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12am (ET)
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Reair of Friday Events
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6am (ET)
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Event Highlights from Friday
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7am (ET)
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10am (ET)
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Public Affairs Event
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10am (ET)
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The Employment Situation: July 2011
Joint Economic Committee
Chairman Bob Casey presiding with Vice Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX)
Witness: Keith Hall, commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor
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11am (ET)
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Enhancing Reactor Safety
Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Witnesses:
• Gregory B. Jaczko, chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
• Kristine L. Svinicki, commissioner, NRC
• George Apostolakis, commissioner, NRC
• William D. Magwood IV, commissioner, NRC
• William C. Ostendorff, commissioner, NRC
The hearing focus will be on the NRC’s 90 day report, which was released in July. It lays out numerous areas for improvement, based on the experience in Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. American plants need to plan for simultaneous accidents at adjacent reactors, something they have never done.
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1:15pm (ET)
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Drought and Famine in the Horn of Africa
Senate Foreign Relations-Subcommittee On African Affairs
Panel One:
• Nancy Lindborg, assistant sdministrator, Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development
• Donald Yamamoto, principal deputy assistant secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs
• Reuben Brigety, deputy assistant secretary of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
Panel Two:
• Jeremy Konyndyk, director of policy and advocacy, Mercy Corps
• J. Peter Pham, director, Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, Atlantic Council
• Wouter Schaap, assistant country director, CARE International Somalia
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3:10pm (ET)
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Ethnic Clensing and Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan
House Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health And Human Rights
Witnesses:
• Bradford Phillips, president, Persecution Project
• Andudu Adam Elnail, bishop, Anglican Diocese of Kadugli, Sudan
• Luka Biong Deng, president, Kush Inc.
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5:15pm (ET)
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Pentagon Briefing
Department of Defense Briefing
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
& Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen
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6pm (ET)
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President Lyndon B. Johnson Series
October 1968--Vietnam and the Presidential Campaign
Today, C-SPAN Radio begins a month of the LBJ Tapes: Some of President Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 phone calls, from the final release of these conversations by the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, and airing for the first time on C-SPAN Radio.
In this first program, you’ll hear October, 1968 calls where LBJ talks to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Richard Russell about the pending bombing halt in Vietnam, the Paris Peace Talks, and about the presidential election.
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6:55pm (ET)
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NBA & NFL Collective Bargaining
National Bar Association: 86TH Annual Convention
Panel:
National Basketball Players Association’s (NBPA) executive director, William “Billy” Hunter
National Football League Players (NFLPA) Association’s DeMaurice Smith
Moderator: Perry Wiley
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8pm (ET)
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Public Affairs Programming
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8:25pm (ET)
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National Conservative Student Conference
Young America's Foundation
Speaker: Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)
Topic: “the expanding role of the federal government”
Introduction: Janie Abel, Sarah T. Hermann Intern Scholar
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9:10pm (ET)
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National Conservative Student Conference
Young America’s Foundation
Speaker: Sen. Marco Rubio(R-FL)
Introducer: Frank Donatelli
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9:45pm (ET)
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American History TV Lectures in History
One of the most iconic political advertisements in American history was the 1964 “Daisy Girl” spot produced by the presidential campaign of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Professor Robert Mann teaches a course on political communication at Louisiana State University. This class looks at the history of campaign advertisements.
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11pm (ET)
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