H. Con. Res. 301 would have required a complete American military pullout from Pakistan by the end of this December.

In the wake of the passage of health care reform by both houses of Congress in March 2010, Republican legislators rushed for the title of The One who introduced repeal legislation. In the last days of March, representatives Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (H.R. 4903), Steve King of Iowa (H.R. 4972), Jerry Moran of Kansas (H.R. [...]

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.

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.

Instead of trying to forget the mistake they made in 2002, politicians like Walter Jones would do better to remember the kind of thinking that led them to support what they should have known was an unwise 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.

It seems that Walter Jones actually does support expanded government spending on health care – on a piecemeal basis. What he opposes is reform of the health care system to make it more efficient and affordable for Americans.

Why the call for a new study on red snapper populations, and why from the Department of Commerce, instead of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is actually qualified and prepared to carry out fish population studies? The answer has more to do with commerce than it has to do with science.

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.