,epublicans www.c-span.org (202) 737-0002 republicans , independents (202) 628-0205. the hill newspaper this morning reports that shutdown are no shutdown lawmakers will get paid. the constitution requires all members of congress be paid. it is merely a question of timing. shutdown pay for house members can be withheld temporarily. and in political this morning, president obama canceled his asian trip to fight the government shutdown. he was scheduled to leave washington this weekend to go to ali and brunei. kerryary of state john will take the president s place. back to the hill newspaper. this is an article, a long article that was in political this morning. bad blood for feuding leaders. senate majority leader harry fellowivately told democratic senators this week what he really thought of speaker john boehner. a little bit from the politico article this morning. as we announced prior to coming up on the washington journal,. joining us for a few minutes is robert
next, hugh hewitt talks about the elements that go in to achieving happiness. this is about an hour. thank you, jonathan quite a lot actually. it s always great to be back at the nixon library, especially on the eve of the 101st anniversary of nixon s birth, especially to celebrate with friends of the library who come offing. as many of you know, in late 1988, the phone rang. i was searching for president reagan and his administration. on the other end this president nixon asking me to come back to your belinda to oversee construction of the library for a couple years. so i was very, very pleased to do so. it was a shining jewel and anyone watching on c-span across the united states who has never been to the nixon library, you want to come here. it s an extraordinary celebration of the american presidency, but also extra or a lead, the small house that frank nixon built from a kit and continued through a life measure in decades that achievement, not hours of achievement,
welcome to all of you whether you re in person or online. it s my pleasure to be able to host this on behalf of the heritage foundation. i am thee, director here which s the center at heritage foundation that enables issue of life and this is a historic week obviously. in fact, i can t imagine a better time for us to host this event than the one we have this money. i want to make it we are cohosting this with a friend at the national review institute and the ethic and public policy center. so thanks for joining us. so we are packed with a discussion about this brand-new book as i know you all know about this but it s a brand-new book by ryan anderson and alexandra desanctus. so afterwards for those of you who are here in person feel free if we a have copies of the book for sale you can get them signel and you can actually talk to the authors as well but let me very briefly introduced our panel and then i ll handed over to the very first art moderate this tmorning is kathr