Cairo two months after Mubarak. Now, back home and the bizarre doings in Washington.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner speak to reporters after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House on April 6. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) –No deal to avert a shutdown yet. President Obama called for a “sense of urgency from all parties involved” after his late Wednesday night meeting with Speaker [...]
In a matter of hours, not days, the country is likely to find out if trash will be picked up in Washington, D.C., next week, if Yosemite will temporarily shutter its gates, and if government-issued BlackBerrys will go silent. But there is something more than just the the smell of Washington city streets and views [...]
The pending prosecution of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed means that the United States may convict and execute the alleged architect of the 9-11 attacks. But it is unclear how much the public will know about the evidence against him – or what they will be able to read, hear, or watch about the whole proceedings for [...]
“I have cautioned our caucus from hyperbole,” Republican Senator Bob Corker told TIME last April. “It’s an intellectual lift to work your way through [financial reform]… Unfortunately it gets debated in pretty broad statements.” He was commenting on, though not outright rejecting, Republicans’ charge that the “resolution authority” element of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform [...]
Just days after announcing his reelection campaign, President Obama has been endorsed by Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. As the Associated Press reports, Gaddafi sent Obama a three-page letter requesting that Obama stop the bombing campaign of his country. Also: Gadhafi addresses Obama as “our son” in the letter and says he hopes Obama will win [...]
President Obama and Speaker Boehner talked this morning by phone – always a good sign that the lines of communications remain open. Though, the fact that the discussion lasted all of three minutes is a tad troubling. As the government lurches towards a possible shutdown, I thought it would be useful to outline the choices [...]
TIME’s Jay Newton-Small talked to House Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan in his Longworth office Tuesday about his 2012 budget, an ambitious package that includes drastic changes to Medicare and Medicaid, new tax reforms and deep spending cuts. A lightly edited transcript of the conversation follows: TIME: How does your newly released 2012 budget [...]
Reps. Cantor, Boehner and McKarthy at the U.S. Capitol on April 5. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images) –As the shutdown deadline fast approaches, no 2011 budget deal yet. Speaker Boehner is telling Dems he wants $40 billion in cuts and warning his caucus that Democrats will come out ahead politically in a shutdown. Obama has put [...]
(An earlier version of this post said that Paul Ryan’s plan for post-2022 Medicare spending would be indexed to GDP. In fact, it would be indexed to inflation. The earlier post also implied that Ryan’s plan would spend about $400 less on Medicare over the next ten years due to his premiums support/voucher plan for [...]
