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The tragedy in Buffalo distorted the remainder of the day's news agenda. There was not a single story filed on any of the three newscasts from a foreign dateline. Even the massacre of 40 Shiite Moslem pilgrims en route to Karbala by a suicidal female bomber was mentioned only in passing. Ordinarily, the passage of fiscal stimulus legislation by the House of Representatives by a 246-183 margin would have grabbed the day's headlines. NBC and ABC covered it from Capitol Hill; CBS assigned it as a White House story to Chip Reid.
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell concentrated on the "hurried and heated" House debate: "The podium was a magnet and it seemed like everybody tried to get in one last argument." CBS and ABC fleshed out some more details of the transportation spending. ABC's Jonathan Karl made note of $27bn for highway construction; CBS' Reid found $8bn for high speed rail, mostly added at the last minute. Republicans, Reid remarked, are no fans of mass transit. They called the rail plan "egregious."
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