In these troubled times, while we fight two undeclared wars, civil liberties are abrogated and economists quibble that sure, we may be headed into a Depression, but it really isn’t a Great one, what’s Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas up to? Sponsoring legislation to rename the Department of the Navy “the Department of the Navy [...]

During congressional campaigns every two years, we often hear candidates, citizens and pundits calling for more “bipartisanship.” David Broder writes his more-bipartisanship-please column every three weeks or so for the Washington Post syndicate, getting freshly paid each time. If the Democrats and the Republicans would only work together, the thinking goes, something might just get [...]

Nearly two weeks ago, we examined the frequency of cosponsorship for all Bills and Joint Resolutions in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Cosponsorship is the signing of a member of Congress’ name to a bill, an act that formally indicates support for the bill, and thanks to the government Thomas database (named after [...]

Senator John Kerry has introduced a bill to outlaw the obscene party that Northern Trust paid for using money supported by the Troubled Asset Relief Program government bailout.

In a race, we might consider the overall distance traveled by a car, but it’s also important to consider its speed. Similarly, in the United States Congress we might note what bills have accumulated the most cosponsors overall, but we might also want to consider which bills are accelerating forward by gaining cosponsors. To adopt [...]

The last thing we need now is to see American families with parents who have lost their jobs have to deal with the vicious attack on the social safety net that Marsha Blackburn would unleash.

It is not within the power of Congress to establish governmental discrimination against non-English speakers. The Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of all American citizens, regardless of linguistic group, to be treated equally by federal election law.

The first section to the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any [...]

This last week, Lamar Smith in the House and John Cornyn in the Senate introduced identical bills (H.R. 1076 and S. 436) to criminalize anonymous use of the Internet. If passed, the legislation (entitled the Internet Safety Act of 2009) would require every person in America to register every single time they use the internet [...]

Lamar Alexander asked to be judged according to the clothes he wore before, so what are we to conclude now that Alexander wears a business-as-usual suit?