Random Musings

With Senate candidate speculation running wild across Arizona (Flake in, Shadegg out, Arpaio flirting, Democrats waiting until summer to see...

Thanks for the heads-up on this goes out to the blog  Arizona's Politics ... From Politico , written by David Catanese - Kyl to retir...

Former Congresscritters are barred from lobbying their former colleagues for one year after leaving office. However, the law that bars th...

Lost in the hubbub surrounding the culmination of the 2nd Session of the 111th Congress (DREAM Act, DADT, tax cut "compromise", om...

The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Action Fund  has given out its grades to Congress in its 2010 Congressional Report Card....

They may be poor representatives of the people of their districts, their state, and their country, but dammit, *nobody* can claim that they ...

Warning: this post is mostly borne out of the fact that I am feeling under the weather and don't have the energy for anything more in-de...

Congressman John Shadegg (R-CD3) has announced that he will not seek reelection this year. He made the same announcement two years ago, th...

We'll know for certain if Shadegg announces his retirement from Congress in order to start a career in talk radio ( not that Hayworth ha...

After more than 12 hours of debate on a Saturday, and nearly 100 years of delay, dallying, and outright obstruction, the House passed a sig...

Note: for those readers unfamiliar with the abbreviation "CBO," it stands for Congressional Budget Office . The CBO provides non-...

This one is pretty minor, but still to funny to pass up.... From NaplesNews.com - What do you say we move the capital out of Washington and...

By a vote of 240 - 179, with 5 present and 10 members not voting, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to "disapprove" of Rep....

Courtesy an email sent today - Dear [cpmaz], As you may be aware, Congress has begun to debate health insurance reform and may have a vote o...

Info courtesy Politico . The linked article is dated June 19, so for the sake of easy math, I'm assuming the numbers are current as of J...

Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H. Res. 442 , a resolution "[r]ecognizing the importance of the Child and Adult...

On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a compromise version of H.R. 1 , the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The final ...

Just passed and upcoming... In floor votes - - The House passed H. J. Res. 3 , " Relating to the disapproval of obligations under the E...

...Stacy over at AZ Congress Watch does a good job of keeping up with this stuff (though not this week :) ). This is just a summary. This ...

This past Tuesday, the 111th session of the United States Congress began with much of the normal procedural routine that occurs at the begin...