In addition to encouraging sloth by some of the richest people in the nation, the End Tax Uncertainty Act will increase the budget deficit, creating additional debt that will need to paid, with interest, before too long in the future.
Paul Tonko wondered: Why are Republicans in Congress busy pushing to a tax cut policy that demands that billionaires and millionaires are included, when even most voters in their own political party don’t support that position?
Virginia Foxx has had 12 years as part of a Republican-controlled Congress to shrink the size of the federal government, but she’s been part of a movement to make the government bigger.
Bob Inglis had this to say to his Republican colleagues who resist taking action to confront climate change and encourage conspiracies suggesting that global warming does not exist: You’re enabling China to outmaneuver the United States.
At both the federal and state level, the Chamber of Commerce seems like a remarkably ideological and partisan organization, overwhelmingly promoting right wing Republicans.
Since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision this spring, front groups representing the interests of corporations and wealthy Americans have been able to spend unlimited amounts in “independent expenditures” to influence congressional elections. As the 2010 election draws closer, more and more of that money is being spent. The contributors to these front groups are [...]
The supposed “hiring freeze” is less about fiscal responsibility than it is about a transfer of power away from democratically-established public institutions, into the corporate realm.
Blanche Lincoln is trailing badly behind Congressman John Boozman, in large part because her right-leaning agenda has alienated her from the progressive portion of Arkansas Democratic voters. Her vote today against LGBT equality won’t help her with that problem.
If this year’s contest in Doc Hastings’s district is any indication, the Tea Party is more of an aspect of the Republican Party than an independent movement working to check the power of the GOP.
The new Tea Party Caucus contains no African-Americans, even though there are many African-Americans in the House of Representatives.
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