Trying to figure out Al Franken’s Senate identity is a bit like trying to visualize a Jackson Pollack painting by connecting four dots. To date, Senator Franken has made just three bill cosponsorships and written one piece of legislation, Amendment 1570 to this year’s military appropriations bill: “The Secretary of Defense shall modify the Certificate [...]

If he were more reflective, Representative Broun might see that efforts to mix church and state in defiance of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights doesn’t help Christianity at all, but turns people off, leading them to look for alternatives to following the Bible.

During the 110th Congress, Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Enzi and David Vitter teamed up to propose S. 2409, a bill to do… what? Solve the problem of the national debt? Help find a way to cure some new disease? Uh, no. They penned a bill to mandate that the Capitol Hill Visitors’ Center always prominently [...]

April 16, 2009. Senator Russell Feingold issues the following statement regarding the FISA Amendments Act and the Patriot Act: Since 2001, I have spent a lot of time in the Intelligence Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and on the floor of the Senate bringing attention to both the possible and actual effects of legislation that has [...]

If volume were an indicator of success, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2) would be a knockout. Jackson has introduced no fewer than nine amendments to the Constitution of the United States this year. Let’s take a peek at these, the Jackson Nine: Jackson Amendment 1: H.J. Res. 28, providing a universal right to vote for [...]

Dan Lungren, Republican Representative for California’s 3rd congressional district, has taken a step backward in history with the introduction of House Joint Resolution 37. Although the United States did not begin as a nation that embraced equality for all its citizens, in the 222 years since the drafting of the Constitution we have come to [...]

Robert Aderholt doesn’t want to actually ban abortion. He just wants to talk about it. He knows that the abortion issue is his political bread and butter.

What is Alabama’s Congressman Robert Aderholt working on? Making it harder to get married. With all the real difficulties people in his home district are going through, Representative Aderholt has just signed on to a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it more difficult for people to get married.

When Congressman Broun’s amendment to forbids some Americans from getting married, it undermines the 14th amendment to the Constitution. Congressman Broun’s constitutional amendment says that equality in America is only for some people. Within Congressman Broun’s new vision for America, equality will be traded in for inequality. Paul Broun’s constitutional amendment is anti-equality, and it’s anti-marriage.