With the advent of unlimited independent expenditures in the Spring of 2010, corporate political groups have been unleashed to influence congressional elections as they and their undisclosed individual contributors see fit. But although individual contributors to these corporate groups remain shrouded, the activity of the corporate groups themselves is tracked on a daily basis by [...]

Was capitalism truly such a fragile thing that it needed a new government regulation to ensure its survival?

March 12, 2009: Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona congressional district 6 votes to cut the pay of American construction workers working on government contracts so that they are paid less than the local prevailing wage. July 31, 2009: Jeff Flake votes to deny the right of American shareholders who own a corporation to vote against [...]

Accidents happen? Is that what Rand Paul would say face-to-face to the families of the eleven oil rig workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion?

The Supreme Court may have given corporations the green light to spend unlimited amounts on congressional campaigns, but that doesn’t mean candidates must accept the money. Alexi Giannoulias, the winner of yesterday’s Illinois Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate, declares on the front page of his website that: Alexi’s campaign doesn’t take money from the [...]

The Supreme Court’s ruling confirms our dedication at That’s My Congress to serving as an alternative source of information, as small as we are, about the kind of congressional goings-on that rarely are broadcast in the corporate media stream.

Representative Latham’s defense of corporate agriculture is being challenged by Democrat Bill Maske. Maske isn’t afraid to defend family farms against the lobbyists of big agribusiness.

Senator Tom Carper of Delaware has introduced 37 non-symbolic bills to the United States Senate for consideration. A quick summary of them: 1 bill to declare that chain restaurants and cafeterias must be able to produce nutrition information for meals if someone asks for them. 1 bill to require that the Department of Education accredit [...]

The Too Big To Fail, Too Big to Exist Act has no cosponsors in either house. As much as many members of the House and Senate complain about being victims of corporations that are “too big to fail”, they aren’t willing to take the action to rescue the American economy from being dominated by these huge yet weak institutions.

What can you say that’s nice about Betsy Markey, U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 4th congressional district? Well, at least she isn’t Marilyn Musgrave. The previous representative for Colorado’s 4th District, Musgrave voted to legalize government snooping on citizens without a warrant, tried to restrict the range of free political expression, embarrassed herself with voracious anti-foreigner [...]