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Immigration Activists Tell GOP: See You in 2014
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December 19, 2013
This isn't the end. Immigration reform advocates are telling their elected representatives that, "We will be back in 2014" ? an election year.
Senate Rules Reform Update
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December 19, 2013
Since the Senate returned from its Thanksgiving recess, it has confirmed 13 presidential nominees, all of whom would have been blocked by Republican obstruction had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid not moved to change the rules for confirmation of executive-office appointments and federal judicial nominees.
U.S. Senate Confirms Executive, Judicial Nominations
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December 12, 2013
The U.S. Senate moved forward to confirm the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and confirmed Patricia Millett to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. And following a Republican "talk-a-thon" last night, the Senate also moved forward on the confirmation of Cornelia "Nina" Pillard, also to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
December 10, 1948
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December 12, 2013
In a piece in The Huffington Post, CWA President Larry Cohen reflected on the beginning of International Human Rights Day.
December 10, 1948
Press Release
Eleanor Roosevelt proclaims international Human Rights Day speaking mostly to the rest of the world, emerging from war, and facing human rights issues on every continent. At that moment, the US leads the world?s democracies by almost every measure. Now 65 years later, the blocks to our democracy are as glaring in the US as anywhere else.