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Guest host: Steve Roberts
Election year politics fuel new energy tactics in the Congress. Tuesday House Democrats passed a bill to ease the ban on off-shore drilling and increase alternative energy use, while Republicans called the measure a political trick.
David Sandalow, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; author "Freedom from Oil;" served as an assistant secretary of state and senior director on the National Security Council staff in the Clinton administration
Sara Banaszak, senior economist, American Petroleum Institute
Chris Holly, reporter, "The Energy Daily"
Guest host: Steve Roberts
No document in American history may be more revered than the Constitution. Laurence Tribe explains why what is not written into the revered document is just as important as the words on the framers wrote.
Laurence Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University and author of more than 100 books and articles, including "American Constitutional Law," "On Reading the Constitution," and "Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes."
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