News about Jim Clyburn

President Joe Biden doled out Presidential Medals of Freedom Friday to a number of top Democrats - giving a special shout-out to former Vice President Al Gore for conceding his disputed 2020 election gracefully. Of the 19 new recipients receiving the country's top civilian honor, five were party leaders: Gore, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of State John Kerry, Rep. Jim Clyburn - who single-handedly saved Biden's 2020 presidential run - and former New York City Michael Bloomberg.

Republicans in Florida ranked this bill as the best in congressional history, with Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills accusing President Biden of 'cowering' to progressives. According to Mills, a former defense contractor and freshman legislator, Israel's Oct. 7 is equivalent to America's Sept 11.' Imagine if our allies were asking a cease-fire while our troops were fighting Al Qaeda/Taliban as a result.' In a ceasefire against Israel, Biden is requesting that Israel refrain from firing against the Iranian terrorist group, Hamas.'

In the final version, the US insists that there should be a temporary ceasefire'as soon as practicable,' although no date was given. In any United Nations action on the Israel-Hamas conflict, Washington has been averse to the word ceasefire.

Jim Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina who was instrumental in Joe Biden's successful 2020 presidential campaign, has decided against supporting Vice President Kamala Harris as the party's future head. Clyburn, who chairs the Biden/Harris 2024 campaign, was instrumental in Biden's journey to the Democratic nomination and winning the presidency by endorsing him right before the South Carolina primary. Harris is now evading questions about whether or not Harris is up for the challenge. Harris would have to 'compete with whoever has dreams and aspirations,' he said, and I think she will do a good job.' In late April, Biden announced his bid for a second term with VP Harris, but concerns regarding his age and fitness for office have remained.

Following the deaths of three employees in separate incidents in fewer than 15 months, the railroad's safety record is now being investigated. And now union bosses are accusing Norfolk Southern of prioritizing the wellbeing of rail workers and the general public, with one saying that the corporation actually 'hates' its employees. 'The people who knew worked over there, their euphemism for Norfolk Southern were the Nazi Southern,' Fritz Edler, the safety representative of Railroad Workers United, an inter-union consortium of rail workers, told DailyMail.com. Following the derailment of Norfolk Southern's'safety practices and culture' on February 3, the Nation Transportation Safety Board (TSB) announced on Tuesday that it was investigating the investigation into the'safety procedures and culture' of the region. However, the board is expanding the probe into other events, including another derailment in Springfield, Ohio, where a two-and-a-half mile long train went off the tracks and the deaths of the employees, the most recent of whom died in Cleveland on Tuesday. The company has long been concerned about its corporate culture, according to a DailyMail.com probe into Norfolk Southern. And this is just the tip of the iceberg for a company that cut thousands of employees despite earning record profits in 2022 and paying Alan Shaw $4.5 million per year.

A few lawmakers are scheming for a vote to replace Nancy Pelosi as speaker, ahead of the next congress, which will even be voted in next week's elections. After getting news that Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., intended to seek the position, D-N.Y., apparently called an emergency meeting with Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-N.C., on September 1 during summer recess. Jeffries, the fifth-ranking House Democrat, offered to fly down to South Carolina to speak with Clyburn, his elder in the Congressional Black Caucus, but the two declined to Clyburn's Washington office. Jeffries wanted to make sure Clyburn, the 82-year-old Majority Whip, did not pursue the top job herself. If he did, the pair could split votes and open a new for Schiff to cinch the role.