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Roll Call - Meredith Drake

This is a state that knows what it’s like to recover from a disaster.

From the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, to the destruction wreaked by two of the largest tornadoes ever recorded tearing through its suburbs, there has been a thread running through the tragedies: Oklahomans pull together.

Washington Post - Paul Kane

Before the U.S. military attacked Saddam Hussein’s forces in 1991, Congress spent months considering its approval of the war. Twelve years later, another attack on Iraq came after three weeks of debate and intensive negotiations.

But this week, the House and Senate each took only a few hours to sign off on President Obama’s plan to once again deploy the military in the Middle East, approving it as part of a broader budget bill before bounding out of town for a two-month recess and hitting the midterm campaign trail.

Native American Times

NEW YORK – On Sunday, September 21, 2014, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, the National Congress of American Indians, United Methodist Women, Intersections International, Gray Panthers, and the Indian Law Resource Center will present a reading of Sliver of a Full Moon, a powerful play by Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle.

Last week, President Barack Obama addressed the nation and offered his plan for combating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). During his speech, the president asked Congress to authorize training of Syrian rebels and recommended further air strikes in the region for diffusing the threat of this dangerous enemy.