Jul 27 Watch Plouffe: We Won't Accept Boehner's Short-Term Deal A vote on Speaker Boehner's debt plan was delayed until Thursday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the bill would cut $850 billion instead of the promised $1.2 trillion. Gwen Ifill discusses the ongoing stalemate with President Obama's senior… Continue watching
Jul 27 Woodruff: Animosity Abundant in Washington From almost any vantage point, Washington looks pretty dysfunctional right now. I spent the first part of this week in Clovis, Calif., next door to Fresno in that state's fertile Central Valley, working on a story to air… Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch Live: Rep. King Hearings on Terror Recruitment On Wednesday the House Homeland Security Committee is holding hearings on the threat of al-Shabab, the militant group based in Somalia, recruiting within the United States. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who is chairman of the committee, has said that more… Continue reading
Jul 27 Boehner Heads Back to the Drawing Board as His Debt Plan Hits Snag A vote on Speaker John Boehner's debt plan was delayed after the CBO said it would save less than advertised. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. House Speaker John Boehner was already having trouble with his right flank in… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch As Debt Deadline Draws Close, Parties Dig in, Markets Prepare Mondayt's dueling speeches by President Obama and House Speaker Boehner only seem to reinforce the state of the stalemate over raising the debt ceiling. Jeffrey Brown discusses the entrenchment in Washington with The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib, The New… Continue watching
Jul 26 Can the Boehner Plan Pass? Update, 3 p.m. ET | According to a just-released statement, "The Administration strongly opposes House passage of the amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 627. If S. 627 is presented to the President, the… Continue reading
Jul 26 Oregon Congressman David Wu to Step Down Amid Sexual Allegations Embattled Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., announced Tuesday he will resign amid allegations he had a sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman. The decision by the seven-term congressman comes a day after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on the Ethics… Continue reading
Jul 26 No Deal in Sight After President Obama, Speaker Boehner Address Nation President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner address the nation. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, both delivered primetime television addresses to the nation Monday night appealing to the American people to see it their way… Continue reading
Jul 25 Obama, Boehner Still 'Quite Far Apart' on Debt Deal President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner butted heads yet again Monday night over the way to resolve the nation's debt crisis. In back-to-back primetime addresses, the president and the speaker outlined great fundamental differences that remain with barely… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Watch Obama's, Boehner's Full Debt-Ceiling Remarks The full remarks of President Obama and Speaker John Boehner. Continue watching