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republicans already sniping about a democratic choice for the congressional super committee. democrats have named senators patty murray, max baucus, and john kerry to the debt panel. and republicans are complaining that murray shouldnt get a seat because shes too political. shes in charge of fund raising for democratic senate candidates. and 12 lawmakers are supposed to be named to the committee by tuesday. theyre there to pinpoint $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by late november. 1...

matter so much as this number. the number of days and hours now left until the money runs out. this is what weve been warning about for weeks and weeks. still, the vote today was enough to allow the republicans to spike the ball into boehners court. and he did so with a vengeance. >> i struck my neck out a mile to try and get in agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try to come to an agreement to aver...

ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in s...

a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehners version of a debt reduction bill. >> i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted. and it is time for the administration and...

has finally pass the debt reduction plan. as you saw a moment ago, the senate now in the process of killing it by effectively tabling it, because democrats are in charge over there. you heard harry reid speak moments ago, a big thumbs down over there, and then -- then -- we will move on. but the number of votes on either side really doesnt matter so much as this number. the number of days and hours now left until the money runs out. this is what weve been warning about for weeks and we...

and theres that clock that we speak of. just under two days away from a time when were told by the treasury, this country will not be able to pay all of its bills. so let me give you the rundown of whats happening today. the house gets to work around noontime today. thats just about two hours from now. after some debate, theyll vote on a proposal from senate majority leader, harry reid. that proposal is expected to fail. then on the senate side, they open debate on that same reid bill ...

generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and im quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." youre looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was ab...

motes. 22 republicans voted against it and all of the democrats. just before the vote, speaker boehner blamed president obama at the talks aimed at a bipartisan deal. >> i stuck my neck out a mile and i put revenues on the table. in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. but a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the ais...

to see former massachusetts ♪ governor mitt romney formally thats why right here, in australia, announcing hes a candidate for chevron is building the republican presidential one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. nomination. staffers say romney will enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. telecrowd at a new hampshire whats it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. farm. weve got to be smart about this. an...

You can see much of the church, itself and also, the parochial school attached to it, with about 210 students that went here, from preschool to 5th grade, much of that has been destroyed. but, look what remains. the giant cross, in the center of that church, still standing proud this morning. as the sun starts to rise over this community, and, really, a spectacular site. you can take what you will from it, but, when you consider that it was an ef-5 tornado packing winds of more than 200 miles pe...