Long wars like the one in Afghanistan require huge amounts of spending and the maintenance of huge government bureaucracies.

13 Democrats and 3 Republicans have cosponsored Kucinich’s privileged resolution, designed to force a debate about the ongoing authorization of the war in Afghanistan.

H.R. 1003 is too late to be effective in enhancing the effectiveness of National Influenza Vaccination Week, just as the H1N1 vaccine itself was late.

Republicans of a certain economic libertarian stripe fondly sing the praises of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. They say he is the only politician who really, truly understands freedom and the need for free markets and free enterprise. They like to say that if Ron Paul were elected president, America would once again freely let [...]

Take your laptop with you on an international business trip, and U.S. border agents can take it from you and search its contents, without ever telling you why they’re doing it. Eliot Engel is trying to change that policy.

Two Mississippi Democrats went the other way, voting against the leadership of their own political party, in favor of allowing the effort to unseat Charlie Rangel to continue.

Early this morning, full consideration was given to H.J. Res. 07734 on the floor of the United States Senate. H.J. Res. 07734, also known as the “Restoring Proper Balance of Powers Amendment,” is a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The text of the bill, as passed by the House [...]

Over the years as a member of Congress and presidential candidate, Ron Paul of Texas has repeatedly and vehemently asserted that the United States Congress can only pass laws pursuant to powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution, that the stated power of the Congress in Article I, Section 8 to provide for “the general welfare” [...]

Texas Representative (and repeated presidential candidate) Ron Paul asserts his principled approach to politics on a regular basis. When Congressman Paul declines to vote for a congressional medal of honor for Rosa Parks, he says it has nothing to do with disrespecting the civil rights movement. No, no, says Ron Paul, he opposes spending even [...]

If an oil company isn’t even using the leases of public lands they already have, why should they take on yet more leases… unless what those oil companies really want to do is just squat on their leases of public lands with oil under them only in order to prevent the oil from being drilled, thus decreasing supply and artificially driving up the cost of petroleum products so that they can make a bigger profit without doing any more work.