by MCDC | Jul 19, 2013 | Civil Rights, Issues, News, Racism
Transcript of Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin (.PDF) “The African-American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws,” Obama said, “everything from the death penalty to enforcement...
by MCDC | Jul 19, 2013 | Civil Rights, Issues, Voter Rights
The Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing this week on the Voting Rights Act since the Supreme Court gutted the landmark civil rights law last month. The key witnesses were civil rights icon Representative John Lewis and Representative James Sensenbrenner,...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2013 | Coal, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal, News
@mikememoli WASHINGTON – The Senate voted to confirm Gina McCarthy as the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, ending what had been the longest delay for any of President Obama’s second-term Cabinet picks. The 59-40 vote was the second such...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2013 | Farm Bill, Sequester, Video
Last night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert congratulated the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for being able to pass the Farm Bill. When the House GOP caucus found that they couldn’t compromise on the subject of food stamps, they just...
by MCDC | Jul 18, 2013 | News, Sequester
Mapping the Sequester’s Impact on Low-Income Housing (via Moyers & Company) In April, Doug Rice, senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, released a paper that described some of the ways people would be affected by sequestration cuts to...
by MCDC | Jul 17, 2013 | Civil Rights, Immigration Reform, Racism, Video
“If Republicans in the House of Representatives vote against the immigration reform legislation that was recently approved by the Senate — or if they prevent it from coming to a vote at all — they will lose the presidential election in 2016. It will not even...
