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. Terri Sewell will host a “Congress in Your Community” town hall meeting from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday in Montgomery. State lawmakers redrew congressional district lines last year and a portion of Montgomery County is now in the 7th Congressional District represented by Sewell, D-Birmingham. The event will be in the [...]
Gov. Robert Bentley on Wednesday signed into law the state plan for congressional districts for the next 10 years. The plan splits Montgomery between three congressional districts, the 2nd represented currently by Republican Martha Roby of Montgomery, the 3rd represented by Republican Mike Rogers of Saks, and the 7th represented by Democrat Terri Sewell of [...]
A committee in the Alabama House of Representatives killed a Senate plan to redraw lines for the state’s seven congressional districts and replaced it with a plan drawn by a fellow House member. Senate Democrats slammed a plan by Sen. Scott Beason that revamped districts close to the Birmingham metropolitan area because of how it [...]