Mar 01 Gov. Walker: Tuesday Is Deadline for Bill Thousands rally outside Wisonsin's capitol building protesting the proposed budget repair bill. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker plans to give a budget address detailing his priorities for the next fiscal year at 5 p.m. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch President Obama Shifts on Health Care Reform Law for States President Obama announced he supports a change allowing states to opt-out of certain provisions of the health care reform law at an earlier date. Judy Woodruff talks with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch President Obama Shifts on Health Care Reform Law for States Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Orrin Hatch discuss the president's compromise on health care. Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch Threat of Government Shutdown Fades With New Spending Proposal Kwame Holman reports on a Republican-backed proposal gaining support from some Democrats that could reduce the threat of a government shutdown. Continue watching
Feb 28 Political Checklist: Obama Meets the Governors, a Gov't Shutdown Is (Temporarily) Averted, and the Oscar Goes to ... Last week, Gwen Ifill and David Chalian discussed the very real possibility that the federal government could face a shutdown if GOP House leaders and Senate Democrats could not come to an agreement on spending. This week,… Continue reading
Feb 28 Iowa's Top Republican Sizes Up 2012 Field By David Chalian Iowa Republicans may be souring somewhat on Sarah Palin. According to a Des Moines Register poll out Monday morning, Palin's favorable numbers have slipped from 71 percent to 65 percent in the last 15 months, while the segment of… Continue reading
Feb 28 Stopgap Puts Shutdown Talk on Hold A girl visiting from of Allentown, Pa., poses in front of the U.S. Capitol last week. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call. It looks like a government shutdown has been averted -- for now. Senate Democrats have signaled they… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Shields, Brooks on Collective Bargaining's Future, Shutdown Chances, Libya Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's political news, including possible 2012 Republican presidential candidates, state budget crises, the threat of a federal government shutdown on March 4 and U.S. response to the… Continue watching
Feb 25 The Doubleheader: Walker's Prank Call, Government Shutdown Prospects and Basketball's Carmelo Anthony By Quinn Bowman, Hari Sreenivasan [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prRSN7io1hs] The Doubleheader is back this week, and Mark Shields and David Brooks tackle Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's phone call with a blogger who pretended to be billionaire and conservative financier David Koch. Mark and David were at… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Govs. Daniels, Schweitzer on Looming Federal Government Shutdown Governors across the U.S. are struggling to balance budgets and slash spending in a tough economic climate. Judy Woodruff talks to Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Democratic Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer about the collective-bargaining battle and what impacts a… Continue watching