Congress

American democracy is designed to have representatives in Congress who take seriously their role as stewards of the people's business. A federal budget reflects Americans' priorities for how tax …

The FCC is expected to decide whether to allow cellphone use on planes. Is that a good thing?

The closer your political platform gets to allowing everyone to do as they want, the better your chances are to get elected.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro today introduced the Sequester Delay and Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, a bill that would end sequestration and curb corporate use of …

The American Legislative Exchange Council has one heck of an agenda for 2014, and it all centers around one idea - profit over people, and more.

The American Legislative Exchange Council meets in Washington, DC this week for its “States and Nation Policy Summit,” which is one of the ways ALEC crafts and pushes its …

The roots of the Affordable Care Act web site failures may start in the Reagan Administration's fixation with contracting out federal services.

A change in filibuster rule restores the possibility of a functioning Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government.

With the undermining of the traditional trust-based brand, economic theory predicted two things would happen.

A second drone briefing from victims at the US House of Representatives is also sparsely attended, but concerned citizens from around the world packed CODEPINK's Global Drone Summit in …