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A House committee is debating a bill that would create a commission to study the legacy of slavery and proposals for redress including reparations.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla said he’s doing his best to “drink through the fire hose.”
Copy to Clipboard Jaime Harrison (Getty Images) President-Elect Joe Biden has selected South Carolinian, Jaime Harrison, to head the Democratic National Committee, a sign that the party's future is in what party operatives call the "New South" and with the emerging majority-minority of the party rank and file. Harrison, a 44-year-old, ran against South Carolina Republican Sen Lindsey Graham in 2020. Even though the charismatic Harrison lost that race, he then broke fundraising records, collecting a stunning $57 million in the final quarter of his campaign, which was way more than the previous...
With at least five Republicans joining their push to impeach President Donald Trump over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, Democrats in the House of Representatives stood poised for a history-making vote to try to remove the president from office.
1,466 shares US Rep. Gregory Meeks speaks during a news conference outside the USPS Jamaica station, Aug. 18, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) WASHINGTON (AFP) — The new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Tuesday the United States would look to resume aid to the Palestinians as he voiced hope for reviving a multilateral approach to the world under President-elect Joe Biden. In an interview with AFP, Representative Gregory Meeks also called for a fresh look at the Venezuelan crisis and vowed to use his role to press human rights conce...