Dec 10 Watch Obama's Tax-Cut Deal With GOP Appears to Gain Momentum Jim Lehrer recaps the latest developments in the battle in Washington over whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts -- and for whom. Continue watching
Dec 10 Deconstructing the President I am not much for putting U.S. presidents on the couch, but there was something about watching Barack Obama striding into the White House briefing room with fists clenched the other day that appealed to the Sigmund Freud in… Continue reading
Dec 10 Bush v. Gore: Ten Years Later By News Desk // Ten years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of the most-watched decisions in its history, ruling 5-4 to stop a statewide recount in Florida after the 2000 presidential election. The decision meant that Republican candidate George W. Continue reading
Dec 10 Gibbs Expresses Hope For New START in Lame-Duck Congress White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has been a sometimes-lonely voice of optimism that the Senate will approve the Obama administration's New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia before the current lame-duck congressional session comes to an end. Gibbs… Continue reading
Dec 10 The Morning Line: For President Obama, Now Comes the Hard Part President Obama at the White House this week. Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images. If you think the greatest challenge currently facing President Obama is getting the $858 billion tax cut deal through Congress, think again. The Senate appears… Continue reading
Dec 09 Senate Republicans Block 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal By News Desk File photo by Getty Images Senate Republicans blocked White House-backed legislation Thursday afternoon that would have repealed the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and allowed gay and lesbian troops to serve openly. The 57-40 test vote was three… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch Pelosi, House Democrats Balk at Tax Cuts Deal, Seek Changes House Democrats dug in against President Obama's tax-cut compromise with the GOP, taking a non-binding vote Thursday not to bring the bill before the full House without some significant changes. If no bill is passed, taxes will go up in… Continue watching
Dec 09 Congress Patches Payment Gap for Medicare Doctors Congress once again headed off a pay cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients by stopping a 25 percent decrease in the amount the federal government pays them to take care of seniors. The cut was scheduled to take effect… Continue reading
Dec 09 House Dems Reject Tax Deal, Senate Holds Off on DREAM Vote President Obama's compromise with Republicans on a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts hit a speed bump today: House Democrats took a non-binding vote, where a majority rejected bringing the compromise up for a vote on the House… Continue reading
Dec 09 Senate to Consider Tax Cuts, DREAM Act in Day Packed With Votes Supporters of the DREAM Act recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol on Wednesday. The bill would allow a path to citizenship for children who entered the country illegally. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call. The Senate… Continue reading