CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer Blue or red, a majority of states have exceeded their health care sign-up targets under President Barack Obama’s law...
[Washington Post] WASHINGTON — With the Republican-led filibuster of a Senate proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 on Wednesday, Democrats moved swiftly to...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill on Wednesday that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat...
[New York Times] President Obama’s landslide victory in 2008 was supposed to herald the beginning of a new Democratic era. And yet, six years later, there...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November’s elections, and the sums raised by the national...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Enrollment for the president’s health care law has grown to 7.5 million Americans, the Obama administration announced Thursday, handing...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several big corporations have reaped millions of dollars from “Obamacare” even as they support GOP candidates who vow to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Election-year legislation to resume long-term jobless benefits is headed to the House, where a small band of dissident...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans call the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on campaign donations a victory for free speech. Democrats say it’s...
Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times As part of a hearing to investigate data security following breaches at large commercial retailers, Congresswoman Maxine...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) set off a firestorm of controversy by saying on the syndicated radio talk show...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The Kenyan Proverb, “When elephants fight, the grass suffers,” is apropos to us, the grassroots. Only in our case, we are...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says more than 5 million people have signed up for private health insurance under the new health care law. That...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a disastrous start and relentless Republican opposition, President Barack Obama said Friday that enrollment in his signature...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 would lift nearly 1 million low-wage workers out of...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by Congress’ nonpartisan budget analysts seems to have thrown Democrats onto the defensive after it concluded that...
[Politico] Sen. Claire McCaskill said Tuesday that if she were up for reelection this year in a purple state, she “probably” would not have President Barack...
[Los Angeles Times] NASHUA, N.H. — For better or worse, they are the class of Obama. Eight Democratic senators swept into office partly on Barack Obama’s 2008...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Support from Democrats and Republicans in the Senate is expected to overcome liberal as well as conservative criticism of a massive five-year farm...
[The Washington Post] Since World War II, there’s been a strikingly consistent pattern in American politics: The economy does much better when a Democrat is in...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he’s considering changing his chamber’s rules to make it harder for...
(Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Democrats, seething over the botched startup of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, are urging U.S. officials to swiftly help people...
[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...
