Of The People, By The People, For The People

Public Markup - An ongoing experiment, by the Sunlight Foundation, in preparing legislation more inclusively by opening bills to online, public review. The site gives you the opportunity to review and comment on proposed bills before they are even introduced—or while they are pending—in Congress.

Paint By Numbers

The No Votes - Details on the Republican and Democratic representatives who voted against the $700 billion financial bailout plan.

A Little Bird Told Me

Twitter from the Senate Floor
Twitter from the House Floor.
And if that is not enough, Downing Street has its own Twitter

One Day = $720 Million

Just think...

Let Them Eat Cake

Bush Is Prepared to Veto Bill to Expand Child Insurance

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La' Chiam

The United States National Health Insurance Act, H.R. 676 ("Expanded & Improved Medicare For All")

New Clothes

Congress considering a bill to cut the VP office's funding

What's Left?

GoLeft.tv - Progressive, liberal online video site featuring daily news, consumer reports, and democratic views on politics.

Blackout

What’s McConnell Hiding?

I'm Just A Bill

Where A Bill Becomes a Law

Behind The Curtain

The Future of America Has Been Stolen

War Profits

As of yesterday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history—we just passed the 1981 record, even adjusted for inflation.1 Prices could reach $4.00 per gallon in parts of the country, just in time to crimp summer vacation plans. As consumers suffer, the oil industry continues to reap the windfall—breaking profit records on an almost quarterly basis. It's outrageous!

Enough is enough. Hearings start today on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week—if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process.

Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Will you sign MoveOn's petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill—and then tell your friends?

The $21 Question

"This week, you may have heard about the four members of Congress who have decided to try living on the amount of food they could buy with $21, the average weekly Food Stamp program allotment... people should demand to know why, in a year in which we are projected to give the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation some $56.5 billion in tax breaks, we can't do better than an average of $21 a week to ensure that our fellow Americans can have three decent meals a day."