Guest on in depth to take your calls on goveren and legal reform in america. Heas written six books including the collapse of the common good, life without lawyers, and his bestseller the death of common sense. His latest book not accountable is a critique of publicsector unions. Joined a live conversation with attorney and author Philip Howard sunday at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2. Senators Amy Klobuchar and rob portman have been awarded the madison prize for constitutional excellence from American University school of Public Affairs for their bipartisan cooperation on capitol hill. Following the awards ceremony both senators spoke indepth about their experiences working across the aisle to pass legislation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome everyone. Thank you for being with us this evening. I am vicky wilkins, the dean of the school ofth Public Affairs t American University, and i am pleased to welcome me to tonight madison prize for constitutional exc
Discussion on defense spending. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. How do we decide how much the u. S. Should spend . I know about the federal budget but i am more confident comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity tax incentive, state local Tax Deductions and the Defense Budget. I called my colleague at brookings and put the question to him. How much should the u. S. Spend on defense . He said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on our website but he has promised he will not try to read them all here. I want to start with a question i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense . Can we get they wind up . The short answer is we spend a lot. There are a lot of ways to measure this but lets start with a few things. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget on the fiscal year. We spent about 900 billion on disk defense. 12 of all federal spending. You c
Discussion on defense spending. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. How do we decide how much the u. S. Should spend . I know about the federal budget but i am more confident comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity tax incentive, state local Tax Deductions and the Defense Budget. I called my colleague at brookings and put the question to him. How much should the u. S. Spend on defense . He said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on our website but he has promised he will not try to read them all here. I want to start with a question i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense . Can we get they wind up . The short answer is we spend a lot. There are a lot of ways to measure this but lets start with a few things. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget on the fiscal year. We spent about 900 billion on disk defense. 12 of all federal spending. You c
Discussion on defense spending. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. How do we decide how much the u. S. Should spend . I know about the federal budget but i am more confident comfortable talking about things like Social Security, the opportunity tax incentive, state local Tax Deductions and the Defense Budget. I called my colleague at brookings and put the question to him. How much should the u. S. Spend on defense . He said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on our website but he has promised he will not try to read them all here. I want to start with a question i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense . Can we get they wind up . The short answer is we spend a lot. There are a lot of ways to measure this but lets start with a few things. This is a pie chart that shows how we spent the federal budget on the fiscal year. We spent about 900 billion on disk defense. 12 of all federal spending. You c
Good morning. I am the director here in brookings but i want to welcome everybody to the event today. How much money for defense is enough . This event began with a call i got from someone i respect he said to me, simply, how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend on defense . I know a bit about the federal budget, but i have to confess, im a lot more comfortable talking about things like Social Security, low Income Home Energy assistance programs, the state and local Tax Deduction and about the Defense Budget. So i called michael hamlin, my colleague here, and i put the question to him. How much of the u. S. Spent on defense. Mike said, funny last, i just finished a 20,000 word answer to that question. So here we are. You could read it on her website, but he promised me he wont try to read them all today. I want to start today with a question i can answer. How much the u. S. Spent on defense. The short answer is, we spend a lot on defense. There are lots of ways to measure