Legislative News- H.R. 3745, Putting All of a Credit Union’s Eggs in the Collection Basket
- Have You Forgotten Obama’s Broken Promise On Corporate Immunity From Prosecution?
- Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson Take Different Approaches To Opposing SOPA
- Barack Obama Approves Law Subjecting Americans To Imprisonment Without Criminal Trial
- Americans Organizing Recalls Of Senators Who Voted For Imprisonment Without Criminal Trial
- Which of 3 Caucuses (Tea Party, Constitution, Progressive) Most Opposes Indefinite Detention in the USA?
Spencer Bachus: Using the Levers of Power to Hurt Poor People, Pulling those Levers to Help Himself
2012: Republican Representative Spencer Bachus declines to support H.R. 336>a, a bill to cap credit card interest rates.
2011: Rep. Spencer Bachus votes to knock away the requirement that federal contracts pay Americans workers at least the prevailing wage for their work, supporting pay cuts for federal contract workers instead.
2011: Rep. Spencer Bachus votes for passage ...
Mike Honda Celebrates Ruling Against Prop 8
Proposition 8 is a California state law, not a federal law. Yet, it is a law with national significance. Proposition 8 is a ballot initiative that removed the constitutional right to equality under the law from same-sex couples in California. At issue in judicial review of Prop 8 is the question of ...
Cecil Bothwell Gains Momentum With Heath Shuler Bowing Out
The retirement of Heath Shuler from the U.S. House of Representatives cannot be regarded as a loss to the progressive cause. Shuler was a Democrat, but a Blue Dog Democrat who voted with Republicans as much as with Democrats.
Long before Shuler announced his retirement, Cecil Bothwell was campaigning to replace Shuler as the Democratic ...
Nationwide Protests Against Arbitrary Imprisonment Powers of The NDAA
Outside a home state office of Senator John McCain, a hand written protest sign read "NDAA = Death To Due Process". Outside the office of U.S. Representative John Carter, the signs warned, "Carter Wants You In Prison", and declared in red, white and blue designs, "NDAA - Take This Law And Shove It", and ...
Capitol Hill Conference Promises Open Legislative Data. Will it Deliver?
On the morning of February 2, 2012 the Committee on House Administration of the 112th Congress held what it calls a Legislative Data and Transparency Conference. This is an all-day, in-person conference on Capitol Hill at which beltway lobbyists and nonprofits were undoubtedly in attendance, but one of the challenges of making congressional data ...
Peter Stark To Address Reason Rally
Today, there was the not-so-national National Day of Prayer, which is not a governmental event, though it pretends to be, and involves many members of Congress. Events like the National Day of Prayer do not represent the large numbers of Americans who are not religious, or who belong to religions that do not practice ...
Will Environmental Issues Tip Florida Democratic Race To Patrick Murphy?
In Florida's 22nd congressional district, citizens are gathering in growing opposition to the re-election of incumbent Allen West. They're concerned with Congressman West's displays of unstable behavior - most recently, his outburst declaring that Barack Obama should "get the Hell out of America".
Who will oppose Allen West in the general election this November remains ...
Why Can’t Congress Keep Flexible In Its Budget Negotiations?
Shadowy, corporate-funded political organization No Labels is complaining about the budget process. That may seem a bit strange, given all the subsidies and special tax loopholes that American corporations receive, but the people behind a special interest group like No Labels aren't content to allow their powerful elite constituency remain stagnant in their superiority. ...
Civil Liberties Dominate Public Attention Toward Congress in January 2012
In some quarters of Washington DC, people have grown fond of saying that all Americans care about is the economy. But take a look at the five congressional bills looked up most often by Americans during the week of January 22, 2012:
H.R. 3261
Stop Online Piracy Act: Popularly known as SOPA, this bill would ...
Johnny Isakson Embraces Big Government For Baseball
U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson proudly displays on his official Senate web site an endorsement he received from Tom Schatz, the President of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste. In the endorsement, Schatz says of Isakson, "The fight against big government is an uphill battle. Thanks to people like Sen. Isakson, taxpayers have a ...