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Congressional roundtable discusses health care reform - April 6th, 2012
This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" U.S. Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Donna Christensen, D-Virgin Islands, discuss health care reform in the U.S. as the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden, Common Cause President and CEO and former Rep. Bob Edgar, D-Pa., and Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative President Vinny DeMarco also join the discussion.
Tags: AFGE , Dennis Kucinich , Donna Christensen , Neera Tanden , Bob Edgar , Vinny DeMarco
Members of Congress will get security suggestions
A House Democratic leader says he thinks lawmakers will be taking precautions when meeting with the public in the wake of a congresswoman's shooting in Arizona.
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords , Roscoe Bartlett , Ben Cardin , Arizon shooting , security , Congress , U.S. Capitol Police , Tom Davis
Census reminds us all to fill out that form
The Census Bureau marks another milestone on the road to the 2010 Census. "National Census Day" was supposed to remind Americans of the importance of filling out census forms, and returning them by mail. At stake: hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid allocated by population to local communities.
Tags: management , Census , D.C. City Council , Michael Brown , Fernando Armstrong , Max Cacas
D.C. mayor navigates unfamiliar territory on Hill
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray has struggled so far to build relationships with the House's new Republican majority, which could make it difficult to accomplish his top priorities given Congress' ultimate say over the capital city's budget and laws.
Tags: Trey Gowdy , Darrell Issa , John Boehner , Vincent Gray , Tom Davis , Adrian Fenty , Anthony Williams , D.C. Council , Jack Evans ,
White House appears ignorant of D.C. tuition proposal
Mark Plotkin, WTOP political analyst
Tags: White House , D.C. tuition break , school vouchers , Paul Ryan , Jack Evans , Mark Plotkin
Budget deal includes abortion and school voucher riders
The D.C. area may be breathing a collective sigh of relief after a last minute deal was struck to prevent the government from shutting down Friday at midnight, the deal includes two provisions aimed at the District.
Tags: abortion , abortion funding , school vouchers , John Boehner
D.C. mayor raises spectre of disobedience amid shutdown
Mark Plotkin, WTOP political analyst
Tags: Mark Plotkin , Vincent Gray , government shutdown , Irv Nathan ,
Interagency board identifies underused fed buildings
Congress is holding the government accountable for federal building ownership and leasing. Rep. Holmes Norton is asking GSA for access to excess building data.
Tags: real estate , consolidation , budget , GAO , OMB , Darrell Issa , Kathleen Turco , Thomas Davis , Gene Dodaro , Ryan Alexander , John Buckner
Work nearly completed on MLK memorial
"I must tell you, anyone who was in the civil rights movement will be quite overwhelmed by this because for us, it is to be sure a memorial to Dr. King, but it's a memorial to the very civil rights movement that he led," says Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton after a tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial.
Tags: MLK , MLK memorial , Martin Luther King Jr. , Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial , Ken Salazar , Vincent Gray
Gray, Norton lead Hill protest over plan to strip vote
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and advocates for the city are protesting a Republican plan to take away power from the District's sole representative in Congress.
Tags: Vincent Gray , John Boehner , Mark Segraves
