By theGrio Who is Gwen Moore? The Wisconsin Democrat has served in the U.S. House since 2005, representing a district that includes parts of Milwaukee. Why is she on theGrio’s 100? Moore has become a leading voice in Congress on women’s issues. When the chamber was debating the Violence Against Women Act on the House floor in 2012, Moore… 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 »
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 »
Reprinted by Milwaukee Courier This week, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI- 04) voted in support of the omnibus appropriations bill that provides $1.1 trillion in funding for the 2014 fiscal year.She released this statement: “Our government cannot continue to operate from one manufactured crisis to the next.Although the omnibus does not restore pre-sequester… 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 »
By Lisa Neff One sun. One light. One ground. One sky. After a bruising, blistering election season, Richard Blanco helped to usher in a new year with those words in his inaugural poem, "One Today," and in his renewed optimism and hope for one country. "One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies,… Read more »
By Peter Sullivan Many members of the Congressional Black Caucus were curious why Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) decided to join them on a 20-hour flight to South Africa, but Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said today that she thinks the time together was productive. Cruz was the only senator, and one of two Republicans, to join the 22-member congressional delegation to… Read more »
By Warren Rojas Before he could make the late Nelson Mandela’s media-mobbed memorial service all about him by very publicly storming out (take that, Cuban President Raul Castro!), Sen. Ted Cruz had to get to South Africa. His ticket to ride included a lengthy trans-Atlantic jaunt during which several members of the Congressional Black Caucus bent the… Read more »
