For working Americans. The GOTP is at it again. 30 million uninsured, but they want to shut down the government because the ACA threatens to help many of those people. Of course, as plenty of experts have pointed out, the money that they claim the continuing resolution will stop won't stop. It's non-discretionary spending ( Read more... )

The Republican House is planning trying to cut food stamps yet again. As ABC reports (page has an auto-starting video, be prepared), taxpayers coughed up $2 million dollars last year for food and coffee for Congress. As a poster on the HP article about that said: "Average per member of Congress per month: $383 Average SNAP (Food Stamp Allowance) ( Read more... )

In another plan to ensure that the wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1% continues, many firms are forcing their employees to receive pay on debit cards. The problem? As the NYT points out, that enriches both the owners of the companies and the card companies at the expense of the working poor. Transaction fees eat away at the money and aren't ( Read more... )

The Republicans spend so much time looking backwards, it's a pity they can't do it honestly ( Read more... )

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Speaker Boehner, with respect, your House is nowhere.

The 112th congress is on track to be the least productive in modern history.During ( Read more... )

No, it's not the deficit. It's how much the Federal Reserve quietly handed the banks without telling Congress. Ok, "only" $7 trillion was hidden. The $700 billion that was TARP was almost above board ( Read more... )

The HuffPost reports about an Agriculture bill in the House ( Read more... )

even though he runs a comedy show is demonstrated yet again ( Read more... )

It's bad enough that people think their warped misunderstandings of religious texts and gross ignorance of science mean they should define a fertilized egg as a human with more rights than the woman who contains it, but that's just not enough for the fundamentalist Right. Now they're trying to redefine rape.

As Mother Jones reports, a House bill ( Read more... )

As reported in the HuffPost, two Republicans missed the swearing in ceremony because they were at a fund raiser at the Capitol Visitor Center. Of course, it's illegal to raise money in the Capitol, but I guess they figured that doesn't matter since they now have a House leader who handed out tobacco money on the floor of the House ( Read more... )