by Alyssa Howard | Jan 22, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. killed four little girls who were attending Sunday school classes. On Tuesday, the mayor of Birmingham and three Alabama lawmakers proposed honoring the victims of the...
by Audrey Cheng | Jan 16, 2013 | National Security, Politics
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi greets Democrats as she enters the hearing room. (Audrey Cheng/Medill)Emily Nottingham, a mother of a victim from the Tucson shooting, and Chief Scott Knight of the Chaska, Minn., Police Department chat before the hearing. (Audrey...
by Taylor Hiegel | Jan 16, 2013 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Wednesday unveiled his gun-control proposals, including a prohibition on high capacity ammunition magazines, expanded background checks for gun purchases and a new assault weapons ban. The White House announcement called for...
by Marshall Cohen | Jan 16, 2013 | Business, Politics
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., prepare to announce a new bill that would eliminate the federal debt ceiling. (Kimberly Railey/Medill)Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., says the debt ceiling, now set at $16.4 trillion, was once a “mere...
by Fritz T. Burgher | Jan 16, 2013 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON – Although certainly a smaller scale, tens of thousands of Americans have descended upon the nation’s capital to observe the beginning of President Obama’s second term. Members of the media met with a number of inauguration organizers on Wednesday to...
by Marshall Cohen | Jan 16, 2013 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives approved $51 billion in federal aid for Superstorm Sandy victims Tuesday after hours of debate and weeks of pressure from Northeast lawmakers. The bill was passed 241-180, relying on strong Democratic support and 45 Republican...
by Tara Longardner & Olivia Marcus | Jan 16, 2013 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON— The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that he is committed to pushing his committee to approve comprehensive immigration reform and send it to the Senate floor for a vote, and promised public hearings in February. “We must find a...
by Stephanie Yang | Jan 15, 2013 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON – The U.S. has no clear strategy to address climate change, and how President Barack Obama addresses that issue will determine whether the U.S. takes a leadership role in this key environmental issue in 2013, the head of the World Resources Institute said...
by Rachel Janik | Jan 15, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON – A coalition of 47 religious groups Tuesday demanded action on gun control, calling a lack of responsible regulation “morally mistaken and religiously repugnant.” The group, Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, met with reporters at the United Methodist...
by Gideon Resnick | Jan 15, 2013 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – For the second time in less than a year, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., plans to introduce the Visa Waiver for Israel bill in the U.S. House. The legislation would make Israel the 38th country eligible for the Visa Waiver Program, which allows...
by Alyssa Howard | Jan 15, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Only 14 states and the District of Columbia made significant progress towards ratifying key highway safety laws in 2012, according to a report released Tuesday by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. The 10th annual highway safety report released...
by Catherine Reid | Jan 15, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON– Taxation without representation has yet another disadvantage: fewer tickets to the presidential inauguration on Jan. 21. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton received fewer than 200 tickets for her district, not nearly enough to fill the 4,000 requests she...
