This week started with the US Senate taking a vote on whether to start debate on S.1, The for the People’s Act. The outcome was as expected, along Party line, 50-50. Click Here to read more. Senator Jon Ossoff, Representative Nikema Williams, and Senator Raphael...
Governor Brian Kemp said Georgia is open for business, but the doors at the Georgia Department of Labor are still closed over 1 year later. One of my constituents, Amanda, lost her job due to no fault of her own, and the GDOL has been derelict in providing the support...
One of the greatest obstacles to members of the Democratic Party in Congress passing any sort of legislation is the filibuster, a racist relic of the Jim Crow era, that allows a minority of Senators to block voting on proposed legislation unless 60 or more Senators...
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the...
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