Issue 59: Friday, 7 Jan 2022

THIS WEEK IN DC — Jan. 6 Brings Democrats, Cheneys Together — With GOP Mostly Absent; Biden Takes On Trump In Fiery Address On Jan. 6; Former Biden Transition Advisors Call For Change In COVID-19 Strategy; Ex-McCarthy Staffer: GOP Leader's Strategy Dictated By 'Most Extreme' Wings Of Party; Cruz Looks To Overturn DC Student Vaccine Mandate; Harris Was At DNC When A Pipe Bomb Was Found Outside Building On Jan. 6; Navy Removes First Group Of Sailors To Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine; Challenge To Biden Keystone XL Revocation Dismissed As Moot; Key Member Of White House Immigration Team Retiring; Top House Democrat Urges Senate To Abolish Filibuster To Pass Voting Rights On Jan. 6 Anniversary.

IN THIS ISSUE

Reflections From MPAC's President on the Anniversary of January 6th
A Message From Members of the Senate and House to the MPAC Family
Application OPEN: 2022 CLDP Fellowship

Reflections From MPAC's President on the Anniversary of January 6th

MPAC’s President Salam Al-Marayati reflects on the one year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection.

A Message From Members of the Senate and House to the MPAC Family

A message from Senator Van Hollen (MD), Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) to the MPAC family on the one year anniversary of January 6th insurrection.

Applications OPEN: 2022 CLDP Fellowship

CLDP is the leading American Muslim pipeline for students and recent graduates to fast track a career on Capitol Hill. The applications for the 2022 CLDP Fellowship can be found here.

GOOD TO KNOW

More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021
Why more American children are dying by gunfire
Americans' faith in election integrity drops: POLL
Penn Law rebukes professor who said U.S. would be 'better off with fewer Asians'

- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY -

Jan 2, 1492 - Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula; Jan 2, 1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengal; Jan 5, 1972 - Founding Father and President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman freed by the newly elected President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; Jan 5, 1957 - US President Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle East, where they have remained ever since; Jan 6, 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt, dies at about 90.

Jan 3, 1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X; Jan 3, 1853 - Solomon Northup is freed after 7 illegal years in slavery with aid of Washington Hunt, Governor of New York; Jan 6, 1773 - Massachusetts' enslaved population petition legislature for freedom; Jan 6, 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship; freedom from want and fear) during his US State of Union address; Jan 8, 1790 - First US President George Washington delivers first state of the union address; Jan 8, 1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto; Jan 9, 1861 - Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War); Jan 8, 1835 - US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.

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