Nov 18 What's in the Senate Food Safety Bill? After several years of high-profile salmonella outbreaks involving eggs, peanut butter and other foods, the Senate on Wednesday moved forward with the most significant food-safety bill in 70 years. If it passes, the bill would expand the Food… Continue reading
Nov 18 Obama Administration to Make Push for Ratification of New START Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senate Foreign Relations ranking Republican Dick Lugar, R-Ind., discuss New START at the Capitol on Wednesday. Photo by Douglas Graham/Roll Call. President Obama will meet… Continue reading
Nov 17 Guantanamo Detainee Ghailani Convicted on Just 1 Charge by N.Y. Jury The first suspect transferred from Guantanamo military prison to stand a civilian trial was acquitted late Wednesday of nearly every charge that he helped with terrorist attacks on two American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people in… Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch New START Treaty a Top Priority For Democrats in Lame-Duck Session Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the Senate to vote on the U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty called New START in the lame-duck session. But the Obama administration is getting push-back from some senators who say a vote now would be a… Continue watching
Nov 17 Delaware's Mike Castle Offers Some Praise, But a Warning for Tea Party Up until a couple of months ago, the front-runner in the race to fill Vice President Joe Biden's former Senate seat in Delaware was the at-large member of Congress from the state and former governor, Republican Mike Castle. Continue reading
Nov 17 The Many Ways to Trim a Deficit: More Debt-Cutting Proposals Unveiled Two more plans to cut the federal deficit and rein in debt landed Wednesday. The problem, as laid out by former Sen. Pete V. Domenici and Alice M. Rivlin, who led President Bill Clinton's budget office, is long-term… Continue reading
Nov 17 Pelosi Staves off Leadership Challenge, Elected Minority Leader, Boehner to Be House Speaker House Democrats chose Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the next minority leader, despite opposition from within the party following losses in the midterm elections. Pelosi, along with the newly selected leaders of the House Democrats for the 112th Congress,… Continue reading
Nov 17 Clinton: 'We Must Go Forward' On Nuclear Treaty Senate Foreign Relations Commitee chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., listens as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a statement on Nov. 17, 2010, following a meeting with the committee to discuss ratification of a new START. Speaking on Capitol Hill,… Continue reading
Nov 17 House Democrats, Republicans Set to Choose Leadership A worker performs maintenance on the dome of the Capitol earlier this week. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. House Democrats and Republicans plan Wednesday to choose their leaders for the 112th Congress, with the results likely to reveal… Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch Can New START Treaty Survive Partisan Divide in Congress? Margaret Warner looks into the U.S. political battle over whether to ratify a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. She talks to two experts in such negotiations: Richard Burt, chief U.S. negotiator during the START talks in 1991, and… Continue watching