Bernard Sanders praised the upcoming occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. to start on October 6, and said that he will attempt to attend that protest himself. “Any attention that we can pay to the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street or to what the Fed is not doing is deserved attention, so I will see if I can be there,” Sanders said.

Gary Glenn proposes the idea that the United States is a Christian nation, with the government providing only a limited sort of religious freedom – that which protects Christianity in particular. He also expresses the idea that American rights don’t come from the Constitution at all, but rather from the deity that he worships.

Orrin Hatch supported radiologists in their effort to restrict the free and open use of medical imaging devices. Then, the American College of Radiology made a big independent expenditure to support the re-election of Orrin Hatch to the U.S. Senate.

This isn’t the first time that the idea of the Gandhi-King exchange has been proposed in Congress. Similar legislation was introduced in 2009 – when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, but the bill was not accepted and promoted by Democratic Party leadership.

Every one of the U.S. Representatives supporting H.R. 3051, legislation to ban the death penalty, are Democrats.

Members of Congress are trying to pretend that they haven’t noticed the anti-corporate protest going on for six days now on the sidewalks of Wall Street, but Green Party congressional candidate Ben Emery is spreading the word.

A report released by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington shows that politicians elected to Congress in 2010 are disproportionately corrupt – and it’s just their first year in Congress, so they’ve barely had time to get started.

There may be a great deal of talk in the coming weeks about a millionaire’s tax, but there will be no action. Republicans won’t budge, no matter how low Obama sets the limit on contributions from wealthy Americans.

Last week, U.S. Representative Michael Michaud sent a letter to President Barack Obama and sponsored legislation to end the U.S. military’s use of sweatshop shoes. As Michaud explained in his letter, the Department of Defense has recently begun sneaking around the rule that its sneakers must be made in the USA by shuffling money to [...]

Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.