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August 31, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - In agreeing to Boehner's schedule, Obama's address will compete with the opening game of the National Football…
August 31, 2011
POLITICO - Carson also said the Tea Party is stopping change in Congress, likening it to 'the effort that we're…
August 30, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Beyond policy differences, Waters and others have admitted that few in the group have a personal relationship…
August 22, 2011
Speculation had been growing that West might join the Republican primary to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson. But the tea party…
August 19, 2011
OPINION - Warm and fuzz feelings aside, sometimes one friend has to let the other friend know that they've gotten…
August 18, 2011
OPINION - Sadly, minority majority districts have always been controversial and this time around will be no different...
August 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - On a related front, Obama will also present a specific plan to cut the suffocating long-term national…
August 16, 2011
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) - 'I make no apologies for being reasonable,' Obama declared.
August 12, 2011
OPINION - For a time, it looked like the debt committee wouldn't reflect the country whose financial future it's supposed…
August 11, 2011
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - On his first official trip outside of Washington since being confined to the nation's capital for…
August 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's appointment Thursday of three Democrats to Congress' new debt-reduction supercommittee...
August 8, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Congressional Black Caucus launches a jobs tour to combat high unemployment rates in the black community,…
August 8, 2011
No Child Left Behind is stalled in Congress - leaving the administration to take the matter into their hands. The…
August 8, 2011
OPINION - The Republicans in the House of Representatives, the Senate minority leadership and the now infamous Tea Party Caucus,…
August 6, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Ethics Committee has dismissed an allegation that Rep. Gregory Meeks received an improper home equity…
August 5, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Voting Rights Act became law to end Jim Crow suppression of black voters, but today,…
August 5, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve new initiatives to help some of America's 1 million…
August 4, 2011
OPINION - The optimism of 'Yes We Can' and 'Change We Can Believe In' has turned into the pessimism of…
August 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that heads off an unprecedented U.S. financial default and begins the…
August 2, 2011
OPINION - When the history of the debt ceiling debate is written, it will record that politics won and the…