Ahead of this weekend's mayoral election in New Orleans, Sam Eaton looks at the politics — and whether a victory by either candidate will matter much to the pace of reconstruction in the Crescent City.
The House is dealing with money matters this week. Scott Tong has been reading through the legislation, and he's found some earmark spending that is scary, funny or just outright weird.
The SEC announced yesterday it will not exempt small businesses from strict Sarbanes-Oxley accounting standards meant to prevent Enron-style fraud. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.
The phone companies continued today to deny they were complicit in any criminal behavior. And, the National Security Agency began briefing members of the Intelligence Committees. John Dimsdale sorts through it all.
Legislation moving through Congress would allow Internet providers to charge differing rates to different companies. It's part of the most drastic change to telecom law since 1996. Kai Ryssdal talks to Lisa Napoli about why we should care.
Lawmakers for weeks have been discussing lobbying reform legislation that clamps down on pork-barrel spending. But today the House begins debate on an appropriations bill full of anonymous 'earmark' spending. Say what? Scott Tong reports.
USA Today reported last week that three major phone companies have been turning over records to the National Security Agency. But Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth are denying that — sort of. Janet Babin reports.
Looks like President Bush might just get that guest worker program. But now somebody's got to figure out the hard parts, like how to track millions of undocumented or falsely documented workers. John Dimsdale reports.
President Bush addressed the nation Monday to outline his plans to deal with illegal immigration. He called for a guest worker program and stressed the need to tighten security at the Mexican border.
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New Orleans picks a mayor this Saturday
Another pork spending spree
No break for small business
NSA phone spying controversy rages on
Making sense of network neutrality
Why Net neutrality matters
Confused Congress?
NSA phone spying case getting murkier
Biometric ID cards for immigrants?
Bush addresses immigration
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