The Working Families Flexibility Act will make it easier for employers to avoid paying for overtime and give workers far less flexibility in their lives.
‘It doesn’t mean you take that [tax] money you saved, and leave the country for a personal purpose.’ LALALALALA! He can’t HEAR you!
The latest wave of anti-equality, anti-gay hysteria from the Christian right, and what their persecution complex is REALLY about.
This kind of selective targeting when it comes to tax liability is typical of Republicans; punish the little guy in every way possible.
Despite being gone AND cleared of wrongdoing, paranoia that ACORN is still out there performing criminal acts may inhibit anti-poverty funding.
U.S. Representative Jim Langevin’s spinal cord was severed when he was a 16 year-old police cadet, standing near two officers who accidentally fired a gun.
Maybe it was the tsunami effect of a dozen schools interrupted by mass murder in the past 15 years but the reaction was swift.
The Congress has passed what is known as the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013, which will withhold the pay of all members of all members of congress if a budget resolution isn’t passed by April 15.
Despite the Death Star petition and other silly requests, White House staffers say, ‘Many times, petitions posted on We the People have a real impact on policy-making.’
The bill has been overshadowed lately by the increasing frenzy in getting the fiscal cliff measures passed.
If the GOP-led house doesn’t moo-ove a new farm bill out of committee, we’ll revert to higher-cost 1940′s programs from when farmers milked cows by hand.
When our elected representatives suffer no consequences from defying the will of the American people, democracy suffers as a result.
Is there an answer in there? No. There’s a lot of talk, a lot of obfuscation, but no real answers to any of the questions asked.
In an especially ironic moment for the House of Representatives, they passed a bill purging the word ‘lunatic’ from federal codes.
She answers something so unparsed, unspun, so true and rare….’We lost the election, Sean!’
The preservation of the glorious and natural wilderness space left in this country seems to many be a far greater goal than providing a bigger and more spectacular playground for sportsmen.
The GOP, no doubt, has more important issues on its collective mind. For instance, does Rep. Candice Miller know how to make a decent pot of coffee?
Arizona’s newly created 9th Congressional District seat has been awarded to Kyrsten Sinema, who will be the first openly bisexual member of Congress.
The GOP is coming up against the reality that they may never regain the White House if they don’t find a way to court the Latino vote.
