There is a clear relationship between support for H.R. 2092 and financial contributions from the Indoor Tanning Association, but it isn’t a thorough and dominating relationship.

The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.

In the 112th Congress, Representative Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan has stepped back from his HAPPY ACT of yesteryear. The HAPPY ACT (more formally H.R. 3501) was introduced by McCotter in the 111th Congress to make any and all pet expenses up to $3,500 every year tax-deductible. Tax deductions exist as a way of rewarding behavior [...]

More than just Michele Bachmann’s presidential ambitions may have been put at risk with the vote to renew the Patriot Act. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives may also have been sacrificed.

Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.

An update on a previous report: Representative Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia has maintained his perfect record in Congress. Since he entered office more than five years ago, Rep. Westmoreland has represented his district through perfect inactivity, having failed to sponsor a single piece of legislation, a single amendment, or a single symbolic resolution in that [...]

Wherever one stands on the question of just how the ideas of Confucius should be categorized, it’s clear that some of the opposition to H. Res. 784 was not at all based in a loyalty to the separation of church and state

Why the call for a new study on red snapper populations, and why from the Department of Commerce, instead of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is actually qualified and prepared to carry out fish population studies? The answer has more to do with commerce than it has to do with science.

I have to tell you in all honesty that until tonight, I thought Representative Lynn Westmoreland was a woman. Why is that? It’s not because I haven’t been paying attention to congressional affairs. In one form or another, I’ve been writing about the U.S. Congress and congressional legislation for over a decade. It’s not simply [...]

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.