The House has passed the joint House-Senate budget that targets Obamacare and other spending while boosting defense spending. The vote was 226-197. Later the Senate will vote on the budget and confirm it or deny it. Every Democrat voted against the bill while all but 14 Republicans voted for it. […]
During last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, President Obama made a joke of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) being a grumpy old man defending the White House from potential intruders. Part of this came from failures on the part of the Secret Service that have allowed several people to jump the […]
On Thursday, Loretta Lynch was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She will be the first African American woman Attorney General. She won by a vote of 56-43. Ten Republicans voted in favor of her confirmation. One of the 10 was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.). The only member to not vote was Ted […]
Forty workers went on strike Wednesday morning. They joined over 1,000 activists calling on the White House and Congress to require federally contracted workers to be paid more. The strike was organized in part by Good Jobs Nation. The workers consist mostly of cafeteria workers and janitorial staff. President Obama […]
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced on CBS’s Face the Nation this morning that he would be foregoing a gubernatorial run in 2016. Instead, he will stay in the Senate and run for re-election in 2018. Manchin had floated the possibility of running for Governor in West Virginia many a […]
