Ed Markey accuses Senate Republicans of blocking the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling from effectively doing its work.

Heath Shuler was was charging admission to that BBQ, and a very high price of admission at that: $1,000 for a plate of BBQ.

Lois Capps starts out by expressing respect for the free speech rights of the protesters, even though she doesn’t agree with what they have to say.

A resolution urging Americans to remember the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill was introduced this year, and then forgotten.

The FISA Amendments Act completely unravels the fourth amendment to the Constitution. It makes protection from unreasonable search and seizure a mere privilege for those that please the government, not an inalienable right.

It will do America little good to have a few more barrels of petroleum if our oceans are so fouled that we cannot find enough edible seafood along our coasts. John McCain either doesn’t understand that or he just doesn’t care.

You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]

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.

Congressman Tom Allen of Maine, who is running for U.S. Senate this year, has introduced legislation that would confront the Bush White House’s evasions, and specifically require federal government regulations to reduce the number of collisions between ahipping vessels and North Atlantic right whales. Economists have already run the numbers, and concluded that the expense to the trans-Atlantic shipping industry would be very slight.

Many of these representatives are progressive Democrats, but some of them are right wing Republicans. Hank Johnson included people from both sides of the political spectrum because he realized that the human tragedy of the fighting in northern Uganda merited a unified approach that transcended domestic politics.