Stories tagged "congress"

When the new Congress looks to address poverty reduction next year, at least part of the debate will revolve around deciding just which Americans count as "poor," according to a senior Republican congressional staffer.

Devotion to the President has been an especially prized commodity the last seven years, but a particular kind of it seems to be valued higher than the rest.

Corruption and disregard for the Constitution has become the status quo in Congress. It has become acceptable practice by most politicians, therefore they are rarely called on it by others. Politicians in Congress have gotten used to the idea that their j

The congressional ban says there can be no federal rule adding to existing grading standards that would require a certain level of fuel efficiency. It covers "any rulemaking which would require that car tires be labeled to indicate their fuel-economy".

Freshman Democratic lawmakers who attend a reception next week in their honor at the Democratic National Convention will be in breach of the same tighter ethics and lobbying measures those freshmen helped enact, according to a campaign-finance watchdog.

Memorial services have been set for Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, while tributes continue to pour in for the Democrat who died of an aneurysm this week while driving in her Ohio congressional district.

The framers believed that no single official, including the President, should ever have sole authority over this most crucial of all constitutional powers because of how easily it can be abused. In 1793, James Madison wrote that the "fundamental doctrine

Washington- "I am calling upon this Congress and the next one, this president and the next one, to make the dual issues of border security and immigration reform their first order of business," Gordon said

“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.” - James Madison

Glenn Greenwald, legal affairs columnist and blogger for Salon.com and author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses the FBI and national media’s attempt to hijack the truth surrounding the anthrax case, their post-mortem conviction of Bruce Ivins, the