Will the last Senator in the Capitol please turn the sunshine off? When the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee called together a public subcommittee hearing this week entitled “Removing the Shroud of Secrecy: Making Government More Transparent and Accountable,” I especially looked forward to the testimony of Ellen Miller. Miller is the executive [...]

39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.

Term limits could exacerbate problems of corruption, by accelerating the revolving door between corporate lobbying and Congress.

Those of us who still believe that the promises of the Constitution should be kept cannot win the debate in increments, begging for scraps of portions of our rights. Republican politicians interpret these maneuvers as signs of weakness. S. 1692 is an unsuccessful appeasement that needs to be defeated so that the worst parts of the Patriot Act can expire, as they were originally intended to do.

The Democratic Party is now presiding over the short changing of health care reform and climate legislation while expanding the military budget just as the Republicans did under George W. Bush. Will progressives pretend not to notice, or will the finally withdraw their support for the Democratic Party leaders who have strung them along?

Most Democrats voted against Senator Coburn’s amendment to eliminate no-bid contracts within the Department of Homeland Security. I can’t think of a good reason why.

Senator Tom Coburn says that there’s no economic crisis. With unemployment rising a full percent just in the last month, how are we not having a crisis?

Senator Coburn has been a consistent opponent of conservation. He ought to be willing to engage the legislation on those terms, not with procedural posturing that he would abandon quickly if he and his allies had more power in the Senate.

The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.