Maria Cantwell’s shoe bills encourage American companies to have shoes manufactured in foreign sweatshops instead of here in the USA. These kind of special favors for companies seeking to avoid employing Americans are particularly despicable in the current economic climate.

Wherever one stands on the question of just how the ideas of Confucius should be categorized, it’s clear that some of the opposition to H. Res. 784 was not at all based in a loyalty to the separation of church and state

Jackie Speier has joined the other members of the LGBT Caucus in cosponsoring H.R. 1283, legislation that would eliminate the discriminator policy.

Congressman Joe Barton managed to create an earmark of a million dollars of government spending to support fossil fuel research and development that aims to convince Americans that the dirtiest, most inefficient sources of fossil fuel energy, such as oil shale, oil sands, coal, and industrial sludges, are somehow sources of “clean” energy.

Louie Gohmert’s allegations of a government takeover only reveal the possibility that the government could take over projects that it’s already working on.

Representative Marsha Blackburn regards equal access to Internet broadband as a barrier to freedom – the freedom of corporations to squeeze out independent voices.

Over the last couple of weeks, a huge number of exemptions from duties have been proposed, sometimes for things that the ordinary person can identify, such as ski poles and snow globes. Often, however, the requested exemptions are for extremely obscure chemicals and materials.

How is it pro-life to deny health care coverage to families of working Americans because of an ideological position about abortion?

Congressman Jerry McNerny attempted to align himself with climate change activists by casting himself as an experienced alternative energy insider, with special know-how that enables him to understand the technologies needed to fight climate change.

Chaplain Barry C. Black has consistently pushed an agenda that seeks the transformation of the United States of America into a Christian theocracy. The official web site describing the work of the Senate Chaplain, proclaims “God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation…” and declares that the Senate not honor what Black refers to as “the separation of God and State”.