Stephanie Tubbs Jones: “To your knowledge, did Senator Feinstein even bother to contact you, any of you, with regard to this particular…”

Let me begin with a quote. ``At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be economic independence.'' Booker T. Washington from 1903. These words, spoken more than a century ago by one…

And if the gentlemen would yield, that legislation prohibits offenders who have drug convictions from getting student loans. So if they wanted to go back to school and change their lives, we've got legislation that prohibits them from…

I rise in support of H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007... This provision is important and timely in light of a 15 year decline in minority law school enrollment documented by a Columbia Law School web site…

I would like to begin this evening by paying tribute to one of my she-roes and a pillar of the 11th Congressional District of Ohio and the Cleveland community, Judge Jean Murrell Capers. At 95 years of age, Judge Jean Murrell Capers is…