United States Senate

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton former First Lady of the United States, gave a phenomenal twenty-minute speech that would change the rights for woman everlastingly. The phenomenal speech is entitled “Woman’s Rights are Human Rights,” and was delivered to the word on September fifth, nineteen ninety-five. The speech was held at the Fourth World Conference in Beijing, China. The phenomenal speech was an enormous milestone in the fight for women’s rights around the world. Clinton’s speech was motivational

Throughout the course of American politics, superstar senators have risen from the frameworks of capitol buildings on federal, state, and local levels. Some were ruthlessly manipulative in their desire to achieve success, choosing to push their own agenda for the sake of a spot in history. Others served a more earnest cause, putting their country before their party. From the founding fathers to post World War II America, senators of the extremely partisan kind worked in Washington, these men certainly

rights. The late Coretta Scott King wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee that rejected him saying “He has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.” This statement of the widow of the late Martin Luther King Jr. should scare Americans because Jeff Sessions has a record of going against people that are not like

the impact that wealth can have in the government. The system is designed so that things such as pork barreling can pass and sometimes need to pass in order for a law to go through. This creates a system of lies and corruption, with members of the Senate not looking out for the national good. Senators are forced to focus on improving their own district because it is all they can do to ensure re-election. The most successful Senators do this because it gains short-term approval from their district

wanted to address the future rises of interest rates that are soon to come and the effects that those rises will have on the now growing economy. Recently in the news there has been a great deal of talks of the future rises of interest rates in the United States. To understand how the Fed 's own particular figures may change, The Wall Street Journal analyzed how the standpoint among private forecasters had changed since March, when the Fed last upgraded its Summary of Economic Projections. The new 2.1%

One hundred senators represent the United States of America, but one in particular has received a surprising amount of attention. Elizabeth Warren is serving out her first term as a senator, but many consider her one of the most significant democratic figures of the current time. She toured with Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign and was featured on Saturday Night Live. Several media organizations write stories in her favor. Despite the media’s mistakes, they have rightfully

In Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a naïve Jefferson Smith sets off for Washington D.C. as a United States Senator, where he learns that politics is not as transparent as it may seem. Released in 1939, one of the most successful years for film, Mr. Smith became a smash hit, easily becoming the second largest blockbuster of that year. However, 1939 was also the year World War II had started, and coupled with the war’s association with the Great Depression, the hit film was bound to cause

In the past year Planned Parenthood has been the topic of discussion in the Government and political circuit. A scandalous video came out this past year from an anti-abortion group who recorded employees of Planned Parenthood discussing the selling of fetal tissue to companies. Planned Parenthood has denied those allegations. It has been a heated argument among Democrats and Republicans, to keep, or to defund the organization. The issue was taken to the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss its

Administrative Intern: My Internship with Battle Born Progress As an administrative intern for Battle Born Progress, I’ve developed a plethora of professional skills that have facilitated my understanding on how the political process works, particularly with campaigns. In the early part of my internship, I was learning the organizational structure of Battle Born Progress as a public relations firm. As a non-profit organization, Battle Born Progress seeks to strengthen the progressive community of

of history with, both in business dealings and in campaign contributions from CBL executives. By Congressional ethics rules, Sen. Corker is supposed to disclose those trades. It’s alarming that a senator, particularly one who sits on the powerful Senate banking