In November 2011, 24 Senate Democrats refused to revoke the Iraq War authorization, thus repeating the great mistake of 2002.

The Udall Amendment would have removed the legislation’s unconstitutional power of imprisonment without criminal charge. This afternoon, that amendment failed to pass. It was rejected by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats who have become comfortable with the existence of totalitarian government powers. The vote wasn’t even close: 37 for Udall’s protection of American freedom, 61 opposed to the Udall amendment, and 2 senators who didn’t show up to vote.

It isn’t just Orrin Hatch who’s taking money from Diageo liquors. The Every Republican Is Crucial PAC took a check from the Diageo PAC in August, a few weeks after the Republican Operation to Secure and Keep a Majority PAC took Diageo’s whiskey-scented cash.

The latest incarnation of this game will be played at Verizon Center on Tuesday, November 29. No, I’m not talking about the match between the Washington Capitals and the St. Louis Blues. I’m talking about the matchmaking that will be going on in a luxury box where Cliff Stearns will be meeting with lobbyists who are paying money to his re-election campaign in exchange for access to the Congressman.

They’ve given speeches about football games. They’ve talked about renaming post offices. They’ve gobbled on about Thanksgiving. They’ve done nothing, however, to protect the American people from the recent surge in police brutality.

If passed and ratified, a proposed constitutional amendment would end the legal status of corporations as persons, and stop the current practice of unlimited independent congressional campaign funding with money that comes from undisclosed sources. Many Democrats in Congress have done a lot of talking about taking a stand against the idea of corporate personhood. Now that they have the opportunity to take concrete action on the issue, what are they actually doing?

This year, Timmons has personally lobbied Congress on behalf of the Air Transport Association of America, ASTAR Air Cargo, and US Airways. Timmons was once a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Transportation, but spent most of the 1990s as the head lobbyist for America West Airlines. John Timmons has also written two checks for Paul Gosar’s re-election campaign.

There are only 75 individual contributions to the 2012 re-election campaign of U.S. Representative Rob Woodall. Six of those 75 contributions have come from Pull-A-Part executives. The chances of this happening randomly are absurdly small.

This morning, the presidential nominating effort called Americans Elect introduced a new web feature called “Candidates,” in which it rates a select group of American politicians on the basis of their policy agreement with two documents: 1. Majority or plurality answers to a Ipsos Public Affairs Poll apparently commissioned by Americans Elect corporate staff, the [...]

In a 10-8 vote today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. Click here to view a webcast of the proceedings. S. 598, the Respect for Marriage Act, would reinstate the Full Faith and Credit clause of the United States Constitution as it applies to marriage, granting recognition [...]