Today, only a slim majority of House Democrats, 53%, voted for the amendment to end the war in Afghanistan. 42% joined the House Republicans to keep the Afghanistan war going on even longer.

Joe Wilson is outraged that domestic government programs are “unsustainable”, but how sustainable is the military? The military creates huge amounts of material that is simply blown up, run through, and cast away.

The proposal No Labels makes would also reduce the amount of time representatives can listen to voters about budget priorities. That’s fine with the corporate sponsors of No Labels, of course. Their corporations have paid lobbyists who attend special Washington D.C. insider parties in order to get what they want.

The U.S. House of Representatives schedules one hearing on how to help corporations profit from big government spending on the military, and then two hours later, schedules another hearing on how awful it is that the President has to increase the debt ceiling because of out of control spending.

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 Democrats on the Super Committee are slightly more liberal than the Republicans are conservative, but the difference is only 3 percentage points – not a very significant amount. The Republican and Democratic teams alike included only one of their strongest ideologues, tending toward politicians in the middle range of their parties’ principles.

A complete roll call of the vote on the budget cuts that were rushed through the House of Representatives, unbalanced by tax cuts, in order to allow for the approval of the debt ceiling increase. The roll call is separated by political party, according to those who voted in favor and against, as well as the three representatives who did not vote at all.

Not one Republican voted in favor of Kathy Hochul’s spending cuts to bring accountability to the Bureau of Land Management. As much as the House Republicans talk about bringing spending under control, they chose to block action on Hochul’s spending reduction amendment.

“I am committed to working with my colleagues to restrain spending,” says U.S. Representative Michael Conaway, from the 11th congressional district of Texas. What kind of spending does Conaway want to restrain? Michael Conaway wants to restrain spending on Medicare, the program that provides medicine to America’s senior citizens. In fact, Conaway voted to eliminate [...]

The following are the names of the 99 House Republicans who voted against reducing 8.5 billions of dollars from the federal budget, but then voted to kill 10 million dollars worth of important science, pretending that 10 million dollars would make a significant dent in the deficit.