President Obama's Second Term Agenda Stresses Compromise

Name: President Obama's Second Term Agenda Stresses Compromise
Uploaded: 2012-11-14T22:00:00Z
Duration: P3110S
Description: With automatic spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to hit in January 2013, President Barack Obama hopes to find a "grand bargain" solution to U.S. budget woes. Gwen Ifill talks to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, about President Obama's latest efforts to push compromise on Capitol Hill.

Clip: 11/14/2012 | 51m 50s

With automatic spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to hit in January 2013, President Barack Obama hopes to find a "grand bargain" solution to U.S. budget woes. Gwen Ifill talks to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, about President Obama's latest efforts to push compromise on Capitol Hill.

Aired: 11/14/12

Rating: NR

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