Podcasts
Power Breakfast Podcast
What can you expect from the day ahead on Capitol Hill? CNC gets behind the scenes and beyond the spin with a fresh morning jolt of political caffeine that reveals the inner workings of the nation’s capital. What do I need to know today from Washington? How does it affect me? Why should I care? In two minutes, Capitol News Connection’s Todd Zwillich tells you what we’ll all be talking about later at the water cooler.
Rabbi Nochom Light was a close friend of an couple killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks last week. His Anne Arundel congregation holds a memorial tonight.
Some members of Congress are preparing for another visit from automotive industry leaders, while others are looking over the federal employee health insurance plan as costs are rising.
This week marks the 75th anniversary of prohibition's repeal. Legend has it senators once went to extremes to hide their contraband liquor.
Virginia Gov. Mark Warner is about to be sworn in as a freshman senator. We sat down with him in his temporary senate office.
Todd Zwillich meets with Congressman Elect Gerry Connolly. The former Fairfax County Chairman discusses local issues he plans to address during his first session.
News Item Podcast
Change is here: Barack Obama wins a landslide victory, and talks of the need to unite the country on this historic day, when record numbers of voters waited for hours in line to elect the first African-American President.Winning "red" states Florida, Ohio, Colorado and Virginia, President-elect Obama spoke to 100,000-plus jubilant supporters in Grant Park, Chicago:"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference. "It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America."
He risked his life for a vote. Now Georgia Congressman John Lewis has witnessed something he never dared believe he would see in his lifetime: the first African American President. He says words are hard to find, but tears plentiful.
America turns a page on a bitter history: Barack Obama, the self described "skinny guy with a funny name" is the President-elect. The millions of voters who waited for hours in line have given the Obama a big mandate for change. Expectations will be high. Tonight his Republican opponent John McCain fought tears as he conceded defeat and acknowledged an historic moment.
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Feature Podcast
The newly elected members of Congress arrived this week. One frugal Utah Congressman is getting a lot of media attention and so is the auto industry.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman backed John McCain and even said some unkind things about Barack Obama during the presidential campaign. Today he finds out the price for those moves in a private meeting with his Democratic colleagues. Meanwhile the new class of the 111th Congress is in town, including one freshman who’s out to save himself some money.
Grumblings about how the bailout is playing out… Unresolved election outcomes in the Senate and leadership challenges in the House… Free speech, religion and other simple matters in the Supreme Court.
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