Tax deductions in the United States exist for two significant purposes: to reward socially positive behavior (such as weatherizing a house) and to account the burdens associated with socially positive behavior (such as student loan interest). I struggle to place pet care expenses in either category. There’s no doubt that pet owners find personal satisfaction [...]

Last month, Republican Representative Lamar Smith of Texas teamed up with fellow Republicans Jack Kingston and Michele Bachmann to introduce the new Media Fairness Caucus of the 111th Congress. The goal of the Media Fairness Caucus, Rep. Smith explained: “is not to censor or condemn, but to encourage the media to adhere to the highest [...]

Not a single Democrat in Congress got an award from the National Taxpayers Union this year. Dozens of Republicans did. How does that qualify the National Taxpayers Union as nonpartisan?

Representative Arcuri has joined his Republican neighbor in opposing or neglecting much of the strong progressive legislation that’s been offered so far in this session of Congress. If voters in the 24th congressional district want to see a departure from the Bush-era record of regressive politics, Congressman Arcuri won’t be the leader to get them there.

What Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine said about S. 800, a bill she recently introduced “to require the President to update and modify the website recovery.gov“: Mr. President, I rise to introduce legislation to enhance the availability of information to the public concerning the programs funded pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of [...]

Republicans say that they support family values. Democrats say that they support workers’ rights. Both of these are provided for with H.R. 626.

Read the Green Schools Act, introduced by Mark Kirk and co-sponsored by Chris Carney. It’s a good bill in its vision, if perhaps too small in its scope.

If any Republican in Congress might be a source of solutions for America, it’s veteran legislator C.W. Bill Young. Yet, Bill Young has not written a single piece of legislation for this session of Congress.

His statement during the debate over the FISA Amendments Act reveals that Senator Mitch McConnell either doesn’t know what the Constitution actually says, or he doesn’t care. Whichever is the case, Senator McConnell has proved himself to be incompetent to serve as a member of the United States Senate.

Just before he voted on June 20, 2008 for H.R. 6304, legislation that guts the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Republican Representative Randy Forbes of Virginia took to the floor of the House to identify the real problem with America. What, pray tell, is the real problem with America? Could it [...]