ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The tea party may have learned its lesson. As Congress finishes work on a must-pass spending bill set for...
(Politico) – December will be the lamest lame-duck session in a long time. Senate Democrats and House Republicans are privately saying that the post-election work period...
Andrew Taylor, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer break over and elections ahead, Congress is beginning an abbreviated September session with must-do tasks of preventing...
(Detroit Free-Press) – The pending retirement of U.S. Rep. John Dingell means U.S. Rep. John Conyers is poised to become the dean of the U.S. House...
(Politico) – Only 20 percent of today’s lawmakers have served in the military, the lowest rate since World War II and a dramatic fall from over...
(The Washington Post) – An important reminder from Gallup: Very, very few people think that Congress is doing a good job. An important reminder from us:...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators have begun talks on crafting a compromise farm bill, including cuts to the food...
[The Washington Post] In the wake of the government shutdown and declining Republican popularity, Democrats are growing more optimistic about winning a majority in the House...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “In the event that a debt limit impasse were to lead to a default, it could have a catastrophic effect...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist As these words are being written, the Obama administration is trying to end a shutdown of the United States government...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I work for the largest labor union in the federal sector: the American Federation...
[Los Angeles Times] WASHINGTON — House Republicans emerged with a new strategy to reopen the most popular parts of government that have been shut down by...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When the poverty data was released on September 17, comparing the poverty situation in 2011 to that in 2012, many hoped that...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Steven and Laurie, a White married couple that lives near Richmond, Va., work at a big box store. She is...
[The Washington Post] House Republicans successfully passed a Farm Bill Thursday by splitting apart funding for food stamps from federal agricultural policy, a move that infuriated...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week liberal Blacks and Whites went crazy after the Supreme Court issued its ruling on affirmative action and the voting...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “’I’m learning that milestones are a very difficult thing to get through in this first year . . ....
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The Obama administration deserves to be richly criticized for surreptitiously obtaining the telephone records of reporters for the Associated...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Anyone despairing that Congress can’t get anything done should note last week’s swift vote to get furloughed air traffic...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Senate’s Gang of Eight have put together an 844-page monstrosity known as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, I had to make one of the most difficult announcements of my life—I told my family that I...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “Brighter days are ahead.” “The check is being put in the mail.” That is what the Republicans seem to be...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The United States Senate’s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures – the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background...
