Feb 09 Spending Battle Faces Major Hurdles in House Congress has until March 4th to come to an agreement on how to continue to fund the government, and that job could be difficult, especially for House Republican leaders who have lost two of the past three bill votes on… Continue reading
Feb 09 Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Ceiling Despite Critics Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner expressed confidence Wednesday that Congress will vote to raise the ceiling on the national debt. Members of Congress know it is "unthinkable," he told a town hall meeting sponsored by Atlantic Magazine and Microsoft, that the… Continue reading
Feb 09 CIA Employee Mistakes Preceded Promotions The CIA fails to hold agents and senior managers to consistent levels of accountability when they make mistakes, even in instances where people have been killed or wrongly imprisoned, according to an investigation by the Associated Press published Wednesday. Continue reading
Feb 09 Webb’s Retirement Complicates Democrats’ Hold on Senate Majority Creative Commons photo courtesy Flickr user cliff1066 Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., the former Navy secretary who rode the 2006 Democratic wave to a United States Senate seat from Virginia, announced his plan to retire Wednesday, which also happens to… Continue reading
Feb 09 Economy, Spending on the Menu for Obama’s Lunch With House Republicans The White House. Photo by dasjabbadas via Flickr. President Obama will welcome the top three Republicans in the House of Representatives for lunch Wednesday at the White House, part of his renewed outreach to GOP lawmakers since the… Continue reading
Feb 08 Republicans Rekindle Abortion Debate on Capitol Hill Throughout the 2010 midterm election cycle, one of the most familiar, and accurate, narratives was that social issues had played a very diminished role in the fight for control of Congress. Cultural battles that have divided America since the 1960s,… Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch Cities, States Face Tough Choices on Debt Amid Cash-Flow Concerns Wall Street investors and some in Congress recently have raised concerns about the risk of cash-strapped municipalities defaulting on bonds they issued. Judy Woodruff talks to the National League of Cities' Chris Hoene and Richard Larkin of Herbert J. Sims… Continue watching
Feb 08 Political Checklist: Obama’s Chamber Speech, Rumsfeld ‘Re-Litigates’ the Past In this week's Political Checklist, senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff speak with Political Editor David Chalian about President Obama's speech to the Chamber of Commerce and whether it marks a pro-business shift for the White House. Continue reading
Feb 08 Funding Shortage Threatens AIDS Drug Programs For the past year, William Kibler has relied on Florida's AIDS Drug Assistance Program to help provide the medicine he needs to stay healthy. Kibler, who has been HIV-positive for 24 years, lost his health insurance last year… Continue reading
Feb 08 Federal Spending, Visualized By Tim Peters In his State of the Union address, President Obama said that, "Because you deserve to know exactly how and where your tax dollars are being spent, you will be able to go to a website and get that information… Continue reading