A letter to the editor of the Madison Eagle newspaper Last November many candidates said they wanted to get elected so that they could do something about jobs. Robert Hurt was one of these candidates. Representative Hurt has continued to say he cares about creating...
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...
“This fall the eyes of the political world will be fixed on Virginia, with the state playing host to the most competitive race of 2013, as businessman and former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe faces off against Ken Cuccinelli, the...
@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...
Senate Confirms Richard Cordray as Consumer Watchdog (via The White House) President Barack Obama listens to Richard Cordray deliver remarks following his confirmation as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in the State Dining Room of the White...
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...
