Nov 15 New Members Show Up for Orientation Day on Capitol Hill Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, R-S.D., talks with reporters during freshmen orientation at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 15, 2010. (NewsHour photo by Quinn Bowman) Monday was the first day of new member orientation on Capitol Hill, where a huge class… Continue reading
Nov 15 Rangel Walks Out of Ethics Trial; Says He Needs a Lawyer Rep. Charles Rangel , D-N.Y. walked out of his ethics trial on Capitol Hill today after the House Ethics committee refused to delay the proceedings. Rangel argued in his opening statement that he did not have enough time to… Continue reading
Nov 15 Political Checklist: Lame Duck Confit DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s455dqfc4', 'news01s455dqfc4', '29'); Today is the first day of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. What will (and what won't) they accomplish in the next few months before a new, more Republican Congress is sworn in? Gwen… Continue reading
Nov 15 GOP Midterm Victory Seen as Ordinary Tidal Change By Dante Chinni Two weeks after the 2010 midterms, the results are receding into the past, and the new reality is settling in. But before we go too far down the road of analyzing the shift in the American voting public - the… Continue reading
Nov 15 Rangel's Ethics Trial, Lame Duck Begin Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. File photo by Getty Images. As dozens of newly-elected members of Congress arrive this week for freshmen orientation, one veteran lawmaker begins his fight to save his job. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., after months… Continue reading
Nov 12 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Taxes, Palin and Cowboys Coaching By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, topic No. 1 was the expiring Bush-era tax cuts and what will happen during the lame-duck session of Congress. Both predicted that the cuts… Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch Reported Russian Spy Defection, Hunt Stirs Up Cold War Memories Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that a top-ranking official in its spy service known only as Colonel Shcherbakov outed spies earlier this year to the U.S. He and his family reportedly have left Russia for the U.S. with a Russian hit… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch Shields and Brooks on Tax Cuts, Debt, Lame-Duck Congress, Bush Book Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks sort through the top political stories, including the debate over extending tax cuts, prospects for the lame-duck Congress, criticism of debt commission ideas and former President Bush's new book. Continue watching
Nov 12 Supreme Court Refuses to Block 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' By News Desk The Supreme Court refused to block enforcement of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on openly gay servicemembers Friday, the latest in a series of court battles over the policy. The legal challenge came from the Log… Continue reading
Nov 12 LIFE Releases Never Before Published Photos of John F. Kennedy This week marked the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's election as the nation's 35th president. At 43 years old, Kennedy became the youngest man to be elected to the office, and the nation's first and only Catholic… Continue reading