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Call it the $4 billion boycott. By boycotting a key House committee vote last week and threatening to abandon support for banking regulations, members of the Congressional Black Caucus got $4 billion added to legislation to overhaul government ...
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WASHINGTON — The voices of average Americans will be overwhelmed by big money as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday against a decades-long restriction on corporate campaign spending, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold said. ♦ Sign up for ...
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John Baker didn't know why he was drawn to a photo in a seventh-grade history textbook, the one captioned "Black Tennesseans." But his grandmother did. After the same picture appeared in a local newspaper, she told him the people in it were her ...
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson defends First Lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity drive in his latest Chicago Sun-Times column. YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Jackson's daughter, Sanita, a WVON show host, attended high school with Michelle Obama and sang at her wedding to Barack ...
