by MCDC | Jan 12, 2015 | Civil Rights, Events, History, Income Inequality
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Celebrating His Life & Legacy Presented by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Guest Speaker Dr. Hortense Hinton Jackson Music by Min. Nelson C Page Jr. & Jesse Hines Jr. Contacts: Rev. Frank D Lewis Sr –...
by MCDC | Jan 12, 2015 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, News
There’s not just one but TWO bills–one in the House and one in the Senate–that are trying to make Planned Parenthood health centers a distant memory. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and over 80 GOP House members are leading the effort to attack Planned...
by MCDC | Jan 8, 2015 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Issues, News, Virginia
Nearly a year ago, Kansas legislators quietly attempted to legalize anti-gay segregation, abandoning the effort only after a national wave of outrage arose. Now a Republican delegate in Virginia is attempting to replicate Kansas’ effort—with a bill so extreme, so...
by MCDC | Jan 6, 2015 | Events, Issues
By Rep. Lloyd Doggett To those who have wondered what would be the top priority of this new Congress, now we know—deception, what some could even rightly call “tax fraud.” Today, on a largely partisan vote of 234 to 172, the House approved over my objection a new...
by MCDC | Jan 4, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Health Care, Issues
By Robert Reich The Republican congress that takes over this week will try to drive a generational wedge through the electorate. They’re cooking up arguments that the nation can’t afford to provide our children adequate health care and education if we’re going to meet...
by MCDC | Jan 2, 2015 | Economy, News
Meet a few of the job destroyers and tax evaders that want to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid while lowering the tax rate for the top 2% “There really is no shame. The Wall Street leaders whose recklessness and illegal behavior caused this terrible...
