Jan Schakowsky Discusses Preperations For A Government Shutdown
Stephen Lord of The Government Accountability Office discusses the Passenger Behavior Program.
During a Report On NBC's Nightly News Tom Brokaw says Saudi Arabia is angry with the U.S. for not supporting Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Brokaw reports that because of the Obama administration, the Saudis' are looking to do business with Russia and China.
Erskine Bowles testifies that the fiscal path the U.S. is currently on is headed towards disaster.
On the day President Barack Obama announced his energy agenda, Energy Secretary Steven Chu rejected Republican claims that the administration sought to push up energy prices in order to promote a green agenda.
President Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb war” and should be opposed. This video was used by the Obama presidential campaign.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. was overheard instructing other Democratic Senators to describe proposed Republican spending cuts as “extreme.” “I always use ‘extreme,’” Schumer told the Democrats on a conference call. “That’s what the (Democratic) caucus instructed me to do the other week."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday disputed warnings that Social Security is headed for bankruptcy, calling those assertions an “outright lie.” And he says the huge federal entitlement program has not added “one penny” to the federal deficit.
The U.S. intervention into the Libyan civil war is constitutional even without congressional authorization, the White House spokesman said Friday.
"Do you think Libya posed an actual or imminent threat to the United States?" Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked Sunday on the ABC News program "This Week."