President Obama: Haiti One Year Later

President Obama made the following statement on the eve of the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti: As we mark one year since the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, we honor the memory of the quarter of a million Haitians who were lost, along with more than one hundred Americans, many United Nations [...]

Help Haiti Now

Please see the below message from the Pan American Development Foundation, an organization I support to get much needed help to Haiti: With Tropical Storm Tomas only hours from striking Haiti and its 1.3 million vulnerable displaced persons, the Pan American Development Foundation is urgently seeking cash donations for relief and recovery supplies. Your help is needed [...]

This Week in Washington: January 25, 2010

The White House: President Obama used his weekly address to discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overruled government’s ability to restrict corporations and unions from funding campaign ads.  This week, President Obama gears up for his first State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. The U.S. Senate: The U.S. Senate [...]

Haiti on My Mind

Catastrophic doesn’t begin to describe the Haiti earthquake’s devastation on a country already ravaged by poverty.  Haiti is one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, if not the world.  I can’t bear to watch the news footage or see the pictures of destruction without doing something to help.  I encourage you to do so [...]