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.

Earlier this week we learned of an bill introduced by Senator John Barrasso that finally brought a caucus of oil industry-supported legislators in the Senate to the point of acknowledging that a certain class of chemicals released by industry act as greenhouse gases and have a warming effect upon the climate. This remarkable bill, S. [...]

While millions of Americans scratched their heads and pulled at their hair while trying to figure out how they’d pay their tax bill and the grocery bill and the electric bill, covering costs that have inflated while wages have stagnated, Rep. Marsha Blackburn had free breakfast at an oyster bar with lobbyists and PAC directors [...]

Yesterday we released our new report, “Call and Response,” which covers the extent of reciprocation in the House of Representatives in 2009. To measure reciprocation, we tabulated patterns of sponsorship and cosponsorship for the 4,412 substantive “H.R.” bills introduced to the House that year. A bill’s sponsor is the legislator whose office authors a bill [...]

If you’ve been following Rep. Michele Bachmann in the news, you’re not alone; the Minnesota Republican has a way of grabbing media attention by doing things like calling for the revival of the McCarthy Hearings or telling her followers to slit their wrists. But Bachmann is hardly the only active member of Congress out there: [...]

The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.

It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

Representative Marsha Blackburn regards equal access to Internet broadband as a barrier to freedom – the freedom of corporations to squeeze out independent voices.

Why, when Tennessee has an 18 percent non-Christian population, would Rabidoux create a religious-based campaign for Congress that appeals specifically to Christians only?

What are they trying to hide? Are they all perhaps part of a secret Argentinian spy network, having been born in Tierra del Fuego and sent here secretly to conduct terrorist operations?