Oct 05 Watch Will Bernie Sanders’ gun rights record help Hillary Clinton? By PBS News Hour Hillary Clinton laid out a plan for greater gun control at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, days after a massacre at an Oregon community college. Gwen Ifill talks to Tamara Keith of NPR and Amy Walter of the… Continue watching
Oct 03 GOP divided over House speaker race By Erica Werner, Associated Press House Republican turmoil is boiling over as leadership elections approach, with dissatisfied lawmakers casting about for new choices and a surprise longshot challenger emerging in the speaker's race. Continue reading
Jan 06 Boehner wins reelection as speaker, but not without opposition By Quinn Bowman Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, won his bid to be Speaker of the House for two more years, but 25 of his fellow Republicans, more than expected, voted against him. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Lawmakers remember ex-speaker Tom Foley as ‘leader grounded in decency’ Lawmakers remember ex-speaker Tom Foley as 'leader grounded in decency'… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch Pelosi: For Budget Deal, ‘Let’s Talk’ About Ensuring Strength of Entitlements Pelosi: For Budget Deal, 'Let's Talk' About Ensuring Strength of Entitlements… Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch Boehner: Senate Wants ‘No Part of Cutting Spending’ In an interview Monday with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, Speaker of the House John Boehner said that Congress gets along most of the time and that disagreements mostly occur over major bills. He also discussed his relationship with President Obama,… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch Gingrich on New ‘Contract With America,’ Jobs, Brain Research, Elites After unveiling his "21st Century Contract with America," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke with Judy Woodruff about his policy proposals, including efforts to create jobs, ramp up research into brain science and overhauls of Medicare and Medicaid. This is… Continue watching
Jul 22 Watch Shields and Brooks: After Debt Talks ‘Meltdown,’ What’s the Path Forward? Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks dissect the week's developments in the debt-ceiling debate, including the latest breakdown in talks between the White House and congressional Republicans, plus the "Gang of Six" plan and a… Continue watching
May 10 Watch Debt Debate Heats Up in Washington as Borrowing Limit Looms With the federal government set to hit its legal limit on borrowing in less than a week, House Speaker John Boehner outlined new debt ceiling negotiation terms. Kwame Holman reports on the politics of the debate. Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch As Shutdown Deadline Nears, Lawmakers ‘Can’t Agree What They Disagree On’ For the third time in three days, President Obama met with congressional leaders but failed to reach a budget agreement to avoid a government shutdown. Jim Lehrer talks to The Wall Street Journal's Naftali Bendavid and Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe… Continue watching