House conveniences for business at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. The house is expected to take up Energy Legislation that week. Live coverage of the house of representatives is on cspan. On cspan2, the senate comes back monday at 3 00 p. M. Later that day the Senate Begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u. S. Agency for international development. Coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the Civil Rights Division. They heard members from that division. This is about three hours. This hearing will come to order. Welcome to everyone here. Welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. The purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of Law Enforcement. A great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing Police Officers the subject of public vilification. Seeing Police Officers being undermined and hearing from Police Off
Transitions and segues from one issue to another, even though they werent in the same order he would have wanted them to be taken up. Decisiondable care act almost looks like the cards were shuffled, in the sense that he was able to form one majority on the Commerce Clause issue and then segue to the taxing power issue. It shows an enormous skill in counting to five and seeing what positions he can espouse that will get him to victory, even if its a small or incremental steps. Its very effective and will continue to be. The only other big thing that is tote dramatic if you come the court, i will show you around. The remarkable thing is to look three women. See left, center, and right on the court. It has had a tremendous effect on the court as well. Mayor are and soto very forceful justices. Theyre both going to make it difference over time. Sotomayor still thinks she is on a threemember court, which she was on the Second Circuit, because she tries to dominate the argument with questio
War on the poor. My district is also very low income. Manufactured housing is a big deal. 50 of the homes in my district are manufactured housing. And yet, the policies really made it very difficult for banks to lend on that. I suspect that your staff has made known to you that these pressures exist. Have you all discussed that in any greater detail that wed need to look out for the people on the low end of the income spectrum . Well, qm was a policy adopted by the Consumer Financial protection bureau. I think they are trying to address a set of practices that resulted in unsafe and unsound okay. Well, thank you. Lending. But it is very important to monitor their impact on credit availability. One of the reasons that weve been able to get by with a qe is that were the worlds reserve currency. Has the fed thought at all about whats going to happen when more nations are expressing discontent that were printing money and were devaluing what theyre holding . So weve seen countries trade wi
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
Sailboat races, and the big competition at the time was between the u. S. And the soviet union. I mean, and hed been in world war ii which was, which was another big battle against this totalitarian, evil empire. Its one of these things, you dont even need one of those cell phones or, you know, magic ear sticks, you know . You just go around and they press a button, and you walk into the room and you hear her voice. And each room of that house, shes talking about some sort of, you know, they live near the catholic church, and she liked to go there with the kids every day so that they saw that mass wasnt just for sundays, and, you know, theres a picture of mary and jesus in the bedroom where kennedy was born, and theres a picture of the vatican in the dining room. And he made these speeches about godless, evil capitalism at notre dame and at assumption which are catholic colleges. And, you know, he could say, well, he wanted he was pandering to the catholic audience or the catholic vote