Jul 29 President Obama: 'Plenty of Ways Out of This Mess' EmbedVideo(1134, 482, 304); The morning after House Speaker John Boehner failed to secure enough support to hold a vote on his debt-limit plan in the House -- a measure that Senate Democrats and the White House had said… Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch President Obama Urges Congress To Vote On 'A Bill I Can Sign' President Obama Urges Congress To Vote On 'A Bill I Can Sign'… Continue watching
Jul 29 Decision to Delay Debt Vote Produces Only Losers House Speaker John Boehner arrives at the Capitol on Friday morning. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Thursday night's decision by Republican leaders to scrap a vote to raise the debt ceiling dealt House Speaker John Boehner a stunning… Continue reading
Jul 29 Norway Mourns Massacre Victims One Week After Attacks A friend of Bano Rashid, one of the victims of the massacre on the youth camp of the Norwegian Labor Party, walks ahead of Rashid's coffin carrying her portrait. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images. One week after a bombing… Continue reading
Jul 29 Vote Delay on Boehner Plan Adds Uncertainty to Debt Ceiling Endgame House Republicans failed to secure the support necessary to pass Speaker John Boehner's debt-limit increase plan Thursday night, forcing the GOP leadership to delay a vote on the measure as the United States inches toward its borrowing limit Aug. Continue reading
Jul 28 Bachmann's 'Titanium Spine' Doesn't Bend Under Questioning By James Melia Rep. Michele Bachmann took to the podium Thursday in Washington at a sold-out National Press Club luncheon to restate her commitment against voting for a debt ceiling increase, but the surging Republican presidential hopeful also seized the moment to demonstrate… Continue reading
Jul 28 Watch From Ohio to Nevada, Voters Fed Up With Debt Ceiling Deadlock A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll found 80 percent of American are either dissatisfied or angry with the federal government's inability to reach a compromise to avert default. Judy Woodruff discusses the public mood with a reporter and a political… Continue watching
Jul 28 Watch In Obama-Boehner Debt Ceiling Standoff, Who Will Blink First? It was poised to be a decision day in the House of Representatives on Thursday as Speaker John Boehner faced a key test of his leadership. Jeffrey Brown and David Chalian discuss the debt plan vote, which was abruptly postponed… Continue watching
Jul 28 House GOP Leaders: Boehner Bill Reflects Compromise Updated 10:48 p.m. ET Republican leaders have announced that there will be no vote on the Boehner debt plan Thursday night, after hours of efforts to corral enough support to pass the measure. Politico reports: The House… Continue reading
Jul 28 Obama Preps Emergency Plan if Debt Deadline Passes With No Deal With six days left before the debt ceiling deadline arrives, there will be no shortage of reporters trying to glean intelligence from President Obama's closed-door meeting with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Thursday afternoon. But there's one thing the… Continue reading