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.
Rall Hall excluded the opening remarks made by ranking minority member Eddie Bernice Johnson from appearance on the web page for the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s hearing on fracking today.
Nita Lowey has gone back 8 separate times over the last three years for more lobbyist-arranged money, courtesy of the Twenty-First Century Group.
The following marks the measurable activity of the LGBT Equality Caucus in the House of Representatives from October 19 (the date of our last update on the caucus) to December 23, 2009: On October 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a Defense authorization bill containing legislation defining violence against people on the basis of [...]
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.
The FISA Amendments Act completely unravels the fourth amendment to the Constitution. It makes protection from unreasonable search and seizure a mere privilege for those that please the government, not an inalienable right.
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 [...]
Many of these representatives are progressive Democrats, but some of them are right wing Republicans. Hank Johnson included people from both sides of the political spectrum because he realized that the human tragedy of the fighting in northern Uganda merited a unified approach that transcended domestic politics.
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