Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]

Clinton diehards remain unreconciled to Obama

2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

Tensions lingered between the troops of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford in 1976, of Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter in 1980, of Jesse Jackson and Walter Mondale ...

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Supreme Court gun ruling triggers reaction

2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D- Ill., said he is disappointed in the Supreme Court's ruling as it comes "at a time when many of our communities are reeling ...

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Civil rights heroes struggled for this moment

2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, Jesse Jackson. I knew him from the civil rights marches in North Carolina in the mid-1960s and watched, as he became an aide to King, at whose side ...

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Fmr. Rep. Portman & Fmr. Sen. Hollings on "Hannity & Colmes"

2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

I voted for Jesse Jackson in 1988. I finally saw in the London Economist that said the only logic was that a black couldn't win. ...

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Didn't Mark Penn Give This Power Point?

2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson called Obama's nomination "the last lap of a 54-year marathon race" in US race relations. Jackson: "People have been too quick to say, ...

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Jackson urges Madigan to replace Harvey Park Board

2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-2nd) is asking Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan "to take emergency steps to reopen the fieldhouses, ballparks and summer ...

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The Artful Dodger

2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

I don't think he is -- I don't think that he is as deeply enmeshed in race as, say, Reverend Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would be, but the essence of what he ...

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Help Clinton Retire, Again

2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards. ...

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No Death Penalty for Rapists

2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

He doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson? We'll see all that play out in the next few months and if he gets elected afterwards. ...

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Focus On Black Vote

2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

"It's a sensitivity," said Ronald Walters, a former strategist for Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns in the 1980s who has criticized Democratic ...

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Jesse Jr. packs 'em in for N'Digo gala

2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

As he surveyed the crowd Saturday night at the N'Digo Foundation Gala, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was pumped: He was the event's chairman, and had helped ...

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Wallace opposes Peotone airport

2008-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the past week, the proposed Peotone airport has been a hot-button issue after fellow Democrat US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., of Chicago, tried to link a ...

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City's political image a risk for Obama

2008-06-23T00:00:00Z

"What plays locally doesn't necessarily play on a national stage," said US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). Indeed, the most damaging controversies of ...

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Sweet â€” and sour â€” home Chicago

2008-06-22T00:00:00Z

"What plays locally doesn't necessarily play on a national stage," said US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). Indeed, the most damaging controversies of ...

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Food Stamps Buy Less; Families Are Hit Hard

2008-06-22T00:00:00Z

This month, a coalition led by Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. called on Congress to immediately enact a temporary 20 percent increase in food stamps. ...

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Buying Power of Food Stamps Declines

2008-06-21T00:00:00Z

Earlier this month, a coalition led by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. called on Congress to enact a temporary 20 percent increase in food stamps. ...

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THE POLITICS OF BLACKNESS: Is this the messiah you seek

2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson Sr. said he cried. National Newspaper Publishers Associationâ€™s Editor-in-Chief Hazel Trice Edney wrote in the Louisiana Weekly that another ...

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Think Green: The 11th District's 'Normal' candidate

2008-06-19T00:00:00Z

You've got Jesse Jackson Jr., an incumbent Democrat, blasting a fellow Democrat, Debbie Halvorson, for an airport governance bill that he says creates ...

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OBAMA MAKES HISTORY; TARGETS MCCAIN FOR THE FALL, WEEK OF JUNE 5 ...

2008-06-18T00:00:00Z

Jesse Jackson told the NNPA News Service by phone from the United Republic of Tanzania in Africa Tuesday. â€˜â€™It is a glorious, mountaintop moment in American ...

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The GOP battle for the 10th District: Shots fired in a cemetery

2008-06-18T00:00:00Z

Broun also points out that the bill was sponsored by US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) â€” â€œTo claim that this bill does not benefit American families or ...

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