The following are the Top 10 Absentee members of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives during the course of 2009. These are the members of Congress who were most often missing from roll call votes: 1. RepublicanJ. Gresham Barrett of South Carolina – absent for 346 of the 991 roll-call votes in the House [...]

A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has proposed a new policy to help Iranians to use new information technologies to build grassroots communications networks, allowing “large numbers of users to bypass censorship and surveillance technologies, for the purposes of promoting Iranians’ unfettered access to the Internet, which is a civil liberty that should be enjoyed by all people.”

Some people say that the economic recession has ended, but experts warn that the economy is almost certainly not improving. Profits for big corporations are up, but ordinary Americans are still suffering from extremely high levels of unemployment. U.S. Representative Jim McDermott offered legislation this week to help. He introduced H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation [...]

The legislation creates a 5 cent tax every time a plastic shopping bag is used. The funds from the tax would go into a trust fund to support conservation efforts.

The Feds are investigating Paul Magliocchetti and a web of his associates for evidence of corruption in military contracting. The man was profligate, handing out $368,013 of his own money in hard contributions, possibly tossing in soft contributions and allegedly getting his friends, family and employees to kick in large multiples of the same. These [...]

The redistribution of wealth has already taken place, through irresponsible tax cuts for the extremely wealthy instituted under George W. Bush.

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.

This legislation does exactly what Republicans say they want to do. It makes public schools more efficient. In fact, the bill makes such plain sense that 27 Republican members of the House of Representatives crossed the aisle yesterday to vote in favor of it. Thanks to them, the bill passed, and will become law if passed by the Senate.

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 [...]

Do these politicians expect us to believe their excuses, that their failure to protect endangered great cats and canids is due to conservative principles? That explanation is absurd on the face of it. True conservatives support conservation.