Mar 16 Politico's Gordon: White House Pulling Out All the Stops to Pass Health Reform By Hari Sreenivasan Craig Gordon, White House editor for Politico, spoke with us about the possible final week for the health care reform debate as President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rally Democrats to secure final passage of health care… Continue reading
Mar 16 Geithner Profile: 'A Creature of Washington' By Carolyn O'Hara Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is on the Hill before a House committee Tuesday to testify about the budget and economy. Geithner will also be making the media rounds to plug Sen. Dodd's financial reform bill that was unveiled… Continue reading
Mar 16 Tuesday: Pelosi Makes Push for Vote; Mitchell Postpones Middle East Trip House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference with children's health advocates on Monday. Photo by Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images. With the House of Representatives inching closer to a historic vote on health care reform, Democratic lawmakers are intensifying… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch Tensions Build Around New Israeli Settlements U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell canceled his trip to Jerusalem as a dispute between Israelis and Palestinians over Israel's authorization of new homes on East Jerusalem has intensified. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Mar 15 Should U.S. Talk to Its Enemies in Middle East? Authors Offer 2 Views By Hari Sreenivasan With Vice President Joe Biden visiting the Middle East recently in hopes of reviving the peace process, we decided to speak with a pair of authors whose latest books on the region made it onto our radar screen here… Continue reading
Mar 15 Dodd Unveils Financial Regulation Bill Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., unveiled a bill Monday to overhaul the U.S. financial system, proposing new powers for the Federal Reserve to oversee the nation's largest financial firms; a consumer protection agency housed within the Fed; and a new… Continue reading
Mar 15 Obama Pushes Health Reform in Ohio as Democrats Scramble for 216 Votes Updated 4:16 p.m. It's a line that's been heard many times over the past year, but Democrats' health care reform efforts truly could be entering their make-or-break stretch this week. President Obama headed to Ohio Monday afternoon to make… Continue reading
Mar 15 Monday: Health Care Reform; Financial Regulation; 'No Child Left Behind' Supporters of a comprehensive health care reform bill are nearing the endgame, as the fate of the legislation may finally be decided this week. President Barack Obama will kick off the final push Monday when he travels to… Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch Dodd: Banking Reforms Would Rein In Financial Risk Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has unveiled a plan to regulate banks and large firms and limit the amount of risk they can assume after the financial crisis. In a newsmaker interview, Judy Woodruff talks… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch Deaths of Americans Raise New Concerns Over Mexico's Drug War U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the possible drug cartel violence that left two Americans and a Mexican with ties to the U.S. consulate in Juarez dead over the weekend. Gwen Ifill talks to a journalist about the escalating violence… Continue watching