Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Tonight, another disappointment for Nancy Pelosi and the
Democrats in Congress. A more than three-week effort to
overturn President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program expansion has failed, with the Democrats only
a handful of votes and falling well short of the 13 defections
they needed to override the veto. Is Bush picking up late-term
strength or are the Democrats just unable to accomplish
anything? And what happens next? Tune in for all the details
and the rest of the news from across the country and around the
world.

The Department of Homeland Security is building a fence along
our southern border with steel pipe imported from China. Rep.
Phil English and steel industry advocates in Congress are
outraged that Homeland Security has sold out struggling
American steel workers for cheap Chinese labor. Tonight, a
report on Washington’s efforts to keep federal contracts with
U.S. companies and to level the playing field in a market that
is highly manipulated by illegal Chinese trading practices.

Agriculture economist Phil Martin has just completed a study
looking for any economic signs of a “severe shortageâ€