What’s on the Tea Party’s agenda for the 112th Congress? In the 2010 congressional campaign season, two organizations (Tea Party Express and the self-appointed “Tea Party HQ” Freedomworks) made official endorsements. In a third source for identification of Tea Party members of Congress, Representative Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota formed a Tea Party Caucus last year, [...]
Congressional Member Organizations in the House of Representatives, commonly called “caucuses,” are a way members of Congress can work together on legislation that doesn’t fit into traditional committees or their chairs’ agendas. When caucuses are registered by the Committee on House Administration, one or more Representatives is identified as a co-chair. There are currently 597 [...]
In the wake of the passage of health care reform by both houses of Congress in March 2010, Republican legislators rushed for the title of The One who introduced repeal legislation. In the last days of March, representatives Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (H.R. 4903), Steve King of Iowa (H.R. 4972), Jerry Moran of Kansas (H.R. [...]
In February of 2009, second-term congressman Bruce Braley of Iowa announced the formation of a new Congressional Member Organization in the House of Representatives: the Populist Caucus. A year later, the Populist Caucus has grown from 23 to 30 members and has built a record through mission statements, advisory letters and a “Blueprint for Recovery” [...]
Today That’s My Congress publishes “Call and Response,” a new report regarding the give and take of legislating in the U.S. Congress in 2009. For the report’s analysis, we tabulated patterns of sponsorship and cosponsorship for the 4,412 substantive “H.R.” bills introduced to the House that year. For each of the 435 Representatives in the [...]
The Hill reported this week that Rep. Ellen Tauscher’s departure as its head, the New Democrat Coalition was “scrambling for leadership.” the NDC was known for its behind the scenes wrangling, at least in the 110th Congress, but had disappeared from public view long before, not having issued a press release or public statement since [...]
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