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Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) blasted former Vice President Joe Biden over his praise for segregationists on Friday, saying he had proven “woefully ignorant” of the “black American experience.” 

Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to draw fire from across the political spectrum after praising the “civility” of well-known segregationists.

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Friday his decision to name former Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Cedric Richmond to serve as his campaign co-chair.

Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) told Breitbart News in an exclusive comment Friday that the GAIIN Act serves as a “unique” and “outside the box” solution to America’s infrastructure woes.

House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) backed bipartisan infrastructure legislation Thursday that would fund infrastructure by selling off distressed government assets.

In the halls of Congress, the rumblings for a national infrastructure bill are beginning to grow louder. Republicans and Democrats alike recognize the need to salvage America’s deteriorating roads and bridges and improve upon our dismal public transit system.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairwoman, on Monday insisted that Democrats had not been unfair to President Donald Trump when they pushed Russia collusion hoax for the last two years.

Senator and 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) defended Rep. Ilhad Omar (D-MN) Wednesday after the freshman congresswoman’s latest antisemitic outburst.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is back as the most powerful woman in the House of Representatives, but as a more diverse and far left 116th Congress takes shape,it is clear minorities will want to use their newfound status to get appointed to important committees and be at the table on a wide range of policy issues.

Sheila Jackson Lee and Karen Bass called on Google CEO Sundar Pichai to promote “creators of color” in pursuit of “diversity” across YouTube.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), said on Thursday that it is a “bad idea” for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to consider instituting term limits on committee chairs.

House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi crushed an intra-Democrat revolt against her bid to retake the Speaker’s gavel next year led by Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH).

Potential Democrat speakership candidate Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) says that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker who is angling to retake the gavel early next year, is an “elitist” and “very wealthy person” who surrounds herself with other “very wealthy people.”

Two powerful members of former President Barack Obama’s administration have endorsed Rep. Nancy Pelosi to be elected Speaker of the House, despite dissent from some members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Louis Farrakhan defenders will be promoted to key leadership positions in the U.S. House if Democrats win the midterm elections.

House Democrats are jockeying for leadership positions ahead of what they believe will be a return to the majority party after Tuesday’s midterm elections. 

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addressed a gathering in Detroit on Sunday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Million Man March, and used it as a platform to launch yet another attack on Jews, calling them “termites.”

The Congressional Black Caucus is reportedly planning to challenge House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for the position of Speaker of the House after the November midterm elections — assuming Democrats win the majority. In May, Pelosi, 78, declared that

The Los Angeles office of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was evacuated on Tuesday after receiving a suspicious package, according to reports. 

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Saturday told demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies that anyone who shoots at the lawmaker “better shoot straight.”

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working on an infrastructure package to help America’s poorest communities, Breitbart News has learned.

“Rep. Waters’ refusal to speak out against Farrakhan and other extremist hate speech is the perfect example of the hypocrisy and moral cowardice of the Congressional Black Caucus,” Owens says.

A pathway forward on infrastructure for President Donald Trump and Congress has emerged via a new bipartisan minority-owned public affairs firm, as members of both parties are actively working to fund an expansive rebuilding effort in America’s interior.

A group of conservative African American pastors rebukes the CBC as “traitors” to black Americans as it launches a midterm election campaign.

Congressional Black Caucus chairman Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) spoke with TMZ Sports Monday about how neither Super Bowl  LII team had a National Anthem protester, calling President Donald Trump “irrelevant” and “bitter.” Trump has been outspoken against players kneeling for the

Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are advancing their plan to impeach President Donald Trump.

TEL AVIV — Amid reports that a 2005 photograph of Barack Obama posing with Louis Farrakhan, the notorious anti-Semitic, anti-American leader of the Nation of Islam, was deliberately suppressed, it may be instructive to recall the former two-term president’s larger ties to Farrakhan, radical associations that run deeper than one picture from 13-years ago.

The Democratic Party, on Wednesday, voted overwhelmingly for Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) to replace resigned Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) on the House Judiciary Committee. Nadler, a constitutional law expert, won the spot over Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), an architect of immigration

A seventh accuser has come forward against disgraced Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), this time with the claim that in 2006, when he was a radio host, Franken tried to kiss her against her will. “It’s my right as an entertainer,” is what she said Franken told her.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) compared Congressman John Conyers’s (D-MI) accusers to child murderer Susan Smith.

Tuesday in a press gaggle near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) urged for a “process” to determine if the allegations aimed at Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) had merit. In the video captured by ABC News, Richmond indicated

Several Congressional Black Caucus members are trying to convince Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to resign, according to a report Tuesday.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will meet with U.S. lawmakers in Washington Thursday to discuss a number of issues surrounding Facebook and the 2016 presidential election. Recode reports that Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, will be meeting with U.S. lawmakers in

Omarosa Manigault, assistant to President Donald Trump, said the Congressional Black Caucus “had no intention” of sitting down with President Donald Trump, hours after the group’s Chairman Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) rejected the invitation to meet and referred to it as a “social gathering.”

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) stirred up a heated discussion on the House floor suggesting that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was exercising “traditional white privilege” by comparing statistics between New Orleans and El Salvador.

Members of the CBC are reportedly more concerned with the optics of meeting with Trump for what they believe could amount to nothing more than a photo-op without any tangible action to match words.