Melissa Mark-Viverito, who was the first person of color to serve as New York City Council speaker, announced her candidacy Wednesday to replace outgoing Rep. José Serrano of the Bronx.
Corbin Trent, her communications director, will work for her re-election campaign, while her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, will go to a non-profit promoting the Green New Deal.
Both chants targeted women and both were fueled by prejudice, but it is also imperative to understand what those chants don’t have in common.
WASHINGTON — The organizations that should have protected young female gymnasts from sexual abuse by former Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, including the U.S. Olympic Committee and the FBI, "fundamentally failed" to do so for years, according to a new congressional report.
Two lawmakers are the cat's meow on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D.-Ore, and Rep. Brian Mast, R.-Fla., who were instrumental in ending the Department of Agriculture's so-called "kitten slaughterhouse," were visited on Thursday by two cats who were spared when the government program was shut down earlier this year.
New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres is running for Congress against Ruben Diaz Sr., a fellow councilman with a history of anti-gay remarks.
In a culture where status is increasingly defined by likes and followers, Ocasio-Cortez proves doing the work is real power.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats planned to push ahead Friday with a measure that seeks to terminate President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration that he issued last week in order to circumvent Congress and build his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, was set to file a joint resolution in the House that would repeal the president’s declaration. The measure was to be filed during the chamber’s pro forma session, since lawmakers are on recess and don’t return to Washington until Monday.
As of Wednesday, more than 90 House Democrats had signed onto the legislation as official co-sponsors.
Put simply, Congress heard Trump's plea for emergency funding and used its primary authority under the Constitution — the power of the purse — to say no.
That's not an answer Trump likes to hear. So he's not taking it.
Instead, he is planning to announce Friday morning that he will declare a national emergency and draw $8 billion from the just-passed bill and other existing federal accounts to build the wall anyway, according to an administration official. Lawsuits will ensue, and the courts will have to decide whether and how to intervene in a power struggle between the other two branches.
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she won't authorize President Donald Trump to give his annual State of the Union address in the House chamber until the partially closed federal government is re-opened, just hours after Trump insisted in a letter to her that he would deliver the speech as planned Jan. 29.
"I am writing to inform you that the House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the president's State of the Union address in the House chamber until the government has opened," Pelosi wrote in a return letter to Trump. "I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened."
It’s an early contender for the most repeated political factoid of 2019: The 116th Congress is the most diverse in U.S. history. But the physical presence of people of color in Congress, which is one form of representation, does not automatically equal robust political advocacy. That could wind up disappointing some of the voters who sent these new members to Washington.
On the US House floor, Rep. Lieu plays audio of children at detention facilities, despite being ruled out of order by the chair: "Why are we hiding this from the American people?"
U2 frontman Bono rides the train to Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., where the singer lobbied lawmakers to end family separation at the border.
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“I think most white people want a white neighborhood,” Jones told NBC News correspondent Morgan Radford.
Radford: “Do you think that black people are genetically inferior?”
Jones: “The average IQ of a black person is about 20 points lower than the average IQ of a white person. OK?”
Radford: “I went to Harvard.”
Jones: “Alright, And you’ve got a lot of white blood in you, too.”
Radford: “Some white blood. I’m African American.”
Jones: “Well, that’s where your intelligence is coming from, I think.”
Jones was also a member of the American Nazi Party, and denies the Holocaust ever happened.
A group of House Republicans is seeking the Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump because of his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are working out the details of a historic summit that could take place by the end of May or early June. Yet an agreement by which the North would give up its nuclear weapons and allow for the world to confirm it still seems far off.
Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., made the suggestion in a letter Wednesday sent to members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It was signed by 18 Republicans.
The letter said that North Korea has long ignored international demands to cease its aggressions but that Trump's "peace through strength policies are working" and bringing North Korea to the negotiating table.
BREAKING: White House: 1 death and 1 serious injury after crash involving a train with GOP lawmakers and a truck, but "there are no serious injuries among members of Congress or their staff." http://nbcnews.to/2E5BYj4
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The 113th Congress remains on track to be arguably the least productive Congress in modern history, according to the best available statistics on legislation that has been enacted into law.
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