by MCDC | Jan 21, 2015 | Events, Issues, News
BY EMILY ATKIN The official website for House Republicans has posted on YouTube a doctored version of President Obama’s State of the Union address which cuts out comments where the President was critical of Republican rhetoric on climate change, ThinkProgress has...
by MCDC | Jan 20, 2015 | Economy, Education, Employment, Events, Issues, News, Video, Virginia
In our growing global economy, Americans need to have more knowledge and more skills to compete — by 2020, an estimated 35 percent of job openings will require at least a bachelor’s degree, and 30 percent will require some college or an associate’s...
by MCDC | Jan 18, 2015 | 2016 General Election, News, Taxes
By Jia Lynn Yang President Obama will unveil a slew of new taxes targeting the wealthiest Americans in his State of the Union address Tuesday. And there’s one person in particular who would be hit extra hard if the policies ever became law: Mitt Romney. When...
by MCDC | Jan 16, 2015 | Action Alerts, Issues, News
By Erika Eichelberger Ever since Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) helped get the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau off the ground in 2010, Republicans have been trying to shut it down. GOPers drafted legislation to weaken the fledgling agency, which was designed to...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, History, News, Social Security
And yet, on the very first day that the new larger House Republican majority got to work, it made a move that could mean some 11 million people who receive Social Security disability benefits will see their lifeline benefits cut by 20% in 2016—or even cuts to Social...
