> i would be happy to. i thought you and the ranking member were going to go first. >> we will, but we do not want to hold you up. we are kind people. [laughter] >> that means there is a baseball game on this afternoon and you would like to get this over with. [laughter] >> you are right. >> mr. chairman, thank you, and ranking member thing, thank you and members of the committee. it is a pleasure to be with my colleague from north carolina, senator hagan. i want to thank you for holding quickly this important during and for the opportunity to introduce a friend and the mayor of charlotte, anthony

. >> tom goldstein can you remember when you named scotus blog and why?>> i think it was the very first day when we imagined hey what if

[inaudible] > tom goldstein can you-- [inaudible] thank you so much. you did a great job. >> tomorrow, president obama and first lady michelle obama take part in memorial day ceremonies at arlington national cemetery. live coverage begins at 11 a.m. on c-span. now dr. dustin buckley of mercy hospital in oklahoma city talks about their role operating an urgent care facility in the heart of the disaster zone in moore, oklahoma. are with mercy hospital, and i am with one of the -- i am one of the physicians. they need supplies of emergency medicine. we brought them out here. what is found is that people are in need of first aid. this is setup as a temporary temporary clinic, so people who need it, we have three separate exam room to do a more complete examination if they need it. a lot of cleanup crews have come through. there is so much debris. a lot of people are stepping on nails and glass. we came out tuesday afternoon. you could not walk without stepping on debris. it was everywhere. we gave over 200 50 tetanus shot yesterday in the space of about fo

blog'se with scotus founder tom goldstein tonight at 8:00.host: we want to welcome back alexis simendinger, who covers congress and the white house for realclearpolitics. , ic-span radio last thursday talk to scott wilson. he called the president speech one of the most significant speeches of his presidency. you called it a big sky speech with a lot of details in it. what is your take away? guest: the president was really trying to deliver a speech on thursday that in some ways recalibrated or maybe reset his thinking for the american public about where he was, what he has been thinking, his whole counterterrorism policy. i thought that the president was really reaching in a way to assemble a whole lot of moving parts in one speech, but it also helped him speak to the american people about where he andstarted in politics very much as president thinking about the legacy. when we talk about it being a big reset speech, it was a signal in his mind that his thinking about the post-9/11. of being at war against terror in his mind is really wound u

>> more with tom goldstein tonight at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. c-span, this year's commencement addresses from members of congress. first, representative paul ryan at benedictine college. then the house minority leader nancy pelosi at new york law school. then peter king at st. john's university. wisconsin representative and 2012 republican vice president candidate paul ryan gave the 2013 commencement address at benedictine college in kansas. this is about 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. president, alex, where are you, alex? thank you for rekindling that feeling i had at the republican national convention after i followed condoleezza rice. thanks a lot. i appreciate that. [laughter] before i want to get into the commencement, i have heard so many good things about benedictine college. my friend, who spoke last year, called me up and told me about the school. he said you are a tightknit and broad-minded, small sized and bighearted. i have spent a little bit of time here. i got to do p90x this morning. i got to do dinner with the ar