In Today’s Times
- The rise of the current leading black political family in the United States - the Obamas - is inextricable from the unraveling of an older one - the Jacksons - with the two families tangled in shifting alliances, splits and sudden reversals of fortune, Jodi Kantor and Monica Davey report.
- Â The fiscal stalemate in Washington is highlighting a significant shift in the Republican Party: deficit hawks now carry more weight than defense hawks, Jonathan Weisman and Ashley Parker report.
- The White House warned that automatic budget cuts scheduled to take effect this week would have a devastating impact on people in every state, framing the real-world test of the importance and value of the federal government, Robert Pear writes.
- One of the biggest threats to the success of President Obama’s health care law comes from a shortage of health care professionals, but the commission created to investigate the shortage has never met in two and a half years because it has no money from Congress or the administration, Robert Pear reports.
Happening in Washington
- President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will deliver remarks to the National Governors Association in the State Dining Room at the White House. Michelle Obama and Jill Biden will speak as well.
