Videos

Sam Stein, political editor and White House correspondent for the Huffington Post, discussed the widespread impact of sequestration and the White House’s strategy for dealing with Congress a…

Peter Suderman talked about his Reason magazine piece on measuring the impact of the $833 billion stimulus. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. This program was pa…

Emily Yehle talked about the impact on national parks of sequestration budget cuts, and she responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. She also explained how the National Pa…

Alan Bjerga talked about the ten-year farm bill being worked on in Congress, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. The legislation funding cuts to the Supplement…

Adam Green talked about the budget President Obama released the previous week, which made cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, angering many progressives. He respo…

Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) spoke about news of the day and the congressional agenda. Among the topics he addressed were immigration legislation, negotiations on a fiscal “grand bargain,” gu…

Nicole Clowers spoke about a Government Accountability Office report on federal programs that are duplicated in other branches of the government. The report highlighted over 17 new areas whe…

Steve Bell talked about proposed changes in entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare in the fiscal year 2014 budget. He discussed advertised savings from these changes, the …

Linda Bilmes talked about her report on the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In the report she concluded that both conflicts would be the most expensive wars in U.S. history, totaling …

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on social programs facing cutbacks in the proposed Obama administration budget."

Mary Schiovo talked about the Federal Aviation Administration’s closure of 149 air-traffic control towers due to sequestration budget cuts.*She analyzed the impact of these closures on safet…

James White talked about Internal Revenue Service operations, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.*Topics included problems the IRS has faced and improvements i…

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talked about the Senate Democratic fiscal year budget He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Nancy Calo read news headlines from C-SPAN …

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the Senate Democrats' Budget.

Niels Lesniewski talked about the Senate Democratic fiscal year 2014 budget unveiled by Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), and shared Democratic and Republican reaction to the plan.

Stuart Bowen talked about the costs of rebuilding Iraq, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. According to his final report on reconstruction, the U.S. had spent…

Representative Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) talked about the House vote later in the day on a continuing resolution bill to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2013, and s…

Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) talked about the House vote later in the day on a continuing resolution bill to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2013, and sequ…

Alan Bjerga talked about the impact sequestration would have on the Agriculture Department, including furloughs for up to a third of its workers, shutdowns of meat plants across the country …

Representative Phil Roe (R-TN) talked about what he wanted to see come out of sequestration and how it affects his home state of Tennessee. He also responded to telephone calls and electroni…