Jan 28 Bernanke Approved for Second Term at Fed The Senate voted 70-30 Thursday afternoon to approve Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. After several hours of debate in which Bernanke supporters argued that voting down his nomination would imperil a… Continue reading
Jan 28 Pelosi: Health Care Reform Will Advance 'On Many Fronts' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that Congress could move forward on health care reform "on many fronts," working to pass smaller parts of the legislation in separate bills while still negotiating a comprehensive reform package. "Some things… Continue reading
Jan 28 NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Answers Your Questions By Tom LeGro I recently had the chance to talk with new NEA chairman Rocco Landesman for an interview we aired earlier this month, and invited you to send us your questions and comments for him. We compiled them and put them to… Continue reading
Jan 28 State of the Union: The Morning After By Molly Finnegan Response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address varied widely across the media and political spectrums. (We've compiled several after the jump.) You can see your own here and here, the analysis of Mark Shields and… Continue reading
Jan 28 Your State of the Union YouTube Responses -- Round One We asked for your videotaped reactions to President Obama's first State of the Union address, and they started to be posted to our YouTube channel as soon as his speech was over -- not to mention the… Continue reading
Jan 28 Lawmakers Praise, Deride President Obama's First State of the Union Speech By Quinn Bowman Several lawmakers spoke with us in the U.S. Capitol immediately after President Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday night. Here's what they had to say about the speech and the road ahead: Rep. Mike Pence, R- Ind., is a… Continue reading
Jan 28 Shields and Brooks React to the State of the Union, GOP Response By Maureen Hoch _pap_embed_custom('news01s39b6qdab',482,304,""); Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks offered their reactions to President Obama's State of the Union address and the GOP response, delivered by Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell, at the conclusion of the… Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch Haiti's Preval Striving for Normalcy Amid Chaos Since the collapse of the National Palace in the Jan. 12 earthquake, the Haitian leadership has been without a home. In an interview with Ray Suarez, the nation's president, Rene Preval, talks about his efforts to return a sense of… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch As Obama Resets Message, Success May Hinge on Economy In his first State of the Union, President Obama said he plans to focus his second year in office on jobs, and renewed his call for more civility in Washington. Judy Woodruff leads a panel of experts about what the… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch State of the Union: Part Two Watch part two of President Barack Obama's 2010 State of the Union address. Continue watching