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by Lauren FoxIt is his final budget blueprint, his last chance to put his vision for the future in front of voters and Congress, but Republicans will not even pretend to give President Obama's last budget plan any serious consideration, a brush off that upends decades of decorum on Capitol Hill. For more than four decades, congressional leaders have invited the President's budget director to Capitol Hill to– at the very least– ceremoniously testify about the proposed vision, but this year, Obama... Read more

by Bryce CovertRep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) knows something about welfare. As an 18-year-old mother, she enrolled in what was at the time called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) along with other social safety net programs that got her through and helped her rise out of poverty. “I was able to go and finish my education and training in order to become a taxpayer,” she said. “I was able to go to college. I have paid back the taxpayers tremendously for the help they gave me.” But she worrie... Read more

by Leslie PickerOne of the first big mergers of the new year resembles a number of other deals in recent years in one crucial respect: It will allow an American corporation to move its headquarters to a country where corporate taxes are lower. Johnson Controls, which introduced a device that could control room temperature some 130 years ago, has agreed to combine with Tyco. With the deal, Johnson Controls will relocate its headquarters from Milwaukee to Cork, Ireland, where Tyco is domiciled and... Read more

by Katie DeLongMILWAUKEE -- As only 10 days remain before the January 31 "Health Insurance Marketplace" enrollment deadline, federal and local officials joined partners in the Milwaukee Enrollment Network to urge uninsured Milwaukee residents to take advantage of local resources available for assistance. On Thursday, January 21st -- a day selected by the White House to shine a national spotlight on Milwaukee’s work around health insurance enrollment and National Youth Enrollment Day, officials s... Read more

by David CraryNEW YORK (AP) — Abortion and race, two of America's most volatile topics, have intersected in recent flare-ups related to the disproportionately high rate of abortion among black women. In Congress, Rep. Sean Duffy, a white Republican from rural Wisconsin, lambasted black members of Congress for failing to decry these high abortion numbers. The next day, Rep. Gwen Moore, a black Democrat from Milwaukee, fired back — accusing Duffy and his GOP colleagues of caring about black childr... Read more

by Tom KertscherThe Congressional Black Caucus is weighing whether to ask for a formal condemnation of U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy over comments the Wisconsin Republican made about high rates of abortion among African-Americans. The Wausau Republican's remarks, made on the House floor on Jan. 7, 2016, drew a sharp reaction the next day from one of the caucus members, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee. Moore said on the floor: "I don’t expect Representative Duffy to understand why his comments were so o... Read more

by David AdeMilwaukee - The controversy started last week when Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy talked about abortion on the U.S. House floor. He mentioned Congressional Black Congress members weren't doing anything to address abortion. Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore immediately fired back on the floor and through a press release. Duffy said Thursday, "The African-American community is 15 percent of the population as a whole but account for 40 percent of the abortions. I think Gwen was comin... Read more

by Lauren FrenchThe Congressional Black Caucus is weighing whether to ask for a formal condemnation of Republican Rep. Sean Duffy over abortion-related comments the Wisconsin lawmaker made on the House floor. Last week, Duffy suggested that the Congressional Black Caucus is ignoring the impacts of abortion on minority communities — comments that drew immediate criticism from black lawmakers who felt the message was racially tinged. Now, the caucus is considering offering a privileged resolution ... Read more

by Emily CrockettOpponents of the Black Lives Matter movement often use the phrase "all lives matter" to dismiss activists' concerns about police violence against black Americans. But now lawmakers in Missouri, where the Black Lives Matter movement began, are using the phrase in anti-abortion legislation. Rep. Mike Moon of the Missouri State House sponsored a bill called the All Lives Matter Act, which would define a fetus or embryo as a "person" from the moment of conception. It would also get ... Read more

by Kayla BrandonWhen a Wisconsin congressman took the House floor last week to talk about abortion, he also brought up another sensitive subject — race. U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy (R) addressed his ‘liberal friends’ and members of the Congressional Black Caucus to defend the lives of unborn African American babies:“…talk about fighting for the defenseless, the hopeless, and the downtrodden. There is no one more hopeless and voiceless than an unborn baby, but their silence is deafening. I can’t hear th... Read more