Marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. Throughout the weekend we bring you a few interviews and tours from the tvs recent visit to andy reid, pa. At 4 45 eastern, a look at the smartest kids in the world with amanda ripley. At 11 00 p. M. Dumbing down accords how politics keep the smartest judges off the bench tomorrow at 5 00 eastern, we bring you a collection of programs about the Federal Reserve chairman and at 6 45 from the recent southern festival of books linda barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. Visit booktv. Org for this weekends television schedule. Dr. James swanson is latest book is a history of the kennedy assassination for young adults is next on booktv. I am here to welcome you to this session of the southern festival of books and introduce you to our author for this evenings session. As you know our writer for this session is James Swanson who is the Edgar Award Winning author of the New York Times bestseller ma
I would hope that others would also agree. Mr. Grassley i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer the clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, james donato of california to be United States district judge for the Northern District of california. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The yeas and phas nays are orde. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is yielded back and there will be two minutes of debate equally divided between the two leaders or their designees. Order, please. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley for the benefit of the people of this country that have been listening to the complaints in the senate from senators about not approving judges, let me remind everybody that at this point, weve approved over 220 judges appointed by this president and only two have been disapproved. Thats more than 99 . As far
Receive pushback from congress and veterans groups. You can call in this morning we have also set aside a line for active and retired military this morning host as always, you can join us on social media, our facebook page, and you can always email us. Walk usus now to through the announcement from the Defense Department, a defense reporter from the wall street journal. Your story has this headline, the defense to department targets new threats. What are the new threats and what does it mean for the changes in store for the Defense Department . Is the end of an arrow for the u. S. Military. The war in afghanistan is coming to an end. Ground forces are coming home. We will have no more than a few thousand troops in afghanistan. The military has to pay her back because of budget spending. Now we are looking at emerging threats in asia. People are looking at china, threats on the open seas, threats in cyberspace. This is where we have been turning our focus. We have been talking about a p
On May 21, 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped Bobby Franks and bludgeoned him to death. The "thrill killing," one of many to be dubbed "the crime of the century," remains a puzzle.
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