New legislation from George Miller to strengthen regulation and funding for research related to offshore drilling faces a challenging path to become law.

Pete DeFazio notes that the House Republicans are protecting huge areas of government programs from spending cuts.

The four members of the House of Representatives who have not yet introduced a single amendment or bill to the 112th Congress, or even cosponsored another member’s bill, are: John Carney [D-DE] Ed Perlmutter [D-CO-7] Nydia Velázquez [D-NY-12] Peter Visclosky [D-IN-1] All four are Democrats, and only one — John Carney of Delaware — is [...]

As a Republican in Louisiana, David Vitter’s political base is Christian, but the percentage of Christians in Louisiana in general is dwindling. Republicans are retaining Christian belief more than Democrats and independent voters. Vitter knows where his political loyalties must lie – with Christianity.

Yesterday, John Duncan, a Republican from Tennessee, called upon his party’s leadership to open up military and homeland security waste to budget cuts.

How can you speak truth to power if you don’t know where to call? Nearly three weeks into the 112th Congress, the following members of the U.S. House and Senate still have not gotten around to sharing a local phone number so that constituents can call the district office from home when they have a [...]

Is the war now supposed to be a tool for the improvement of the lives of the people of Afghanistan? This week, Representative Dennis Kucinich called into question this justification for continued fighting by the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

If you want to understand the difference between the Republican and the Democratic approach to economics, consider the two bills before the House of Representatives to deal with the minimum wage. On the one hand is H.R. 283, the Living American Wage Act of 2011. Sponsored by Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas, the LAW [...]

Among the proposals of the Spending Reduction Act is the elimination of over 300,000 federal jobs – 15 percent of the civilian employment currently in the budget.

Todd Platts has proposed an amendment to the Constitution, requiring term limits for the House and Senate. Platts has failed, however, to gain even one other member of Congress to sign on as a supporter of this amendment.