In the News
February 21, 2017
On February 21st, Congresswoman Beatty participated in a town hall in Columbus on the Affordable Care Act.
February 21, 2017
Many local business owners spent Tuesday networking together for a Facebook “Boost Your Business” event.
February 17, 2017
In one exchange, April Ryan, a White House reporter and Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, asked Trump whether he planned to include the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) "in your conversations with your urban agenda, your inner-city agenda."
February 16, 2017
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus expressed bafflement and dismay Thursday after President Donald Trump asked a black reporter to set up a meeting with them.
February 16, 2017
Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio said: "We have a rich history, we have some almost 50 members of the Congressional Black Caucus. We're not new. What a president should say is, yes, it's already on my agenda to talk to them."
February 13, 2017
For the past couple of weeks, Congress has been more in the business of undoing rules than in its customary role of creating them.
February 13, 2017
Rep. Joyce Beatty introduced the Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2017 last week, a bill designed to increase first-time homebuyers’ financial knowledge and reduce mortgage payments.
February 8, 2017
Before the Senate confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions as President Donald Trump’s attorney general on a 52-47 vote, 13 black caucus Democrats took to video and read a letter by the late Martin Luther King’s widow critical of the Alabama Republican - the same letter that got Warren, D-Mass., barred from speaking on the Senate floor after she read from it Tuesday night.
February 7, 2017
The Senate historian says it was the first time a vice president had to break a tie on a Cabinet nomination.
February 7, 2017
Two Republicans joined Democrats in the unsuccessful effort to derail the nomination of the wealthy Republican donor.