First of all, want to thank all of you for being here today. Thank my Ranking Member carden and his staff and the flexibility they have. Its kind of interesting, ben cardin and i were maybe three of the last remaining of the class of what was yeah. 1987. Were we have lamar smith and a couple more. Anyway, its funny. Were on opposite sides and a lieutenant of issues that were always together in friendship as well as in infrastructure. As this weeks infrastructure week, its a great opportunity for us to highlight the critical needs we have in this country. Tomorrow the full committee will have the chance to question secretary chow. The Epw Committee led the charge to pass the fast act, the highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. This was the largest one since 1998. Nobody believed that wed get it done. Others thought that wed only get an 18month bill that senator boxer and i insisted on five years and it shows that people of different floss kiss can get along and make w
Reasons. Tell us done. Newt first, with a negotiator at the table, i like our chances of having an american first global accord rather than a Global Forest the global first. The fact that we have 195 countries around this table, and they range from developing countries to developed countries, it seems like there were responsibilities, as the exceptional country at the table, and opportunity for the United States and United States business to be at that table and influence Global Energy policy ourat the same time sell products, goods and technologies as part of the solution for many other countries. The export opportunities and diplomatic ones seem too great to turn down. Host what part of the deal do want him to renegotiate . Guest i think we start with the pledge, that is to say the 26 to 28 reduction pledge. It seems unrealistic. I think it disadvantages the United States when you consider that other countries have much more modest pledges, and in some cases, like china, they continu
Digital activism and the study of repression which is how private actors try to control protests. Lets start with the digital half of this. What is a tactic that you write about in your book . The book we introduced is cowritten by Katrina Porter and i and what we were trying to do is really highlight the wide variety of ways in which people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social challenges using Digital Media to turn people out to offline events. Inc. About the support that happens for instance for the womens march. That is one popular way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or Digital Media on activism, but in the book katrina and i wanted to look at it a different way that people use tools which is to actually engage in activism online, so think about online petitions, online letterwriting campaigns or we might talk about something bar last contention will like a Service Attack where people use tens of thousands of compute
Within your means please pot buy books at the book tent. This festival is free to all of us, but book sales are important because it helps publishers and convinces them to send their authors to the book festival and we would like to continue to make this festival grow. Its now my great privilege to introduce our speaker, Sidney Blumenthal was the former assistant and Senior Advisor to president bill clinton and Senior Advisory to Hillary Clinton and began his career as a journalist and has been an National Staff reporter for the washington post. Washington editor and staff writer for the new yorker and Senior Writer for the new republic as well as contributor to many other publications. He has also written several bestsellers, the clinton wars, rise of the counter establishment and the Permanent Campaign and has worked in television and film was executive producer for the Academy Awards taxi to the dark side. He is here with us today to talk about his newest book, wrestling with his an
Proceedings lincoln knew how to use a fun to advantage, an opposing liar who claimed he could bring a man to prove an alibi heard lincoln shooting back i have no doubt you can bring a man to prove a lie by. You can watch this and other programs online a book tv. Org. Book tv tapes hundreds of other programs throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some events we will cover this week. Monday, National Press club in washington where derek grapple report on the us governments doomsday plan. That evening we fly out to california where former speechwriter and Senior Advisor to president richard nixon, pat buchanan will shed light on the inmate nixon administration. On wednesday, to the macarthur memorial where Washington Post Foreign Correspondent peter eisner will recall how the contingent of filipinos and americans survived Japanese Occupation of the philippines during world war ii. Also that evening in denver at the chatter cover bookstore to hear Laura Cardwell discuss how 14 e