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April 2, 2013

Republican lawmaker defends Tenn. good grades for welfare bill

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March 28, 2013

Black Alabama rep calls out white constituent’s ‘slave-holding…incestuous kin folk’

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February 26, 2013

Gun control advocate wins primary for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s House seat

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January 3, 2013

Defeated congressman Allen West, Colin Powell get votes for speaker of the House

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January 3, 2013

White men no longer majority in the House Democratic caucus

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December 14, 2012

Harry Belafonte: Obama should ‘work like a third world dictator’

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December 7, 2012

Allen West’s losing campaign cost upward of $18 million

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November 21, 2012

Congressional Black Caucus chooses new leader: Rep. Marcia Fudge

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November 16, 2012

Allen West loses latest appeal in election loss

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November 8, 2012

Steven Horsford makes history as Nevada's 1st black congressman

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November 7, 2012

Election 2012: From Allen West to Mia Love — a bad night for black Republicans

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October 31, 2012

GOP Rep. Steve King: Avoid Hurricane Sandy funds being used for 'Gucci bags'

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September 27, 2012

Utah's black Republican congressional candidate Mia Love receives 'disturbing' mail

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July 11, 2012

33rd time's the charm: the House's many votes to repeal 'Obamacare'

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June 14, 2012

Detroit may send no black representatives to Congress

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May 8, 2012

Rep. John Conyers calls GOP's Violence Against Women Act a 'flat out attack on women'

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April 11, 2012

Allen West says 80 House Democrats are Communists

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March 28, 2012

Birther bill advances in Missouri House of Representatives

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February 29, 2012

TheGrio's 100: Rep. Yvette Clarke, working on Capitol Hill for a better future for her district

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February 27, 2012

Anniversary of first African-American to address the house

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