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
Jan 06 Watch House Reads Constitution, Trims Budgets as GOP Targets Health Reform A busy second day of the 112th Congress began with a reading of the Constitution on the House floor. Though some Democrats joined in the reading, the parties sparred over the deficit with Democrats' asserting that budget-cut exemptions could add… Continue watching
Jan 06 Watch News Wrap: Daley Named White House Chief of Staff; al-Sadr Back in Iraq In other news Thursday, William Daley, part of a Chicago political dynasty, was named White House chief of staff. Also, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who commanded a militia combating U.S. and Iraqi troops, returned to Iraq from four years of… Continue watching
Jan 06 Dueling Deficit Messages Mark Early Days of Congress Senate Democrats came out swinging Thursday against the new House Republican majority, claiming that proposed exemptions and tax cuts will increase the federal deficit. They say Republicans will be spending more than they are planning to cut, exactly what they… Continue reading
Jan 06 Judy Woodruff: Battles Brew Over the 14th Amendment While members of Congress took turns reading the Constitution out loud on the House floor Thursday -- a move initiated by the new Republican majority -- there's a serious battle just getting underway over one section of the… Continue reading
Jan 06 William Daley Named Obama's Next Chief of Staff Updated 2:50 p.m. | President Obama introduced William Daley as his new chief of staff Thursday, calling him an experienced public servant, devoted patriot and friend. Daley, a former Secretary of Commerce under President Clinton with Wall Street experience,… Continue reading
Jan 06 Members of Congress Read U.S. Constitution on House Floor Members of the new Congress devoted a portion of their second day of the new term to reading the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. Read an annotated guide to the full… Continue reading