Roy Blunt was in South Carolina meeting with members of the 1 percent, the upper crust financial elites who treat members of Congress as portions of their great estates. The 99 percent of Missouri were in Saint Louis today, marching from Kiener Plaza from to the Justice Center.

Todd Akin refuses to cite the factual grounds for his suspicion that global warming isn’t really taking place. Scientists have raw data and tested climate models. Congressman Akin, it seems, has nothing but a hunch.

An online petition created on Act.ly urged Senator McCaskill to support S. 3065, the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, but what happened to the petition?

What Ike Skelton ought to be worried about is what mommy and daddy are going to tell the 17 year-old child who comes to them and asks why the U.S. Congress is allowing the government to discriminate against people on the basis of private sexuality.

There were just two young people who wanted to kiss. Yet, Senator Lautenberg wouldn’t let up. He declared that he was “outraged”, and demanded that video of the incident be released.

Drilling is taking place already under the status quo, which Representative Emanuel Cleaver supports. Yet, Jacob Turk accuses Cleaver of being “against drilling for U.S. oil in U.S. soil.”

Will the voters in Missouri’s 3rd congressional district fall on their knees, and hear the angel voices? Will they listen to Ed Martin’s new prophecy of the second coming of Jesus?

In the case of gun rights, what’s important is not to just find a theoretical middle ground, but to examine the Constitution and what it actually says. Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf doesn’t seem to be willing to take the time to educate himself about the role of the Constitution in establishing government policy.

Most of the Senate debate on the afternoon of December 8 leading up to the rejection of the Nelson-Hatch Amendment was pretty predictable. The amendment itself, after all, was a near cookie-cutter copy of the Stupak Amendment that was passed earlier this month in the House of Representatives. Both amendments prohibit private health insurance plans [...]

Todd Akin was first elected to Congress more than eight years ago, giving him more than enough time to get his bearings, figure out how a bill becomes a law, and gear up for some actual work. Here’s the sum total of the legislation Todd Akin has introduced in the 111th Congress: H.R. 1216: a [...]