You can put away your cowboy boots and ten gallon hats. The fake southern drawl no longer has to strain your tongue. Forget the cattle show in Dallas/Fort Worth. You can stop attempting to line dance and two step. Kiss off the oil men of West Texas. Don't try to memorize "The Eyes of Texas ...

Cosponsorship, the act of registering one’s name as an official supporter of a bill, is a common activity in the United States Senate. Although the 111th Congress is less than two months old, 1753 cosponsorships for 495 Senate Bills and 11 Senate Joint Resolutions have been officially register...

Obama Carnival Float Racism in the Sky? On Monday, February 23, the Associated Press released a photo by Frank Augstein featuring a flying “Angel” President Barack Obama hovering over a carnival float in Duesseldorf, Germany. The Cal Ripken President As long as the nation is obsessed wit...

NEPA oversight should prevent the Garden State Parkway from being widened using stimulus funds. The final draft of the Senate's economic recovery bill will require all projects funded by the stimulus to have approval under the National Environmental Protection Act, or NEPA. Sponsored by Barbara Boxe...

Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton, two of the most influential members of the Senate, said goodbye to their colleagues yesterday, while the chamber welcomed Illinois's Roland W. Burris, a man it had tried to keep out....

Climate change denier extraordinaire Marc Morano dropped a news release on my desk this morning and smiled broadly when I said, "Hey, are you Morano?" - a smile that turned more sardonic when I told him who was asking. Morano, whose political bona fides include inventing the Swiftboat Veterans for T...

The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be "to leave wreckage.....

If beleaguered U.S. automakers did not have enough problems, Michigan Rep. John D. Dingell, their greatest congressional champion, was dethroned yesterday as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee by Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, an advocate of stiff measures against global war......

If beleaguered U.S. automakers did not have enough problems, Michigan Rep. John D. Dingell, their greatest congressional champion, was dethroned yesterday as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee by Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, an advocate of stiff measures against global war......

A senior aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was fired from his post last week after he was charged with distributing and receiving child pornography....