If you believe that your bank deposits are firmly secured by FDIC, thanks to our neglectful Congress, you may be riding on a false sense of security, according to some shocking news in the Boston Globe: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits up to $250,000, tried for years...

Sen. Larcenia Bullard was just given a "Worst Person in the World" award by MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann for her confusion over the word "husbandry" in a bestiality ban bill.  â€œPeople are taking these animals as their husbands? What’s husbandry?â€� she asked. Some senat...

I get alot of my state news from a key operative for the Ohio Republican Party. He shares his insight with people in monthly emails. Having read his latest, I feel compelled to share and offer reax to his offerings this time. The operative's words are in italics, my reax are not. Ohio's Races in 201...

Man, if there was ever a Senator who should not ask strangers "do you know who I am?" it is David Vitter of Louisiana. And yet, that is what he said at Dulles last week. Vitter is famous mostly for sleeping with prostitutes and then just not resigning over it, even after everyone in the world heard ...

In January during a U.S. Senate hearing on TVA's December coal ash spill in Kingston, California Democrat Barbara Boxer was leading calls for the mega-utility to come out of the disaster as a leader in green power research. At the same event Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander looked like he was pl...

Your U.S. elitist Senators selfishly voted today to destroy job opportunities for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. In a surprise move, Sen. Patrick Leahy motioned to table Sen. Sessions’ E-Verify Amendment, and the motion passed by a narrow margin, 50-47. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Amendm...

The Senate passed the $410 billion omnibus stimulus package tonight after a week of widespread grandstanding and feigned horror over $7.7 billion in earmarks — which is simply a means of allocating streams of existing funds — split between 95 Senators. And yet here’s John McCain, g...

Swing State Project's DavidNYC has a new poll from Quinnipiac University testing incumbent Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd - the longest-serving United States Senator in Connecticut history - against former CT-02 Rep. Rob Simmons, who lost reelection to Democrat Joe Courtney in 2006, as well as two othe...

Congratulations, Herb Kohl! I really didn't know what he does in Washington, other than nap. But now I see he's made the list of Top 20 Earmarking Senators. From FOX News: Here's a breakdown of the top 20 earmarking senators and the value of their solo earmarks: 1) Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. -- $122,...

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Obama Lifts Stem Cell Research Ban President Barack Obama has overturned a ban on federal funding for ...