The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the United States government, sometimes simply called "the legislature." Its overall responsibility involves passing (and repealing) laws and deciding the federal budget.
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Received this e-mail today from business man Jim Graves (D) who is running in a rematch against Tea Party loon Michele Bachmann (R. MN-6):
by poopdogcomedy
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 06:15 PM PDT
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far be it for me to say Bangladesh has better idea to deal with criminals that we do.. -- I'm not crazy -- But the idea that a guy who owns a building that collapses and kills people lands in jail ...
by babylonbros
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 04:56 PM PDT
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Short diary for a simple question. The President and Congressional Democrats agreed to the sequestration, in part, because it was designed to make discretionary spending cuts so painful that the ...
by The Honorable Freddie
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 10:57 AM PDT
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Massachusetts has not seen a lot of turnover in its senators. Ted Kennedy kept his seat from the mid-1960s until his death in 2010. John Kerry held on to his seat for a few decades as well, until ...
by teddywolf
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 10:50 AM PDT
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Republicans are in disarray over a proposal that would allow state and local governments to require online retailers to collect sales taxes on internet sales.
Republicans in disarray. What a great ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 07:07 AM PDT
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The article is from 4/20, but I have not found it referenced here on DK. I will not re-post without permission, so here is the link.
Dear Gun Control Democrats: 6 Ways to Make a Better Argument
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by DispositionMatrix
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 11:41 AM PDT
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Actually, to be more accurate, Congress ignores everything that doesn't either pertain to themselves or their top campaign donors. Unfortunately for the long-term unemployed, they don't have ...
by Bud Meyers
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on Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 12:41 AM PDT
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The previous Congress, marked by staunch Republican obstructionism to President Obama's legislative agenda, was even more "do-nothing" than the "do-nothing Congress" that Harry Truman railed against ...
by DownstateDemocrat
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on Sun Apr 28, 2013 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Darth Issa: Lord Vader, they never thought my Benghazi investigation would continue.
Darth Vader: Good, good. You are learning quite well my apprentice. The Jedi are making the Democrats weak.
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by pipsorcle
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on Sat Apr 27, 2013 at 06:47 PM PDT
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I have to admit it: I'm envious. For many years now I have been trying to get the message across to social justice activists and liberals that in order to take on the all-out assault on our ...
by Ray Pensador
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on Sat Apr 27, 2013 at 04:31 PM PDT
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You've got to be kidding me. After planning and pushing for the sequester, and talking about how bad the "sequester" is in a speech this weekend, comes the news from the President's White House ...
by slinkerwink
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on Sat Apr 27, 2013 at 07:46 AM PDT
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I got an email with a VERY long signature list at the end, and just had to write a response with the facts. Was it worth it? Who knows.
I'm sure you have seen this, another rehashed internet chain ...
by robbinsdale radical
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on Sat Apr 27, 2013 at 12:18 AM PDT
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In the wake of Boston, I remembered an idea I'd had after the Aurora shootings. Because so many of these victims may have very limited coverage (and perhaps none at all), I created a petition on the ...
by Lstettle
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on Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 06:38 PM PDT
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Syria is being bandied about and FOX NEWS and several members of the so-called left side keep churning the thick goo inside the fear pot, talking about if we need to go to WAR, who would push us ...
by babylonbros
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on Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 04:52 PM PDT
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So, as you've likely already read, Congress moved forward to undo one of the few parts of sequestration that actually affect them and their donors: the flight delays resultant from the furloughs of ...
by Liberty Equality Fraternity and Trees
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on Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 04:59 PM PDT
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So CISPA was a big topic this week and according to the ACLU, CISPA is dead.... for now:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/25/aclu-cispa-is-dead-for-...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Sat Apr 27, 2013 at 08:00 AM PDT
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If you haven't noticed the outpouring of evil in our neck of the woods over the past ten days, you haven't been paying attention. The marathon bombings, the tragic fertilizer plant in West, Texas, ...
by Cameron85
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on Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 02:43 PM PDT
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Embattled Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) went on Fox News and criticized President Obama for not declaring the Boston marathon bomber an enemy combatant. The only problem is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is an ...
by The Big E
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on Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Oh, this has got to hurt. Just when you thought things were getting bad for Mark Sanford, they're getting worse and Elizabeth Colbert-Busch seems to be better at getting GOP support than Sanford.
by pipsorcle
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on Fri Apr 26, 2013 at 01:39 PM PDT
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That's my initial reaction to hearing that Congress has agreed to spare the FAA from the brunt of the sequester, to avoid, of all things, flight delays . By a veto-proof majority, no less.
Why is ...
by pierre9045
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