Jan 10 Watch Arizona Shooting Suspect Makes First Court Appearance Tom Bearden reports from Tucson on the aftermath of Saturday's shooting massacre, which killed six and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded. Continue watching
Jan 08 Congresswoman Giffords Shot by Gunman in Arizona, Judge Killed Updated 2:15 p.m. ET, Monday, Jan. 10 President Obama called for a national moment of silence in honor of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other victims of the shooting rampage in Arizona Saturday that killed six people. Giffords remains hospitalized… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch Shields and Brooks on the New Congress, Obama's Staff Revamp The 112th Congress has convened and President Obama has started making big changes to his senior staff. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks assess these and other top political headlines. Continue watching
Jan 07 Health Reform Watch: Repeal Vote Set for Wednesday, CBO Says Repeal Would Raise Deficit Updated: Jan. 10, 11:50 a.m. Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Sunday postponed the House's legislative agenda, including a planned Wednesday vote to repeal health care reform, due to the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The NewsHour's Morning Line… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch New to Washington, Ohio's Renacci Aims to Keep Outsider Perspective In the second in a series of conversations with members of the new Republican House majority, Ray Suarez shadows incoming Rep. Jim Renacci, a former car dealer from Northeastern Ohio, as he and his family travel to Washington to settle… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch News Wrap: GOP Advances Attempt to Repeal Health Reform In other news Friday, the new Republican majority in the House took a formal step in an attempt to repeal health care reform. Democrats fired back, saying millions of Americans will be hurt if the law is repealed. In Afghanistan,… Continue watching
Jan 07 Where Does the Tea Party Stand With Americans, New Congress? On Thursday, as their first act, members of the new Republican-led House read the U.S. Constitution aloud. The reading was not about civics - one would assume lawmakers have the basics down by now - it was… Continue reading
Jan 07 Of Symbols and Meaning: Or, How to Read Too Much Into Anything Just a few weeks before Christmas in 1996, I was seated in the front row in an auditorium at the Old Executive Office Building across from the White House. My job, then for NBC News, was to cover the announcement… Continue reading
Jan 07 President Obama to Name Sperling as Head of National Economic Council President Obama is set to tap Gene Sperling, left, as his top economic adviser. File photo by Jay Mallin/Bloomberg via Getty Images. With a new day comes yet another staff announcement by the White House. President Obama is… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch Ways and Means Chairman Camp: 'We Will Have $100 Billion in Cuts' Judy Woodruff talks to Republican Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, who serves as the new chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, about budget-cutting goals, raising the federal debt limit and what the GOP can expect to accomplish… Continue watching