With the Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, it’s even less likely that the Stop Outsourcing Security Act will be passed and signed into law. However, the need is even greater than it was last year. Last year, there were 22,000 mercenaries hired by the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan. This year, there are more than 28,000.

Democrats Jan Schakowsky and George Miller spoke against Barack Obama’s Columbia Free Trade Agreement.

11 billion dollars per year could be reduced from the federal budget deficit, and all we would have to do is end tax breaks on inheritances from the estates of billionaires and multimillionaires. Yet, the Republicans oppose this deficit reduction package.

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.

Rep. Janice Schakowsky of Illinois stood in the floor of the House of Representatives this evening to speak against the health care bill amendment offered by fellow Democrat Bart Stupak of Illinois. Under this amendment, as Schakowsky explains, even women who are NOT national health care plan participants — women who are paying for their [...]

230 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill stuffed with pork barrel, expanding the military, and providing for the continuation of wars that will soon have lasted an entire decade.

Senator Boxer has a perfect score of 100. Next to her, the most liberal group in the Senate is a group of 7 senators who have each earned a score of just 67. Clearly, the Senate is not a very liberal place.

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.

It’s especially important to conserve wild cats and dogs, because they’re predators. As such, they help to preserve balance within ecological systems. When predators go extinct, their prey species go through wild boom and bust cycles that endanger large number of animal and plant circles. So, the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2008 is arguably the most important conservation legislation to be presented to Congress this year.