Not since the explosive years of the civil rights movement and the hard-fought debut of government-supported health care for the elderly and poor have so many big things – love them or hate them – been done so quickly.
The public panned it. Republicans obstructed it. Many Democrats fled from it. Even so, the session of Congress now drawing to a close was the most productive in nearly half a century.
Laurel resident Barbara Seals was among about 150 senior citizens from across Jones County who came to the Cameron Center Tuesday to see if they qualify to receive monthly food boxes from Pearl River Valley Opportunity Inc.
On Day One of his vow to take “meaningful steps to rein in our debt,” Barack Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending.
Slogging through a second day of work on legislation intended to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, the Senate Finance Committee wrestled Wednesday with politically volatile proposals to squeeze money out of Medicare.