Congressman Steve King can only see a small portion of what the United States of America has been and is becoming. No matter what our individual ethnicities and cultural traditions are, we all need to have a truly representative government made up of people who are able and willing to work with the diversity of identities that make up the American people.

The following is our transcription of testimony made this morning, November 19 2009, by Dr. Jeffrey Short of Oceana to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The topic: the environmental impact of offshore oil drilling on marine ecosystems and policy protections that should be implemented. Good morning. I am the Pacific Science Director for [...]

Senator Lisa Murkowski, for example, has taken $36,250 from the drilling company Edison Chouest Offshore. Disneyland hasn’t given Murkowski any money. No wonder Murkowski thinks offshore drilling is better than Disneyland.

Tim Ryan won election to Ohio’s 17th District congressional seat by a whopping 56 point margin in 2008. Such an overwhelming election result signifies that Ryan has quite a bit of wiggle room when it comes to policy. A landslide winner like Ryan could follow his policy dictates with a fair amount of free will, [...]

Chaplain Barry C. Black has consistently pushed an agenda that seeks the transformation of the United States of America into a Christian theocracy. The official web site describing the work of the Senate Chaplain, proclaims “God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation…” and declares that the Senate not honor what Black refers to as “the separation of God and State”.

John Adler, if you want to gain re-election in 2010 using the same kind of progressive support you saw in 2008, you need to step forward and help the progressive members of Congress to move a responsible set of bills forward.

Senator Dianne Feinstein just got done saying that concerns about Americans’ constitutional rights must not be allowed to interfere with the powers of government spy agencies. Feinstein asserted that we should all understand how important it is that our constitutional rights be compromised, because she had been, yesterday, given a secret classified briefing yesterday that [...]

Two Mississippi Democrats went the other way, voting against the leadership of their own political party, in favor of allowing the effort to unseat Charlie Rangel to continue.

Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska is so strongly opposed to health care reform legislation that when a group of teachers and veterans in favor of health care reform brought him some apple pie, his office called the police to haul them away. The same Senator Mike Johanns who is so adamantly opposed to health care [...]

Some people say that the economic recession has ended, but experts warn that the economy is almost certainly not improving. Profits for big corporations are up, but ordinary Americans are still suffering from extremely high levels of unemployment. U.S. Representative Jim McDermott offered legislation this week to help. He introduced H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation [...]