National book award for nonfiction. Retired army colonel identifies the events he believes led to americas increased presence in the middle east over the last few decades in americas war for the greater middle east. Watch the announcement of the National Book awards live on cspan2 on november 16. Many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on booktv. Euchre watch them on our website booktv. Org. Will. The book is titled first lady for president ial historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women. Its now out in paperback and mark farkas from executive producer behind the series and this project is joining us. Lets talk about Hillary Clinton, one of the first ladies featured. You talk about her roles in the first eight years of her husband presents. What will readers learn . There so many different scenes from her life. Youll learn about how she will approach potentially being president , how she handles the press. One of the authors who is part of the Hillary Clinton c
And they passed a bill extending Technical Education programs, and a resolution calling for a new agreement with israel about u. S. Military assistance. Also today, the house began debate on a bill to make it easier for the department of Veterans Affairs to fire and promote its employees. Debate on the bill will continue tomorrow and we are expecting a final passage vote. Earlier this afternoon, Republican Congress and john fleming offered a resolution to impeach irs commissioner john costin and. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 2a1, i rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house. The form of the resolution is as follows. House resolution 828, impeaching john Andrew Kosten and, mmissio Revenue Service for high crimes and misdemeanors. Resolved, that john andrew costky anyone, commissioner of the internal Revenue Service is impeached for high crimes and zpheerns and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the senate. Articles of i
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Congress with security clearance and takinged a note in oaths why do you assume that because we read it that it will suddenly get out . It is not only a question of disclosure, it is a question of privilege. The fact that we provided with third party that could potentially be in argument we have raised the privilege and discoverable by other individuals. What were trying to do is to protect Law Enforcement responsibility. Question, ifther there is a piece missing, there is nobody up here another sign that wants to do anything to criminal with a investigation. Sure you can do your job but you got to know that we are trying to do our job, too. And if there is caselaw supporting what you just said, do we have that . Kadzik we would be glad to continue these discussions. I would cite the ftc versus owens when the Congressional Committee compels production to does not prevent assertion in privilege. It is well documented you were hiding this may American People. Was the client who is the cl
Rights were targeted . Not that im aware of. Do you know if they were transcribed . I do not. And you dont know if john was interviewed . I do not. You think you should have been interviewed, the guy presiding over the Internal Revenue service, your agency, and he is the commissioner when 420 two backup cases are destroyed, containing emails . Do you think it would be maybe a good thing to do in an investigation . Tie did a thorough investigation. For the people who were targeted notified . That im aware of. Do you know Catherine Engelbrecht . I am familiar. The lady who was audited both personally and your business by the irs, visited by the epa, atf, osha, all law she was trying to clean up voter registration. The full weight of the government came down on her. She was contacted before you decided . I dont know. People were interviewed in the context of the investigation. One last question, sir. You are going to talk to us in a few weeks with a briefing. Next week. When you think we