The Senate decided this was the area where women needed to be considered equal.

Pastor Jamal Bryant of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore has announced his bid for Congress. Bryant will be seeking to represent the 7th Congressional District, the seat currently held by Rep. Elijah Cummings. According to reports, Cummings is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be left void by Barbara Mikulski who is retiring after […]

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Benjamin Jealous, the NAACP’s former president, is reportedly considering running for a U.S. Senate seat. According to sources close to Jealous, he’s eyeing the Senate…

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There’s an expectation that any federal judicial nominee President Barack Obama seeks to place on the bench would get opposition from Congressional Republicans, but lately that hasn’t…

(Via USA Today) – WASHINGTON — A Democratic bill to raise the federal minimum wage failed in a vote in the Senate Wednesday. The defeat was expected, but President Obama and Senate Democrats who have pledged to make it an issue in the 2014 elections. After the vote, President Obama lashed out against Republican lawmakers […]

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You may not know Chaka Fattah but you should. Fattah has helped more than 25 million individuals through programs and initiatives he has created since…

According to the AP, rising Democratic star Cory Booker has won a special election to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. Cory Booker will become the first black senator from New Jersey. He is filling the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg. The Newark mayor defeated former mayor of the town of Bogota, Republican […]

After nearly two weeks a deal has been reached to reopen the Federal Government through January 15, 2014. House Speaker, Ohio Republican  John Boehner said “There’s no good reason for our members to vote ‘no,'”  The bipartisan plan introduced by The Senate would fund the government sending furloughed employees back to work.  Temporarily, but just as importantly, […]

With the passing of 89-year-old Senator Frank Lautenberg, the state of New Jersey will hold a special election to elect a successor to the state’s late U.S. Senator.  Forty-four year old Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker announced on June 8th that he will throw his hat into the ring as a candidate for the […]

Via Foxbaltimore.com The Maryland senate has finally voted to accept some changes to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun control measure. The senate voted 28-19  today to accept nineteen out of twenty amendments made by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee last week.  The amendment would ban people who have been involuntarily committed from maintaining a rifle or […]