Eleanor's Blog
Snow is keeping federal workers at home today, and Congress will keep up to a million at home with the sequester cuts in today’s continuing resolution.
Republicans cry that the President and Democrats are crying wolf about sequester cuts and furloughs. But, the wolf is already biting. The U.S.
The great majority of Americans now want to move our country from the outskirts of civilization into the civilized world of nations that protect their children from assault weapons, limit the number of bullets that magazines can hold, perform background checks for every gun purchase, and routinely cover mental health in insurance plans.
When you attend a military ceremony, you see no difference among the service members in attendance except for rank.
Fresh from the battlefield known as the House of Representatives, where men outnumber women more than six to one, I take some comfort in knowing there are more women than men in this country – and more women who vote. The bunch of men who run the House have not used their majority to tame the banks or the corporations that gave us the Great Recession.
The United States did it again at the 2012 Olympics, coming away with more medals than any other nation. That didn’t rock the world, but how we did it should have -- American women stole the show! Women’s sports can rarely be found on prime-time broadcast television. Yet U.S. women left London with significantly more medals than our men, who dominate our airwaves. U.S.
The D.C. post-20-week abortion ban bill marks the first time in United States history that a standalone bill has come to the floor to deny the residents of the Nation's Capital the same constitutional rights as other Americans. Those behind this bill have picked on the District to get a phony federal imprimatur on a bill that targets Roe v.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who I know has been a student of history and of the Constitution, filed amendments in a committee last month that would have overturned D.C. laws. As a result, a bipartisan group of Senators withdrew their budget autonomy bill for the District of Columbia on the advice of city officials, including me.
Roll Call recently asked a handful of lawmakers and others from Capitol Hill, including me, what the flag means to them. As we celebrate the Fourth of July, here is my answer: