On Tuesday, President Obama hosted a conference call with college journalists to discuss the impending increase in Stafford loan interest rates set to kick in this July and to encourage students and young Americans to contact Congress in support of extending the low interest rates currently in place.
On July 1, 2012, students across the nation will see the interest rates on their Subsidized Stafford Federal Student Loans double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. Unless Congress extends the lowered interest rates, average borrowers may have to pay $2,500 more in interest.
Congresswoman Judy Chu is coming to Claremont on Friday. Chu, first elected to Congress in 2009, will be running in Claremont’s newly constructed 27th Congressional district and will likely become our next Congressional representative.
One of the biggest incumbent vs. incumbent races, in California’s 44th district, pits newcomer Democratic Rep. Janice Hahn against slightly-less-of-a-newcomer Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson.
Earlier today, Scripps alumna Gabrielle Giffords ’93 announced her intention to step down from her Congressional seat in the House of Representatives.
Provisions in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act give the military the power to label American citizens “terrorists” and hold them in indefinite detention without a trial. The bill has already passed in the Senate and is on it’s way to the House.
Our little room was a hovel of heated debate, swaying towards compromise at one point before suddenly changing course into seemingly insurmountable disagreements in a manner of seconds. Then, without warning, a compromise was reached.
Last week, Congress hit single-digit approval ratings for the first time ever. But why now? Congress is free of corruption, hyperbole, and hoodwinking more today than any other time in history.
The Organization of American States is facing extinction. While the organization holds importance to many in Latin America, like Panamanian Faith Hanna, many Americans have no idea what the OAS even is.
I found myself sitting next to an emancipated slave from Sudan. Ker Deng spoke little English if any at all. He was a representative of the newly formed South Sudan nation who had come to Congress to share his story.
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