House Republicans still focused on abortion, abortion, abortion
Isn't it amazing that despite all their concerns about jobs, jobs, jobs—and ending Medicare and giving more tax cuts to the rich and protecting light bulb freedom—House Republicans can still find time in their busy schedule of accomplishing nothin...
Redistricting Roundup: Republicans win, by not losing
America's once-a-decade adventure in political geography is nearly over, with redistricting season finally on the verge of wrapping up. As you probably know, America's census is taken once every 10 years, in the year ending in "0," and for the electio...
House Republicans pushing typically Republican version of Violence Against Women Act
(Think Progress)
House Republicans are taking up where Senate Republicans failed (or gave up) in trying to prevent the Violence Against Women Act from including or expanding protections for undocumented immigrants, LGBT people, and Native Americans....
House Republicans pass poison student loan interest bill
The House Republicans just did it, they voted to trade low student loan interest rates for childhood immunizations, and, of course, more War on Women by cutting women's health. The vote was 215-195 despite a last minute threat from Club for Growth and...
House Republicans voting to trade student loan interest rates for children’s immunizations
This is a fight Nancy Pelosi's willing to have. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
House Republicans are moving forward on their plan to keep student loan interest rates at 3.4 percent by taking funds from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, effectively emptyi...
Blue Dog caucus suffers further losses
Rep. Heath Schuler goes buh bye.
If there was a silver lining to the 2010 midterm elections, it was that Democratic losses were disproportionately born by the corporatist Blue Dog Caucus.
The Blue Dogs began the 2010 cycle with 54 members (out of 257...
House Democrats announce first ad blitz of the cycle
What pops out in this chart?
Every single one of these markets is in a battleground state, or reaches into one: Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska's in-play Omaha districts (Barack Obama won that electoral vote in 2008), Nevada, New Hampshire...
Catholic bishops to House Republicans: Your budget makes Jesus cry. John Boehner to bishops: STFU.
Why are Republicans waging a war on the Church?
You know how Republicans in Congress believe all of our laws should be Catholic Church-approved, right? Well, all of our laws regarding lady parts, anyway. Other stuff, like, say, the federal budget ......
Progressive business groups call for end to corporate tax loopholes
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, trying to change the subject on tax fairness. (John Gress/Reuters)
Next week, the House will vote on another Republican "jobs" bill; tax cuts, of course, for small business. A group of progressive organizations repr...
Democrats refuse to give Republicans cover for their plan to end Medicare
Rep. Steve Israel, not a Ryan supporter.
Republicans have tried to co-opt some of the creators of the idea of "premium supports" in Medicare to say that their plan really isn't so radical, that it's a bipartisan idea. That effort is falling flat, as ...
