by MCDC | Dec 20, 2014 | Issues, News, Video
In this week’s address, the President reflected on the significant progress made by this country in 2014, and in the nearly six years since he took office. “More jobs. More insured. A growing economy. Shrinking deficits. Bustling industry. Booming energy. Pick...
by MCDC | Dec 18, 2014 | Economy, Employment, Energy, Issues, News
Excerpts from an article by Steve Benen Remember the 2012 presidential campaign? It was just two years ago that Mitt Romney boasted that if he were elected president, he’d “get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent, perhaps a little lower” by the end of his first...
by MCDC | Dec 15, 2014 | 2016 General Election, News, Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia Office of Governor Terry McAuliffe FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 15, 2014 Office of the Governor Contact: Rachel Thomas Email: rachel.thomas@governor.virginia.gov Governor McAuliffe Announces $28 Million in Funding for New Voting...
by MCDC | Dec 9, 2014 | News
There was considerable misinformation disseminated then about what was and wasn’t achieved using these methods in an effort to discourage support for the legislation. There was a good amount of misinformation used in 2011 to credit the use of methods with the...
by MCDC | Dec 9, 2014 | Ethics, News
An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly...
by MCDC | Dec 8, 2014 | GOP Shutdown, News, Satire
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dropped his plans to sue President Obama on Friday, explaining to reporters, “I realized it would mean doing something.” In a brief appearance before the press, Speaker Boehner talked about his...