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James Clyburn blocked from speaking on House floor by Republicans

By theGrio

3:10 PM on 01/06/2012

House Republicans on Friday morning blocked Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) from speaking on the House floor during a brief pro forma session...
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Report: Black Dems lose clout in southern capitols

By theGrio

10:26 AM on 11/21/2011

ATLANTA (AP) - The nonpartisan Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies says in a report issued Friday that despite Barack Obama's election as president, black voters and elected officials in the South have less influence now...
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'Super' debt committee gets more diverse

By Joy-Ann Reid

12:10 AM on 08/12/2011

OPINION - For a time, it looked like the debt committee wouldn't reflect the country whose financial future it's supposed to save...
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Clyburn assigned to debt super committee

By theGrio

2:41 PM on 08/11/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's appointment Thursday of three Democrats to Congress' new debt-reduction supercommittee...
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Clyburn says compassion necessary in deficit talks

By theGrio

2:17 PM on 04/26/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - But Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina told MSNBC that government safety-net programs like Medicare and Medicaid must not "be shredded."...
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Clyburn: Palin 'intellectually' incapable of understanding Arizona shootings

By theGrio

10:13 AM on 01/12/2011

Sarah Palin's first spoken words on the shootings in Tucson, Ariz. -- a lengthy denunciation of both violence and pundits who are "manufacturing a blood libel"...
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Democrats must stage a Rangel intervention

By Javier E. David

2:05 PM on 11/15/2010

OPINION - Rangel now lays uneasily in a bed entirely of his own making, and should be forced to suffer the consequences of his delusional behavior...
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Why 'back of the bus' politics won't go sit down somewhere

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

8:36 AM on 11/15/2010

OPINION - Does the back of the bus cliché then really fit the treatment that Clyburn got? Or is it pure hyperbole by Limbaugh to score a racial point?...
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Clyburn accepts new role, Dems avoid leader crisis

By theGrio

2:38 PM on 11/13/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - A race between Hoyer, D-Md., and Clyburn, D-S.C., for the post of party whip took shape in the days following the election and quickly took on racial overtones...
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Limbaugh: 'Racist' Democrats trying to push Clyburn 'to the back of the bus'

By theGrio

2:11 PM on 11/12/2010

Perhaps sensing a potential powder keg, Limbaugh took the opportunity to toss some sparks Thursday, using his own incendiary words to reinforce his case...
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The case for Clyburn as Minority Whip

By Rep. Barbara Lee

8:09 AM on 11/12/2010

OPINION - Rep. James Clyburn has been an extremely effective consensus-builder, rounding up the votes for what has been called the most productive Congress in decades...
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Black caucus gives Clyburn nod in Dem leader race

By theGrio

1:17 PM on 11/08/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Not all members of the CBC were falling in line behind Clyburn. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., released a statement on the Hoyer-Clyburn race endorsing neither one...
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Clyburn to run for No. 2 in House Dem leadership

By theGrio

2:28 PM on 11/05/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Clyburn is the House's highest ranking African-American and his challenge sets up a contest with the current Democratic No. 2, Hoyer of Maryland...
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James Clyburn: Congressional Black Caucus doors open for black Republicans

By theGrio

8:53 AM on 10/08/2010

The CBC has historically been all Democrats, though there is no policy that excludes black Republicans...
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Rep. Clyburn: GOP will hold birther hearings if they win

By Harriet McLeod

5:25 PM on 09/27/2010

theGRIO Q&A - "The White House will be full-time responding to subpoenas about where the president may or may not have been born," says Majority Whip James Clyburn...
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Clyburn on Greene mess in South Carolina: 'Elephant dung all over the place'

By theGrio

10:03 AM on 06/14/2010

Rep. James Clyburn does not think he will fall behind Alvin Greene. Clybum thinks his campaign is a mess...l
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Clyburn: Racist faxes, image of noose were sent to office

By theGrio

10:34 AM on 03/23/2010

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) received racist faxes Monday in the wake of Sunday's House vote approving health care reform legislation...
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Tea Party protests: N-word shouted at members of Congress

By theGrio

5:58 PM on 03/20/2010

Preceding the president's speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform...
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Rep. Clyburn denounces Rep. King for IRS attack excuses

By theGrio

4:32 PM on 02/23/2010

James Clyburn took to the House floor on Tuesday to denounce a fellow member of Congress for making excuses for the terrorist attack on the IRS building in Texas...
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House plans special tax write-off for Haiti giving

By theGrio

2:18 PM on 01/15/2010

From The Hill A bipartisan group of lawmakers will introduce a bill allowing taxpayers to write off donations to relief efforts in Haiti on their 2009 taxes. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said he will file legislation either later today or early next week allowing write-offs for monetary donations...
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