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Power Breakfast Podcast
What do I need to know today from Washington? How does it affect me? Why should I care? CNC’s Power Breakfast gets behind the scenes and beyond the spin with a fresh morning jolt of ‘political caffeine’. With unique insights and exclusive news reporting about the day ahead on Capitol Hill, at the White House and Agencies, this 2-minute morning segment is a ‘must-listen’ for anyone that cares about the power-plays, personalities and policies that will make an impact in the day ahead.
Holding out for a Lieberman
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.84 MB)
Looking for a lawmaker to 'go to the mat,' for a single-payer health program. Plus, a presidential pardon.
Tinkering with a bill to overhaul the financial regulatory system
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 1:59 minutes (1.83 MB)
When Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd returns to Washington next week – he’ll pick up where he left off on one of the major legislative initiatives of his career. It’s not health care.
Senate health care bill: that was the hard part. Now it’s on to the harder part
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
Senate health care bill: that was the hard part. Now it’s on to the harder part.
The gunfire at Fort Hood has just begun to ricochet in Washington
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.83 MB)
The gunfire at Fort Hood has just begun to ricochet in Washington.
To proceed or not to proceed?
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 2:00 minutes (1.84 MB)
To proceed or not to proceed? The Senate hunkers down to advance a health care overhaul bill. That can mean only one thing: time for a lesson in Parliamentary Procedure 101.
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Argument Between States
By: Manuel Quinones
Length: 3:54 minutes (1.79 MB)
Many lawmakers in Washington are working to make sure unemployed workers in more than two dozen states don’t get left out of a proposed extension in Federal benefits.
How Was The Money Used?
By: Manuel Quinones
Length: 4:50 minutes (2.22 MB)
Critics and some lawmakers want to know more about how banks and other institutions are using taxpayer money under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Stop the Bickering. Act Now
By: U.S. President Barrack Obama
Length: 48:40 minutes (44.56 MB)
President Obama takes on the GOP: Stop playing "games", abandon partisan "scare tactics", and pass comprehensive health reform, he tells a joint session of Congress.
This Week in Congress Podcast
Every Friday CNC lifts the Dome off the U.S. Capitol to provide fresh insights and exclusive interviews in this four-minute 'fly-on-the-wall' analysis of the week. You cannot hear this anywhere else.
One tough Byrd breaks a record
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 3:51 minutes (3.53 MB)
The Senate clears the way for its first vote on the health care overhaul bill... and one tough Byrd breaks a record.
Monday comes and goes without a Senate vote to extend unemployment benefits
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 3:48 minutes (3.49 MB)
Monday comes and goes without a Senate vote to extend unemployment benefits. So does Tuesday... Meanwhile, the House gears up and counts down to a health care vote
Pilot -- Ask Your Lawmaker Interactive Podcast with Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
By: Melinda Wittstock
Length: 27:26 minutes (25.12 MB)
The first in a new series of interactive podcasts that lets you be the interviewer. Listen here as CNC's Melinda Wittstock asks six excellent user generated questions to Rep. Steve King (R-IA): What would he do to create jobs? How would he bring health care costs down? If he supports Medicare why not a single payer system? Why not take action to spur new 'green industries' to create new jobs.
This Week in Congress: Remembering Jack Kemp... mortgage reform... dueling spending cuts... and the Swine Flu Effect, continued.
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 3:50 minutes (3.52 MB)
May 4-8, 2009: Lawmakers remember a football player who became a congressman – and a conservative iconoclast, and Congress takes up mortgage reform and anti-predatory lending bills. A weary Rep. Mel Watt of North Carolina proclaims it "the most challenging piece of legislation I’ve been involved in since I’ve been in Congress.
This Week in Congress - April 27 - May 1, 2009
By: Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Length: 3:52 minutes (3.54 MB)
Turns out your mother was right all along: wash your hands. Plus, Congress investigates... college bowl football?
U.S. Rep. Steve King on Medicare
By: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Length: 1:17 minutes (1.18 MB)
U.S. Rep. Steve King on Risk Pool
By: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Length: 1:31 minutes (1.4 MB)
U.S. Rep. Steve King on Market Forces
By: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Length: 1:14 minutes (1.14 MB)
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu on FEMA
By: U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu
Length: 1:27 minutes (680.04 KB)
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch on CO2 Emmissions
By: U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
Length: 3:49 minutes (3.5 MB)
McCain Mum on Obama
By: U.S. Sen. John McCain
Length: 0:06 minutes (102.08 KB)
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva on Health Care
By: U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
Length: 0:41 minutes (323.92 KB)
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By: artist
Length: 4:19 minutes (3.95 MB)
U.S. Rep Young on Adoption
By: U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL)
Length: 1:15 minutes (590.66 KB)
U.S. Rep. Rahall on Environmental Decisions
By: U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV)
Length: 1:31 minutes (1.39 MB)
