The theme of this second luncheon at the Capitol Hill Club was ““Specialty Physicians and Dentists” – and it came just as Republican members of Congress like Mary Bono Mack began a particularly strong push to resist efforts at meaningful health care reform.

Nita Lowey has gone back 8 separate times over the last three years for more lobbyist-arranged money, courtesy of the Twenty-First Century Group.

Why wouldn’t Rosa DeLauro support single payer health care? You’d have to ask her yourself to get a good answer to that question. We can, however, look into DeLauro’s involvement in a scheme to provide special access to Democratic Party leaders for health care industry lobbyists at the very time that health care legislation was being crafted.

Whenever a Democratic member of Congress is running for election, the most common line of attack by Republicans is to label that Representative or Senator as a “hardcore liberal,” or “one of the most liberal members of Congress.” In 2004, Senator John Kerry was unsurprisingly labeled as the “most liberal Senator” by the RNC, and [...]

Huge numbers of politicians are indebted to a company that makes its profits from the vulnerability of Americans in economic distress. The following are among the biggest recipients of donations from Cash America.

Act Blue has made it possible for grassroots activists to make donations to Carolyn Maloney’s political action committee – Carolyn’s PAC. Carolyn’s PAC, in turn, does give to some Democratic candidates, but also has given to other sorts of recipients. Among them is the New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee, to which Carolyn’s PAC has given $5,000.

If Larry Gause’s change to marriage law were to be accepted, only religious Americans would be allowed to get married. No atheists could get married. Even people who don’t belong to a church might not be able to get married.

Drilling is taking place already under the status quo, which Representative Emanuel Cleaver supports. Yet, Jacob Turk accuses Cleaver of being “against drilling for U.S. oil in U.S. soil.”

Will the voters in Missouri’s 3rd congressional district fall on their knees, and hear the angel voices? Will they listen to Ed Martin’s new prophecy of the second coming of Jesus?

In the case of gun rights, what’s important is not to just find a theoretical middle ground, but to examine the Constitution and what it actually says. Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf doesn’t seem to be willing to take the time to educate himself about the role of the Constitution in establishing government policy.