Whether or not you believe that American participation in the war in Libya is a good idea, now is a good time to call your U.S. senators and U.S. Representative through the congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121, and tell them what you’d like them to do. Votes on the war authorization legislation could happen in both houses of Congress as soon as tomorrow.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case this spring, limits on how much corporations can spend on independent expenditures in congressional campaigns have been wholly erased. The same corporations that can spend as much as they want on congressional campaigns are also allowed to keep their contributor lists secret. All that the [...]

The campaign website of Illinois Republican candidate for Senate Mark Kirk refers to him as “detail-orientated.” Kirk’s supposed attention to detail is a central appeal of his campaign. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mark Kirk co-founded the Congressional Kidney Caucus back in 2002. He forgot to register the Kidney Caucus for [...]

Just 53 political corporations spent a whopping $41,622,820.18 in just one week in their effort to directly influence the outcome of the 2010 congressional races. The $41.6 million in independent expenditures by these corporations during the week of October 3-9, 2010 approximately doubles the $21.2 million spent on independent expenditures in the congressional campaigns the [...]

The Supreme Court may have given corporations the green light to spend unlimited amounts on congressional campaigns, but that doesn’t mean candidates must accept the money. Alexi Giannoulias, the winner of yesterday’s Illinois Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate, declares on the front page of his website that: Alexi’s campaign doesn’t take money from the [...]

Results of the 2010 congressional primaries in Illinois, and the special primary election in Florida’s 19th district as well.

A summary of the Illinois primary elections for Congress held today.

The fact that one of the supposedly spill-proof offshore drilling platforms has created one of the largest oil spills in history ought to give politicians like Congressman Adrian Smith second thoughts.

Read the Green Schools Act, introduced by Mark Kirk and co-sponsored by Chris Carney. It’s a good bill in its vision, if perhaps too small in its scope.

If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.