It’s not about harm. It’s about hype. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, every year heart disease kills two hundred times more Americans than terrorist attacks killed in the peak year of 2001. In other years, heart disease deaths are hundreds of thousands of times more numerous than terrorism deaths. Yet year [...]

Only one senator on the Select Committee on Intelligence had the courage to vote against this unconstitutional legislation – and we can have no idea who that senator was. Though the committee thinks that it’s a good idea for the federal government to snoop inside our personal emails and listen in on our private telephone calls without a search warrant, the committee also thinks that it’s none of the public’s business to know which of the senators on the committee has voted to approve this alarming intrusion.

Whether or not you believe that American participation in the war in Libya is a good idea, now is a good time to call your U.S. senators and U.S. Representative through the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, and tell them what you’d like them to do. Votes on the war authorization legislation could happen in both houses of Congress as soon as tomorrow.

It’s easy for Dianne Feinstein and the rest of the U.S. Senate to say that slavery is wrong. However, no effectual anti-slavery legislation has come from the Senate this year.

Senator Dianne Feinstein just got done saying that concerns about Americans’ constitutional rights must not be allowed to interfere with the powers of government spy agencies. Feinstein asserted that we should all understand how important it is that our constitutional rights be compromised, because she had been, yesterday, given a secret classified briefing yesterday that [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee was faced with a crucial ethical test yesterday, and most of the committee failed. The test came during a special executive meeting to consider whether to reauthorize the infamous Patriot Act, a law that was passed in a rush, without any senator even reading the bill, granting the Executive Branch extreme [...]

At That’s My Congress, we would like to clarify a matter which may appear unimportant out of context. In context, however, the clarification demonstrates a small but consistent effort by two senators to reform surveillance laws in the direction of greater constitutional protection. In an otherwise excellent legislative analysis by Kevin Bankston of the Electronic [...]

Environmentalists should focus on serious threats, not on unsubstantiated worries and ideological obsession with the restoration of ecosystems to an abstract status of pristine, human-free perfection.

The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.

What is going on inside the head of California Senator Dianne Feinstein? I mean that question seriously. I simply cannot understand why Senator Feinstein would stand in Senate chambers and declare in one moment, I spent all afternoon on the McConnell bill and am just beginning to understand the subtleties in it and the others [...]