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HBCUs could lose as much as $85 million a year in federal support as Congress looks to make deficit-reducing budget cuts, the Root reports.
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Read MoreBut now, just when the country needs HBCUs the most, many in Congress want to slash the federal support HBCUs receive by more than a third — $85 million — even if it means slashing HBCUs’ contribution to the
House Speaker John Boehner took aim at president Obama yesterday, claiming Obama was overstepping his bounds and constitutional authority by enacting job programs.
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Boehner also chided Obama’s new refinancing schemes for student loans and home mortgages, warning the president that Congress still holds the purse strings.
“We have the ability to limit their
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WASHINGTON — Five congresswomen demanded Rep. Allen West (R-Fl) apologize for his tirade against fellow Florida lawmaker Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Reps. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, Carolyn Maloney of New York, Donna Edwards of Maryland, Jackie Speier of California and Lois Capps of California denounced West for calling Wasserman Schultz “vile, despicable and cowardly” in an email after she criticized his stance on Medicare.
Read More“His words were nothing more than personal
If there’s one mantra that’s always recited by politicians it’s “The American people want this,” and “The American people want that.”
But based on the congressional gridlock surrounding the country’s deficit, it’s clear Republicans and Democrats are oblivious to what the American people really want, or need for that matter.
Republicans and Tea Party members say “The American people want spending cuts” and “The American people don’t want tax hikes.”
Democrats and President Obama
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he will veto conservative Republicans’ “Cut, Cap and Balance” fiscal plan if it makes it to his desk.
A statement from the White House rejected the plan, which conditions a debt limit hike on a constitutional amendment that would require the government to balance its books each year. The proposal also requires substantial spending cuts and a statutory spending cap as a precondition for
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ORLANDO — Orlando’s first Black female chief of police Val Demings is running for Congress, sources said.
Demings planned to make a formal announcement Wednesday afternoon in downtown Orlando.
She has served as chief of police since December 2007.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is negotiating with lawmakers to avoid exacerbating another financial crisis, by compromising with Republicans to have major spending cuts in exchange for raising the government’s borrowing limit.
The United States government is set to default on its loans on Aug. 2, due to hitting its debt limit of $14.29 trillion on May 16. Although lawmakers can vote to raise the debt ceiling, many members of Congress said
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Congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois told Slate Magazine that President Barack Obama was elected due to his race and white guilt.
Read More“Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast. This
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A weather forecaster says he may have to live off the money he’s been setting aside for a Caribbean vacation. A worker in Washington hopes to polish his resume so he can retire from public service and work in the private sector. An accountant wonders if she can put off her mortgage for a month.
Federal workers like them across the U.S. will be out of work and
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WASHINGTON D.C.-Two trans gender women have come forward with their connections to Congressman Christopher Lee. After an African American women leaked photos sen by Lee to the website Gawker, two transgender women have come forward saying that they also met Lee on Craigslist and corresponded with him. Gawker reports:
Read MoreIn the past 10 days, two D.C.-area transgender women contacted us, each with a separate story about exchanging emails with the ex-congressman. One
