Who does Patrick Tiberi represent? Nominally, Pat Tiberi is the representative of the 12th District of Ohio. But you know the old saying: them who pay the piper call the tune. For his race for re-election against Paula Brooks, Tiberi has raised 55.1% from sources outside the state of Ohio, most of that money from [...]
The pharmaceutical corporation Abbott Laboratories is not fond of Mary Jo Kilroy. In her first term in Congress, Rep. Kilroy has pushed against “Pay to Delay,” the practice in which big drug manufacturers pay off generic suppliers to keep inexpensive medicine off the market. She also cosponsored H.R. 684, a bill that would have saved [...]
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has issued a statement concerning the increasingly contentious issue of whether to ban mosques in America. Her statement draws a distinction between feelings of emotional pain and standards of religious freedom: First and foremost, I understand the pain, trauma, and grief suffered by the men, women and children who [...]
An update on a previous report: Representative Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia has maintained his perfect record in Congress. Since he entered office more than five years ago, Rep. Westmoreland has represented his district through perfect inactivity, having failed to sponsor a single piece of legislation, a single amendment, or a single symbolic resolution in that [...]
In March of 2010 as Allen West campaigned for the Republican nomination in Florida’s 22nd congressional district, he railed against a bumper sticker that angered him greatly: As I was driving up here today, I saw that bumper sticker that absolutely incenses me. It’s not the Obama bumper sticker. But it’s the bumper sticker that [...]
Can members of the U.S. Congress come together, bridge partisan differences and come to consensus on issues of the day? Of course, you might scoff, they can name Post Offices after one another. But can House and Senate, Democrat and Republican and Independent come together any more and agree on any issue of importance? Yes, [...]
On June 24, Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas took to the floor of the House to explain why the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution needs to be canceled so that people born in the USA can be stripped of their citizenship: There are people coming into this country who want to destroy our way [...]
This morning, the website Blue Collar Republican has planted the Soviet symbol of the hammer and the sickle next to a claim that Rep. Steve Cohen is one of the “Congressmen who are members of the American Socialist Party”. The cited source for this claim is Gateway Pundit at the fundamentalist Christian website First Things, [...]
The Des Moines Tea Party is neither registered federally with the FEC or IRS as a political organization, nor at the state level with the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board. This makes the finances of the Des Moines Tea Party somewhat shadowy. Nevertheless, it has come out swinging in the Iowa 3rd District congressional [...]
One good sign of a party’s power is its effectiveness in carrying out bread-and-butter campaign tasks, tasks like getting the thousands of signatures to put party candidates on the ballot. Independent Political Report notes that the the Independent Green Party of Virginia has managed the feat of putting a candidate for the House of Representatives [...]
