Jun 24 House Votes Show Mixed Feelings on Libya Mission 4:30 p.m. ET | A second vote in the House of Representatives Friday portrayed a complex portrait on Congress' attitude toward the Libya mission, with a vote to cut off some of its funding falling short by a 238-180 vote. Continue reading
Jun 24 A Skeptic’s Guide to the 2012 Debate Over Manufacturing Job Losses By Dante Chinni The unemployment rate is more than 9 percent. Banks are swimming in foreclosures. It's no wonder that the 2012 campaign is shaping up to be about the economy. Who wouldn't want to "fix" numbers like those? Ah, but there's the… Continue reading
Jun 24 With Debt Talks Stalled Over Taxes, It’s Up to Obama and Boehner President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. File photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. With five weeks to go before the U.S. government could begin defaulting on its financial obligations, it's now up to President Obama and House Speaker… Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch The ‘Long, Dark and Dirty’ Story of Whitey Bulger’s Career and Capture James "Whitey" Bulger, the legendary Boston crime boss and one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. Margaret Warner speaks with with Boston University's Dick Lehr about the notorious fugitive's career, influence on Hollywood… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch White House, GOP Budget Deficit Talks Hit a Wall: Now What? Budget deficit negotiations between Vice President Joe Biden and GOP lawmakers broke down Thursday after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor pulled out over the question of raising taxes. Judy Woodruff discusses the breakdown and what's ahead with The Washington Post's… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Obama Solicits Support for Afghanistan Drawdown Amid Varied Reactions President Obama announced Wednesday that 10,000 U.S. troops are slated to leave Afghanistan by the end of this year and another 23,000 will pull out by the end of 2012. Kwame Holman reports on the range of responses to the… Continue watching
Jun 23 Watch Gates: I Was ‘ Strong Advocate’ for Afghanistan Surge to End in Summer 2012 Gates: I Was ' Strong Advocate' for Surge to End in Summer 2012… Continue watching
Jun 23 Obama and Boehner Take Center Stage as Republicans Walk From Biden Talks Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., left, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., walk to the budget talk meeting with Vice President Biden and other Congressional leaders in Sen. Reid's office on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (Photo By… Continue reading
Jun 23 Angry Times in California California's Legislature is terribly unpopular. In March, just 16 percent of the public approved of the job the lawmakers were doing. So there was a collective cheer you could almost hear from San Diego to Eureka when the… Continue reading
Jun 23 Obama’s Middle Ground on Afghanistan Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place President Obama's address Wednesday night is shown in the White House press briefing room. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. By seeking the middle ground in unwinding U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, President Obama now finds himself on an… Continue reading