Pelosi Statement Marking 18 Years Since the Terror Attacks of September 11, 2001

Sep 11, 2019 | CCDC Blog, National

Sep 11, 2019 Press Release Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement marking 18 years since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001: “Eighteen years ago, our nation suffered a loss we could never have imagined, and we witnessed heroism we...

243 years ago today…

Jul 4, 2019 | CCDC Blog, National, US House PA-6

from U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA 05) on Facebook: 243 years ago today, our nation was founded right here in Pennsylvania. I want to wish everyone in my PA community and across this country a safe and happy 4th of July! Today, we celebrate America; we...

Trump disses Tubman

Jun 17, 2019 | CCDC Blog, National

Did anyone really think Donald Trump would let a black woman leader to freedom take over the front of the $20 bill from a slave-holding president who forcibly removed native Americans from the eastern US? Of course not. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin found...

Obama, Memorial Day, 2019

May 27, 2019 | CCDC Blog, National

Barack Obama tweeted: On Memorial Day, we remember all those who gave everything for something greater than themselves. It’s up to us to not simply reflect on their sacrifice but to honor it with service of our own—and by living out the values they fought...

Mueller not happy with Barr

May 2, 2019 | CCDC Blog, National

Special Counsel Mueller included appropriate summaries in his report, but for his own (or someone else’s) reasons Barr made his own tendentious summary. Download Mueller’s March 27 letter of complaint here: Mueller to Barr letter.32719. It’s hard not...

"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled..." --Frederick Douglass, in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", his 1852 oration in Rochester NY commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.