Economy and Jobs

  By Shakara Robinson  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Obama said saving the middle class is his top priority during Tuesday night's State of the Union Address. Massive shifts in technology and global competition have hit the middle class hard, the president said, and he'll do what he can to make things right. Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris… Read more »

  Written by Donovan Slack  WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama hammered away at economic inequality during his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation reacted along partisan lines with Democrats embracing the speech and Republicans panning it. The Badger State lawmakers’ reaction was a… Read more »

  At least two Wisconsin Republicans are fuming over President Obama's State-of-the-Union speech, hours before he delivers it tonight.  Congressman Reid Ribble of Sherwood says the Democrat Obama plans to take a partisan, campaign-style approach instead of extending an olive branch.  Wisconsin Senate Republican Ron Johnson of Oshkosh tells the Gannett News Service… Read more »

It is my hope that President Obama and Congress are able to work together to positively address our most pressing issues. Read more »

  By Joe Kaiser   Rep. Gwen Moore (D), a ’73 Marquette graduate who represents the area covering Marquette’s campus in Congress, talked with the Marquette Tribune Thursday about health care, student loans and other issues affecting college students. Moore was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2004. Marquette Tribune: The biggest… Read more »

  Written by Lisa Neff  “We shall not rest until that war is won,” Lyndon Johnson said 50 years ago, declaring “an unconditional war on poverty.” But from time to time, administration to administration, there has been rest and there has been retreat in the fight. And always there has been a feud between the major parties on how best to wage… Read more »

  By Stephanie Lecci and Mitch Teich Though Congress has managed to break Washington gridlock to pass an Omnibus spending bill, Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Milwaukee says most Republicans "would like to carry us back to a point in time when government does practically nothing." Her comments come on the heels of a Congress' votes last week… Read more »

  Compiled by MCJ Staff The second six months of 2013 was about injustice, from a courtroom in Florida to the hallowed chambers of the nation’s highest court, where an iconic ruling protecting the sanctity of voting rights was stripped of its essence. The second half of the year witnessed the celebration of another iconic moment in American and Black American history,… Read more »

  Senate to act by week's end By Jim Myers Washington — The U.S. House easily passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill Wednesday to keep the federal government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, avoid threats of another shutdown and provide at least partial relief from the unpopular across-the-board budget cuts put in place two years… Read more »

Our government cannot continue to operate from one manufactured crisis to the next. Although the omnibus does not restore pre-sequester funding for every program, it offers significant relief to many of our domestic investments that were compromised when the across-the-board spending cuts went into effect. Read more »