The list of out-of-state special interests sending money to Nick Popaditch goes on and on. A central question for the campaign in 2012 is whether Popaditch will continue to depend so heavily on lobbyists and other donors with a profit motive to invest in his candidacy.

This isn’t the first time that the idea of the Gandhi-King exchange has been proposed in Congress. Similar legislation was introduced in 2009 – when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, but the bill was not accepted and promoted by Democratic Party leadership.

From John Conyers to Ron Paul, the co-sponsors of a resolution to require the end of the U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan War can be found in a list here.

Sensible new legislation would not create any big government system of nationally uniform preschool education. Rather, it would simply establish support for state governments in their efforts to provide year-round school that’s universally available, but not mandatory, for three, four and five year-olds.

H. Con. Res. 301 would have required a complete American military pullout from Pakistan by the end of this December.

Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers are suffering from mental agony as a result of having been at war. They’ve got post traumatic stress disorder that’s characterized by a terror that the battle is continuing.

13 Democrats and 3 Republicans have cosponsored Kucinich’s privileged resolution, designed to force a debate about the ongoing authorization of the war in Afghanistan.

In February of 2009, second-term congressman Bruce Braley of Iowa announced the formation of a new Congressional Member Organization in the House of Representatives: the Populist Caucus. A year later, the Populist Caucus has grown from 23 to 30 members and has built a record through mission statements, advisory letters and a “Blueprint for Recovery” [...]

Whenever a Democratic member of Congress is running for election, the most common line of attack by Republicans is to label that Representative or Senator as a “hardcore liberal,” or “one of the most liberal members of Congress.” In 2004, Senator John Kerry was unsurprisingly labeled as the “most liberal Senator” by the RNC, and [...]

Earlier this year, Robert Wexler sponsored H.R. 2742, a bill to normalize trade relations with Azerbaijan, a nation with a terrible human rights record – and a some oil reserves, as well as some territory that’s included in a projected oil pipleline. That’s troubling, given that Congressman Wexlers is resigning from public service to become Wexler is going to become the new director of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.