Watching Washington Podcast

Pork is a family business for Alaskan politicians and lobbyists.

Homeland Security has canceled a kindergarten field trip -- because the six-year-olds could be terrorists.

A wounded soldier gets billed for his body armor. That'll teach him to wear it into combat!

The federal government won't look for people owed backpay -- and won't help clergy who offer to search for them.

The West Virgina coal mine deaths may be a sign of increasing problems at a lot of American coal mines.

Millions for donuts & booze. But no help for flooded schools.

What's Washington thinking? They free one of bin Laden's top men and do nothing to stop terrorists' cash flow.

FEMA ignored offers of help from other federal agencies after Hurricane Katrina.

It was 20 years ago this weekend that we lost the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

The likely next House Majority Leader took money from a phone-sex millionaire.

Senator Patrick Leahy mentioned "Quakers & babies" in Congressional hearings on domestic spying. Here's half of the equation. An encore episode.