Bobby Scott

99ers and the Long-term Unemployed Are the Elephants in the Economic Recovery Room

Michael Thornton | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: H.R. 589, 99ers, Unemployment Benefits, Politics News, Ways and Means, Barbara Lee, Unemployment, Bobby Scott, hr589, Dave Camp, Long-Term Unemployment, Unemployment Extension, Politics News
Michael Thornton

Job growth is important, but it's also important to realize the hole that needs to be filled. Since February 2010, 1.8 million jobs have been created, but 8.8 million jobs were lost prior to that period. That's a shortage of 7 million.

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Arthur Delaney

Bill To Help Long-Term Jobless Overshadowed By Bill That Could Cut Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Dave Camp, H.R. 589, Unemployment, 99ers, Bobby Scott, Long-Term Unemployment, hr589, Ways and Means, Unemployment Benefits, Barbara Lee, Unemployment Extension, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- After some encouraging signs that Republicans might cooperate with them, the two House Democrats trying to give the long-term jobless ex...

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Arthur Delaney

WATCH: GOP Leaders Spare A Moment To Chat Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: H.R. 589, 99ers, Unemployment, Bobby Scott, John Boehner, hr589, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Extension, Eric Cantor, Barbara Lee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On the morning of an important and uncertain vote to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, Republican leaders in the U.S....

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Arthur Delaney

Legislation Aimed At Helping '99ers' Introduced In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Lee, 99ers, Unemployment, Tier V, Long-Term Unemployment, Unemployment Benefits, Tier 5, Bobby Scott, Unemployment Extension, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Bobby Scott (Va.) introduced legislation Friday that would provide additional assistance ...

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Ryan Grim

WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Calls Obama 'Very, Very Urban'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House, Steve King, Congress, Senate, Video, Barack Obama, Racism, Bobby Scott, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Pigford Case, Pigford v. Glickman, Politics News

Rep. Steve King, a Republican from Iowa, referred to President Obama as "very, very urban," while charging that as a senator he gave special favor to ...

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Dear Sen. Feinstein & Sen. Hatch, Let's Stop Sending Our Kids to Prison!

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Promise Act, Gangs, Bobby Scott, Orin Hatch, Diane Feinstein, Russell Simmons, Youth Violence, Politics News
Russell Simmons

While the average incarceration rate in the United States is 7 times the international average, for blacks the average rate is over 22 times the international average. The Youth PROMISE Act aims to address that.

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Lock Em' up and Throw Away the Key

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cory Booker, Bobby Scott, Tony Cardenas, Russell Simmons, Youth Promise Act, Politics News
Russell Simmons

We cannot accept the fact that for the first time in the history of the United States more than one in every 100 adults is locked up in jail or prison.

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A Patriot's PATRIOT Act

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patriot Act, John Conyers, Bobby Scott, Jerry Nadler, Supreme Court, Privacy, Politics News
Rep. John Conyers

Good intentions are not enough to preserve our liberty, and the current PATRIOT Act simply grants too much unchecked authority to our government.

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A Call to Arms to Save Our Youth

Rep. Bobby Rush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Violence, At-Risk Youth, Early Childhood Education, Mental Health, President Obama, Danny Davis, Derrion Albert, Bobby Scott, Chicago News
Rep. Bobby Rush

Right now, as the city I love mourns its way through yet another deadly weekend of gun-related violence, our youth far too often get caught in the crossfire.

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Cantor To Uninsured Woman With Tumors: Get "An Existing Government Program Or Find Charity"

Think Progress | Lee Fang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uninsured, Public Option, Bobby Scott, Eric Cantor Townhall, Bobby Scott Town Hall, Eric Cantor Healthcare Reform, Eric Cantor Public Option, Healthcare Reform, Eric Cantor Uninsured Woman, Eric Cantor, Politics News

At the Richmond Times-Dispatch "public square" forum yesterday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) fielded open questions from his constituents on the health ref...

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Cantor To Hold Public Health Care Debate With Democrat

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Debate, Health Care Debate, Bipartisan Compromise, Bobby Scott, Eric Cantor, Politics News

This should be interesting. House minority whip Eric Cantor has hatched his own response to all the talk about town hall hooliganism: He's agreed to s...

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Lawmakers Press For Second Black Justice

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court Justice, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Nomination, Bobby Scott, Congressional Black Caucus, Politics News

The Congressional Black Caucus is launching a campaign to persuade President Obama to appoint one of their members to the Supreme Court seat that will...

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21st Century Bull Connor Closer to Feeling Fire Hose Turned on Him

Bertha Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, John Conyers, Acorn, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Bobby Scott, Janet Napolitano, Jerrold Nadler, Joe Arpaio, Bertha Lewis, Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Eric Holder, Immigration Debate, Politics News
Bertha Lewis

The Arpaio spectacle shows that a police-state solution does not work.

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Eavesdropping, Detention, Tammy Baldwin, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, William Delahunt, Jerrold Nadler, Bush, Dick Cheney, Conyers, Intelligence, Kidnapping, Rick Boucher, Hank Johnson, Janice Schakowsky, Report, Enhanced Interrogation, War Powers, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Valerie Plame Wilson, House, Interrogation, Warrantless Wiretapping, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Imperial Presidency, Rendition, Prisoner, Sheila Jackson Lee, Luis Gutierrez, Bobby Scott, Blue Ribbon Commission, Bush Administration, Chris Weigant, War Powers Commission, Co-Sponsor, Wiretapping, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, hr104, Representative, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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