Random Musings

Dr. Amish Shah, a Democratic State Representative from LD5 has formed a committee with the FEC for a candidacy for Congress. He's not r...

Well, the 2nd thing. :) They may have been divided on who their Speaker would be, but they were united on this. From Quartz via Yahoo! - R...

From KJZZ - Townsend, not endorsed by Trump, quits House race in Arizona Arizona state Sen. Kelly Townsend announced Friday she is withdraw...

Yes, it's only 2017, but many candidates are already stepping forward for races in 2018. In some cases, it's out of necessity - th...

In case anyone thought that the Republicans learned some lessons from their trouncing in November, think again. In the US House, Rep. Mich...

The 112th Congress adjourned for the last time today.  The next meetings of both the House of Representatives and the Senate will take place...

Well, earlier today, it looked like that some kind of deal had been worked out between the White House, Senate, and House to avoid put off ...

... 3, as in "the number of times that John Boehner lets the tears flow "... In a rare occurence, the US House of Representative...

'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the House, the Teapublicans were jostling, each trying to prove that he was the biggest...

The American economy is still in the tank - millions of Americans are un- or under-employed, most of those who still own their own homes owe...

From AP, via MSNBC.com , written by Charles Babington - News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, righ...

Edited on August 2 to correct an error.  I initially wrote that Paul Gosar voted against the measure, when in fact, he voted for it.  Thanks...

... When the best hope for the country is if the tea-publicans get arrogant and oppose the deal in the belief that they can squeeze even mor...

Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2560 , the Republican posturing bill that sets an arbitrary cap on federal spen...

From Huffington Post , written by Paul Blumenthal - Of all the ways that Congress finds to make Americans cringe, the creation of leadershi...

I was going to title this post "Well, didn't see that one coming" but we all saw "it", and that was the problem. T...

After weeks of posturing and playing chicken with America's economic stability (and fiscal credibility), House Republicans are bringing ...

Republican members of Congress across the country have been getting an earful from constituents on their plan to gut Medicare, the health ca...

One is incredibly dense and sucks all of the light and energy from a collapsing stars and other things around them, and the other is an asto...

Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.J. Res 44 , a resolution continuing government operations for another two weeks, by a vo...