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Stupak Spy Flip Presaged Health Care Game

Posted on March 10 2010 by Congress Watcher

Bart Stupak has a history of playing political games with important policy issues, and is now facing a challenger within his own party as a result.

Dennis Moore A Sometime Progressive

Posted on November 23 2009 by Congress Watcher

In the current session of Congress, Dennis Moore has earned only a 46 percent progressive rating. That relatively low rating is due mostly to a failure to support important progressive pieces of legislation.

Watch for Satellite Spying Cosponsorships

Posted on June 8 2009 by Congress Watcher

Will there be more cosponsors for these bills this week, or will Congress let the NAO come into full operations without protest?

Obama Refuses To Address Supporters Concerns

Posted on July 3 2008 by Congress Watcher

Byron recognizes that Barack Obama’s move away from protecting the Constitution isn’t even the most pragmatic approach to earning the votes of wayward Republicans. Republican voters, after all, distrust Big Government. Why would they be convinced to vote for Obama with Obama’s support for a Big Government spying program?

105 Democrats Who Betrayed the Constitution on Spying

Posted on June 20 2008 by Congress Watcher

To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.

The Myth of the Magical 60 Democratic Majority In The Senate

Posted on February 8 2008 by Congress Watcher

That’s a total of eleven Democrats who voted against the simple progressive idea that the Bill of Rights means something, and the government shouldn’t have the ability to conduct searches and seizures against us without a search warrant. So, let’s do the math. In order to overcome the damage done by these Republican-leaning or Republican-enabling Democratic senators, we’d need to have yet another eleven genuine progressive Democratic senators.

What Explains Dianne Feinstein on S. 1927?

Posted on August 7 2007 by Congressional Aid

What is going on inside the head of California Senator Dianne Feinstein? I mean that question seriously. I simply cannot understand why Senator Feinstein would stand in Senate chambers and declare in one moment, I spent all afternoon on the McConnell bill and am just beginning to understand the subtleties in it and the others [...]

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