The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee unexpectedly canceled Thursday’s confirmation vote for Labor secretary nominee Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif, after finding out her husband Sam Sayyad paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business. News of her husband’s tax issue […]

Republicans are questioning Labor Designate Hilda Solis’ previous unpaid position with Americans Rights at Work (ARW),  a non-profit labor rights think tank. Earlier this week, conservative blogs began writing about a story that originally appeared in the right-leaning  Weekly Standard. The story accuses Solis of violating House ethics rules by lobbying her fellow legislators on […]

President Obama signed a bill  into law yesterday which expands the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by roughly $35 billion over the next five years. The bill was passed 290 to 135 with nearly all Democrats voting for it and all Republicans opposing it. The bill will provide federally funded health care to an […]

There no doubt that the 2010 Census will be important to Hispanics. According to the Census Burea in 2007, 15.1 percent of the population identified themselves as Hispanic, making them the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in the U.S. The accurate count of Hispanics is essential in determining federal and state representation in […]

We have previously reported that Hispanic groups were against including the E-Verify program for employers in the stimulus package. Read below this article in Congress Daily PM by Chris Strohm. A battle has begun behind the scenes over whether companies that would benefit from the economic stimulus package before the Senate should be required to […]

New York’s new U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, told Latino elected officials on Sunday that she would like to take the lead on immigration issues, and even change some of her previous positions that were viewed as “anti-immigrant”. She promised leaders that she would promote a bill in Congress that would roll back a federal provision […]

Following California and Kansas, Puerto Rico has said that they would be opposed to becoming the new home of any Guantanamo Bay prisoners released from Cuba. This is following an executive order from President Barack Obama saying that he will close the prison on the U.S. base in Cuba within a year. Puerto Rico’s non-voting […]

Leslie Sanchez, a republican strategist has stated that Republicans should treat Hispanics as part of mainstream America. As members of the Republican National Committee prepare to choose a party chairman this weekend, Sanchez recognizes that President Obama’s election marks the beginning of a post-partisan, post-racial America where Hispanics are no longer a minority group. Sanchez […]