Soon, there will be several changes at the top levels of the Obama administration. What are we to make of this seemingly tumultuous time?
Without enough votes in the Senate to revote on a modified bill and pass health care reform, the Democrats may resort to using a budgetary law known as reconciliation. We discuss the history of reconciliation and why it is so controversial.
A new CNN poll finds that 86 percent of Americans think that government is broken. This week, we kick off a series called 'Frustration Nation,' where we examine the gridlock in the capital and how politics has come to be so divisive in America.
The election of Republican Scott Brown as Massachusetts' new junior senator on Tuesday night sent shock waves through Washington.But how did we come to expect a 59-vote majority as a bad thing? We look at the history of the supermajority.
We check in with Mary Agnes Carey, senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News, to get the latest before the health care reform vote and with former Senate Republican Whip Alan Simpson to talk about the filibuster's undeniable hold on our lawmakers.
Opponents of healthcare reform have shouted down congress people at town hall meetings. The Takeaway talks to Corey Lewandowski, a protest organizer for President Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire, and to Princeton historian Julian Zelizer.
Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven counts of making false statements. The 84-year-old Alaska Republican and former chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee is accused of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
With Barack Obama on a mid-campaign Middle East tour, John McCain is in the United States on the offense, pitching Obama's lack of foreign policy and national security experience as weaknesses. Can Obama put those concerns to rest and force McCain to defend the GOP record on the economy? Guest: Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer
With Barack Obama on a Middle East tour, John McCain is on the offense, pitching Obama's lack of foreign policy and national security experience as weaknesses.