Apr 17 Manchin-Toomey Deal on Background Checks Facing Uphill Climb Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and her husband Mark Kelly arrive at the Capitol Tuesday with Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., left, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. Emotional appeals. A tense week on Capitol… Continue reading
Apr 16 Letter to Miss. Senator Tests for Ricin An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi twice tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a bombing at the Boston Marathon. Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch Supreme Court Hears Custody Case for Child of Native American Descent Supreme Court Hears Custody Case for Child of Native American Descent… Continue watching
Apr 16 Boston Blasts Put Politics On Hold By Christina Bellantoni Unclaimed finish line bags remain at the scene of the blasts. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. And sometimes, politics just takes a pause. With more questions than answers in the hours since two explosions rocked the scene at the finish… Continue reading
Apr 16 Watch News Wrap: Bipartisan Immigration Reform Bill Makes Quiet Debut in Congress In other news Tuesday, a group of Senators from both sides of the aisle introduced a sweeping immigration reform bill, following months of negotiations. It includes a new farm worker program and visas for high-tech workers. Also, American Airlines had… Continue watching
Apr 15 Explosions Rock Finish Line at Boston Marathon By News Desk // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and others, including an FBI Special Agent-in-Charge, gave a press conference Monday evening updating the situation on the explosions at the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 100. The FBI was now… Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch Gang of Eight Senators Fine-tune Details of Immigration Reform Bill Gang of Eight Senators Fine Tune Final Details of Immigration Reform Bill… Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch Supreme Court Tackles Case of Patent Law, Human Genetics The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case on whether a biotech company can patent a gene associated with cancer. Jeffrey Brown gets details from National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle, plus viewpoints from Ellen Matloff of Yale Cancer Center, a… Continue watching
Apr 15 This Week on the Hill: Immigration and Guns on Deck Tens of thousands of immigration reform supporters marched in the 'Rally for Citizenship' on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington on April 10. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images After two weeks of recess, Congress hit the ground running… Continue reading
Apr 15 Top Five Ways the President's Budget Would Change Medicare By mcarey President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that serve them. That… Continue reading