May 03 Watch Congress Moves to Standardize Driver’s Licenses Congress voted to set strict national standards on requirements for receiving a driver's license after the 9/11 Commission found that all 19 hijackers used valid state-issued licenses. Continue watching
Apr 25 Watch Majority Leader Bill Frist Threatens to Change Senate Filibuster Rules Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist spoke to a conservative Christian coalition in Kentucky in an effort to get an up or down vote on President Bush's judicial nominees. Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., discuss the Republicans' plan… Continue watching
Apr 25 Watch Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Criticizes Blocking Judicial Nominees On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., delivered a taped speech to a nationwide broadcast in which Christian conservatives, during other segments, attacked Democratic senators for blocking judicial nominees described in the program as "people of faith."… Continue watching
Apr 22 Watch Zacarias Moussaoui Pleads Guilty with Helping Plan the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring with the 9/11 attackers, saying he was trained to fly a plane into the White House in a later attack. Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Two of President Bush’s Nominees The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two of President Bush's controversial judicial nominees, setting up a confrontation between the Republican majority and Democrats who can use filibusters to block nominations. Continue watching
Apr 19 Nation Marks 10th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing By PBS News Hour More than 1,000 people, joined by Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Clinton, gathered in Oklahoma City Tuesday to remember the victims of the federal building bombing that occurred 10 years ago. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Republican Senators Lobby to End Filibuster on Judicial Nominees Republican senators are lobbying to end the practice of filibustering, saying Democrats will use the tactic to defeat President Bush's judicial nominations. Kwame Holman reports on the Senate debate. Continue watching
Apr 14 Three Indicted in U.N. Oil-For-Food Scandal By PBS News Hour A Houston oilman and two traders from Texas and England paid millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, cheating the United Nations' oil-for-food program out of humanitarian aid funds, authorities said Thursday. Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch Oregon’s Supreme Court Nullifies Over 3,000 Gay Marriages The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified 3,000 gay marriage licenses, while the Connecticut state legislature moved toward approving a same-sex civil union bill. Following a background report, two analysts debate the recent actions and what they suggest about America's… Continue watching
Apr 13 Former Fugitive Pleads Guilty to String of Deadly Bombings By PBS News Hour Former fugitive Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to carrying out the bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks across the South that killed two people and injured more than 120 others. Continue reading