Congress

The trade agreement President Obama will be urging this week be passed on a fast track that will not give Congress time to read and study it, the Trans …

For the first time in 17 years, our government is officially shut down.

Republicans, instead of working with Democrats to find a bipartisan middle road for the country, as they have traditionally done, have to compromise with and do the bidding of …

In the end, the Republicans won. A majority in Congress, made up of Republicans who understood they'd won and Democrats who feared a government shutdown, would have voted for …

We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.

Looking at the ways migration has affected other countries, it is clear that US exceptionalism has no basis in fact. Why, then, is the debate over this country's immigration …

Republicans rallied around a budget plan early Sunday to keep the government open but delay the new health care law for a year.

The Republican controlled House of Representatives have voted on the Farm Bill; part of which includes a $39 billion cut in the food stamp program.

Sometime in the next week, Congress will either get it together to pass a new budget resolution or the government will shut down.

Leaders in the climate justice movement say it is time to start leveraging activists' commitment against the greatest crisis humanity's ever faced.