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January 13, 2022

Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell lashed out at president Joe Biden on Wednesday, accusing him of widening the US political divide with his push for voting rights reform and call to change the senate rules.


January 12, 2022

Black House Democrats on Wednesday teed off on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for his refusal to back a change in Senate rules for the sake of strengthening federal voting protections.

Behind President Biden, a growing number of Democrats are pushing for a filibuster carve-out that would allow a pair of voting rights bills to become law — an effort that's gained steam over the past year as almost 20 Republican-led states have adopted tougher voting restrictions.


January 10, 2022

Ohio's Democratic congressional delegation is excited to watch billions of dollars in infrastructure funding come to the state, but where that funding goes now depends on local efforts.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in November, will bring needed funding to the state in areas such as water systems, public transportation and broadband, according to the state's federal representatives.


January 6, 2022

It seems the Congressional Black Caucus Members that communicated candidly with theGrio understand the high stakes and far reaching consequences for all Americans, but particularly Black people at home and abroad if the United States Congress doesn't deliver justice and enact swift reforms to secure our democracy.


January 2, 2022

House Democrats are bracing for a turnover in leadership next year that would amount to a seismic event for the party — one that could empower a new, diverse generation of members while also exacerbating tensions over the direction of the caucus and the policies it should pursue.


December 31, 2021

(KTVX) – Back in 2016, President Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the proposal to replace former President Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, which would make her the first African American woman to appear on U.S. currency.

The idea to replace Andrew Jackson, who had owned slaves and caused the forced removal of Native Americans through the Indian Removal Act, came from an 11-year-old girl who wrote a letter to President Obama in 2014.


December 20, 2021

IT STARTED AS an accidental dare. As House leaders met on November 5 in an effort to reach a final deal on both the Build Back Better Act and a bipartisan infrastructure bill, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., suggested the Congressional Black Caucus could be helpful in ending an impasse between a group of holdouts, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.


December 19, 2021

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – This week on The Spectrum:

A new leader in Ohio's race for Senate may be emerging.

Jane Timken says new polling numbers have given her confidence, while the former state party chair looks to reunite a fractured Republican party.

"I have the ability to bring people together," Timken said.


December 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nina Turner, the former OH-11 congressional candidate who has built a national following as an outspoken progressive, has a warning for her party.

What You Need To Know

Democrats have controlled the White House and Congress for nearly a year, but a long list of campaign priorities remain unfinished

Ohio lawmakers and candidates are frustrated by the slow progress


December 10, 2021

In early November, Joyce Beatty stood in a hallway in the U.S. Capitol outside a closed-door meeting of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Behind the door, members of the left-wing group of lawmakers debated whether voting for a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill would destroy the group's leverage on a separate, trickier—and to the progressives, even more desirable—$1.85 trillion social welfare package.