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Bloomberg Washington Summit, Washington and Wall Street

Panelists talk about U.S. fiscal policy and banking regulations.

Bloomberg Washington Summit, Debt and Deficits

Panelists talked about the impact of debt and deficit spending on the U.S. economy. Among the topics they addressed were partisan battles over revenue and...

Bloomberg Hosts Summit on Deficits & The Economy

Bloomberg, the financial and news company, hosts a day long summit on the state of the economy in the early days of President Obama's second...

President Obama Holds News Conference

President Obama participates in a news conference on Tuesday addressing a wide range of issues including chemical weapons in Syria, the Boston Marathon bombings investigation,...

Senate Pro Forma Session

The Senate convenes for a pro forma session.

Sequestration's Impact on Food Safety

Elizabeth Weise, Food Safety Reporter for USA Today, looks at the impact that sequestration cuts will have on food safety within the FDA and how...

Health Care Insurance Tax Credits

Ron Pollack of Families USA discusses subsidies or "tax credits" in the Affordable Care Act and his organization's recent Families USA report entitled, "Help is...

Open Phones

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the topic, "Quality of Education in Your Community?"

Food Preservation

Kavita Shukla talked about the device she created at the age of 17 that was being used in 35 countries to preserve food. This event...

First Ladies As Influence Makers

Historians talk about first ladies through history, exploring how the role has evolved.

A Family View of First Lady Betty Ford

Susan Ford Bales and Steve Ford talk about their late mother, former first lady Betty Ford.

President Addresses the National Academy of Sciences

President Obama makes remarks at the National Academy of Sciences, a private, non-profit organization that was established by an act of Congress during President Lincoln's...