Jan 29 Watch Obama Embraces Bipartisan Senate Blueprint for Immigration Reform President Obama endorsed a bipartisan immigration plan crafted by eight senators, but that blueprint may face hurdles in the House, where some lawmakers are working on a competing plan. Gwen Ifill gets views from Kris Kobach, Secretary of State of… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Bipartisan Senate Proposal on Immigration Reform Reflects Election Response Bipartisan Senate Proposal on Immigration Reform Reflects Election Response… Continue watching
Jan 28 Bipartisan Group of Senators Offers Outline of Immigration Reform By Terence Burlij U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents assist men returning Mexico after they were apprehended for entering the U.S. illegally. File photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. A bipartisan group of eight senators will unveil a blueprint Monday aimed at… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch Shields, Brooks on Obama's Second Term and Hillary Clinton's Exit From State Shields, Brooks on Obama's Second Term and Hillary Clinton's Exit From State… Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch Court Rules Recess National Labor Relations Board Appointments Unconstitutional Court Rules Recess National Labor Relations Board Appointments Unconstitutional… Continue watching
Jan 25 Background Checks Don't Threaten Second Amendment, Biden Says A gun store employee in Los Angeles inspects a semi-automatic rifle. An Obama administration plan to reduce gun violence includes restricting sales of assault weapons. Photo by Reuters/ Lucy Nicholson. Vice President Joe Biden said that a proposal to… Continue reading
Jan 25 This Week on the Hill Speaker of the House John Boehner addresses the 113th Congress in the Capitol. Photo by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque. It was a busy week on Capitol Hill. Barack Obama was sworn in twice for his second term as president (once ceremonially… Continue reading
Jan 25 Senate Approves Bipartisan Filibuster Reform, but Changes Are Modest The U.S. Capitol Building. Photo by Mallory Benedict for PBS NewsHour. The filibuster, with almost all of its procedural warts and bumps, survives. Democratic senators failed Wednesday to end the power of their minority party colleagues to halt… Continue reading
Jan 25 Gwen's Take | Eight Rows Back: The GOP's Murky Path Forward Monday morning in Washington was a chilly place to be if you were a man who imagined you might have been the one facing a Supreme Court justice with your right hand raised. GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan,… Continue reading
Jan 25 Watch News Wrap: Obama Chooses Foreign Policy Adviser for New Chief of Staff In other news Friday, President Obama selected his foreign policy advisor Denis McDonough to replace Jack Lew as White House chief of staff. Meanwhile the Defense Department began eliminating 46,000 Pentagon jobs held by temporary civilian workers, in response to… Continue watching