In honor of the fellowship named after our founder, Rita Henley Jensen, we are planning to hire a seasoned DC-based reporter to provide immediate, insightful, and compelling coverage of the momentum building on Capitol Hill.
In honor of the fellowship named after our founder, Rita Henley Jensen, we are planning to hire a seasoned DC-based reporter to provide immediate, insightful, and compelling coverage of the momentum building on Capitol Hill.
GOP women are poised for gains in Congress in 2012, either by leaps or baby steps. ShePAC is optimistic, despite Jean Schmidt’s March 6 upset in Ohio. Judy Biggert’s race to keep her seat in Illinois is a lynchpin race.
Gun-control bills authored by Carolyn McCarthy and Barbara Boxer have been gaining co-sponsors in the aftermath of the shooting in Tucson, Ariz. Chicago’s Jan Schakowsky calls the congressional gender gap a major hurdle in limiting firearms.
A bill to help curb child marriage in foreign countries passed the Senate unanimously in December but ran afoul of House GOP members. U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum plans to try again, with a vote that could come by May.
Last week Nancy Pelosi told bloggers in a conference call that she sees “war on women” shaping up in Congress. Read what Junda Woo has to say about the bill to ban abortion coverage.
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