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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.
Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) has apologized for insulting Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) after she asked him Tuesday to put on a face mask before boarding the U.S. Capitol's subway system.
"Today, while heading to the House floor for votes, I respectfully asked my colleague @RepHalRogers to put on a mask while boarding the train," Beatty tweeted. "He then poked my back, demanding I get on the train."
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, following a widely publicized altercation with Rep. Hal Rogers (KY-05) and his subsequent public apology, U.S. Congresswoman and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (OH-03) issued the following statement:
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act of 2022, by a vote of 222-210. Included in the bill were two amendments introduced by U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) to ensure that minority-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses and women-owned businesses are full and active participants in America's coming manufacturing transformation.
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.