Republicans – Page 179 – People's World

“Show-Me Solutions” are no solution, Missouri lawmaker says

January 7, 2011 By Tony Pecinovsky

Missouri's new Republican House leader declared a Republican mandate for a "change in the culture of how we operate," but a freshman lawmaker thinks otherwise.

Poem of the week: Emily Dickinson and the Republicans

January 6, 2011 By John Case

The Republican takeover of the House of Representatives can be viewed, almost poignantly, as a death in the neighborhood, and Emily Dickinson provides a commentary.

Banning ethnic studies in Arizona is wrong!

January 4, 2011 By Alexander Monarrez Maldonado And Pepe Lozano

A new draconian law in Arizona went into effect banning classes statewide, k-12, that promote the teachings of civil rights leaders such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.

Job creation nowhere on GOP agenda

January 3, 2011 By John Wojcik

On a different planet, perhaps, an incoming Congress would now be plowing its way through the pages of jobs plans - but not this one.

New START ratified, 71-26

December 22, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

The 71-26 vote marked a significant foreign policy achievement for the Obama administration during the lame-duck Congressional session.