In the face of the Senate’s repeated on-the-record votes against data privacy, it’s an outrageous hypocrisy for senators to vote for a resolution that suggests the observance of National Data Privacy Day – a day after the actual event is over.
It’s been seven years since Rep. Jo Bonner first came to Congress, and it’s been a year since he took his seat as a member of the 111th Congress. Representative Bonner has had a lot of time to warm up. To date in the 111th Congress, Jo Bonner has not introduced one bill, not one [...]
It’s easy for Dianne Feinstein and the rest of the U.S. Senate to say that slavery is wrong. However, no effectual anti-slavery legislation has come from the Senate this year.
Dennis Kucinich is preparing to reassert congressional authority through a series of resolutions that would force Obama to begin a military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
If I were Nancy Pelosi, I’d push for a rule that there could be no resolutions honoring football teams, or renaming post offices, or designating any week as the official week of this or that – not until the most important business of the Congress was completed.
H. Res. 39 is a slap in the face to public schools and non-Catholic private schools. In these difficult times, doesn’t Congressman Lipinski have more important work to do than to pass pandering resolutions like this?
What kind of cockamamie war is this, where one government is granted the right to act in self-defense, but the other is not?
Why should the United States Senate have passed a resolution celebrating the tossing of a dead octopus onto a hockey rink?
Any time now, Democratic voters will receive word about the selection Barack Obama has made about who will be his vice presidential running mate. It’s a rather undemocratic process, the way that the successor to the President is chosen, and it encourages us to be passive, merely receiving the news instead of being involved in [...]
If June is going to be National Safety Month, well then, what does that make the other eleven months of the year? Unsafe, obviously.
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