host: we will talk more about that with tom luce until around 10:00 a.m. this morning. the labor department projects that by 2014 there will be more than 2 million job openings in science, technology, engineering, while the number of americans graduating with those degrees are plummeting. vermont, go ahead diane. caller: thank you for c-span, the best reality show on television. [laughter] the education thing is a big deal around here, vermont has a certain amount of choice depending on where you live. public education is the most concerning thing to me as a parent. i have rescued two sons from his public school systems and have had to teach them myself because of the ever present 70-30 split. as an educator you know that it does not matter how much money you throw at it, you will still have 70% of kids that will adapt well and 30% of kids that absolutely need their parents to have a choice when they are young. why does the department of education insist on putting all children into one category? as i listen to you talk by your children this, we need this and that, we a

host: tom luce, thank you for talking to our viewers. guest: thank you. host: go to our website, c- span.org, to find out the events we are covering today in washington. the president will give his back to school speech at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. a stakeout after meeting with caucus members with mitch mcconnell after the meeting on the small business bill. live coverage on c-span 2. thank you for watching. ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . 21st century. it's a day-long sem far, hosted by the civil rights excision. we'll have live coverage. and the u.s. house returns from its summer recess today. they will consider bills. a measure to let the navy secretary sign multi year contracts for fighter jets. our live coverage will begin at 2:00 eastern. with the house and senate back in session, follow congress using the c-span video library's congressional chronicle. just click on congress. with the midterm elections ahead, it's a great resource for anyone who follows congress. it'

after that a discussion of education with tom luce. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. on c- span. later, a daylong conference on civil rights in the 21st century examining various aspects of civil rights policy in history. that is live at 11:00 a.m. eastern. now, a look at the nuclear arms treaty signed in april by obama and russian president dmitry medvedev. the measure must pass the senate by 2/3 majority to be ratified. the state department and georgetown university hosted this event. >> is a pleasure to welcome -- it is a pleasure to welcome rose gottemoeller, richard burt, and david hoffman. let me say one important thing. it is always special to welcome back to graduate of georgetown university. especially a distinguished one like secretary gottemoeller who was a student in what used to be the school of languages and linguistics where she majored in russian. she also taught here at georgetown in the master of arts in chairman studies. -- german studies. it is a pleasure to have her back. out further ado, dav

tom lluce is our guest -- tom luce is our guest. later, a conference on civil rights in the 21st century examining aspects of civil rights history. that is why at 11:00 a.m. eastern. next come at the senate's impeachment trial of thomas porteous. he is accused of corruption and engaging in a kickback scheme with a louisiana law firm. the full senate voting sometime this fall. here is the opening portion of today's trial. >> good morning. the evidentiary proceedings of the impeachment trial committee against judge thomas porteous of the eastern district of louisiana will come to order. this committee was appointed to perform the duties and exercise powers provided for role 11 of the procedure and practice. role of 11 requires this committee to take evidence on the four articles of impeachment presented by the house of representatives. we are here to begin receiving evidence. at the conclusion the committee shall report to the full senate in writing a certified copy of the transcript and testimony given before this committee. a statem