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Washington Journal for Thursday, May 24

Washington, DC

Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK), Budget Committee Member

Topic: Our guest will talk about his plans for job creation and helping small businesses.  He’ll address energy issues and weigh in on the White House’s track record on fossil fuel development and the future of green power.  The Senator will also share why he’s an advocate of the Law of the Sea Treaty, and explain his criticism of the relationship between the Federal Reserve and big banks.

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., American Spectator, Founder & Editor in Chief

Topic:  Guest will discuss his latest book which chronicles “the dubious rise and inevitable fall of the deeply flawed Liberal/Progressive movement.”

Eli Saslow, Washington Post, Staff Writer 

Topic: Eli Saslow is the author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President.”  Saslow will highlight and discuss a few of the letters that he focused on in his book, and the research/process he went through getting these stories.  Saslow will discuss the laborious process of getting a letter to the President through an entire staff and division of the White House.

Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 11am (ET)

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