Feb 26 Health Care Reform: The Highlight Reel By Mike Fritz It's been a long year of contentious congressional negotiations, raucous town hall meetings and battle lines being drawn over President Obama's push for health care reform. You can be forgiven for occasionally getting lost along the bumpy political road that… Continue reading
Feb 26 Reporter: Deep Divisions Remain After Health Reform Summit By Hari Sreenivasan In the wake of President Obama's marathon health care reform summit on Thursday, we spoke with Kaiser Health News reporter Mary Agnes Carey about what comes next in the overhaul push. Carey said the lawmakers in the room appeared… Continue reading
Feb 26 With Calif. Government Floundering, One Reform Effort Grinds to a Halt With California hurting across the board, a host of thinkers, academics, business groups and journalists had some big ideas on how to fix the state government's myriad problems. They wanted to make basic changes to the constitution, not just the… Continue reading
Feb 26 NY Governor Ends Reelection Bid Update: 3:35pm EST Less than a week after launching his reelection bid, New York's embattled Democratic governor, David Paterson, has announced he is ending his bid for a second term. The announcement comes as Paterson is under fire for intervening… Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch Could Budget Reconciliation Buoy Health Reform? As Democrats prepare to move ahead with health reform, Kwame Holman offers a primer on how they may use Senate rules to advance the legislation without Republican support. Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch Shields, Brooks Consider Reconciliation's Future Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including President Obama's health reform summit and how the political parties are weighing potential gains and drawbacks from Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass… Continue watching
Feb 25 Live-blogging the Health Care Summit The Rundown is following President Obama's bipartisan health care reform summit Thursday and offering updates and insights from the NewsHour news desk and correspondent Judy Woodruff, as well as commentary and opinion from three analysts, throughout the event. Continue reading
Feb 25 Reactions to #HCRSummit Around the Web Did the health reform summit change minds? It's still hard to say. Going in, hopes for compromise were low, according to Politico: Heading into Thursday's summit, there's been a lot of talk on both sides about how they're… Continue reading
Feb 25 All Eyes Are on the White House as Health Care Summit Kicks Off A reasoned discussion, a boxing bout, a pro wrestling match, reality TV. Thursday's bipartisan health care reform talks are being called all of these things. Call it what you want, but one thing is for sure: The stakes are… Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch Turkish Military Leaders Released in Coup Probe Turkey's Islamic leaders met with the chiefs of its secular armed forces Thursday to address Monday's arrest of more than 50 senior military officers on allegations that they planned to overthrow the government. Margaret Warner reports. Continue watching