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Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement, took to the House floor late Wednesday night to call out a colleague over an a...
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement, took to the House floor late Wednesday night to call out a colleague over an a...
The Washington Post | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 12.05.2011
On Capitol Hill, they are the apocalypse caucus. Twenty lawmakers, from both parties, who calculate that the best way to fix government is to act as i...
Posted 11.08.2011
President Barack Obama will address both chambers of Congress Thursday to unveil his plan to create jobs, but not everyone plans to attend. Despite...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.26.2011
Everyone at the center of the fake negotiations over the fake debt ceiling crisis has their own bad metaphor that they use to describe what the "conse...
Joe Minarik | Posted 09.26.2011
In this light, to be logically consistent on principle, anyone who opposes increasing the debt limit today should in 2001 similarly have opposed President Bush's tax cuts.
Roll Call | Janie Lorber and Annie Shuppy | Posted 08.21.2011
When it comes to cost-saving amendments, Rep. Paul Broun can't be beat, even if he rarely wins....
Politico | David Rogers | Posted 08.16.2011
Already on the defensive, scores of House Republicans joined with Democrats on Wednesday to beat back repeated conservative attempts to make still dee...
Chris Rodda | Posted 06.16.2011
Well, it's that time of year once again -- time for some theocratic member of Congress to push for a resolution proclaiming the first weekend of May "Ten Commandments Weekend".
AP | By DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.01.2011
WASHINGTON -- A bullish President Barack Obama said Friday that compromise is close with Republicans on $33 billion in budget cuts, and he warned that...
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
A Congressman who seemingly tolerates with a chuckle the assassination of our sitting head of state should be condemned for it across the political spectrum.
Posted 05.25.2011
The Athens Banner-Herald in Georgia reports that a shocking question was asked at a town hall event held by Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) on Tuesday. Accord...
Ian Squires | Posted 05.25.2011
Even if you interpret it from a pro-life perspective, the US Constitution is not the end-all word of God. Or Allah. Or the Pope. Or even Chris Rock.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
While no Joe Wilson-like interruption came from the joint session of Congress that sat before President Barack Obama during his State of the Union add...
Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of legislation aimed at reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases in the United States, some leaders of the incoming GOP majority have called for McCarthy-style hearings going after leading climate change scientists.
Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama needs to combat the GOP's Fairy Tale Politics so that voters understand how we got into this mess and that it simply is too risky to go back to Neverland.
AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia won his seat in Congress campaigning as a strict defender of the Constitution. He carries a c...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011
I just got off the phone with a spokesman for the U.S. Census Bureau about the news that Glenn Beck and GOP Rep Paul Broun are refusing to fully fill ...
Chris Rodda | Posted 05.25.2011
Apparently, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) doesn't see any problem whatsoever with Congress encouraging people of "all faiths and religious persuasions" to follow his religion.
The Huffington Post | Jeremy Bincknes and Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
Throughout the months of debate, negotiating and vote-switching on health care reform there has been one constant -- the often outrageous and apocalyp...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
Since the right has had no trouble reducing nuanced issues to sound bytes, I have no choice but to provide more accurate characterizations than some of the common themes being pushed on the right.
Media Matters Action Network | Posted 05.25.2011
Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Broun (R-GA) labeled President Obama's economic agenda "voodoo economics." His reasoning: "you have to b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) dispensed with the typical Congressional niceties Wednesday at a House science and technology markup, when he dismantled a...
Talking Points Memo | Rachel Slajda | Posted 10.08.2009
At a town hall in Commerce, Ga., last week, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a "domestic enem[y] of the Constitution." "When ...
POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...
Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 05.25.2011
The insurance lobby and their proxies in the GOP are using red-baiting techniques that are as old as Communism itself to brand working Americans who support reform as "un-American."
The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.11.2012