From Health Care to Jobs

Pres. Obama greets Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick WASHINGTON DC — And with the State of the [...]

State of the Union Speech Excerpts

EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS We face big and difficult challenges.  [...]

Budget Time

“We are a large and rich country. We can get away with a lot for [...]

Members Give “Freeze” Ice Cold Reception

Three year spending freeze on discretionary spending anyone? On the question of what members want [...]

Big Speech Tomorrow

As everyone is well aware of tomorrow President Obama will deliver his first State of [...]

Update: CBC to Meet w Haitian Amb. at Embassy

At 9:45 a.m. Wednesday at 2311 Massachusetts Avenue, members of the Congressional Black Caucus will [...]

Report on Wyclef Jean’s Haiti Org

The Root reports on Smoking Gun’s look into Yele, Wyclef Jean’s Haiti organization.  As always: [...]

Florida 22: Candidate Col. Allen West

Looks like Rep. Ron Klein, D-Fla., in district 22 has some inspired competition in the [...]

Haitian Ambassador to Meet CBC

Once again: Haitian Ambassador Raymond Joseph will be at the weekly Congressional Black Caucus meeting [...]

Hoyer: Clyburn is Haiti Point Person

As House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was asked about specific pieces of legislation that may [...]

Freeze

If my estimates are correct there will be some colorful observations regarding Obama’s new idea [...]

WH: Music from the Civil Rights Movement

I have to give it to the first lady she thinks of way more reasons [...]

Nine Days in February

The U.S. House is scheduled to be in session for only nine days.  They have [...]

Did St. Maarten Cost Taxpayers $1.1M?

I want to say first off: Kudos to Sen. John Kerry. He flew commercial. Proving [...]

The Issue. The Only Issue: Jobs.

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“Unemployment for blacks is projected to reach a 25-year high this year, according to a [...]

Charlie’s PSA on Haiti Explains Tax Perk

This simple public service announcement by Charlie Rangel explains that YES you can deduct from [...]