by James Fite | May 10, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The much-ballyhooed meeting between President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) came and went, and the situation remains much as it was before. Biden had invited Speaker McCarthy to the White House for a debt limit discussion on Tuesday, May 9 –...
by James Fite | Apr 27, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Politics
House Republicans narrowly passed a debt limit increase late in the evening, Wednesday, April 26 – but it’s hardly the no-strings-attached deal their colleagues across the aisle demanded. President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have said for months that...
by Mark Angelides | Feb 9, 2023 | Lights, Camera, Action, LN Radio Videocast Segments, LN Radio Videocasts, Politics
With the debt ceiling deadline fast approaching, are the overtures by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy just sweet words to soothe a savage press?
by James Fite | Feb 2, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Politics
Now that Republicans hold the House, they’re pushing back. Two House committees held the first hearings of their investigations into Joe Biden’s presidency on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Democrats decried the two-pronged attack, but for Republicans, it surely felt like a...
by James Fite | Feb 1, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is meeting with President Joe Biden this Wednesday, Feb. 1, to discuss the debt limit. But don’t get too excited; the commander-in-chief promised there is to be no negotiation on spending cuts. The administration has taken the firm...