Sep 08 Will Open Health Data Save Your Life? After one of health administrator Jim Traficant's two liver transplants, a doctor told him, "The surgery is a science. The medication is an art." Over the next few months of recovery, Traficant's body fought with his new liver. The organ… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch GOP Congressman: Restrained Spending Buoys U.S. Economy Gwen Ifill gets a Republican view on President Obama's latest economic proposals from Illinois congressman Peter Roskam. Continue watching
Sep 08 Watch Geithner: Bush Economic Policies Made Recession Worse In an interview with Jim Lehrer, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that President Obama deserves credit for stopping an economic "free fall," exacerbated by the fiscal policies of the Bush administration. Continue watching
Sep 08 Geithner: Past Policy Choices, Politics Making It Harder to Fix U.S. Economy By News Desk In a newsmaker interview with Jim Lehrer, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday afternoon that economic policy decisions made before this administration took office -- and the current political climate -- are teaming up to make it harder to fix… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch News Wrap: Fla. Pastor Sticking to Quran-Burning Plans In other news Wednesday, Pastor Terry Jones says he will continue with plans to burn Qurans on the anniversary on 9/11 despite opposition from around the world. In Afghanistan, hundreds flocked to the Kabul Bank to withdraw savings after two… Continue watching
Sep 08 Obama Proposes Tax Incentives, Says GOP Is Delaying Economic Progress By Quinn Bowman President Obama challenged Congressional Republicans during a speech on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland Wednesday, saying the opposition party is obstructing good economic policy for political gain, while supporting policies that contributed to the recent recession. Continue reading
Sep 08 8 Key Failures Led to Gulf Oil Spill, BP Report Says By Jenny Marder In its long-awaited internal report on this summer's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP blamed contractors Halliburton and Transocean for many of the problems leading up to the country's worst-ever oil spill -- igniting anger from the companies blamed. No… Continue reading
Sep 08 Do Poll Numbers Portend a 'Wave' Year for Republicans? GOP pollster Glen Bolger told The Hill newspaper Tuesday, "It's a wave year (for the Republicans.) The question is, 'How high is the wave?'" For some context, here are the polling numbers that Political Editor David Chalian discussed… Continue reading
Sep 08 Wednesday: BP Releases Report on Gulf Spill; Obama to Propose Economic Plans By Tom LeGro In a 193-page report posted on its website Wednesday, British oil company BP partly blamed itself for the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill, as well as companies Transocean and Halliburton and a… Continue reading
Sep 08 President Obama Takes On Boehner President Obama and House minority leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. File photo/Getty images. It's not often that a House minority leader's schedule can dictate the president's schedule. But that's precisely what is happening Wednesday. White House press secretary Robert… Continue reading