Testing this. Before i have a few questions, let me just start by i think we have become all too comfortable with loudly interrupting and talking over our witnesses. Thee that may sometimes be way it appears that we operate, i think today we took it a little too far. Worker, government questioning your Public Service. So let me use two words that i was always taught that are very powerful words of that is i am sorry. I join my colleagues cleaver and hines for extending their apologies. Because sometimes i think we forget when we talk about challenging your commitment to Public Service and putting that in question today, i find it very ironic that some of my same colleagues who question your integrity are the same people who furloughed some 800,000 that cost theees government some 24 billion and certainly reduce job growth and a hundred 20,000 jobs because of our shutdown. How does that tie in today . I think we look at the Housing Market and we look at growth and the economy and jobs,
Brand . I think our brand is a constitution, the rule of law, and our value system. Under that brand and under that value system, there is that notion of equal under the eyes of the law, and i know that brand and value system is the ada, trying to balance the rights of americans with diabetics. This is a treaty. A treaty is a law. The emotional and political arguments in favor of the treaty, no one can disagree with these arguments, but the question is, will the treaty have the legal effect thats being proctored by the proponents of the treaty . We dont hear citations to the articles of the treaty. We dont hear consideration of the reports, the concluding observations by the committees of the rights of persons with a diabetic. We dont hear the legal analysis appropriate for analyzing the legal impacts of the treaty. This weekend on cspan, more than 130 countries ratified the u. S. Inspired United Nations disability treaty that failed to gain senate approval. This week, they took up the
Rachel is the Deputy Managing Editor of political. She said that she be be overseeing coverage of major story like the killing of osama bin laden. Before that you may know her as the managing editor of journalist review. Next to rachel we have our next guest. She has gone over to the mainstream and she is eligible for the panel. So did jim agreed to step in and we really appreciate him being here. He is a White House Reporter for the Huffington Post. Also part of leadership on capitol hill. She has spent 40 years with the legislative and executive branches. Probably a walk in the park for her because she started out with the texas state legislator legislature. Again, we thank you for that. Next to her he is the bureau chief head in washington, he started as a reporters reporter. About how he likes we like to describe. He is a thirdgeneration newsman. Down at the under the table is alex mueller, who gives us a different perspective. He gives us a graphic perspective and he has backgroun
This is booktv on location at stanford university. Were all gathered today to hear one of the most controversial authors in the last few decades a list of literary subjects she has likened, offended endangered and embarrassed their ranges from president s and first ladies to connected people and the great and powerful owe her of praise be her name. [laughter] kitty kelley included growing up in the northwest somehow finding her way to ruin the york city that i thought was too boring and made her way to washington d. C. And worked in a currencys office on the press site on the hill and a must have been a york catalyst for the love of investigative reporting and a researcher at the Washington Post to pro and begin her prolific career freelance writing with bestselling investigative books and the airport comes with it such as jackie o. , elizabeth taylor, and nancy reagan reagan, the royals, said the bush dynasty, oprah and of course, the unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra that is a
[laughter] oh, id love to hear there them. Host do you have a web site . Guest oh, i do, thank you. [laughter] say good night, gracie. Its kittykelleywriter. Com. Its kelley, fancy irish, writer. Com. Host kitty kelley has been our guest for the last three hours. Jackie o was her first book in 1978 followed by her least favorite, Elizabeth Taylor the last star, 81. His way the unauthorized biography of frank sinatra, 1987. Nancy reagan the unauthorized biography, 1992. The royals, 97. Oprah a biography, 2010. And her most recent picture books, capturing camelot, and let freedom ring stanley treticks images of the march on washington. Kittykelleywriter. Com is the web site. This is booktv on cspan2. Thank you for being with us the last three hours. Guest thank you. Italies hopes to have my remarks. Thank you very much for than a kind introduction to be here at politics prose it is in a central part of the community and cannot imagine washington without independent bookstores and especia