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*Dang, it’s enough to make you wonder if your opinion or even your vote even matters. We’re talking about the way the NRA and Congress (mostly Republicans) just outright said screw you to President Obama, the families of the Newtown, Conn. massacre victims and even 90 percent the American public that was in favor of [...]
*The dust had barely settled on the Senate’s vote to shortstop the GOP filibuster against the compromise deal that some GOP and conservative Democratic senators brokered on the gun control bill before other GOP and conservative Democratic senators began pecking away at it. The deal was to support background checks for private gun sales, and [...]
*President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at least for the time being. To force the issue, Obama would have to spend precious time, energy, and resources jawboning anti-gun [...]
*House Speaker John Boehner has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union speech on Feb. 12. In a letter sent today, Boehner says the country faces immense challenges, and Americans expect the Congress and White House to work together on solutions. Boehner says cooperation will require, quote, a “willingness to seek [...]
*(Via AJC.com) – The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” House Republicans notified lawmakers that the chamber will vote Monday evening on other bills. They say that will be their only votes of the day. President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said [...]
*In the aftermath of President Obama’s reelection last month perhaps a more important ballot decision was swept under the rug. The legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado. There is still a federal law prohibiting the possession, manufacture, sale and usage of the drug but most people who are arrested and/or incarcerated are being prosecuted [...]
*Now that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is gone from office, his congressional seat is up for grabs. Apparently he didn’t leave a good impression, somehow encouraging a convicted pervert to run. Former Congressman Mel Reynolds who was convicted of having a sexual relationship with an underage campaign worker in 1995, announced his candidacy for Jackson’s [...]
*At a fundraising event last week, Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, the wife of Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., went off on the media. She said her husband was doing well and then let out her real feelings. “The jackals are outside. Let them stay outside,” she shouted into a mic, referring to the press anxiously stalking [...]
*Politico is reporting that the House Ethics Committee has voted not charge Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters with any violations following a lengthy, contentious probe into whether she improperly aided a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock during the 2008 U.S. financial crisis. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The decision clears the way for [...]
*D.L. Hughley got really real on President Obama recently when he addressed the leader’s top bullies. The talk show host explains in his new book, “I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes is Ruining America,” how the president has really impacted the country as the first African American president. [...]
*Will and Jada Pinkett Smith went to Washington today with their 11-year-old daughter Willow to testify before Congress on the horrors of human trafficking and modern slavery. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] As previously reported, Jada says Willow alerted her to the issue and encouraged her to launch a campaign to raise awareness and spur [...]
*The House has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, the first time Congress has taken such a dramatic move against a sitting Cabinet official. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Politico reports: The vote was 255-67, with 17 [...]
*House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida. Florida’s law, which allows residents to use force in response to an attack without first having to retreat, has come under scrutiny after the nationally-polarizing death of teenager Trayvon Martin. George Zimmermann, a neighborhood watch [...]
*The President has never been a more disrespected office than right now. Republicans have attacked him and even called him a liar in front of the whole world during a presidential address to Congress. Unheard of right? So who could blame a president for using his executive power when trying to run the country when [...]
*Georgia has joined at least two dozen other states that are pushing drug tests for welfare recipients. The mostly Republican state assembly claims it wants to insure welfare benefits are used the way they were intended and not in the commission of criminal activity. Last October a federal judge stopped Florida from drug-testing its residents [...]
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