From the moment she took the gavel as Speaker of the House in January of 2007 to the night her Democratic Party lost its majority and access to the Speakership, Nancy Pelosi was repeatedly branded as a congressional “ultra-liberal” by the Republican Party. A few examples: South Carolina Republican Party, in a demonstrably untrue declaration: [...]

H.R. 642 is a bill without a cause. It ought to be referred to as the Right Wing Urban Legend Pandering Act.

Date of Tea Party Town Hall media event in Washington, DC organized by Tea Party Express: February 8, 2011 Date of vote on H.R. 514, a bill to reauthorize provisions of the Patriot Act: February 8, 2011 Number of “tweets” published on Twitter by Tea Party Express on February 8, 2011: 22 Number these tweets [...]

The timely online publication of public government documents could revolutionize the concept of American citizenry – if the American people are ready to meet the opportunity with interest.

Last year, when Illinois congressman John Shimkus was invited by his constituents to a discussion on climate change, he didn’t show up. John Shimkus is, on the other hand, an attending guest of honor at a weekend-long bash thrown for him this Friday in Orlando, Florida. Shimkus represents neither the city of Orlando nor the [...]

The Supreme Court’s ruling confirms our dedication at That’s My Congress to serving as an alternative source of information, as small as we are, about the kind of congressional goings-on that rarely are broadcast in the corporate media stream.

Who are the most intriguing members of Congress? One way to answer that question might be to look for the members of Congress most commonly mentioned in the newspapers or on TV, but that only tells us who journalists find to be compelling, either because of what those members of Congress do or perhaps because [...]

You may recall that the 110th Congress was reviled by the right wing as a ‘Do-Nothing’ Congress for its supposed inactivity. As of November 7, 2007 the first session of the 110th Congress had met for 149 legislative days. But the 111th Congress is less active so far than the 110th, meeting as of November [...]

Although he sits on the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, Congressman Rothman still doesn’t have a comprehensive foreign policy statement online. Neither does Rothman have a specific statement on health care reform, although the Democrats have made that issue the top legislative item for this year.

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