among those voting for this resolution against the debt ceiling increase are a huge number of Republican U.S. Representatives who, only a little over a month ago voted in favor of the debt ceiling increase. They flip flopped on the issue, stating that they were for the increase of the debt ceiling before they were against it.

The Republican Party frequently is supposed to be a pro-business party, but what’s most notable about recently introduced pro-business legislation is the total lack of Republican support for it. H.R. 1912 (introduced by David Cicilline in the House) and its counterpart S. 1457 (introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand in the Senate), would shuffle money not to [...]

When offered the chance to reduce spending with no threat to America’s national security, Republicans in the House of Representatives almost all voted no. 93.3 percent of House Republicans voted against the spending cut proposed by Jared Polis.

Yesterday, 8 out of 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against 8.5 billion dollars in federal budget cuts. Perhaps the Republicans aren’t really opposed to big government spending after all.

In the 112th Congress, Representative Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan has stepped back from his HAPPY ACT of yesteryear. The HAPPY ACT (more formally H.R. 3501) was introduced by McCotter in the 111th Congress to make any and all pet expenses up to $3,500 every year tax-deductible. Tax deductions exist as a way of rewarding behavior [...]

The Republican Party launched a massive attack in the House of Representatives intending to destroy Medicare this Friday. Only 4 Republicans voted to protect Medicare.

This week, Barack Obama will sign a 2011 budget that pleases the majority of congressional Republicans, and angers the majority of congressional Democrats. Expect the same to happen with the 2012 budget that will come up for a vote in half a year from now.

Congressional Member Organizations in the House of Representatives, commonly called “caucuses,” are a way members of Congress can work together on legislation that doesn’t fit into traditional committees or their chairs’ agendas. When caucuses are registered by the Committee on House Administration, one or more Representatives is identified as a co-chair. There are currently 597 [...]

Last year, the Department of the Interior published regulations to keep the carcinogenic and otherwise poisonous rubble created by mountaintop removal mining out of the streams that sustain wildlife and (if you want to be anthropocentric) feed into the drinking water supplies for millions of Americans. Last month, Rep. Bill Johnson of Ohio introduced H.Amdt [...]

Yesterday, John Duncan, a Republican from Tennessee, called upon his party’s leadership to open up military and homeland security waste to budget cuts.