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Question: What has four billion dollars and little chance of going anywhere? Answer: President Obama’s budget, released this week along with the Democratic fanfare and the Republican “dead on arrival” diagnosis. Josh Gerstein of Politico breaks down what the president is looking for, who his real audience is, and the chances of any accommodation with …
Congress’ first few weeks in action have been eventful, to say the least — fights over the Keystone XL pipeline, a controversial invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu, and the start of Loretta Lynch’s confirmation hearings to become the next attorney general. The House has also passed an anti-abortion bill, albeit a watered down version, after some …
With the Iowa caucuses some 53 weeks away, the battle for the Republican nomination took its first major step last weekend in the Hawkeye State, where many presidential contenders and pretenders traveled to Des Moines for the Iowa Freedom Summit. Kathie Obradovich of the Des Moines Register reports on who got the most attention and …
The State of the Union’s all wrapped up … and while Washington’s looking ahead to next steps and Sen. Joni Ernst is looking down at her camouflage shoes, we’re looking back for this week’s trivia question. Which is … Since the 1960s, there’s been a response to the president’s State of the Union message by …
President Obama (and his party) may have suffered an overwhelming defeat in the 2014 midterm elections, but you’d never know it by the performance he put on Tuesday evening in his State of the Union message to Congress. It was a confident, self-assured Obama who read off a laundry list of things he wanted Congress …
This week’s trivia question was so complicated that Ken had to read it TWICE on this week’s show to see if even HE understood it. Here goes: Ohio and Oregon were the two states involved in Monday night’s college football championship game. When was the last time both states – Ohio and Oregon — IN …
It looks like the relationship between President Obama and the 114th Congress is starting exactly where it left off with the 113th — battles with Republicans, little compromise in sight. Let’s start with the Keystone XL Pipeline. The House has overwhelmingly passed — and the Senate is expected to follow — legislation that authorizes the …
The 114th Congress is here, and things are already getting interesting. Besides the rebellion against Speaker Boehner, the antics of Joe Biden, and the latest on the Keystone XL legislation, we’ve got nomination confirmations to look forward to. And that inspires this week’s question. Ashton Carter is President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of …
The 114th Congress is here, where Republicans control both houses for the first time since 2006. Paul Kane of the Washington Post joins us to talk about the attempted rebellion against Speaker John Boehner, and the GOP’s hopes of going from the “party of no” to the “party that governs.” One of the things the new …
You’re putting a bow on the last of your holiday gifts? Well we’re putting a bow on 2014. We finally know who will make up the 114th Congress. The President’s on vacation in Hawaii. We know who’s naughty and nice. And we know what the final trivia question of 2014 is. Jeb Bush, the son …