Feb 23 Chicago Votes in Emanuel as Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrates with supporters after winning the Chicago mayoral race. Photo by John Gress/Getty Images. From helping to run the country to running Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has had quite a year. The results best tell the story. Continue reading
Feb 22 Brinksmanship Continues in Wisconsin Protesters react to an appearance Monday by Wis. Gov. Scott Walker at a news conference in the state capitol. Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images. Even in the age of Twitter and Facebook, the traditional, televised fireside chat still… Continue reading
Feb 18 House Lawmakers Putting Finishing Touches on Spending Bill Marine One with President Obama on board takes off Thursday from the South Lawn of the White House. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. The House will meet at 9 a.m. Friday for what's expected to be the fourth… Continue reading
Feb 17 Republicans Plan Vote to Cut $61 Billion From Budget Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrives for a news conference at RNC headquarters earlier this week. Photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, may have lost an intra-party skirmish on funding for an… Continue reading
Feb 16 On Capitol Hill, a Budget Faceoff Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., during Tuesday's House Budget hearing on President Obama's proposed fiscal 2012 budget. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Now that President Obama has unveiled his budget proposal… Continue reading
Feb 15 House Republicans Seek to Fulfill Campaign Pledge on Budget Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, pledged to cut $100 billion from the budget. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The battle over President Obama's proposed budget for the next fiscal year was so yesterday. (Though, he'll have… Continue reading
Feb 14 President Obama’s Opening Bid for 2012 Budget: $3.73 Trillion Updated 11 a.m. ET See video of the president's remarks: Jack Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, explains President Obama's 2012 budget on the White House website. President Obama's message of "Winning the… Continue reading
Feb 09 Economy, Spending on the Menu for Obama’s Lunch With House Republicans The White House. Photo by dasjabbadas via Flickr. President Obama will welcome the top three Republicans in the House of Representatives for lunch Wednesday at the White House, part of his renewed outreach to GOP lawmakers since the… Continue reading
Feb 08 New Rumsfeld Memoir Settles Scores, Spreads Responsibility for Iraq War "At its heart, it is a revenge memoir," writes NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill in her Washington Post review of former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld's new book, "Known and Unknown." The book certainly includes its fair… Continue reading
Feb 07 Obama Faces the Opposition in Speech to Chamber of Commerce Updated 1:30 p.m. ET Originally posted 9 a.m. ET The U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Public Citizen via Flickr. It will be a very short trip across Lafayette Park Monday morning as President Obama makes… Continue reading