Among the proposals of the Spending Reduction Act is the elimination of over 300,000 federal jobs – 15 percent of the civilian employment currently in the budget.

The Clement for Senate campaign is focusing on an education campaign encouraging Democrats and Republicans alike to stop before reflexively voting straight down the party line on the South Carolina ballot, and consider voting according to the merits of the candidate… and specifically to vote for Tom Clements.

Even as it conducts campaign operations for Jim DeMint’s PAC, Newsmax is mailing out a copy of its news magazine with a photograph of Senator DeMint on the cover, proclaiming him to be a “powerhouse”.

39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.

Tim Rupli is a registered lobbyist for a variety of non-profit and for-profit corporations including the anti-immigration Numbers USA, the payday-lenders’ association called the Community Financial Services Association of America, the Independent Community Bankers of America, MetaBank, the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, weapons training corporation Lasershot Inc., and pharmaceutical corporation Sepracor. In compensation for [...]

So far, the Northrop Grumman PAC has spent just $4,000 shy of $1 million dollars on the 2010 congressional elections, with roughly two thirds of that going directly to political candidates. Jim DeMint and Dan Lungren seem especially eager to welcome this war profiteer’s wealth into Washington D.C., attending special events designed to funnel money to them.

Term limits could exacerbate problems of corruption, by accelerating the revolving door between corporate lobbying and Congress.

The Democratic Party is now presiding over the short changing of health care reform and climate legislation while expanding the military budget just as the Republicans did under George W. Bush. Will progressives pretend not to notice, or will the finally withdraw their support for the Democratic Party leaders who have strung them along?

S. 1227, the “Truth in Employment Act of 2009,” has just one active clause within its volumes of rhetoric: Section 8(a) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)) is amended by adding after and below paragraph (5) the following: `Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any [...]

During the 110th Congress, Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Enzi and David Vitter teamed up to propose S. 2409, a bill to do… what? Solve the problem of the national debt? Help find a way to cure some new disease? Uh, no. They penned a bill to mandate that the Capitol Hill Visitors’ Center always prominently [...]