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  • Do You Feel A Little Sad On Christmas Day? That’s Okay. We All Do, Here’s Why.

      Here’s a short post about what to do when you’re feeling sad today (and it’s okay, everyone feels a little sad around the holidays).    I think everybody feels a little sad on Christmas Day.  I know I do.  Remembering childhood experiences: good and bad.  But, it’s okay, because once you learn why, and once…

  • Butterfield Applauds HHS Grant to NC Health Centers to Expand ACA Enrollment Assistance

    WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today applauded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for awarding a $2.2 million grant to 32 community health centers in North Carolina, including 10 in the First Congressional District.  The grant award will be divided between the health centers and used to expand enrollment…

  • Nelson Mandela Dead at 95

    WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today released the following statement expressing his heartfelt condolences regarding the passing of Nelson Mandela: “Today, I join hundreds of millions of people worldwide in mourning the extraordinary life and legacy of anti-apartheid revolutionary, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. …

  • Not The Time For Democrats To Be Complacent

    Why Democrats need to worry about 2016. Take a look at this recent video of Sen. Bob Dole. Chris Wallace asked could Dole make it in the Republican party today? Dole said, “probably not. Reagan couldn’t have made it and Nixon certainly couldn’t have made it.” Like it or not this is the old guard…

  • Mixed Signals Coming Out Of Raleigh GOP

    On the sequester, automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to go into effect March 1st. Governor Pat McCrory said that he would hold meetings Tuesday to try to understand how the roll back of federal funds might affect North Carolina. Does it really matter, Thom Tillis, GOP NC House leader has already said there is no…

  • Reps. Butterfield, Price and Watt to General Assembly: Rejecting Medicaid Expansion Would Hurt N.C. Economy, Devastate Working Families

    Washington, D.C. – North Carolina Representatives David Price (NC-04), G.K. Butterfield (NC-01), and Mel Watt (NC-12) urged the North Carolina House of Representatives to reject Senate Bill 4, which would keep as many as 500,000 North Carolinians from gaining access to affordable, quality health care through the federally-funded expansion of Medicaid included in the Affordable…

  • Comedy Central’s Colbert leads the pack: a PPP Poll.

    http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/12/colbert-tops-sc-voters-senate-appointment-wish-list.html Raleigh, N.C. – Nikki Haley is one of the most unpopular Governors in the country. Only 42% of voters approve of the job she’s doing to 49% who disapprove. Out of 43 sitting Governors PPP has polled on, that ranks her 35th in popularity. Haley has pretty solid numbers within her own party. 70%…

  • GOP: Unpopular Ideas

    Eugene Robinson Opinion Writer The biggest problem the Republican Party faces is not uninspiring candidates or unsound tactics. It is unpopular ideas. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-the-peril-of-a-perceptive-gop/2012/12/10/3f72b764-430b-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

  • Republicans Are More Willing to Cause Another Recession than Abandon the Rich

    Republicans cannot understand that the American people are compassionate toward their fellow citizens and approve, by a large margin, of using money from their retirement and healthcare pool to care for the least fortunate among us. http://www.politicususa.com/republicans-recession-abandon-rich.html

  • SCOTUS To Take Up Same-Sex Marriage

    The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the explosive issue of same-sex marriage, thrusting itself into a policy debate that has divided federal and state governments and courts, as well as voters in nearly 40 states. The high court’s long-awaited decisions to hear challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition…