Politics Feb 17 Watch News Wrap: After Standoff, Congress OKs Payroll Tax Cut Extension In other news Friday, Congress voted to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans two weeks before the cuts were due to expire. Also, a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested after allegedly planning to detonate a suicide bomb…
Politics Feb 16 Watch Pelosi Outlines Democrats’ Campaign Vision House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told Judy Woodruff in an interview Thursday that the deal forged on Capitol Hill to extend a payroll tax cut and continue unemployment insurance benefits will create jobs and help the economy. Pelosi also discussed…
Politics Feb 14 Watch What Extending Payroll Tax Cut, Jobless Benefits Would Mean for Americans What Extending Payroll Tax Cut, Jobless Benefits Would Mean for Americans…
Politics Dec 16 Watch GOP Insistence on Pipeline Provision Could Derail Spending Bill The House passed a $1 trillion spending bill Friday to fund much of the government through next September and avoid a federal shutdown this weekend, but both parties remain split over how to extend a payroll tax cut. Jim Lehrer…
Dec 02 Watch Shields, Brooks on Gingrich’s ‘Skeletons,’ Bill Clinton’s ‘Second Act,’ Tax Cuts Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news, including the likelihood of Newt Gingrich being elected president, Bill Clinton's post-presidential work, lawmakers' struggles over the payroll tax cut extension and Rep. Continue watching