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Friday, April
29, 2005
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Social Security
President Bush on Thursday called on Congress to consider
his proposal for Social Security reform. 
Robert
Pozen, author and proponent of the "progressive indexing" plan that
the president favors, and Gene Sperling, former national economic advisor to President
Clinton, assess President Bush's proposal and what it would mean for current and
future retirees.  Congress
Approves New Budget
Congress this week approved a $2.6 trillion budget
plan for 2006, which calls for new tax cuts and spending reductions in the next
five years. Vietnam
30 Years Later
Ian Williams of Independent Television News reports
on the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war.
Shields
and Lowry
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and National Review editor
Rich Lowry join Jim Lehrer to discuss the House ethics battle, President Bush's
plan for Social Security and the GOP proposal to block filibusters for judicial
nominees. U.S.-South
American Relations
In the wake of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's
visit to South America this week, Ariel Dorfman, novelist and professor at Duke
University, and Alvaro Vargas Llosa, senior fellow at the Independent Institute,
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Thursday,
April 28, 2005
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| | Iraq's
New Government
Iraq's National Assembly approved a new government
Thursday after nearly three months of political wrangling. Margaret Warner discusses
Iraq's new government with Adeed Dawisha, professor of Middle Eastern politics
at Miami University of Ohio; Tareq Ismael, professor of Middle Eastern politics
at the University of Calgary in Canada; and Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East
Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Problem
Gamblers
Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles takes a look at some troubled
gamblers. Economic
Snapshot
The Commerce Department released a report Thursday, which
stated that the gross domestic product increased 3.1 percent from January to March,
down from 3.8 percent the previous quarter. Ray Suarez explores the state
of the American economy with Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist for Lasalle Bank
in Chicago; Dawn McLaren, a research economist at the Seidman Research Institute
at Arizona State University; and Anirban Basu, CEO of Sage Policy Group. Frozen
in Time
Terence Smith visits the Bettmann Archive, one of the world's
most renowned private collections of historical photographic and graphic images.
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Wednesday,
April 27, 2005
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| | House
Ethics Battle
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said Wednesday
that he is prepared to retract controversial ethics rules passed earlier in the
year aimed at shielding House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, from a probe
into the outside funding of some of his travels. Ray
Suarez speaks with Gebe Martinez of the Houston Chronicle about the day's events
and Richard Cohen, co-editor of National Journal's Almanac of American Politics,
about how the latest partisan wrangling fits into the broader ethics debate. Newsmaker:
Charles Duelfer
An 18-month investigation into Iraq's purported cachet
of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) ended Monday when the CIA's top weapons
inspector Charles Duelfer released a final report saying no WMDs were found. Margaret
Warner speaks with Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, about his report and
the flaws in America's intelligence on Iraq's WMD program. Darfur
Update
The African Union is seeking to bolster its presence in the
troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Minnesota's
Twin Cities Public Television reports on the ongoing violence in Darfur. Supreme
Court Watch
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a
case stemming from the collapse of Enron. Several justices expressed their dismay
with the way a jury was instructed before convicting accounting firm Arthur Andersen
of obstructing justice. Terence Smith speaks with Jan Crawford Greenburg
of the Chicago Tribune about the day's arguments and which decisions are still
pending from the court. North
to History
Jeffrey Brown looks at a British and American team's incredible
37-day journey to the North Pole. |
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Monday, April
25, 2005
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| | Judicial
Wars
On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist, R-Tenn., delivered a taped speech to a nationwide broadcast in which
Christian conservatives, during other segments, attacked Democratic senators for
blocking judicial nominees described in the program as "people of faith."
Gwen Ifill leads a discussion on the use of filibusters to block controversial
judicial nominees with Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill. The
Troubled State of Human Spycraft
Margaret Warner looks at the current
state of human spying as new national intelligence director John Negroponte begins
his first full week on the job. Venezuelan-U.S.
Relations
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make her first
trip to several Latin America countries on Tuesday in an effort to promote democracy
and improve governance. Her visit coincides with the United States' growing concern
with Venezuela and its alliance with Cuba and President Hugo Chavez's announcement
that he was terminating a military exchange program with the United States. Ray
Suarez speaks with Arturo Valenzuela, professor of government and director of
the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University, and Miguel Diaz,
a Latin American analyst who worked at the CIA in the early 1990s, about the growing
tensions between the United States and Venezuela. |
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