A bipartisan group in Congress is supporting the Billfish Conservation Act.

Though in previous sessions of Congress, John Shadegg had a high right wing score, in the 111th Congress, he couldn’t seem to muster as much extremist fervor. He obtained only a 37 out of a possible 100 right wing score, suggesting that Shadegg had become emotionally exhausted with the right wing politics that had propelled his congressional career.

Blue Dogs are like ailing wildebeest out on the African savannah who, in order to help lions tracking the herd identify them as easy to pick off, have painted a big blue X on their flanks.

Not a single Republican voted against government rationing of health care last night. Why this profound ideological shift?

A staffer with the Bob Lord for Congress campaign sent me a communication today suggesting that I might want to write a little something about how that kooky John Shadegg fella pronounces the word nuclear “nookyular”… just like George W. Bush! I have to admit, it is kind of funny, at least in a juvenile [...]

Arizona Republican congressman John Shadegg recently declared that “Congress can be so boring.” Before that, he had a hard time deciding whether he actually wanted to run for re-election to the U.S. Congress. Well, now he’s having a hard time deciding whether he wants to even talk about the issues before his district. Democrat Bob [...]

The Larochelles were seeking to separate the flag from the Constitution, and to make it a symbol of religious belief – and officially recognized by Congress as such. Congressman Mike Turner was more than happy to help them do this – and to try to use the boy scout as a tool to push religion as a wedge issue – when he introduced H.R. 3779.

To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.

Only someone determined not to see what’s happening around them could deny that America is going through profound economic suffering. Gasoline prices are up, and that means that there’s inflation for practically everything else we buy too. At the same time, work is increasingly hard to come by. New jobs aren’t being created much any [...]

The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, as its name implies, would begin a transition from reliance on out-of-date fossil fuels for transportation toward more efficient transportation by train. It’s exactly what we need to deal with America’s current economic and environmental problems. For some bizarre reason, almost all of the Republicans in the House of Representatives oppose it.