In the 111th Congress, Senator Russ Feingold introduced S. 482, a bill to require senators to file campaign finance reports electronically, and to be received promptly by the Federal Election Commission. That sounds technical and small, but it’s actually a pretty big deal because of the way things run now. A large number of Senators [...]

Bill Kaplan considers the possibilities for a Russ Feingold Senate run in 2012 now that Wisconsin’s Herb Kohl has announced his retirement: Two potential front runners, former Wisconsin Democratic Senator Russell Feingold and current Wisconsin GOP Representative Paul Ryan, have completely opposite voting records: Feingold Issue Ryan NO Bush tax cuts YES NO Iraq War [...]

Of all the hundreds of members of Congress, only Russ Feingold and Frank Wolf gave any warning of the Egyptian uprising before it took place

Russ Feingold for President in 2012 campaign buttons are already up for sale on the Internet. A genuine grassroots movement to Draft Feingold appears to be forming.

Eighteen Democrats and one independent from the United States have signed a letter urging the President and the Attorney General to return to a commitment to equality in the United States. The letter asks Attorney General Eric Holder to allow the decision that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is unconstitutional to stand.

Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin have not made a single statement about why they allowed the Patriot Act to be extended last week without making a single peep of protest.

Overnight, news emerged that for years, the FBI grabbed Americans’ private telephone records without any search warrants, and justifying the seizures of these records by claiming that there were emergency terrorist threats that in fact never existed. Thousands of times, the FBI completely invented stories of terrorist plots to attack the United States so that [...]

The next time the Democratic Party is searching for a presidential candidate, it would do well to remember Russ Feingold, the one U.S. Senator who was willing this year to do more than just talk about fiscal responsibility.

Senator Patrick Leahy insisted, even though the meeting had been previously designated as an appropriate time to deal with FISA Amendments Act reforms, that the matter would not be dealt with. So, the amendment had to be withdrawn.

Senator Russ Feingold is right. A society in which a Senate Prosecutor Committee replaces the Senate Judiciary Committee is one where citizens cannot trust their own government, where law enforcement becomes a feared tool of the powerful against the powerless, rather than an instrument of true justice.