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U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah with Michael Jackson in 2004. Here's a memo and photograph that just arrived from U.S. Rep.

Two years ago, our congressional representative Chaka Fattah made an important promise - one that he has completely and shamelessly betrayed.

The doctor at the center of an investigation into medical errors in prostate cancer treatments at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center broke his silence this morning and mounted an aggressive defense of his actions.

Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week: House Homeland-security budget: By a 389-37 vote, the House approved a $44 billion Department of Homeland Security budget for fiscal 2010, up 6.5 percent from 2009.

Openly gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank introduced a bill this week that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT employees across the country.

In 2004 Congressman Chaka Fattah met with Jackson on his visit to Capitol Hill to promote the fight against AIDS in Africa.

A bipartisan coalition of members of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a letter this week to President Obama, calling for a halt to investigations conducted under the militarya s ban on openly gay servicemembers.

THE VIP LIST reads like a who's who of Pennsylvania politics. You can't beg or buy a ticket.

The Chairman of the Congressional Urban Caucus, Congressman Chaka Fattah , today called for the quick enactment of the Clean Energy legislation pending in the House of Representatives.

The Hardy Williams Education Fund is scheduled to pay tribute to the "Dean of the Independent Political Movement" Tuesday night.

Newly self-appointed Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter has done a lot for Pennsylvania since being elected in 1980 as a Republican.

From the forthcoming CQ's Politics in America : Rep. Gary Ackerman has as a Washington residence a houseboat on the Potomac River called the Unsinkable II.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 FNC Congressman Chaka Fattah This is a rush transcript from "Your World With Neil Cavuto," June 16, 2009.

On June 12, NSBA's General Counsel Francisco Negron headed to Capitol Hill to discuss with other educators, lawyers, and policy-makers ideas for creating more racially integrated schools.A A recent article from Diverse Online provided BoardBuzz with details of this forum sponsored by Rep.

Five area legislators have introduced legislation that would make the Philadelphia School District's "universal feeding" program a national model.

As staff from the U.S. Conference of Mayors arrived to begin preparations for the organization's four-day convention, last-minute negotiations on Wednesday to call off a planned union picket failed.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided not to discontinue a Philadelphia school breakfast and lunch program that provides free meals to poor students, members of the city's congressional delegation announced yesterday.

I don't know if the Smithsonian would be interested, or if there's even room to squeeze another building onto the Mall.

Congressman Chaka Fattah calls for full funding of energy block grant and strategies on creating strong metropolitan areas.

May 28: A Hardball panel debates whether Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., will resign following the release of FBI wiretap recordings of him talking with Rod Blagojevicha TMs brother.