Jul 28 Watch In Obama-Boehner Debt Ceiling Standoff, Who Will Blink First? It was poised to be a decision day in the House of Representatives on Thursday as Speaker John Boehner faced a key test of his leadership. Jeffrey Brown and David Chalian discuss the debt plan vote, which was abruptly postponed… Continue watching
Jul 28 House GOP Leaders: Boehner Bill Reflects Compromise Updated 10:48 p.m. ET Republican leaders have announced that there will be no vote on the Boehner debt plan Thursday night, after hours of efforts to corral enough support to pass the measure. Politico reports: The House… Continue reading
Jul 28 Obama Preps Emergency Plan if Debt Deadline Passes With No Deal With six days left before the debt ceiling deadline arrives, there will be no shortage of reporters trying to glean intelligence from President Obama's closed-door meeting with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Thursday afternoon. But there's one thing the… Continue reading
Jul 28 House Republicans Rally, But Senate Dems Throw Cold Water on Boehner Plan House Republicans met Thursday in the basement of the Capitol, consulting each other as they prepare to deliver a judgement on Speaker John Boehner's biggest test yet: can he rally House Republicans to his version of a debt limit… Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch Live: Boehner Plan Debated in the House Free live streaming by Ustream House Speaker John Boehner's plan to cut the deficit by $917 billion… Continue reading
Jul 28 Speaker Boehner Faces His Biggest Test House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is questioned by reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday. Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call. When the House of Representatives votes on Speaker John Boehner's plan to cut the deficit by $917 billion over… Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch News Wrap: Kandahar Mayor Assassinated in Suicide Bombing In other news Wednesday, the mayor of Kandahar was assassinated in southern Afghanistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a heavily fortified government compound. Also, the prime minister of Norway announced that an independent commission would investigate how… Continue watching
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