Democrats seek financial rescue of minority-owned broadcasters

Silla Brush — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:38:00 EST

High-ranking House Democrats are urging the Treasury Department to prop up minority-owned broadcasters suffering from a lack of capital and lost advertising revenue amid the economic slump.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is leading an effort to convince Treasury Secretary Timo...

Signs of his success and our greatness

By: James E. Clyburn — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:18:00 EST

On January 20, 2009, I sat on the platform chatting with retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, anxiously awaiting the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States of America. We were about 15 feet from Barack H. Obama as he was sworn in on the West Front of the U.S. ...

Democratic whip woos all caucuses for votes

By: Kara Rowland — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:30:00 EST

House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn has come a long way since his childhood in the deeply segregated South, but Congress' highest-ranking black member draws almost daily on the lessons he learned growing up in South Carolina.

Clyburn's time has arrived

James Rosen — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:35:00 EST

Around the White House, some of President Barack Obama's senior aides have given House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn a nickname.

They call him Sage.

"He's an amazing man," Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest advisers, said in an interview Friday. "He's a man of extraordinary intel...

Clyburn: A modern-day Alice in Wonderland

By: James E. Clyburn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:26:00 EST

The fate of the stimulus money in South Carolina is beginning to remind me a bit of the fictional story of Alice in Wonderland, which would be comical if it weren't so vitally serious. Imagine the potential federal investment as Alice, falling into a strange world, not welcome by several of the m...

Clyburn Addresses More Than 500 Graduates from Tuskegee University During Commencement Exercises

Tuskegee University — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:00:00 EST

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (May 11, 2008) - Tuskegee University on Sunday graduated approximately 500 students during its annual commencement exercises in the Daniel "Chappie" James Center for Aerospace Science and Health Education at 9:30 a.m. According to the Office of the Registrar degrees to be conferred...

Clyburn's rise comes as no surprise; Current and former colleagues - and his barber - say leader will do well

Roddie A. Burris — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:25:00 EST

Every two weeks or so, U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn gets a haircut at Toliver's Mane Event in north Columbia, and regardless of what happens today in Washington, D.C., friends say that side of him is unlikely to change.

Clyburn, the state's most prominent black politician, will tread rare water toda...

Democrats tour coast for Katrina's 2nd anniversary

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:32:00 EST

NEW ORLEANS - House Majority Whip James Clyburn and a delegation of about 15 House Democrats arrived in New Orleans today for a tour of coastal Mississippi and New Orleans on the approach of the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Clyburn, who met with reporters briefly, offered few sp...

Clyburn's Halls of History

Bree Hocking — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:35:00 EST

Not too far back, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) had reproductions made of the official House portraits of three pioneering Members - Joseph Rainey (R-S.C.), Romualdo Pacheco (R-Calif.) and Jeannette Rankin (R-Mont.), respectively the first black, Hispanic and female Representatives -...

Clyburn carves out a Capitol moment

Roddie A. Burris — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:39:00 EST

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., gave his vision for the state's future Tuesday in a rare appearance before a joint session of the General Assembly.

The House majority whip and 6th District representative urged leaders to avoid surrendering their common interests to partisan politics and instead to ...

'We all need each other,' Clyburn says

Yvonne M. Wenger — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:38:00 EST

COLUMBIA - The most influential black politician from South Carolina in more than a century stood before a rare joint assembly of the state Legislature Tuesday to deliver a message of unity.

But just outside the Statehouse, the Confederate flag, displayed above the Confederate Soldier's Monum...

S.C.'s Clyburn Takes Center Stage

Chris Cillizza — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:42:00 EST

When House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) addresses a joint session of the South Carolina legislature today at 12:30 p.m. ET, Democrats with an eye on the White House would be well advised to listen.

Clyburn is widely seen as one of the Palmetto State's most influential politicians, and a...

Clyburn: SC legislators should do more for environment, energy

Seanna Adcox — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:41:00 EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina legislators should aggressively promote the production of alternative energy like biofuels, which could help struggling rural residents along Interstate 95, U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn told a joint assembly of the state Legislature on Tuesday.

"We...

37 years later, Clyburn makes it to S.C. Legislature

Mike Soraghan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:44:00 EST

On election night in 1970, James Clyburn went to bed comfortable that he had won a South Carolina state House seat by 500 votes. He awoke to learn of a different result. Someone moved a decimal point, it seemed, and he had lost by a margin as narrow as the one he thought had secured his victory....

Clyburn's Pending Speech to Legislature Symbolic of Blacks' Progress

Jessica Benton Cooney — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:48:00 EST

When House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn addresses a joint session of the legislature in his home state of South Carolina on April 10, he will do so with a sense of pride - and a sense of history.

The fact that Clyburn will become the first African-American congressman in more than a century...

CQ&A: An Interview with House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn

Jessica Benton Cooney — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:46:00 EST

Democratic Rep. James E. Clyburn already held a significant distinction in African-American politics: His election in 1992 made him the first black congressman from South Carolina since 1897, as racial barriers that had stood for most of a century gave way.

A skilled House insider who moved u...

Iraq Whip Team Shifts Into Gear

Jennifer Yachnin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:50:00 EST

Despite the defection of at least one Chief Deputy Majority Whip, Democratic leaders have begun a full-court press on their Caucus to round up crucial support as the House prepares to take up the $124 billion Iraq War supplemental spending bill this week.

House lawmakers are expected to vote ...

Clyburn plans historic Statehouse address

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:52:00 EST

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn will address the S.C. General Assembly next month, becoming the first black congressman to do so in more than 100 years.

The legislature formally asked Clyburn to speak in a March 6 letter, and the first black congressman from South Carolina since Reconstructio...

House Dems will 'survey' but not whip Iraq bill votes

Jonathan E. Kaplan and Mike Soraghan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:53:00 EST

House Democratic leaders will not whip the Iraq supplemental spending bill, on grounds they don't want to apply political pressure on a matter of war and peace.

"It's a conscience vote," House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said after yesterday's Democratic Caucus meeting. But he added ...

Hidden Power on the Hill

Silla Brush — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:55:00 EST

By about 1:30 p.m. one recent day, Rep. Jim Clyburn was hunched in the back seat of an SUV parked outside the Capitol and talking on a BlackBerry about the impact of the president's budget on rural districts. He had already done a radio interview about Iraq and the 2008 presidential race, led a m...