It isn’t just historically inaccurate to create a public display claiming that World War II was a religious crusade. It’s also unconstitutional. The First Amendment to the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” H.R. 2070 is in violation of this part of the Bill of Rights.

Raul Grijalva wrote, wrote, “I oppose SOPA and will not vote for it. This has gone well beyond protecting legitimate intellectual property rights – we’re now talking about censoring the Internet and letting companies restrict what you get to view.”

This isn’t the first time that the idea of the Gandhi-King exchange has been proposed in Congress. Similar legislation was introduced in 2009 – when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, but the bill was not accepted and promoted by Democratic Party leadership.

Why is the caucus refusing to confront Barack Obama’s anti-progressive agenda on these two issues? Is it because the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are Democrats, and Barack Obama is also a Democrat? The caucus appears to be using its Progressive Promise as a partisan tool to use when it benefits the Democratic Party, and to ignore when it becomes politically inconvenient.

Keith Ellison and 194,454 progressive Americans are warning Barack Obama that he won’t have their support if he sacrifices Social Security and Medicare in the current round of bargaining over the deficit.

Four members of the House of Representatives have signed a single letter of protest in which they commit to fight against Obama’s insertion of the United States in the civil war in Libya.

Sensible new legislation would not create any big government system of nationally uniform preschool education. Rather, it would simply establish support for state governments in their efforts to provide year-round school that’s universally available, but not mandatory, for three, four and five year-olds.

Are the Progressive Caucus and the Progressive Democrats of America for challenging right-leaning Democratic politicians, or for Democratic Party unity?

H. Con. Res. 301 would have required a complete American military pullout from Pakistan by the end of this December.

Roy Blunt’s bill retains an upper limit past which an oil company doesn’t have to pay for damages related to oil spills. Past that limit, the American people pick up the tab, protecting oil companies from further loss of profit.