Grandmother fainted. Right back into the arms of the president. He caught her tenderly and gently. The encore presentation of first ladies, looking at the public and private lives of our nations first ladies. Next week, Anna Harrison to eliza johnson. Cspan, we bring Public Affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings on the white house events, briefings, and conferences and offering complete coverage of the u. S. House, all as a Public Service of private industry. Industryy the cable tv 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite providers. You can watch us in hd. A look at the Defense Departments budget cuts under sequestration and the impact of those cuts on military readiness and strategy. The pentagon will have to cut 500 billion over the next decade. The discussion was hosted by the brookings institution. Good morning. Called dissecting the pentagon strategic choices and management review. I am marvin calvin. I am
The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the campaign to disparage fenty on the campaign trail. Then there is a federal investigation where they learned that there was something much bigger going on which they called the Shadow Campaign. And that was a parallel operation to the Gray Campaign that was done in secret that was not reported, and it was 650,000. Which is nothing to sneeze at. Allegedly, Jeffrey Thompson was the sole funder. You have
It. You do not have the same director or deputy there have multiple people. People under investigation right now. There will be laws. If you look at the Financial Services bill that has gone through appropriations. Not only is the irs defunded for but they have cut the budget. I think the same thing needs to happen with the possible examination of the nsa. But i do not think we ought to immediately toss out a program until we think about it and look at it, you know, and the Homeland Security people on both sides of the aisle tell us it has done the job. Ok. One thing i would like to point out though if the program were abused, we would not know. Let me rephrase that. We would not know it until it was too late. Know or have i read that the way this deal was supposed to work was when the controversy first kind of started, they were going to monitor these phone calls to find terrorists outside the United States. When that person contacted someone within the United States, they were going
Forcing workers and their spouses out of the plans that they like. TaxesCompanies Say that and government mandates make it more difficult to hire, and doctors warned that the law does not come close to addressing the real problems in the health care system. This is not working as promised and the president knows this. Busy handing out waivers and delays. Protectans want to everyone from the Health Care Loss we can focus on stepby step reforms that actually lower costs. We think it is only clear only fair to give all americans the same breaks the president is giving big businesses. President obamas Energy Policies are not our concern. Republicans have in all of the above Energy Strategy that will lower prices and boost manufacturing, and improve National Security. Is blockingident chances to make energy more affordable, such as the Keystone Energy pipeline. Been five years since the keystone application was first filed. This has passed every environmental review. No taxpayer dollars inv
Most important trends for women, which was that american womens Labor Force Participation increased. Not only do they not go home after world war ii, they increasingly enter the labor market across the 19th the 1950s. A history of women in the workplace sunday at 1 p. M. Eastern. Next, highlights from season one of first ladies, influence and image. The 50thdiscussion on anniversary of the march on washington, and the legacy of Martin Luther king jr. Series, first ladies, influence and image. Over the next couple of hours, we will visit places with history curators. Away fighting the revolutionary war, Martha Washington ran their plantation. It is clear that martha arrived at mount vernon in 1859 and there was a lot of management that she had to do. When she married George Washington, she brings with her to mount vernon 12 housemates. That is really almost unimaginable luxury. These are slaves that are for the most part, not field labor, not producing crops, which is where your income