our guests for that discussion is wendy ginsburg.e here at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> i think -- [video clip] >> these women were attracted to men who were going to become politically active or were already politically active. >> each of them i find contract -- i find intriguing, half of them precisely because they are so obscure, historically. half of them would be totally unrecognizable to most men and women on the street. >> this president's day be premier our new series, "first lady's." interviews with historians, chiefs of staff, social curators, exploring the lives of the women who have been first lady. in a first of its kind project for television, season one begins on monday night. watch the program earlier in the day, live on c-span. >> members of president obama's cabinet were before the senate approriations committee today outlining their sentiments of what would happen if the automatic spending cuts, the sequestration, went into effect on march 1. they discussed homeland security housing, and education. this is