Mar 01 Congress Turns to Jobs and Finds a Frustrated Public It is hard to find a place in America where times are not harder than they were last year. Across all of the 12 community types in Patchwork Nation, unemployment has spiked dramatically in the last year. Tensions are high. Continue reading
Mar 01 Monday's Headlines: High Court to Hear Former Enron Chief's Appeal By Tom LeGro The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his 2006 conviction for his role in the downfall of the Houston-based energy company. Skilling's attorneys argue that Enron's collapse into bankruptcy… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Supreme Court Appeals: Enron Chief's Heard, Gitmo Uighurs' Dismissed Margaret Warner talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling's appeal to the Supreme Court and the dismissal of a challenge brought by Chinese detainees at Guantanamo. Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch News Wrap: Troop, Civilian Casualties Mount in Afghanistan In other news Monday, six NATO troops were killed after car bomb explosions across Afghanistan. Also, former Serb leader Radovan Karadzic blamed an Islamic plot for bloodshed in Bosnia when he took the stand in his war crimes trial at… Continue watching
Feb 26 Health Reform's Next Step: 23rd Use of Reconciliation? By Dave Gustafson As Democrats weigh the next steps for health reform on the heels of a bipartisan summit on the stalled legislation, one option under discussion is a rarely used Senate procedure known as reconciliation. Continue reading
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