by MCDC | Oct 9, 2013 | Action Alerts, Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Sequester
TO: ABC, NBC, CBS AND CNN from CREDO Mobilize The government shutdown is not the result of a legislative breakdown or both parties refusing to compromise. It is a direct result of the right-wing House Republicans’ legislative strategy of taking hostages and...
by MCDC | Oct 8, 2013 | Ethics, GOP Shutdown
by MCDC | Oct 7, 2013 | Ethics, GOP Shutdown, Sequester
As the government shutdown headed into a second week with no resolution in sight, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday made three key points.. Read A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the...
by MCDC | Oct 2, 2013 | Action Alerts, Ethics, Health Care, Sequester
On October 1, 2013, the United States federal government entered a shutdown suspending discretionary services deemed “non-essential” by the Antideficiency Act. As a result of the government’s failure to enact regular appropriations or a continuing...
by MCDC | Oct 1, 2013 | Environment, Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge has certified a handful of lawsuits as class actions accusing two energy companies of cheating southwest Virginia residents out of tens of millions of dollars in royalty payments for natural gas drilled on their land. The lead attorney...
by MCDC | Oct 1, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, Health Care, Sequester
“Today we saw the Tea Party Republicans in Congress hit rock bottom. Voting to shut down the federal government will damage our nation’s economy and hit Virginia the hardest, but Ted Cruz and the Tea Party declared by their actions today that none of that matters to...
