Mark Shields, David Brooks and Hari Sreenivasan talk debt ceiling and the NFL lockout…
The effort to raise the country's borrowing limit saw the resumption of talks between President Obama and top congressional leaders on Wednesday. Kwame Holman reports on the lawmakers' race against the Aug. 2 deadline.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul said "you can't solve the problem of debt by raising the debt limit."…
Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the debt ceiling and Roger Clemens…
David Chalian, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff analyze President Obama's news conference…
President Obama speaks at a news conference ahead of a meeting on the debt limit.
President Obama and congressional leaders met Thursday to discuss how to raise the nation's debt limit. Judy Woodruff discusses the meeting, which President Obama called "constructive," and the political pitfalls confronting lawmakers with Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal…
Judy Woodruff and David Chalian explain the coming debate on government spending.
President Bush on Friday signed into law a bill to increase the ceiling on the U.S. national debt by $800 billion, meaning the total federal debt could climb as high as $8.18 trillion.
