Power Breakfast Podcast
Holding out for a Lieberman
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.84 MB)
Looking for a lawmaker to 'go to the mat,' for a single-payer health program. Plus, a presidential pardon.
Tinkering with a bill to overhaul the financial regulatory system
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 1:59 minutes (1.83 MB)
When Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd returns to Washington next week – he’ll pick up where he left off on one of the major legislative initiatives of his career. It’s not health care.
Senate health care bill: that was the hard part. Now it’s on to the harder part
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
Senate health care bill: that was the hard part. Now it’s on to the harder part.
The gunfire at Fort Hood has just begun to ricochet in Washington
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
The gunfire at Fort Hood has just begun to ricochet in Washington.
To proceed or not to proceed?
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.84 MB)
To proceed or not to proceed? The Senate hunkers down to advance a health care overhaul bill. That can mean only one thing: time for a lesson in Parliamentary Procedure 101.
Congress braces to be split yet again by the abortion debate
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 1:59 minutes (1.82 MB)
Congress braces to be split yet again by the abortion debate.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
Today: the crisscrossing paths of comprehensive immigration and health care reform; and sentencing for a disgraced New Orleans Congressman.
The language of immigration and human rights
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
Today the organization Human Rights First releases a new report on a problem in U-S immigration laws. The problem is the language used to define terrorist organizations and activity.
"On this Veterans Day, we must do more than just have speeches, and actually do some things for veterans."
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
"On this Veterans Day, we must do more than just have speeches, and actually do some things for veterans." - Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman
Congress is ramping up on climate change legislation
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.84 MB)
Congress is ramping up on climate change legislation. A favorite phrase around here is, ‘the perfect is the enemy of the good.’ In the vernacular – it’s time to suck it up.
