Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan is spending a fair amount of time alone these days. When he declared the beginning of his run for President of the United States in July of 2011, some wondered whether the announcement was a fake. Debate moderators forgot to invite him onstage. When he declared the end of his [...]

Thaddeus McCotter isn’t really running for President. McCotter’s goal is to endear himself to some force within the Republican Party by draining enough votes away from Mitt Romney to prevent his capture of the Republican nomination.

There is a clear relationship between support for H.R. 2092 and financial contributions from the Indoor Tanning Association, but it isn’t a thorough and dominating relationship.

The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.

In the 112th Congress, Representative Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan has stepped back from his HAPPY ACT of yesteryear. The HAPPY ACT (more formally H.R. 3501) was introduced by McCotter in the 111th Congress to make any and all pet expenses up to $3,500 every year tax-deductible. Tax deductions exist as a way of rewarding behavior [...]

The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments. Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government’s power, when local governments want to deny people rights. When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.

It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

In June, Republican Representative Thaddeus McCotter was noticeably upset at the possibility that an accused criminal would be given the right to a trial: “The Manhattan federal trial of Ahmed Ghailani again proves the Obama administration’s ideological refusal to face the reality that terrorism is a global martial threat; not a domestic criminal matter. The [...]

Tax deductions in the United States exist for two significant purposes: to reward socially positive behavior (such as weatherizing a house) and to account the burdens associated with socially positive behavior (such as student loan interest). I struggle to place pet care expenses in either category. There’s no doubt that pet owners find personal satisfaction [...]

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 [...]

The Larochelles were seeking to separate the flag from the Constitution, and to make it a symbol of religious belief – and officially recognized by Congress as such. Congressman Mike Turner was more than happy to help them do this – and to try to use the boy scout as a tool to push religion as a wedge issue – when he introduced H.R. 3779.