Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/on-wednesdays-newshour-47 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter On Wednesday’s NewsHour: Simpson and Bowles Economy Dec 1, 2010 1:31 PM EDT Here’s what’s coming up on Wednesday’s NewsHour … POLITICAL DEAL-MAKING: From tax cuts to jobless benefits, the deal-making race is on for lawmakers before the end of the lame duck session of Congress. Gwen Ifill will report on the details. NEWSMAKERS: SIMPSON AND BOWLES: The president’s bipartisan fiscal commission released a revised deficit trimming proposal Wednesday in the hunt for compromise on a final plan. Judy Woodruff will talk to the panel’s chairmen: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS: From Colorado, Tom Bearden reports on the fight against Mexican drug cartels, some 1,000 miles north of the border. Then, Margaret Warner talks to reporter Nicholas Casey, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Mexico. *CHICAGO POLYTECH * As part of our NewsHour Connect series showcasing public media from around the country, Ash-har Quraishi of Chicago News Cooperative reports on a school preparing youth for manufacturing jobs. All that and Hari Sreenivasan will have the day’s top stories from our newsroom. Stay tuned. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now
Here’s what’s coming up on Wednesday’s NewsHour … POLITICAL DEAL-MAKING: From tax cuts to jobless benefits, the deal-making race is on for lawmakers before the end of the lame duck session of Congress. Gwen Ifill will report on the details. NEWSMAKERS: SIMPSON AND BOWLES: The president’s bipartisan fiscal commission released a revised deficit trimming proposal Wednesday in the hunt for compromise on a final plan. Judy Woodruff will talk to the panel’s chairmen: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS: From Colorado, Tom Bearden reports on the fight against Mexican drug cartels, some 1,000 miles north of the border. Then, Margaret Warner talks to reporter Nicholas Casey, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Mexico. *CHICAGO POLYTECH * As part of our NewsHour Connect series showcasing public media from around the country, Ash-har Quraishi of Chicago News Cooperative reports on a school preparing youth for manufacturing jobs. All that and Hari Sreenivasan will have the day’s top stories from our newsroom. Stay tuned. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now