In the 111th Congress, Senator Russ Feingold introduced S. 482, a bill to require senators to file campaign finance reports electronically, and to be received promptly by the Federal Election Commission. That sounds technical and small, but it’s actually a pretty big deal because of the way things run now. A large number of Senators [...]
There was a cloture vote on S. 1038, the legislation crafted by Senator Harry Reid and Senator John McConnell to extend the unconstitutional spying of the Patriot Act for four more years. Only 8 senators had the courage to vote in opposition to the big government spying program.
Last week, ten Senators introduced legislation that would begin to undo the damage to constitutional liberty inflicted by the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. S. 1686, given the acronym of the JUSTICE Act, is a long bill; the following is a summary of its most central provisions: Revisions [...]
Jon Tester voted yesterday to support George W. Bush and keep the Iraq War going. Senator Tester turns out to be just another Democratic politician with no backbone.
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