Missile defense testing is pork barrel spending. It funnels money to defense contractors who in turn spend a lot of money buying influence with members of Congress. It’s a source of corruption in our nation’s politics, and it doesn’t make us one bit more secure.

This morning That’s My Congress has released a report scoring the legislative performance of members of the LGBT Equality Caucus of the House of Representatives in the 111th Congress. The report takes 12 bills identified by the caucus as a slate of legislation in support of civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. [...]

The Democratic Party is better than the Republican Party when it comes to protecting people’s jobs from bigoted bosses, but the Democratic Party still contains a large number of politicians who are willing to accept discrimination, so long as it’s against a minority group that cannot affect their re-election.

The head-in-the-sand resistance of politicians like Michael Arcuri to action on climate change is only helping out-of-date industries that gain their profits through the preservation of dirty, inefficient energy technologies that were invented a century ago.

One point I’d like to hear more details on from the Cloward campaign: What kind of alternative energy fuels would the refinery produce? Ethanol and other biofuels can burn relatively cleanly, but it still results in carbon emissions just as high as gasoline.

Ready to accept the challenge was John Culberson of Texas. Yet, Jeff Flake wouldn’t yield any time to Culberson.

Green Party Watch proposes a 7-point Green New Deal as the core economic platform of Green congressional candidates in 2010.

Remember how the Patriot Act, with its many provisions cutting away at our constitutional rights, was passed before anyone in Congress actually had the chance to read the legislation? That happens all too often in Congress.

What’s going to come from Jeb Hensarling next? Advice to Hawaiians about how to surf? Legislation for Colorado providing guidance on how to run ski resorts? A bill withholding home heating assistance from people in Alaska?

In her campaign to be elected as Ohio’s 15th District representative to the U.S. Congress, Mary Jo Kilroy asked for help. On August 31, 2008, about fifty members of Columbus’ gay and lesbian activist community turned out in a Get Out the Vote operation for members of the Democratic Party up and down the ticket. [...]