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House Democrats Reject Obama-GOP Tax Plan

WASHINGTON (Dec. 9) -- House Democrats voted Thursday to reject President Barack Obama's tax deal with Republicans in its current form, but it was unclear how significantly the package might need to be changed. By voice vote in a closed caucus meeting, Democrats passed a resolution saying the tax package should not come...

TSA: Some Government Officials to Skip Airport Security

WASHINGTON (Nov. 23) -- Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details. Aviation security officials would not name those who can skip the...

Jim Pratt: Why You Should Vote for Me

Our economic climate is forcing voters to focus on real intrinsic issues and solutions that affect us personally. People are demanding real solutions for their real problems. We've already tried their empty platitudes. We now demand to know how the candidate proposes to give us a climate inductive to job creation and...

What Congress Bought Itself With Your $1 Billion

(July 21) -- Congress requires a lot of stuff to keep itself running. Like coffee. And plane tickets. And student loan payments. That's the point underscored (and underscored again) by figures collated by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that uses technology to try to make government more transparent. In...

James Clyburn News From the Web

05/27/12 PEE DEE POLITICS: Clyburn's endorsement makes Brittain... Source: SCNOW.com How quickly things have changed in the 7th Congressional District.
05/23/12 James Clyburn: Romney and Bain Involved in 'Raping... Source: Daily Intelligencer Just how far will President Obama go when attacking Mitt Romney's tenure with private equity firm Bain Capital?
05/22/12 Clyburn: Romney was âraping companies' at Bain Source: The Raw Story House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-SC) on Tuesday said that it was fair for the Obama campaign to go after presumptive Republican presidential Mitt Romney's record of "raping companies" and then setting up Swiss bank accounts while he was the head of a private equity firm.
05/17/12 Clyburn to take on Hoyer?, Debt limit sandwich summit,... Source: Politico The Hill's Mike Lillis and Bob Cusack report this morning: "Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.) is considering a bid to be Speaker of the House or majority leader if the Democrats win the November election. He would almost certainly not run against Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) if she decided to stay, but he hints strongly that he is ready for a showdown with Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.)." Clyburn tells The Hill he's "not closing the door on anything."
05/16/12 On the debt ceiling, student loans and âfake fights' Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC On MSNBC Wednesday, House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) accused House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and congressional Republicans of turning the raising of the country's debt ceiling into "a made-up issue."

Background on James Clyburn

James Enos "Jim" Clyburn (born July 21, 1940) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993, and the Assistant Democratic Leader since 2011. He was previously House Majority Whip, serving in that post from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

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