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.

H. Res. 211, if passed, would give congressional endorsement to the designation of the first weekend in May as a national celebration of an ancient Judaic equivalent of Islam’s sharia. That old religious law includes the command to refrain from creating most kinds of artwork.

Lead shot and lead sinkers that get into the ecosystem are consumed by animals that are then consumed by hunters, who then suffer the long list of maladies you see above. H.R. 1445 isn’t pro-hunter legislation. It’s putting hunters in danger. There are good, safer alternatives to lead.

Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.

An informally assembled anti-wolf caucus in Congress is working to allow gray wolves in the United States to be hunted to the point of extinction.

The Founding Fathers explicitly defied the first of the Ten Commandments, placing in the Constitution a ban on religious tests for any public office, and further establishing freedom of religion and the separation of

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 [...]

Who says Republicans are the party of small government? Paul Broun and 55 of his fellow Republicans are promoting the radical expansion of government power with great vigor. In the 110th Congress, Broun introduced a bill that would have imbued any fertilized egg with “all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood.” In [...]

Congressman Paul Broun introduced an amendment to the bill that would have cut the amount of time the Solar Technology Roadmap Committee would have to work, and reduce funding for the implementation of the legislation’s solar energy research as well.

Paul Broun may talk about representing Christian values in Congress, but when it comes to tort reform, he stands directly against the teachings of Jesus.