As you are preparing to gather around the Thanksgiving table, the Republican majority in Congress is rushing to push through legislation that will undermine the continued health and safety of the loved ones seated next to you. Over the next two weeks they will bring three bills to the...

The dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial provides an opportunity to reflect and commit ourselves to Dr. King's work. The ceremony on Oct. 16 will also serve as a homecoming for people of every nation who heeded Dr. King's dare to dream and then worked toward the...

Why would Congress pass three leftover Bush NAFTA-style "free trade" agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia?

A report issued by the Economic Policy Institute concluded that the Korea FTA agreement not only fails to create jobs for American workers, it would result in the net loss of...

Today, we mark the 10-year anniversary of the War in Afghanistan. After 10 years, it is clear money is being wasted on military spending and wars that aren't making us safer, and are doing nothing for ordinary people in Afghanistan and Pakistan and beyond. It's working people in Michigan, and...

This past Monday, the House of Representatives held a vote on the so-called debt ceiling deal. I strongly opposed this legislation.

While default was not an option, I would have preferred a bill that raised taxes on corporations that earn billions of dollars a year and have...

Today in a letter to President Obama, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver and I called on President Obama to raise the debt ceiling under the authority of the 14th Amendment.

Below is the text of the letter:

Dear Mr. President:

We urge you to invoke section 4...

On this Tax Day, many Americans are likely taking a moment to consider the costs associated with funding the public services that, among other things, keep our air and water clean, create educational opportunities for our children, and provide financial security to our most vulnerable fellow citizens. Although no one...

Based on their absolute refusal to compromise on the Federal budget, Tea Party adherents in the Republican party will force the government to shutdown at the end of Friday. Just last week, Tea Party Republicans traveled to the Nation's capital to urge the House Republican Majority not to compromise with...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City and one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the history of the United States.

This occasion has particular resonance in the present political landscape. Across this country,...

Yesterday, I invited some of the nation's leading experts and advocates to shed some light on how H.R. 1, one of the most draconian spending cuts packages our modern time has ever seen, will impact America's justice, job creation, public safety, and constitutional rights. Panelists spoke on how...

As Americans gather together this holiday season, many will take a moment to give thanks for the blessings in their lives. Most will be thankful for their family and friends. What will likely go unmentioned and unconsidered is an appreciation for the access to two basic necessities that many of...

One of the most underreported stories of the recent global financial meltdown was the role played in the crisis by housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and their subsequent and continued government bailout. To date, the federal government has purchased nearly $143 billion in stock in these two companies,...

Since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, ending the lives of eleven men, injuring many others, and causing the largest environmental disaster in United States history, the victims have been waiting for BP to make them whole. Unfortunately, thus far BP's response has been a day late and a...

It is disingenuous to say this is an "emergency" supplemental. The only "emergency" is this: In funding the longest war in history, we are putting America further into debt with China, expanding the deficit, increasing wasteful government spending, undermining our budgetary process, risking Social Security and solidifying debt that military...

This past week, the United States recognized a dubious milestone in our country's history as direct war spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan topped $1 trillion. Unfortunately, we have reached a second milestone, with the War in Afghanistan passing the Vietnam War to officially become the...

As of 10:06 a.m., Sunday, May 30th, the United States will have spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As we approach this milestone, Americans of all political stripes should take a moment to consider what war spending on this scale means, not just in dollars...

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed historic legislation overhauling our Nation's broken health care system. After months of debate in Congress and in the media, we've heard the basic facts about how the new law - the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - will ensure that all...

It's a story told so often that we know the ending well before the last chapter. Company suffers losses, bankruptcy looms, and workers sacrifice their rights to collective bargaining, and lose their pension and benefits to save their jobs while company executives not only keep their benefits and pensions, but...

My Judiciary colleagues Jerrold Nadler, and Robert C. Scott joined me in penning this piece.

In 1928, the Supreme Court heard its first challenge to a secret government wiretap.  The court upheld the warrantless surveillance in that case, but Justice Brandeis dissented.   While the wiretap evidence was important to a...

In Wayne County, Michigan, 195 homes go into foreclosure each day. According to the Congressional Oversight Panel, nationally, 1.8 million homes were lost to foreclosure from July 2007 through August 2009. And yet, in spite of these haunting numbers, as the New York Times blogged last week, bank executives...