If passed and ratified, a proposed constitutional amendment would end the legal status of corporations as persons, and stop the current practice of unlimited independent congressional campaign funding with money that comes from undisclosed sources. Many Democrats in Congress have done a lot of talking about taking a stand against the idea of corporate personhood. Now that they have the opportunity to take concrete action on the issue, what are they actually doing?

Congressman James McGovern has introduced H.R. 3368, a bill that would revoke authorization for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, effectively closing it down. 21 members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, have signed their names as cosponsors of this legislation so far.

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.

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.

A survey of recent comments by members of the House of Representatives against extra funding for the war in Afghanistan.

James McGovern spoke this week in favor of a shift of spending away from Afghanistan and back toward domestic needs.

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 [...]

Original congressional authorization was for targeting of people responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – not a prolonged military occupation and nation-building mission.

Many Democrats currently in Congress capitulated to George W. Bush back in 2006 and voted in favor of the Military Commissions Act. It seems that many of these Democrats are too ashamed of their own moral weakness to work to undo their past mistakes.

The problem is in the way that this resolution provides the official recognition and sanction of Congress for Billy Graham’s religious practice and promotion of Christianity. Congress has no place passing legislation respecting that kind of activity. Americans ought to judge for themselves whether one religion is worthwhile, not have Congress lecture them on the subject.