Congressman Kennedy voted in favor of an extension of the three most abusive parts of the Patriot Act – without any attempt to reform the terrible law at all. If a Kennedy is voting in favor of legislation like that, the end of the Kennedy dynasty hasn’t come soon enough.

“I think there’s probably a stronger sense that the civil liberties concerns are less likely to be triggered by Obama administration activities than the Bush administration activities.” – Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, explaining why Senate Democrats passed reauthorization of the Patriot Act. A single Senator’s objection is all that is required to force a [...]

Paul Hodes has some explaining to do. Hearing that a bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was being prepared for passage in the House of Representatives, a constituent of the New Hampshire Democrat wrote to him: I note with considerable alarm that, in spite of the supposed “shutdown” of the nation’s capital due to snowfall, [...]

Utah Senator Bob Bennett has been busy declining some invitations and accepting others. Bennett failed to attend a candidate forum in his home state of Utah on February 13, 2010. On January 15 of this year, Bob Bennett declined an invitation from Tea Party activists to attend an Independence Caucus in Provo. Bennett said he [...]

Representative Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, took to the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday to explain why he would not comply with requests to vote for reauthorization of the Patriot Act without reform: Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this motion to concur in the [...]

Yesterday 162 House Democrats voted in favor of extending the Patriot Act without any reforms at all. The following list contains the names of these 162 anti-liberty Democrats.

Yesterday, 315 members, 162 Democrats and 153 Republicans, voted in favor of extending the Patriot Act without any reforms. Read the names in a roll call vote.

To have the power to bring back money effectively through work in Congress, Jarvis Johnson would either need to wait a long time – years – to get a powerful committee position, or he’ll need to start making some very unethical deals.

In the last election cycle of 2008, the Democratic Party issued its platform entitled “Renewing America’s Promise. In that platform, the Democrats made the following pledge: Our Constitution is not a nuisance. It is the foundation of our democracy. It makes freedom and self-governance possible, and helps to protect our security. The Democratic Party will [...]

When Harold Ford was a Democratic congressman from Tennessee, he voted twice for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Running for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee, he actively asserted his opposition to gay marriage: “I oppose gay marriage. This November, there’s a referendum on the Tennessee ballot to ban same-sex marriage — I [...]