McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”
On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act...
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Congressional Democrats Nix Anti-torture Measure
House Democrats have caved in to Republican pressure, removing an anti-torture provision from the...
House Republicans Call for Bigger Deficits Than Obama
An alternative budget proposal submitted by Congressman Paul Ryan (Wis.), the House Budget Committee's...
Obama Signs $1.9 Trillion Debt Limit Increase
President Obama signed into law February 12 a bill that would increase the federal...
Bernanke Confirmed Despite Track Record
If there were any lingering doubts that official Washington rewards incompetency and lack of...
Bernanke’s Kudos, Criticisms Miss the Point
A preliminary vote today for Ben Bernanke’s reappointment to a second four-year term as...
Congress Votes to Raise Debt Limit
The Senate voted on December 24 to allow the federal government to borrow an...
Deficit “Hawks” Face Hypocrisy Charge
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote...
Senate Banking Committee Confirms Bernanke, With Dissent
The Senate Banking Committee convened Thursday morning, December 17, and voted 16-7 to confirm...
Senate Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill
The Senate on December 13 passed a mammoth omnibus spending bill variously described as...
Democrats Seek $1.8 Trillion Debt Hike
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) stated on December 11 that the federal...
Librarians Unite Against Patriot Act Provisions
Librarians are virtually united in opposing the renewal of the Patriot Act provisions that...
Fed Chief Bernanke Faces Strong Criticism
Ben Bernanke appeared on December 3 before the Senate Banking Committee as part of...
House Enacts Limits as Patriot Act Set to Expire
Three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire this New Year’s...
Latest “Freedom Index” Rates Congress
The latest (December 7) issue of The New American includes our second congressional scorecard...
Senate Confirms Obama Judicial Pick Hamilton
Led by the Democratic majority, the U.S. Senate on November 19 confirmed President Barack...
Boxer Violates Senate Rules for “Cap-and-Trade” Bill
Dismissing concerns that the environmental assumptions underlying the bill may be fundamentally flawed, key...
Subcommittee Guts Ron Paul’s Bill to Audit the Fed
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 1207), Congressman Ron Paul’s landmark bill to audit...
House Committee Investigates Jane Harman
A House Democrat who once claimed to "live and breathe security" has been under...
House Committee Refuses to Hear Inconvenient Truth
The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming showed its bias against...