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Representative Anthony D. Weiner said on Friday that he exchanged at least five private messages on Twitter this spring with a 17-year-old Delaware girl who became an admirer of his after hearing him speak during a high school trip to Washington.
State lawmakers in country music's capital have passed a groundbreaking measure that would make it a crime to use a friend's login — even with permission — to listen to songs or watch movies from services such as Netflix or Rhapsody. The bill, no
With Goldman Sachs' latest high-profile hire, the Wall Street giant is unlikely to shake its Government Sachs nickname or the reputation for exerting undue influence in Washington that it implies. Goldman announced Friday that it had named three-t
The fiscal 2011 funding bill roundly hailed for its "historic" spending cuts actually raised government spending by more than $3 billion, according to a new report. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded Monday evening, "Total disc
A very familiar, albeit younger-looking politician in this video discusses one of the biggest drug dealers in the country. The drug dealer is given immunity from criminal prosecution by the government because the drug dealer is the government.
Lynn Swearingen PPJ earlier article Illinois FOID Carriers - Whatcha' doing on March 10th? Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Since yesterday, 13 Senators have added themselves as Co-Sponsors or Chief Co-Sponsors
Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) will be the next CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd, 66, will replace current MPAA CEO Dan Glickman as chief of the leading lobbying and trade group for the movies and television industry.
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security have ballooned to 57% of the government budget this year and are widely cited as the most significant contributors to the federal deficit, something all Americans want to see aggressively brought under control.
"Are we a nation whose laws are in place to protect the rights of the people, or are we willing to give those rights up to... more expeditiously capture criminals?"
Ten-year Rep. Jane Harman, a Democrat from California, is expected to resign from Congress soon to head the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center, according to three major media outlets. NBC's Andrea Mitchell broke the news on Twitter Monday morn
A measure which would allow a judge to punish the parents of teenagers who engage in the risky practice known as 'sexting,' was introduced today in the Texas Legislature, and immediately received the support of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, 120
Finally there's a noticeable result to credit card reform. You're going to have to pay for your once-free checking account. All the major banks are phasing out some free checking over the next year, according to the LA Times. If you keep en
Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress. Brady t
The shooting of Democratic Congressman Gabrielle Giffords highlights a little-noticed aspect of life in today's Congress: despite record numbers of threats and a toxic political environment, most lawmakers are almost completely unprotected when they
The House and Senate adjourned for the year on Wednesday evening, closing a two-year term that holds the odd distinction of being both historically busy and epically unpopular.
Statistically drunk drivers are more likely to be involved in a deadly accident. Does that mean if blacks are more likely to commit robbery we should just arrest all the blacks to cut down on robbery? Govt should stop trying to keep us safe and kee
Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned their efforts to approve a comprehensive funding bill for the federal government after Republicans rebelled against its $1.2 trillion cost and the inclusion of nearly 7,000 line-item projects for individual lawm
The omnibus appropriations bill is 1,924 pages long and does not include the thousands of pages of report language which contain the details of the billions of dollars in earmarks and, I’m sure, countless policy riders. Here is the pork:
The House passed a landmark youth immigration bill known as the Dream Act which offers a path to citizenship for young people who were brought to this country illegally before age 16 and who have enrolled in college or entered the military.
Representative Charles B. Rangel, his gaze steady and his hands clasped before him, stood silently in the well of the House of Representatives on Thursday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi somberly read a resolution censuring him for bringing discredit to the
American Indian landowners and black farmers who for years have waited for Washington to address their claims of government mistreatment won a hard-fought victory as Congress cleared legislation to pay the groups $4.6 billion to settle a pair of hist
Despite an impassioned, tearful apology and a plea for leniency, Rep. Charles B. Rangel on Thursday became the first House member in nearly three decades to be recommended for censure.
Denied his plea for a delay, Rep. Charles Rangel walked out of his ethics trial Monday, leaving the ethics committee's top lawyer to cite Rangel's past statements in arguing that the 20-term New York Democrat violated House rules.
There was a major sea change in Congress this past week in the election. If Congress is really to address this massive debt as the electorate expects it will have to get at the meat of the problem to deal with it, not just make easy surface changes.
Campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records show a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.
Those moves may appeal to conservative voters clamoring for smaller government, but they would barely dent the trillion-dollar deficits projected over the next decade by Congressional budget analysts - much less fulfill the party's vow in their "Pled
The political action committee formed by the company, which is now largely owned by taxpayers, cut McConnell a $5,000 campaign check in September, a small piece of the $190,000 it donated to campaigns in the past month. Although GM suspended its c
Barney Frank, in an intensifying clash with GOP upstart Sean Bielat, pledged not to take campaign cash from lenders that got federal bailouts — yet has raked in $40,000 from bank execs and special interests connected to the staggering government loan
At least seventy-two Congressional staffers traded stock shares of companies their bosses were involved with overseeing and writing laws for in 2008 and 2009. Their positions afford them access to information that individuals who are trading could pr
[Instead of passing a budget before they went on vacation...] Legislation to turn down the volume on those loud TV commercials that send couch potatoes diving for their remote controls looks like it'll soon become law. The Senate unanimously passe
