As sequestration looms, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District has already taken steps to deal with less federal aid. If Congress and President Barack Obama can’t reach a deal, CMSD has already planned a 9.1 percent-cut in their programs. There are 210 teacher salaries in the district funded through federal funds. If the cuts take […]
President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserving tax cuts for most American households. The bill, which averts a looming fiscal cliff that had threatened to plunge the nation back into recession, also extends expiring jobless benefits, prevents cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors and delays for […]
A weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid the economy-threatening “fiscal cliff” of middle-class tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts hours before financial markets reopen after the New Year’s holiday. The bill’s passage on a 257-167 vote late Tuesday night in the House of Representatives sealed a hard-won political triumph for the president […]
Dairy prices could double in the next couple of weeks if Congress does not take action. While all the attention is on the fiscal cliff lately, another pressing issue Congress needs to resolve before the end of the year is getting overlooked. Milk prices could double if Congress doesn’t act on the Federal Farm Bill. […]
Jesse Jackson Jr.’s resignation from Congress might end his once-promising political career but it doesn’t mark the end of troubles for the civil rights icon’s son. Just two weeks after voters re-elected him to a ninth full term, Jackson on Wednesday sent his resignation letter to House Speaker John Boehner, citing his ongoing treatment for […]
Uniforms for U.S. Olympic athletes are American red, white and blue — but made in China. That has members of Congress fuming. Republicans and Democrats railed Thursday about the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision to dress the U.S. team in Chinese manufactured berets, blazers and pants while the American textile industry struggles economically with many U.S. […]
Last week, Congress only approved a ban to remove 2 of 17 bath salts that are being used as a recreational street drug. Federal law enforcement officials are outraged by the political process blocking a ban to remove all “bath salt” chemicals off of the streets. “Bath salts are the worst of the worst of […]
The Senate approved the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. While the legislation includes some improvements over current law, it leaves significant flaws…
The GOP-led House on Wednesday voted to approve the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a piece of legislation that is the subject of partisan controversy despite the fact that both parties hope to see some it passed in some form. After an impassioned debate on the House floor Wednesday, the bill passed with 222 members […]
In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the NAACP urged Congress Tuesday to swiftly take up a decade-old bill that would define and examine how much of a problem racial profiling is in America. On a day when the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on racial profiling, Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington […]
CLEVELAND – The man who became most commonly known as “Joe the Plumber” filed in Cleveland Wednesday to run in Ohio’s 9 th Congressional District. Joe’s real name is Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher and he was born in Toledo. The 37-year-old made national news in 2008 after asking then-presidential candidate, Barack Obama, a question about his […]
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – A northeast Ohio Congresswoman wants your vote. Democrat Marcia Fudge announced Monday she’s running for re-election. At Beachwood’s Phil The Fire restaurant, Fudge unveiled her plans for returning to Washington, D.C. to represent Ohio’s 11th District. “Many people in our district are struggling or frustrated with an economy and government policies that […]
