I’ve just gotten off the phone with a staffer at the majority office of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and I’ve been told that in tomorrow morning’s markup meeting, the Senate Judiciary Committee will indeed consider the provisions of Senator Russell Feingold‘s JUSTICE Act (S. 1686) when it works to finalize a bill regarding warrantless surveillance [...]

Gregg Harper has been in the House of Representatives for nine months now, but he has yet to write a single bill of his own.

If Representative Candice Miller gets her way, and a torture investigation is blocked, then a harmful precedent will indeed be set: Presidents will learn that they have the power to do whatever they want, and will not be held responsible for breaking the law.

As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, Al Franken refused to make any comment about the FISA Amendments Act, a bill which became law while Franken was running for election. The FISA Amendments Act(read text of the law here) legalized a massive electronic operation to spy on the personal communications of millions people [...]

We in the United States surely have the technology and raw materials necessary to make rayon fibers to the specifications described in the bills written by Senator Collins. If there really is a special need for these fibers, manufacturers can buy them American-made.

When it came to the resolution providing a congressional advertisement for insurance, only one member of Congress had the guts to stand up to this outrageous commercial appropriation of the public square

Democrats may have the majority of seats in the Senate, but the Republicans still appear to have the control. The Democratic-Republican distinction appears not to have anything near the meaning as the progressive-regressive split, and the progressives are clearly in the minority.

If Senator Hatch really believes that Washington is not the answer, then why has he spent so much time working there, pushing through his agenda for what the federal government should do to solve America’s problems?

Environmentalists should focus on serious threats, not on unsubstantiated worries and ideological obsession with the restoration of ecosystems to an abstract status of pristine, human-free perfection.

There haven’t been any Socialist plots in Congress to nationalize the auto industry. General Motors and Chrysler have been strengthened through governm