In a year when many Senate candidates are demonstrating an ignorance of basic scientific concepts, Kenniss Henry is a welcome addition.

With the advent of unlimited independent expenditures in the Spring of 2010, corporate political groups have been unleashed to influence congressional elections as they and their undisclosed individual contributors see fit. But although individual contributors to these corporate groups remain shrouded, the activity of the corporate groups themselves is tracked on a daily basis by [...]

The way our economy is set up now, if American corporations really want to ship all their factories and jobs overseas, they can. But should the government reward that behavior? Under the tax code, that’s just what the government does today. Corporations today can get tax deductions and tax credits for firing American workers and [...]

Given the relationships of power that flow through the Democratic Faith Working Group, it is in the public’s interest to know who is involved in the group, when those people meet, and what matters of policy they discuss.

In Ted Kaufman’s view, Obama is restricting anti-corruption efforts to low level government officials, turning a blind eye to abuses by Hamid Karzai and his close associates.

The supposed “hiring freeze” is less about fiscal responsibility than it is about a transfer of power away from democratically-established public institutions, into the corporate realm.

Senator Mary landrieu is not merely holding Jack Lew’s nomination hostage. She is holding the American economy hostage as well, and it’s all for the sake of big oil.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner voted against a bill to add federal crimes for assaults and murders on the basis of sexual orientation. Why? He claimed it was a matter of supporting free speech, that criminalizing acts based on the ideas behind them violated the First Amendment. James Sensenbrenner is also the sponsor of H.R. 1772, a [...]

In another year, will Timothy Geithner be gone? Keep an eye on Congressman DeFazio for continued defiance.

The House Armed Services Committee appears to have a two year backlog in the release of committee hearing transcripts to the public. But these transcripts are not actually transcripts: they are links to WMA audio files, not text files. Furthermore, the links are dead and the audio now removed. The situation is worse than it [...]