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February 3, 2012
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Here is one for the books. The Democrats create a 100% private-sector solution to long-term care, the most costly health care crisis affecting the American people, and the Republican House has just repealed it. The Republican repeal of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act is going to go down as a historic blunder.


January 22, 2015
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Is there any way to make an anti-woman, anti-choice bill worse? Sure there is. Add a provision that keeps a local jurisdiction, the District of Columbia, from spending its own local funds on poor women exactly as 17 states do.

November 20, 2015
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The Smithsonian Museum of African American History, not yet opened to the public, was introduced to the District this week. Ever the visionary, Director Lonnie Bunch engineered a mixture of history and music with the sites as a background with D.C. citizens the first to be there, even before the grand opening with the President in 2016.

October 12, 2011
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October 12, 2011


March 26, 2013
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The District of Columbia, along with nine states, did not wait for the Supreme Court to do the right thing. We passed our own marriage equality law in 2009. Yet some would use D.C. and the handful of marriage equality states against the majority of LGBT Americans to counsel a go-slow approach to recognizing the fundamental right to marry.


December 27, 2015
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Representing the District of Columbia, I can afford only conservative assumptions when predicting the unknown – 2016. So, here goes.

February 25, 2016
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The refusal of Senate Republicans to even hold a hearing on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia naturally generates controversy, even anger, among Democrats.

January 18, 2012
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If I asked the average American what should be the first vote in the House? For sure, she would say extend payroll tax, unemployment insurance, and the doc fix. What is our first bill? Disapproval of raising the debt ceiling. For what? To remind Americans that Tea Party Republicans brought us the loss of our triple-A rating for the first time in American history?


May 20, 2015
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The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded.

September 10, 2011
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September 10, 2011