Government shutdowns have become a regular topic of conversation in Washington D.C. for the last few years. While many thought the talk of shutting down the government would have ended with Speaker of the House John Boehner’s retirement, politicians are still continuing to use it as a threat, and congressional gridlock is becoming rather normal. The […]
There may have been a headline-making hiccup over the reinstatement of God in the Democratic Party Platform, but the delegates were taken to church whether they wanted to or not at their convention Wednesday when Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, went off-script and whipped the crowd into a frenzy. Drawing […]
When Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II is sworn in as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday, he will be facing one of the most difficult tasks he has faced in Congress during his tenure there. He will lead a small delegation of African-American Democrats into battle, facing a very large number of white Republicans […]
