WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the House takes up the multi-agency "minibus" Appropriations legislation later today, Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the leading Democrat on the House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee (CJS), says Members will be voting to carry out many of the nation's most important missions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110323/DC70526LOGO)
JACKSON - The Mississippi House will take on a whole new personality in January when the 122 members choose their new speaker, and the internal campaign for the job is well under way. Populist Democrat Billy McCoy has been speaker the past eight years. The 68-year-old worm farmer from Rienzi announced last week that he won't seek re-election to the House seat he first won in 1979. That cleared the way for an all-out battle for the chamber's top job.
A key House Democrat said yesterday that U.S. troops should immediately begin withdrawing from Iraq because they have achieved their military goals but have now become the single unifying factor for the insurgents. Rep. John P. Murtha, a retired Marine Corps colonel who received a Bronze Star with Combat "V," two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry in Vietnam, said U.S. forces could withdraw in six months and leave Iraq to rebuild.
A top House Democrat said Thursday he will not cave to the Obama administration's pressure to "dilute" proposed sanctions on Iran's central bank. Rep. Howard L. Berman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Congress "must set the pace" in dealing with Iran though he applauds the administration's efforts to isolate the Islamic republic.
Suddenly, Rep. Rob Andrews is everywhere. Damaged politically in New Jersey by his surprise challenge and landslide loss to Sen. Frank Lautenberg in the 2008 Democratic Senate primary, Andrews has emerged as one of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's trusted lieutenants and go-to spokesmen.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel is ready to make a last stand to salvage his reputation and tell the House that a censure should be reserved for crooked politicians - and that he's not one of them. The 80-year-old Democrat from New York's Harlem neighborhood wants his punishment for ethics violations downgraded to a reprimand, according to congressional and nongovernment sources who are in touch with Rangel but are not authorized to be quoted by name.
State Sen. Rob Garagiola is making it official. The Montgomery County Democrat will begin his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday at the BlackRock Center for Arts in Germantown.
Acknowledging they were breaking new ground, deeply divided House lawmakers voted Thursday to censure Rep. Charles B. Rangel for breaking tax laws and House rules, saying Congress needed to live up to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's pledge to be open, honest and ethical. Mrs. Pelosi herself publicly read the censure to the New York Democrat as the 20-term veteran stood before her in the well of the House, becoming just the 23rd member to be censured in House history, and the first person in 27 years.
Rural politics being substantially different from those of the state's major urban centers, the voters of District 24 have put both a Republican and Democrat in the House of Representatives since 1992, despite registered Democrats outnumbering their Republican brethren the entire time. This year, both parties are hoping to capture the other's seat. Since both seats are open because the incumbents are running against each other for the district's Senate seat, competition is especially fierce, as four political newcomers are vying for the two seats.
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