All Blog Posts from Primary Source

Read all 'congress' posts in Primary Source

September 26, 2008 10:25 AM

Answering A Question Palin Couldn’t

(AP Photo)
Senator John McCain suspended his presidential campaign yesterday and rushed to Washington to help fix the financial crisis. And in an exclusive interview with Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Katie Couric asked Palin for specific examples of how McCain is leading the charge for more oversight in the banking industry. Palin said, “I’ll try to find some and I’ll bring them to you.”

Read full post…

Tags:
McCain ,
Obama ,
Palin ,
voting ,
record ,
Congress ,
Congressional Quarterly ,
suspend ,
campaign
Topics:
Primary Source
May 9, 2008 7:59 AM

Setting The Record Straight On Attempted Suicides

(CBS)
As part of his testimony before Congress this week the man in charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs – Secretary James Peake – criticized the credibility of a CBS News report from March 20, 2008 , that said the VA told us there were 790 suicide attempts among veterans under the VA’s care in 2007.

Read full post…

Tags:
Veterans ,
Suicide ,
Peake ,
Congress
Topics:
Veteran Suicide
April 10, 2008 8:53 PM

A Broken Trust? Congress Takes On The CDC

(CBS)
This post was written by Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian and Investigative Producer Michael Rey.



As part of its continuing investigation into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a major House subcommittee is now taking dead aim at whether “political pressure” caused the CDC to “scale down or cancel” beryllium testing in Elmore, Ohio, the subject of our exclusive investigation on the CBS Evening News.

In recent months the CDC has come under increasing pressure from agency insiders and other sources who question whether political or corporate pressure have resulted in “deficient, incomplete and/or muted reports, studies or Health Consultations.” Three cases stand out: what critics have called the CDC’s “indefensible handling” of the issue of formaldehyde in FEMA trailers; a study on toxic dumping sites in the Great Lakes region; and community testing for the toxic dust beryllium around Brush Wellman plant in Elmore.

In other words has a sacred trust between the nation’s top public health agency and the people it’s sworn to protect been broken?

Read full post…

Tags:
toxic dust ,
armen keteyian ,
congress ,
cdc
Topics:
Toxicity
May 11, 2007 7:13 PM

Congressman McHenry's Campaign Aide Indicted

By Laura Strickler and Michael Rey
The CBS News Investigative Unit has learned a man who was a field coordinator in Congressman Patrick McHenry's (R-NC) 2004 campaign has been indicted for voter fraud in North Carolina.

The indictment charges that Michael Aaron Lay, 26, illegally cast his ballot in two 2004 Congressional primary run-offs in which McHenry was a candidate. The charges indicate that Lay voted in a district where it was not legal for him to vote.

Read full post…

Tags:
Congress; McHenry; Voter Fraud
Topics:
Under Investigation

Exclusive Webshow

Mike Huckabee on GOP "rock stars," 2012, health care reform and more. Watch Now

About Primary Source

Only a handful of the hundreds of stories on which we report make their way to the Evening News with Katie Couric. So we have created this space as another primary source to keep you informed.

Add to your favorite news reader
google
yahoo
msn
  • MOST POPULAR