Jan 04 Watch Shields and Brooks on Sandy Relief and Fighting Irish Shields and Brooks on Sandy Relief and Fighting Irish… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch Firestorm of Criticism for Cabinet Nominee Front-Runner Chuck Hagel Firestorm of Criticism for Cabinet Nominee Front-Runner Chuck Hagel… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch Last Jobs Report of 2012 Shows Slow Growth, Looming Economic Uncertainty Last Jobs Report Shows Slow Growth but Economic Concerns Growing in Next Months… Continue watching
Jan 04 Taxpayers Say 'Cliff' Deal Doesn't Go Far Enough to Boost Economy, Reduce Debt EmbedVideo(5387, 514, 320); After a protracted battle that culminated in dramatic votes in the wee hours of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, the White House and Congress finally agreed upon a deal that kept the country… Continue reading
Jan 04 Barack Obama Officially Elected President: An Electoral College Primer The U.S. Congress certified the presidential election Friday by counting Electoral Votes, part of a long procedural tradition with few quirks and moderate excitement. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch Taxpayers react to fiscal cliff deal Taxpayers react to fiscal cliff deal. Continue watching
Jan 04 U.S. Debt Ceiling: Costs and Consequences Photo of U.S. Capitol by Flickr user UlisesJorge via Creative Commons. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The U.S. Treasury has borrowed trillions of dollars over the past decade, much of it from… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch News Wrap: FDA Proposes Strict New Safety Rules for Farmers, Food Companies In other news Friday, the Food and Drug Administration proposed far-reaching new food safety rules to prevent deadly outbreaks of food poisoning each year. Also, President Obama's re-election was made official when the Electoral College were certified and tallied in… Continue watching
Jan 03 Swearing Off Resolutions... Kind of I have never been much for making promises that I know will be impossible to keep. But if you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am more of an optimist than anyone who covers Washington has any… Continue reading
Jan 03 Judy's Notebook: Burden of a Generation As I watched the drama leading up to the Senate and House votes this week on the so-called fiscal cliff, my mind kept turning to young people. In particular, the giant generation of "millennials," those born in the 1980s and… Continue reading