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WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Dozens of U.S. Democratic lawmakers with the Congressional Black Caucus asked the Justice Department to do more to protect voting rights, accusing various states led by Republican governors of trying to restrict ballot access for voters of color.
The House Ethics Committee announced on Monday that it will not take action against Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) after he was arrested last month during a voting rights demonstration near the Capitol.
The Ethics Committee typically does not launch investigations or take punitive action against lawmakers who are arrested for civil disobedience. But whenever a lawmaker is charged with illegal conduct, House rules require that the panel must still either begin a probe or disclose publicly why it won't.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCBD) – House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (R-SC) was joined by members of house leadership and family members of the late Representative Joseph Rainey Thursday to honor the Lowcountry native's groundbreaking contributions to Congress.
Minority and women-owned businesses risk being sidelined in federal contracts, awarded to implement the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that Congress passed last year, unless deliberate action is taken to ensure they have equal access to succeed in the bidding process, members of Congress and minority business leaders said Thursday.
A group of prominent American lawmakers wrote to President Joe Biden to ensure global supply and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a move seen as a result of the outreach by India's Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu.
House Financial Services Committee members Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) set up a special fundraising committee last year to raise money from the private equity donors. The pair formed the Beatty Gottheimer Victory Fund on Nov. 10 and over the next month they used it to collect $150,000 in campaign donations, eighty-eight percent of which came from executives and employees of New York City-based Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), one of the largest private equity firms in the world.
A proposal aimed at giving news publishers the power to bargain with dominant tech platforms over the distribution of their content is dividing media groups, with some advocates arguing the proposed solution could actually hurt small and local outlets it aims to help.
Members of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee also clashed over the proposal during a Wednesday hearing, despite a version of the bill being introduced last year with bipartisan support.
President Biden on Wednesday called the "cancer moonshot" initiative a priority of his White House during an event announcing the relaunch of the program.
"Let there be no doubt. Now that I am president, this is a presidential White House priority — period," he said during remarks at the White House.
Black women asserted themselves on the front lines to help push President Joe Biden over the top in the 2020 election.
Now, as the nation awaits word on who the president will nominate to fill the newly vacant Supreme Court seat, there's little doubt whether an African-American woman will be that pick.
Among the few remaining questions: whether that individual will deliver progress on a high court that will maintain its 6-3 conservative advantage.
WASHINGTON, D. C. -- Running for the U.S. House of Representatives takes big bucks. The state's U.S. House of Representatives members routinely raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign for re-election. Since raising his national profile during the administration of President Donald Trump, pugnacious Champaign County Republican Rep. Jim Jordan raised far more money than his counterparts who represent other Ohio congressional districts.