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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…
August 2, 2011
OPINION - Republicans have not introduced a single jobs bill since they took over the House in 2010. Elections have…
August 2, 2011
OPINION - Proposed cuts in U.S. foreign aid would hinder America's ability to effectively assist in what has become the…
August 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats crowded around her as she mouthed "thank-you's." She used one hand to greet some, the other…
August 1, 2011
Talk of a tea party challenge to Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) is overblown. But that doesn't mean he'll be in…
July 31, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama and Democrats have been insisting on a one-shot debt ceiling increase of around $2.4 trillion, enough…
July 29, 2011
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Singer and activist Harry Belafonte says President Barack Obama and his "mission" have failed because…
July 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - He spoke at the White House as a bill by Republican House Speaker John Boehner to lift…
July 28, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - This is not political rhetoric. It's a real-life psychological negotiating scenario where it sometimes helps to seem…
July 26, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency legislation pending in the House to avert a…
July 26, 2011
OPINION - Last night, President Obama did what many in his party had longed asked of him: Tell the American…