Appearing before Congress Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson defended her agency’s study of the impact of a natural gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracking on water contamination. Lisa Jackson testified before two House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee’s on the President’s 2013 budget request. The EPA budget would decrease by 1.2%, totaling $8.3 billion. In related news, the EPA limits on greenhouse gas emissions are being challenged this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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On March 3, 1913 - the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration - over 5000 women paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the White House in a demonstration for the right to vote. American History TV attended a centennial celebration of the event and interviewed organizers, participants, and historians about the women’s suffrage movement. The aniversary event was organized by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, whose original 22 founders marched in the parade.

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Open for business in 1861 and located about six blocks from the capitol building, the United States Government Printing Office still prints the Congressional Record each day that the House and Senate are in session. We visited to learn the history of GPO and to see some of their historic printing jobs, including the "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion," which took twenty years to print, and the twenty-seven volume "Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy."

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DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano addressed cybersecurity issues at a joint hearing of the Senate Commerce Commmittee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

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The House Judiciary Committee looks at target killings of American citizens by unmanned drones. The hearing, chaired by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), examines the Obama administration's drone policy and guarantees of due process on the battlefield for U.S. citizens.

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Guests Charles Evans Jr. and Victor DeNoble discuss the documentary film that chronicles DeNoble’s unexpected discovery of an ingredient in tobacco which, the data revealed, when coupled with nicotine makes cigarettes more addictive. The research and the company’s attempts to keep it private lead to Congressional testimony before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The movie details how this public revelation of DeNoble’s findings led journalists, politicians, attorneys and scientists to join forces against the tobacco industry,  which ultimately resulted in the first ever federal regulation of the tobacco industry. Evans discusses how and why he went about making the film, which began when he first watched Dr. DeNoble’s testimony on C-SPAN in 1994. DeNoble talks about growing up in New York, his early work at the Philip Morris Company and what it was like to testify before Congress on such a controversial subject.

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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democratic leaders spoke to reporters and answered questions. They talked about the sequestration and attempts to prevent the automatic federal budget cuts from going into effect on March 1, 2013.

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Senate Historian Donald Ritchie explains the history of the State of the Union from George Washington to the present. The interview includes historic video clips, photographs, and artwork depicting joint sessions of congress.  Following the interview, portions of several State of the Union Addresses will be shown.

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Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the House Democratic Conference's retreat, Friday. The President told the assembled Congressmen that gun legislation need not be "toxic" to Democrats.

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The President spoke at a policy retreat for House Democrats' in Leesburg, Virginia.

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