According to Article I Section 8 of United States Constitution, the Congress and only the Congress is given the authority to declare war. No other person or body in government — not the Supreme Court, not the President — is the authority to do so anywhere in the Constitution. The first war in Iraq, the [...]

On December 14 2011, the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 1540, a bill that violates the 5th Amendment and 6th Amendment rights of people under the Constitution. These Amendments, part of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, prohibits the government from detaining people without charge forever, without a trial, without being informed of their [...]

The Constitution Caucus of the House of Representatives proclaims itself dedicated to keeping congressional action within the bounds of the United States Constitution: “The Constitution is the guide I will never abandon.” — George Washington Recognizing that the Constitution can only be preserved if it lives in the hearts and minds of the American people, [...]

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.

Why is the caucus refusing to confront Barack Obama’s anti-progressive agenda on these two issues? Is it because the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are Democrats, and Barack Obama is also a Democrat? The caucus appears to be using its Progressive Promise as a partisan tool to use when it benefits the Democratic Party, and to ignore when it becomes politically inconvenient.

Representative Barbara Lee and the Out of Poverty Caucus sent a letter to Barack Obama yesterday, warning him not to go ahead with his plan to cut Medicaid and Medicare.

It has been over a month since the Congressional Transparency Caucus officially registered its existence with the Committee on House Administration. Unfortunately, there’s no more information about the caucus to share. No Transparency Caucus website has been established on the server for the House of Representatives. No list of members or schedule of meetings of [...]

What’s on the Tea Party’s agenda for the 112th Congress? In the 2010 congressional campaign season, two organizations (Tea Party Express and the self-appointed “Tea Party HQ” Freedomworks) made official endorsements. In a third source for identification of Tea Party members of Congress, Representative Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota formed a Tea Party Caucus last year, [...]

Congressional Member Organizations in the House of Representatives, commonly called “caucuses,” are a way members of Congress can work together on legislation that doesn’t fit into traditional committees or their chairs’ agendas. When caucuses are registered by the Committee on House Administration, one or more Representatives is identified as a co-chair. There are currently 597 [...]

In the 1980s and early 1990s, groups formed within the U.S. House of Representatives to pursue interest in a subject were called Legislative Service Organizations. In the later 1990s, LSOs went out of official existence altogether but continued informally as caucuses. Today, congressional caucuses are officially called Congressional Member Organizations and are cataloged by the [...]