Feb 24 Watch When Congress comes to a standstill, it's local officials who feel the pressure By PBS News Hour While Congress debates how to move forward on Department of Homeland Security funding, thousands of county officials from across the U.S. are on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to act on a wide range of issues, including immigration. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch 7:46 As diversity increases, will U.S. be more or less politically divided? By PBS News Hour The United States is rapidly transforming into a more diverse, more educated and older nation. Gwen Ifill talks to Karlyn Bowman of the American Enterprise Institute and Ruy Teixeira of the Center for American Progress about a special collaborative report… Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch 10:07 What President Obama's veto means for Keystone's future By PBS News Hour A bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was the first order of business for the Republican-led Congress this year, and today that bill was vetoed by President Obama. Gwen Ifill gets two views from Jeremy Symons of… Continue watching
Feb 24 Administration: No quick fix if court kills health subsidies By Alan Fram, Associated Press President Barack Obama's health secretary told Congress Tuesday that there is no administrative action that would fix the "massive damage to our health care system" that would result should the Supreme Court invalidate federal subsidies that help millions of Americans… Continue reading
Feb 24 Who were the biggest presidential vetoers? By Domenico Montanaro With his veto of the Keystone Pipeline, President Obama issued the third veto of his presidency. That is the fewest of any president since James Garfield in 1881. Continue reading
Feb 24 Christie proposes $33.8 billion budget for next fiscal year By Jill Colvin, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is proposing a new round of major pension and health benefit cuts for public employees in his budget address Tuesday, a day after a judge ordered his administration to restore $1.57 billion in delayed payments… Continue reading
Feb 24 Kerry defends Iran negotiations before Congress By Matthew Lee, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry defended Tuesday the Obama administration's nuclear negotiations with Iran, saying the U.S. policy is to prevent the Iranians from getting atomic weapons. Continue reading
Feb 24 The 3 possibilities in the shutdown showdown over Homeland Security By Lisa Desjardins, Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe With four days left until the Department of Homeland Security runs out of funding (Friday at midnight), the politics remain complicated but the options for Congress are simple: (1) Let DHS funding run out, (2) Fund the agency for the… Continue reading
Feb 23 Watch 10:08 Analyzing the impasse over Homeland Security, politics at the Oscars By PBS News Hour Gwen Ifill speaks with Nia-Malika Henderson of The Washington Post and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report about Republican motives in the fight over funding the Department of Homeland Security, who to be on the lookout for at two… Continue watching
Feb 23 Watch 4:14 News Wrap: Congress faces deadline to fund Homeland Security By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, Congress must approve a budget for the Department of Homeland Security by Friday. If lawmakers can’t break the impasse over the president’s immigration actions, about 30,000 workers could be furloughed. Also, winter’s latest icy blast… Continue watching