With his rebuke Thursday of President Obama's handling of the housing crisis, Representative Dennis Cardoza of California joined an increasingly vocal chorus of House Democrats criticizing the president's efforts.
"Seize every opportunity to hold Democrats accountable for their role in creating the economic crisis," Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, urged his colleagues in a memorandum distributed Wednesday.
"We're having a housing crisis!" – Representative democracy, whether in an election of President of the United States or new members of the Harper Valley PTA, is an expression not just of values but of what's bothering people.
After 10 p.m., when I'm still at mom's, the crisis center representatives arrive at my front door and talk through my video doorbell.
OUCH: At the peak of the opioid crisis, sales representatives from Purdue Pharma swarmed the state of New York, making half a million visits to doctors and pharmacies between 2006 and 2017 to promote the company's painkillers, including OxyContin, the New York Times's William K. Rashbaum, Roni Caryn Rabin and Danny Hakim report.
The darker the color, the more brutal the heat, so the map was a sign of potential crisis for representatives of more than two dozen agencies who gathered at the center early yesterday afternoon, when the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management began to carry out the city's emergency heat plan in expectation of a weekend of temperatures in the high 90's.
New York's insurance regulator, Eric Dinallo, has emerged as the lead regulator trying to find some sort of solution to the bond insurer crisis, as representatives of the U.S. Treasury and other federal agencies have stayed out of it.
Mr. Fishburne used his visit as an opportunity to speak to non-governmental organizations concerned with the HIV/AIDS crisis, media representatives and government officials.
Like Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mr. Obama "does have the advantage of a crisis," said Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma.
"I recognize that H-2B visa fixes are an important part of the immigration crisis," said Representative Joe Baca, Democrat of California and chairman of the Hispanic Caucus.
