Washington Thursday Journal

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal examined current events and political issues through reviews of newspapers, interviews, and viewer comments. In the first segment, Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Tom Diemer talked about current Congressional legislation. Director Steven Newsome talked about the Smithsonian Institute’s Anacostia Museum, which chronicled life in this African-American region of the Washington, DC. In the newspaper roundtable, Representatives Lynn Rivers (D-MI) and John Shadegg (R-AZ), members of the Budget Committee, talked about the debate over the federal budget. In a point/counterpoint Redefining Progress Group’s Johnathan Rowe and Heritage Foundation’s Joe Cobb discussed the way the U.S. evaluates the economy and whether it should be changed. In the next segment, Dr. Ronald Gilcher and and Dr. Michael Schlitt discussed new AIDS virus test. In the final segment, Robert Hall talked about a new exhibit, “Southern City/National Ambition,” on antebellum history of Washington DC. close