Poll: Michelle Obama favored for Illinois Senate seat

theGRIO REPORT - Although Mrs. Obama has never indicated any interest in a political career, a new survey from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling firm suggests that Illinois voters would warm up the idea...

Clyburn: Gay marriage should not be left to states

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theGRIO REPORT - Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, said Monday that gay marriage should not be left up to each individual state, as President Obama said last week...

Clyburn blocked from speaking on House floor by Republicans

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House Republicans on Friday morning blocked Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) from speaking on the House floor during a brief pro forma session...

Report: Black Dems lose clout in southern capitols

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ATLANTA (AP) - The nonpartisan Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies says in a report issued Friday that despite Barack Obama's election as president, black voters and elected officials in the South have less influence now...

'Super' debt committee gets more diverse

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OPINION - For a time, it looked like the debt committee wouldn't reflect the country whose financial future it's supposed to save...

Clyburn assigned to debt super committee

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's appointment Thursday of three Democrats to Congress' new debt-reduction supercommittee...

Compassion needed in deficit talks, says Rep. Clyburn

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WASHINGTON (AP) - But Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina told MSNBC that government safety-net programs like Medicare and Medicaid must not "be shredded."...

Clyburn: Palin 'intellectually' incapable of understanding Arizona shootings

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Sarah Palin's first spoken words on the shootings in Tucson, Ariz. -- a lengthy denunciation of both violence and pundits who are "manufacturing a blood libel"...

Democrats must stage a Rangel intervention

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OPINION - Rangel now lays uneasily in a bed entirely of his own making, and should be forced to suffer the consequences of his delusional behavior...

Why 'back of the bus' politics won't go sit down somewhere

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

OPINION - Does the back of the bus cliché then really fit the treatment that Clyburn got? Or is it pure hyperbole by Limbaugh to score a racial point?...

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Poll: Michelle Obama favored for Illinois Senate seat

Clyburn: Gay marriage should not be left to states

Clyburn blocked from speaking on House floor by Republicans

Report: Black Dems lose clout in southern capitols

'Super' debt committee gets more diverse

Clyburn assigned to debt super committee

Compassion needed in deficit talks, says Rep. Clyburn

Clyburn: Palin 'intellectually' incapable of understanding Arizona shootings

Democrats must stage a Rangel intervention

Why 'back of the bus' politics won't go sit down somewhere

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