NMAAHC … Thank You


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We have received a great deal of support from our amazing Charter Members and donors. However, two Charter Members stand out and we want to say THANK YOU to Sherri and Brett Mitchell.

Sherri and Brett Mitchell became Charter Members in February 2012, and have continued to support us throughout the past 2 years. In July 2014, Sherri and her family were visiting Washington, DC from Denver, Colorado, where they reside, for Sherri’s doctoral graduation in National Harbor, Maryland. While in the area, Sherri made a point to visit the construction site with her Commemorative Charter Member Card in hand. At the site, she took a picture and shared it on Twitter to show her friends and family the construction progress that the National Museum of African American History and Culture is making on our wonderful building! Congratulations to Sherri on completing her Ph.D., and thank you Mitchell family for all of your support!

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Since 2009 the museum has been instrumental in raising the $250 million needed to construct this monumental building with the help of over 65,000 Charter Members nationwide! We really appreciate our amazing Charter Members and supporters! Please consider becoming a Charter Member TODAY to join the ranks of the amazing people who are helping to tell the African American story

the Senate ~~ CONGRESS 8/1 ~~ the do NOTHING House, led by Republicans goes home?


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So, will the do NOTHING House, led by Republicans go home without doing SOMETHING good for Americans?

The Senate stands adjourned until 11:00am on Friday, August 1, 2014.

Following any Leader remarks, the Senate will be in a period of morning business until 2:00pm.

There will be no roll call votes during Friday’s session of the Senate. The next roll call vote will occur at 5:30pm on Monday, September 8, 2014.

The Senate passed J.R.Res.76, as amended with th e Reid-McConnell-Mikulski amendment making emergency supplemental appropriations to provide funding for the Israeli Iron Dome defense.

 

Reid: I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar #220, H.J.Res.76; that a Reid-McConnell-Mikulski substitute amendment at the desk providing emergency appropriations for the Iron Dome defense system in Israel be agreed to; that the joint resolution, as amended, be read a third time and passed; the Reid-McConnell-Mikulski amendment to the title be agreed to; and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.

 

H.J.Res.76, making continuing appropriations for the National Nuclear Security Administration.

The Senate passed J.R.Res.76, as amended with the Reid-McConnell-Mikulski amendment making emergency supplemental appropriations to provide funding for the Israeli Iron Dome defense.

 

Reid: I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar #220, H.J.Res.76; that a Reid-McConnell-Mikulski substitute amendment at the desk providing emergency appropriations for the Iron Dome defense system in Israel be agreed to; that the joint resolution, as amended, be read a third time and passed; the Reid-McConnell-Mikulski amendment to the title be agreed to; and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.

 

H.J.Res.76, making continuing appropriations for the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Reid-McConnell-Mikulski substitute amendment making emergency supplemental appropriations to provide funding for the Israeli Iron Dome defense.

 

Senator Reid moved to proceed to S.J.Res.19, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. The Senate is in a period of morning business until 2:00pm, with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. There will be no roll call votes during today’s sessions of the Senate.

 

Reid-McConnell-Mikulski substitute amendment making emergency supplemental appropriations to provide funding for the Israeli Iron Dome defense.

 

Senator Boxer asked unanimous consent the Senate take up and pass Calendar #492, S.2673, a bill to enhance the strategic partnership between the United States and Israel.

Senator Sessions objected.

WRAP UP

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes were conducted during Friday’s session of the Senate.

Legislative Business

Passed H.J.Res.76, as amended with the Reid-McConnell-Mikulski amendment, making emergency supplemental appropriations to provide funding for the Israeli Iron Dome defense

Passed the following Post Office Naming bills, en bloc:

  1. H.R.606 would designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the “Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building”.
  2. H.R.1671 designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 815 County Road 23 in Tyrone, New York, as the “Specialist Christopher Scott Post Office Building.”
  3. H.R.2291 would designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 450 Lexington Avenue in New York, New York, as the “Vincent R. Sombrotto Post Office”.
  4. H.R.3472 would designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 13127 Broadway Street in Alden, New York, as the “Sergeant Brett E. Gornewicz Memorial Post Office”.
  5. H.R.3765 would designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 198 Baker Street in Corning, New York, as the “Specialist Ryan P. Jayne Post Office Building”.

Passed H.R.4386, Money Remittances

Passed H.R.5195, Afghan Special Immigrant Visas

Adopted S.Res.536, National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business S.2772, Supplemental Appropriations for FY2014 (Flake)

Completed the Rule 14 process to place on the Legislative Calendar of Business S.2773, Supplemental Appropriations for FY2014 (Cornyn-Grassley-McConnell)

Executive Business

No Executive Business conducted.

 

 

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Last Floor Action:
11:56:03 A.M. -H. Res. 700
On agreeing to the resolution Roll Call 475 – Recorded vote pending.

Last Floor Action:
6:23:08 P.M. – The House adjourned pursuant to a previous special order.

The next meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on August 1, 2014.

 

 

 

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House GOP Focused On Suing President Obama Instead Of Solving Our Country’s Problems

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With just two days left before Congress heads out for the month long August recess, House Republicans are busy. Not raising the minimum wage or ensuring equal pay for equal work; not investing in an infrastructure for the 21st century; not preventing corporations from moving their addresses overseas in order to dodge paying their fair share of taxes. Instead, they are focused on authorizing a lawsuit against President Obama.

Like the House GOP’s 50-plus votes to repeal or dismantle the Affordable Care Act, this lawsuit is a political stunt to appeal to the far right wing of their party. Like the millions of dollars they have spent investigating and re-investigating Benghazi, it is a waste of taxpayer money.

And you don’t need to take our word for it. The Editorial Board of USA Today concluded that “a fair-minded look at the suit’s merits suggests it’s really more of a political grudge match.” And Candice Miller (R-MI), the member of Congress overseeing the lawsuit, admitted that “we don’t know yet” how much the stunt will cost taxpayers.

Another House Republican, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), has come out against the lawsuit and in the process revealed what could be the second act of this sideshow: impeachment. Calling the lawsuit “theater,” Jones asked, “Why not impeach instead of wasting $1 million to $2 million of the taxpayers’ money? … If you’re serious about this, use what the founders of the Constitution gave us.”

It’s not as if there is nothing else going on for these House Republicans to focus on. Unless action is taken before August, there will be a construction shutdown as the Highway Trust Fund runs out of funding, putting thousands of construction projects up to 700,000 jobs at risk. The House and Senate have been ping-ponging different versions of a short-term fix back and forth because the House GOP refuses to develop a long-term solution that invests in our nation’s infrastructure and keeps America working.

And earlier today, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to close the “corporate desertion” tax loophole. The loophole allows corporations that earn most of their money in America to renounce their corporate citizenship by moving their address to a tax haven and avoid paying U.S. tax obligations.

In spite of these and many other issues that need to be addressed, the House GOP priority lies with suing the President. Meanwhile, President Obama doesn’t appear too threatened: “Stop being mad all the time,” he said of Republicans at an event today, chuckling. “Stop just hatin’ all the time. Let’s get some work done.”

BOTTOM LINE: Instead of doing their job to help millions of Americans, the House GOP is focused on another political stunt to sue President Obama that will likely cost millions in taxpayer dollars. At the same time, deadlines loom and if Congress doesn’t act it will deal the economy a self-inflected wound at just the wrong time.

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