Earlier this week, President Obama made headlines when he directed his staff to draft an executive order that would abolish workplace discrimination against the LGBT
It seems that politics and the day-to-day struggles of Congress don’t get Rep. John Lewis of Georgia down. The Congressman recently showed all of America
There is absolutely nothing funny about almost a million federal government employees being out of work or millions of military servicemen and women — people
President Barack Obama addressed the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 43rd annual legislative conference at the Phoenix Awards Gala last night in Washington, D.C. Days after
Some can’t take the rarified air that comes with being placed front and center on the political stage. Sadly, that seems to have been the
In nine days, the U.S. government enact automatic spending cuts due to what is called sequestration. Specifically speaking, the sequester refers to the drastic and
Each year, based on required financial statement and annual disclosure forms, the public has access to information about lawmakers’ assets and liabilities, including stock-market holdings,
As of last year, the United States Congress had an approval rating of around 11 percent. The current Congress will probably go down in history
Although the imaginary fiscal cliff was avoided, there are some big issues left for President Obama to deal with pertaining to the economy. The most
It appears as if the writing is on the wall to once again legalize marijuana on the federal level. The Marijuana Tax Act was passed in 1937 and
Born into slavery on March 3, 1836 in Alabama to a slave, Jefferson Long was the second African American elected to the U.S. House of
“I am unapologetically a wife and a mother…” Sandi Jackson.
Lillian Miles Lewis, the wife of legendary Georgia Congressman John Lewis who helped fuel her husband’s rise in politics, died this morning in Atlanta at
Congressional lawmakers are taking to their Capitol Hill podium to keep the federal government from taxing medal-winning U.S. Olympians, with the chairman of the GOP-led
Ten Black politicians Pres. Obama will need to win.
The recent economic indicators released in December of 2011 for the month of November suggest that the economic outlook for Americans is getting brighter. However,
Freshman Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., unleashed a hailstorm on his colleagues recently with statistics that display the unpopularity of Congress. With its approval rating at
The U.S. Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act in August 2010, reducing the 100-to-1 disparity between minimum sentences for crack and powder cocaine to 18
Republican Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was asked to explain to an audience at a transportation conference why it is so difficult to get any big
“This is not a game.”
