Congress

Here are some of the worst policies ALEC legislators tried to push into binding law in state legislatures this year.

We the People came close to winning this time. We will come closer and closer, then we will start winning again.

We beat them once; we can keep them again from sneaking it past us.

Members would have gotten a first-hand look at the consequences of their inaction on infrastructure spending.

Legislators voted by a simple voice vote last night to end the DEA's controversial bulk data collection programs and three other amendments.

An extensive Princeton University study shows that the American people have no impact on which laws get passed.

Congressional Republicans are seeking to block an imminent rule protecting Appalachian streams from mountaintop removal mining.

The Senate effectively allowed portions of the Patriot Act to expire. Who won and what comes next?

The House of Representatives passed the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill that would end the NSA's indiscriminate collection of Americans' phone records.

Congress has rarely scrutinized the agency, its actions or its budget, instead showing remarkable deference to the DEA's administrators.