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Hedrick Smith listed his picks for the top news stories of 2013. He cited income inequality as his top underreported story, which is the subject of his book, Who Stole the American Dream?, …

Noam Levey and Julie Rovner talked about the beginning of Health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act on January 1, 2014, for those who signed up first under the law. Topics incl…

Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, talked about recent housing and mortgage trends. Topics included the housing market’s impact on the overall U.S. econo…

Telephone lines were open for viewers to comment on the question, “Is the American dream still attainable?” At the conclusion of the program, C-SPAN Radio’s Nancy Calo previewed the Sunda…

Scott Snyder talked about conditions inside North Korea following reports that the country’s leader Kim Jong Un had executed his uncle. Mr. Snyder said that the openness with which Kim was c…

Brandon Arnold and Eric Toder talked about the prospects for tax reform, and the types of reforms that might be considered. They discussed the bipartisan work of Senate Finance Committee Cha…

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) talked about this 2013's Wastebook, which highlights what he views as unnecessary or excessive spending across the federal government. Two of the examples he cited …

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein talked about the year 2013 on Capitol Hill and assessed the 113th Congress. They spoke about approval ratings and trust ratings that pu…

James Andrew Lewis talked about U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon’s ruling that the National Security Agency (NSA) phone record data collection program was unconstitutional. Judge Leon …

Former Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Robert Weissman debated the costs and benefits of federal regulations. Ms. Lincoln advocated for regulations that do not place overly heavy burdens …

Sanford Reback talked about the Obama administration’s second-term focus on U.S. trade policy. Topics included negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trading bloc, and other propose…

Alex Wayne talked about enrollment numbers in the Affordable Care Act’s health care exchanges. He also discussed issues still facing the Healthcare.gov Web site, marketing strategies to enco…

Christine Harbin Hanson talked about divisions within the Republican Party over politics and policy, including the two-year budget deal that had recently passed the House. She also spoke abo…

John Della Volpe of the Harvard Institute of Politics talked about a poll released by the institute that looked at Millenials' views of politics and public service. The survey found that amo…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on news of the day and on the question, “Who had the worst year in politics?” C-SPAN Radio’s Nancy Calo also read news headlines.

Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) talked about the agreement reached between the co-chairs of the Budget Conference Committee and the possible House vote on the bill later in the day. He also…

Representative Kurt Schrader (D-OR) talked about the two-year budget deal reached earlier in the week by the chairs of the Budget Conference Committee and that was scheduled for a vote on th…

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) reacted to the agreement reached by Budget Conference Committee chairs Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI). Senator Johnson, who is a m…

Christine Owens talked about the scheduled year-end expiration of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program, which was designed to provide assistance to long-term unemployed workers af…

John Engler talked about corporate and business communities' perspective on the ongoing congressional budget negotiations. Other topics included the impact of the health care law on small an…