Today, only a slim majority of House Democrats, 53%, voted for the amendment to end the war in Afghanistan. 42% joined the House Republicans to keep the Afghanistan war going on even longer.
Oil drilling in a wildlife refuge, crude oil across our greatest aquifer, and greater risk of a new offshore oil spill disaster. 21 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote for this anti-environmental legislation. Their names are listed here.
A roll call of the 28 Democrats who voted with House Republicans in favor of a scheme to encourage dangerous, dirty and rushed offshore oil drilling platforms, increasing the risk of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon calamity.
If you want to understand the difference between the Republican and the Democratic approach to economics, consider the two bills before the House of Representatives to deal with the minimum wage. On the one hand is H.R. 283, the Living American Wage Act of 2011. Sponsored by Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas, the LAW [...]
His name is Al Green, after all. Not Al Purple. Not Al Pink. Not Al Blue. It’s Al Green.
Wherever one stands on the question of just how the ideas of Confucius should be categorized, it’s clear that some of the opposition to H. Res. 784 was not at all based in a loyalty to the separation of church and state
In our legislative scorecard, they have an average overall score of 23.8, on a scale in which a score of 100 is ideally progressive. These congressional Democrats generally helped George W. Bush to implement his agenda, instead of offering resistance.
To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.
You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]
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