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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.