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The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to send President Donald Trump a bipartisan, Senate-drafted, $4.6 billion measure to care for migrant refugees detained at the southern border, capping a Washington skirmish in which die-hard liberals came out on the losing end in a battle with the White House, the GOP-held Senate and Democratic moderates.
Our team has conducted some thorough research on Brenda Lawrence, current as of 2019-06-25.
The latest tally on House members who favor beginning impeachment inquiry hearings against President Donald J. Trump is now at 77. NBC News reports that 77 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are now ready to vote in favor of an impeachment inquiry.
As President Donald Trump has been openly feuding with House Democrats pursuing investigations into him, his administration and his finances, some lawmakers are calling to start an impeachment inquiry, the first step in a lengthy and likely divisive process.
Earlier this month, African American and Jewish members of Congress, led by Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.), Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), announced the formation of a Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations.
The U.S. House is poised to pass landmark legislation that would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and could substantially increase pay for 1.5 million Michiganders. The legislation is co-sponsored by all seven Democratic members of Michigan’s delegation. However, the effort faces steep hurdles in the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate.
Michigan Republican Party Chair Laura Cox said Democrats who call for impeachment are wasting their time. Two U.S. House Democrats joined three other members of Michigan’s congressional delegation in supporting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump last week. Cox said supporting impeachment could backfire on Democrats, and Republicans are ready to pounce if U.S. Reps.
Rep. Joyce Beatty said she’ll hold a press conference every week if that’s what it takes to get Harriet Tubman’s picture on the $20 bill. Beatty, a Jefferson Township Democrat, is furious that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin plans to delay the planned release of a new $20 bill featuring the famed abolitionist from its initial planned launch in 2020.
Reps. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.), Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) hold a news conference to discuss the Treasury Department's decision to delay putting the image of abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman on the $20-dollar-bill at 1:30 p.m. in HVC Studio B.
Juneteenth is an annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. For many years, Detroit Congressman John Conyers used the occasion to introduce a proposal for reparations for slavery. Democratic Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, who represents Michigan's 14th congressional district, is carrying on that tradition.