Despite an eight-and-a-half-hour speech by GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy railing against President Biden and the Democrats, the House of Representatives passed their final approved version of the Build Back Better Act on Friday morning. The bill will now be sent to Senate for a vote.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to engage Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a confrontational fashion, signaling a showdown that has little signs of slowing down.
Rep. Val Demings, who had the floor during a hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives, was routinely cut off by Jordan but Demings fired back with a passionate rebuke of his actions.
The freshman congresswoman from Missouri, who is Black, also had sharp words for the Republican colleagues this week on another matter.
The story of Emmett Till is one we’ve detailed at length here on Hip-Hop Wired in times past and the shocking details of the teenager’s murder still inspire waves of anger and sadness. Becoming a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, Till’s name lives on and will continue to do so by way of a […]
Given the rise of states approving medical and recreational marijuana, government regulation of the plant seems to be a natural next step. A bill that was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives could drastically change rules surrounding marijuana‘s controlled substances standing and have it be regulated similarly to alcohol.
On Thursday (Dec. 11), several congressional staff members of color across the political aisle staged a walkout in the support of Mike Brown and Eric Garner. The protest called attention to the growing number of slain Black men at the hands of police across the nation and the lack of indictments in these cases.
Since the beginning of October, citizens taking part of the Affordable Care Act services faced issues with the online healthcare exchange website. According to contractors at a House hearing, federal officials waited just two weeks before launching to test the program.
After months of deliberation in a federal fraud case, former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was sentenced earlier today (August 14) in a Washington court to serve 30 months in prison for the misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds.
