Feb 28 Watch Threat of Government Shutdown Fades With New Spending Proposal Kwame Holman reports on a Republican-backed proposal gaining support from some Democrats that could reduce the threat of a government shutdown. Continue watching
Feb 28 Political Checklist: Obama Meets the Governors, a Gov't Shutdown Is (Temporarily) Averted, and the Oscar Goes to ... Last week, Gwen Ifill and David Chalian discussed the very real possibility that the federal government could face a shutdown if GOP House leaders and Senate Democrats could not come to an agreement on spending. This week,… Continue reading
Feb 28 Iowa's Top Republican Sizes Up 2012 Field By David Chalian Iowa Republicans may be souring somewhat on Sarah Palin. According to a Des Moines Register poll out Monday morning, Palin's favorable numbers have slipped from 71 percent to 65 percent in the last 15 months, while the segment of… Continue reading
Feb 28 Stopgap Puts Shutdown Talk on Hold A girl visiting from of Allentown, Pa., poses in front of the U.S. Capitol last week. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call. It looks like a government shutdown has been averted -- for now. Senate Democrats have signaled they… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Shields, Brooks on Collective Bargaining's Future, Shutdown Chances, Libya Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's political news, including possible 2012 Republican presidential candidates, state budget crises, the threat of a federal government shutdown on March 4 and U.S. response to the… Continue watching
Feb 25 The Doubleheader: Walker's Prank Call, Government Shutdown Prospects and Basketball's Carmelo Anthony By Quinn Bowman, Hari Sreenivasan [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prRSN7io1hs] The Doubleheader is back this week, and Mark Shields and David Brooks tackle Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's phone call with a blogger who pretended to be billionaire and conservative financier David Koch. Mark and David were at… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Govs. Daniels, Schweitzer on Looming Federal Government Shutdown Governors across the U.S. are struggling to balance budgets and slash spending in a tough economic climate. Judy Woodruff talks to Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Democratic Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer about the collective-bargaining battle and what impacts a… Continue watching
Feb 25 A Judicial Win for Health Reform, the Governors Come to Town It was one more mark in the judicial "win" column for supporters of the health care reform law this week, as a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the law's individual mandate is constitutional. For those keeping score, that's… Continue reading
Feb 25 Close To The Edge: Tales from Tripoli, Madison and Washington When I was just a young thing, I loved a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five called "The Message." "Don't push me, 'cuz I'm close to the edge," the refrain went. "I'm trying not to lose my head."… Continue reading
Feb 25 With Public-Sector Unions in Spotlight, How Does Voting Public View Them? Firefighters at Feb. 19 rally in Madison, Wis.; Flickr Creative Commons photo courtesy CindyH Photography What started in Wisconsin as a budget fight about the wages and bargaining power of public-sector unions has grown into a national fight… Continue reading