Protests Erupt After Congress Plans To Overturn D.C. Marijuana Legalization

“This isn’t about marijuana, this isn’t about drug policy, this is about local democracy.”

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Harry Reid Calls For An End To Legal Prostitution In Nev.

Arguing that it could keep Las Vegas from hosting the 2016 Republican National Convention, Reid calls on the Silver State to outlaw the world’s oldest profession.

Harry Reid Calls For An End To Legal Prostitution In Nev.

In 2011, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - Nev.) went before a joint session of the Nevada State Legislature to call for “an adult conversation” about prostitution in the state.

“Nevada needs to be known as the first place for innovation

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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Questions Of Central Bank Secrecy Loom Amid Yellen’s Confirmation

Traditionally, the Federal Reserve’s inner-workings were not known to the public.

Questions Of Central Bank Secrecy Loom Amid Yellen’s Confirmation

In the years following the Great Recession, the Federal Reserves, under Ben Bernanke, has controversially taken the lead in artificially spurring on the economy through its use of “quantitative easing,” or the buying of Treasury and mortgage bonds in order to shrink the supply and raise demand. With the Fed now holding more than $4 trillion in

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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Reid Goes Head-To-Head With Republicans Over Nominee Blocks

Reid is threatening to ban filibusters for presidential nominations and and switch to a simple majority approval system in Senate.

Reid Goes Head-To-Head With Republicans Over Nominee Blocks

Barack Obama has had a difficult time getting his nominees through the wall of Congressional approval, creating scenarios that drag out through filibusters and partisan opposition -- and some Democrats have had enough.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is one of them. Reid is threatening to invoke a ban on the use of

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UPDATE: Senate Dems’ ‘Nuclear Option’ On Filibuster Rules Diverted — For Now

Majority Leader Reid had ratcheted up on his threat to use the “nuclear option” against the wall of opposition to the president’s nominations.

UPDATE: Senate Dems’ ‘Nuclear Option’ On Filibuster Rules Diverted — For Now

UPDATE: Tuesday morning, the Senate agreed to a compromise that broke the stalemate over the “nuclear option." In exchange for withdrawing two of the president’s recess nominations -- Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board -- and agreeing not to pursue a Senate rule change that would

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Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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