Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
Issues of this past week. If you want to talk about any of those topics or have another on your mind, give us a call. Host you can also catch up with us on social media on twitter, facebook, or email us. Host a very good friday morning to you. The top issues of the week of become the top issues of friday morning papers. Here are a few of the headlines from the National Papers around the country. Here is front page of the Washington Times republican budget plans will be a tough sell even within the party. A story about the Iranian Nuclear negotiation Democrats Join ranks against iran nuclear deal. Islamic state claims attack in tunisia that kills 20 tourist. Congress is debating use of military force against isis. The wall street journal talking about that highprofile Federal Reserve meeting this week. Currencies go on wild ride, fueled by fed is the headline there. New york times, two stories on the israeli election this week. One is a political analysis piece on how it could reverbera
Will persevere and stay with something until you get it done. I survived a bout of appendicitis. My 10 this my appendix actually ruptured. It was hours before actually had any medical attention to deal with that. Did not know what it was. I felt better after it ruptured. Intensive care for weeks, titos major surgery spirit my folks thought they were going to lose me. You did not know it was just that it had ruptured . I did not. It suddenly felt better and the pressure was relieved and i went outside and played, on a saturday. I that night, i was doubled over in pain. I asked my mother during that time, am i going to die . She said we do not know, but we are praying and we think you will make it. Our weeklong profile of congressional freshmen begins to my night with representative Steve Russell tomorrow night on cspan. Also tomorrow night, portions from a recent conference of independence. Speakers discuss changes to the political system that could help candidates and the advantages of
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