Congressional Black Caucus frustrated with jobs legislation
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 23rd, 2010 5:37 am by HL
Congressional Black Caucus frustrated with jobs legislation
As Congress focused almost exclusively on health care late last year, the Congressional Black Caucus loudly complained that rising unemployment among African Americans was not getting enough attention. To express that frustration, one bloc in the 43-member group briefly withheld its votes for a k…
Senate advances job-creation bill with GOP help
Aided by a handful of Republicans, Senate Democratic leaders on Monday kept alive a $15 billion job-creation measure and are poised to pass the measure later this week.
Behind the Numbers: The public’s take on Obama’s health proposal
Determined to push ahead on major reform of the country’s health-care system, the White House today stitched together a series of proposals that have broad, but often malleable, public support. Of course, many of these ideas were in the House and Senate packages that have divided Americans since …
Obama stays on offense with health-care proposal
There had been rampant speculation that the White House would narrow its ambitions for health-care legislation after the loss of the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority last month. Instead, the president’s proposal is striking for the extent to which it hews to the basic scale and framework…
Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty in New York subway bomb plot
An airport shuttle bus driver who plotted to detonate potent explosives in New York’s subway system pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a “martyrdom operation” that authorities called one of the most serious terrorism plots on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
