Children should spend their time playing games and studying in school. They shouldn’t be put to work in mines and in workshops around hot metals. The United States, for its part, should not provide for a special, low-cost importation of metals that have been provided by child workers.

Senator Charles Schumer went on a public relations offensive yesterday, stepping before the microphones to declare that “To me, nothing is more important than jobs.” Standing in front of American factory workers at a “New York based company that sees its sales and supply chains undercut by Chinese imports,” he gestured back toward them and [...]

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 [...]

When Glenn Thompson gets in the mood to complain about unemployment rates above ten percent, he might do better to pause, look at himself in the mirror, and ask how his own activities in Congress are contributing to the problem.

Senator Richard Burr is selling out working Americans for the sake of profits for pencil sharpener importers.

The economic benefit of Joe Lieberman’s legislation is that the suffering financial elites of America will be able to save a little cash when they’re buying their cashmere sweaters and camel hair coats.

Is it possible that Senator Inhofe is seeking to enable a stockpiling of artificial flowers here in the United States, just in case global climate change makes it impossible for us to grow our own?

Maria Cantwell’s shoe bills encourage American companies to have shoes manufactured in foreign sweatshops instead of here in the USA. These kind of special favors for companies seeking to avoid employing Americans are particularly despicable in the current economic climate.

Over the last couple of weeks, a huge number of exemptions from duties have been proposed, sometimes for things that the ordinary person can identify, such as ski poles and snow globes. Often, however, the requested exemptions are for extremely obscure chemicals and materials.

We in the United States surely have the technology and raw materials necessary to make rayon fibers to the specifications described in the bills written by Senator Collins. If there really is a special need for these fibers, manufacturers can buy them American-made.