The Speaker of the House has been doing the Tea Party's bidding on the payroll tax--but this time they demanded too much, and the GOP had to admit defeat.
Elena Shore, New America Media. December 16, 2011.
More than 5,000 letters from young people across the country were delivered to Congress last week, with one simple message: To keep their families together.
This was a life or death decision, and the cry of 'blood on their hands' is appropriate, for both the Republicans who insisted on this and the Democrats who let it happen.
President Obama is expected to sign a defense policy bill allowing the military to arrest and indefinitely hold terrorism suspects -- even Americans arrested on U.S. soil.
Retired Republican staffer Mike Lofgren gives an insider's perspective on the problems with Congress, how to defeat stubborn Republicans and turn our country around.
Congress last week approved three long-pending trade deals with Panama, South Korea and Colombia that will likely lead to massive job loss, not job creation.
Katherine Sciacchitano, Dollars and Sense. September 29, 2011.
The crisis caused the deficit (not the other way around), and cutbacks have rendered the ill-fitting stimulus obsolete. Now we need a long-term, comprehensive jobs plan.
The administration needs to start inflicting some political pain on the GOP for blocking even the modest, business-friendly measures to spur job growth.
Alex Seitz-Wald, Pat Garofalo, Tanya Somanader, ThinkProgress. August 10, 2011.
One of the caveats of the debt ceiling deal was a 12-member bipartisan committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. Here are the six Republicans.
The Congressional recess is a time for elected representatives to be home in their districts, reaching out to their constituents. So why are one in five taking a junket to Israel?
Forcing a vote on a matter that may bind the United States' fate to fossil fuels for decades to come is the most irresponsible aspect of all in this debate.
A common perception that helps fuel hostility toward migrants is that there's a never-ending pool of people dying to come here, but that's just not true.
Anthony Weiner stepped down from Congress today over his "sexting" scandal. But why do powerful men get caught up in risky behavior in the first place?
