I’d like to post a request for your feedback, citizen: How long is too long for a member of Congress to respond to a written request for information by a constituent? Does it matter if the request is for a stated position on a bill versus a request for other information? Does it matter if [...]

Representative Mike Thompson, who helped organize yesterday’s electronic recycling day on Capitol Hill, is one of five members of Congress to sign on in support of H.R. 2595, an electronic waste recycling reform bill. This bill is the only ewaste recycling reform bill sitting before the U.S. Congress… and there is concern that even this [...]

I guess that having an ewaste recycling day on Capitol Hill while all the decision makers are away is a step in the right direction, but it sure is an awfully small step.

Unlike many of his rivals for the 10th district’s seat in Congress, Jeremy Cloward has given a clear, unambiguous statement in support of full marriage equality for all couples, heterosexual and homosexual alike

“Tell Rod to keep me in mind for that seat, would ya?…. I know I could give him a check myself.” – Roland Burris, in a phone call with Robert Blagojevich, November 13, 2008, prior to his being appointed by Rod Blagojevich to the United States Senate. Senator Burris, it’s not like you’ve been busy [...]

Liberated from the restricting structures of the Democratic and Republican parties, Jeremy Cloward has come up with a number of specific, innovative ideas about how to deal with the most serious problems Californians, and the rest of America, are now dealing with.

These days, Americans are asking the questions that they’re not supposed to ask. What will be remembered about these wars? Was war really worth the sacrifice?

The entire planet, in the view of Shimkus, should defer to the profitability of those two coal mines.

If he were more reflective, Representative Broun might see that efforts to mix church and state in defiance of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights doesn’t help Christianity at all, but turns people off, leading them to look for alternatives to following the Bible.

Amendment 1157 creates a loophole in the Freedom of Information Act. With this loophole, the Secretary of Defense is granted the power to conceal photographs of any torture of prisoners of the U.S. military – whether those photographs were taken in the past, or will be taken in the future.