Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to make appearances at today’s annual commemoration of ‘Bloody Sunday,’ the 1965 attack on civil rights protestors in Selma that proved a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act. Biden is scheduled to speak at the annual Martin and Coretta King Unity Brunch, a preliminary to the re-enactment of the march, [...]
U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, is taking the stump for the Mitt Romney campaign in some critical swing states in the presidential campaign. Roby said in a phone interview Thursday she was scheduled to make an appearance for the former Massachusetts governor in Iowa this weekend, although the event has been postponed. She will be [...]
U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, told the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce this morning that she believed federal spending cuts would lead to job creation. “We’re not cutting spending in Washington just to cut spending,” Roby told a group of hundreds at the monthly Eggs and Issues breakfast at the RSA Activity Center. “We’re cutting [...]
Freshman U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, talks about why she voted to repeal the health care law passed by Democrats during the last Congress. While the Republicans in the U.S. House voted to repeal the health care act, there is not enough support in the Senate, where Democrats remain in the majority, and President Obama [...]
President Barack Obama might not give his State of the Union address until Tuesday, but an Alabama congresswoman released some critical statements of his administration on Monday.U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, released the following comments Monday in advance of the president’s State of the Union address: “Our nation is in the midst of a severe [...]