Feb 01 Senators Introduce Spending 'Straightjacket' A Republican and Democratic Senator introduced a bill Tuesday that would force Congress to make difficult long-term spending cuts by capping the amount of money the federal government could spend relative to the country's Gross Domestic Product. Sen. Bob… Continue reading
Feb 01 Brown Looks to Spend Political Capital on Fixing California's Budget Mess Jerry Brown -- California's new Democratic governor -- is getting away with something that most politicians these days can only dream about. He has plunged into California's huge budgetary mess -- the state is short $25.4 billion --… Continue reading
Feb 01 Mini-Slide Show: Kennedy Center Shows Off VSA Commissions By Molly Finnegan Three installations, "Diverse Design," "Finding the Way to Balance" and "Sticky Situations," are on show through February 13, 2011 at the Kennedy Center. Continue reading
Feb 01 Democrats Select Charlotte to Host 2012 Convention By Terence Burlij View of Charlotte, N.C.; Creative Commons photo courtesy Willamor Media In 2008, President Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina in more than two decades, and with Tuesday's announcement that the 2012 Democratic National… Continue reading
Feb 01 Players in Egypt's Opposition Movement By Talea Miller Tens of thousands of protesters are filling the streets in Cairo today, responding to the call for a one-million strong demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak. While the massive uprising over the last two weeks has occurred largely without strong, centralized… Continue reading
Feb 01 Judge's Health Care Ruling Sparks Political, Legal Debate A man protests the health care reform law at a rally in Washington, D.C., last year. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images. In the most sweeping denouncement of the law to date, a federal judge in Florida ruled… Continue reading
Jan 31 Florida Judge Strikes Down Obama Health Care Overhaul Updated 5:45 p.m. ET A federal judge in Florida became the first Monday to declare the new health care law - in its entirety - unconstitutional. It is the biggest challenge yet to the new law, with governors and… Continue reading
Jan 31 Political Checklist: Egypt Crisis Changes the Agenda at the White House By Quinn Bowman DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s47aeq101c', 'YrkW_QIcFSo', '29'); In this edition of the Political Checklist, Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff discuss how a foreign affairs crisis like the popular revolt in Egypt forces a White House to change its… Continue reading
Jan 31 Obama Administration Taking Cautious Approach to Unrest in Egypt In this White House photo taken Friday, President Obama talks on the phone with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as Vice President Joe Biden and the national security team listen in the background. Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty… Continue reading
Jan 31 Protests Continue in Egypt, Investigation Into Afghan Bank Shows Massive Fraud A week after protesters first converged on downtown Cairo, tens of thousands continue to march and call on President Hosni Mubarak to step down after 30 years in office. Mubarak's televised announcement after midnight Saturday did little to… Continue reading