Fact Check: Are the “Extremes from Each Party” Really in Control of Congress?
As part of its push to change politics to prevent “unseemly populism,” cut Social Security and Medicare, deunionize teachers and restore “respect for wealth creation,” the “Common Sense Coalition”...
View ArticleIs Your Member of Congress Rewarding Corporations that Move Production Out of...
As years pass, corporations have been cutting more and more manufacturing jobs in America and shipping those jobs halfway around the world to factories in Asia, which then ship their products back to...
View ArticleCongressional Priority: Suspending Import Duties for Outsourced Goods
At Congress.gov, it’s possible to carry out a boolean search of the Congressional Record and proposed legislation to get a sense of both the rhetoric of speeches and the priorities for action in the...
View ArticleWhat is a Massachusetts Democrat? Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch offer two Very...
What is a Massachusetts Democrat? In the race to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate, it looks as though two members of the House of Representatives — Ed Markey of Massachusetts District 7 and...
View ArticleEvery Sitting Member of Congress Endorsed by FreedomWorks Voted for...
The FreedomWorks For America Super PAC tosses the mantle of Less Government and the sash of Freedom about its well-endowed shoulders: FreedomWorks for America endorses true champions of freedom and...
View ArticleH.R. 3745, Putting All of a Credit Union’s Eggs in the Collection Basket
There’s a saying that’s popular among credit unions: “not for profit, not for charity, but for service.” Most people know that credit unions are non-profit organizations that return all their proceeds...
View ArticleWhich of 3 Caucuses (Tea Party, Constitution, Progressive) Most Opposes...
The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution say that when people can’t be thrown into detention by the government for as long as the government wants, not without charges and a...
View ArticleOne-Two Punch to Balance of Power this Week: Patriot Act and Perpetual War
While we were watching the train wreck of Patriot Act passage last week, the House of Representatives quietly passed a bill that grants the President of the United States the right to engage in...
View ArticleRoll Call: How Tea Party in House voted on Patriot Act, May 2011
A number of politicians running for Congress in 2010 were endorsed by the organizations Tea Party Express and FreedomWorks (which refers to itself as “Tea Party HQ”). Dozens of politicians elected to...
View Article13 Democrats, 4 Republicans and 1 Independent Vote to Stop Patriot Act...
18 votes against the reformless reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act weren’t enough to stop the legislation from moving forward in the Senate, but the 13 Democrats, 4 Republicans and 1 Independent...
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