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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

The last thing we need now is to see American families with parents who have lost their jobs have to deal with the vicious attack on the social safety net that Marsha Blackburn would unleash.

These programs save the government money, because a baby that isn’t fed adequately, doesn’t get medical care, and doesn’t receive proper education is a drag on the national economy for the rest of its life. Marsha Blackburn and the 21 cosponsors of her legislation can’t see that.

Texas Representative (and repeated presidential candidate) Ron Paul asserts his principled approach to politics on a regular basis. When Congressman Paul declines to vote for a congressional medal of honor for Rosa Parks, he says it has nothing to do with disrespecting the civil rights movement. No, no, says Ron Paul, he opposes [...]

The Republicans in the House of Representatives are determined to actually punish schools that allow students to sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance in freedom.