Since switching his affiliation to the Republican party in December 2009, U.S. Representative Parker Griffith has introduced just one piece of legislation. H.R. 5005, sponsored by Rep. Griffith, is an exact word-for-word copy of H.R. 4972, sponsored earlier by Rep. Steve King. On second thought, that’s not exactly true. The action clause of H.R. 4972 [...]
Let’s put the news that Alabama Representative Parker Griffith has switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in its proper context: that of his policy behavior in the House of Representatives. In his consequential voting and cosponsorship behavior, it’s clear that Parker Griffith switched over to the Republican Party long ago. To his [...]
Seadrill, one of the companies involved in the Australian spill, has set up offices in Houston and is targeting the Gulf of Mexico for additional operations. Congressman Parker Griffith seems to think that’s just fine – but then, he’s got nothing to lose.
230 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill stuffed with pork barrel, expanding the military, and providing for the continuation of wars that will soon have lasted an entire decade.
Missile defense testing is pork barrel spending. It funnels money to defense contractors who in turn spend a lot of money buying influence with members of Congress. It’s a source of corruption in our nation’s politics, and it doesn’t make us one bit more secure.
For this bunch of new blue dogs, indifference to the needs of working Americans is only the start of the problem.
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