The President continued his conversation on health reform with a roundtable at the Children's National Medical Center, a conversation that has taken him to every region of the country and encompassed every imaginable perspective on health care reform.
It has been a conversation that has brought more people and more stakeholders into the fold supporting strong reform than ever before, and taken us further down that road than ever before. And so it is no surprise, perhaps, that those who feel they would profit financially or politically have come out swinging furiously to try to kill reform.

Brett McMahon, vice president of Miller & Long Construction, details the expected detrimental effects of the Employee Free Choice Act on his business, including his company’s ability to continue providing pension benefits to his employees.

JD Foster of The Heritage Foundation discusses what a budget deficit is and its impact on our economic future. A budget deficit is the result of government spending more than it receives in taxes and revenues.

Today the Your World team covers the missing Air France jet, the first elections in South Ossetia, the rising (and falling) death toll in Iraq, the discussion over Cuba's future, and the death of the last survivor of the Titanic.

The President discusses the breadth and depth of experience held by his nominee for the Supreme Court. In the course of a life that began in a housing project in the South Bronx and brought her to the pinnacle of her profession, Judge Sonia Sotomayor accumulated more experience on the federal bench than any incoming Supreme Court Justice in the past 100 years, touching nearly every aspect of our legal system.

This week the President discusses breakthroughs on two issues where stakeholders from all sides, who once opposed each other, are coming together for real reform. On health care and energy, solutions would provide key pillars for a new foundation for the country.