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Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Receives NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award
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Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Receives NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentSeptember 17, 2020

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has introduced several bills, including the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, H.R. 71, the Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2015, and H.R. 4660, an Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015 affirming the authority of the Attorney General to reduce prison overcrowding by developing and implementing lawful policies relating to requests for executive clemency from deserving petitioners.

Former DNC Chair Howard Dean Recalls His 2003 Run for President
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Former DNC Chair Howard Dean Recalls His 2003 Run for President

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentFebruary 20, 2020

“First, when you have a foreign government helping one of the parties, that’s a major problem, and it makes it more difficult,” Dean stated. “What Vladimir Putin is trying to do is not so much to support a person, but he’s really trying to eliminate any idea of truth. He’s attacking the country in a very clear and more dangerous way. He’s gone further than they even did during the Cold War. So, these are pretty big problems that we have to figure out how to overcome.”