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'Someone is going to die': experts warn lawmakers over self-driving cars 12 Eugene Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 2980

Senate blocks bill that would override state GMO labeling laws 0 Eugene Mar 2016 Mar 2016 8 1398

Senators close to finishing encryption penalties legislation: sources 1 Eugene Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 1715

Senate Committee Votes to Approve New Education Secretary 0 Eugene Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 1315

Senator Shelby starts to break banking nominee logjam 0 Eugene Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 1925

Of course the GOP House doesn't want to do its job in the last eleven months of a Presidency. 2 Conch Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 2537

Paul Ryan Math Challenged Hero - Save Our Nation... 2 Yallow Oct 2015 Jan 2016 0 1707

You, Too, Can Buy a Congressman! 1 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Dec 2015 1 1400

Democrats Could Use Corporate Scumbag Protection Bill To Take Back Congress 1 Yallow Nov 2015 Nov 2015 1 1840

Smith: Gerrymandering cripples Congress 1 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Nov 2015 4 1673

Hastert pleads guilty in hush money case 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1165

Senators vexed that companies could share data 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 7 1359

Riders of the Stoned: Senate Considers Illusionary Repeal of Prohibition 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 1372

'Infrastructure? Who Cares,' Says GOP-Led House as it Slashes Amtrak Budget 1 unhappycamper Jun 2015 Oct 2015 1 1901

Congress agrees on defense plan that would raise Navy pay, fund projects in Hampton Roads 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1690

Jane Goodall Interview: 'Even Chimps Understand Sustainability' 0 unhappycamper Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 1453

GOP leaders work to defuse Planned Parenthood showdown as clock ticks 1 unhappycamper Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1633

Krauthammer calls for elimination of filibuster...need proof of hypocrisy 3 concreteblue Feb 2015 Aug 2015 0 2289

New Senate Bill To Let Marijuana Dispensaries Finally Access Banks 2 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 6 2110

Thank you, Senator Durbin for exposing University of Phoenix 4 Fritz Walter Jul 2015 Jul 2015 19 2526

Groundbreaking Legislation Would Abolish Federal Sentences for Drug Crimes (pot) 4 unhappycamper Jul 2015 Jul 2015 17 1768

Tom Cotton’s ‘Chickenhawk’ Taunt at Iran FM Demeans Jeb Bush, GOP Field 2 unhappycamper May 2015 May 2015 7 2099

U.S. Rep. Polis: New bills to legalize, tax marijuana at federal level 1 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1500

Not your Founding Fathers’ America: Permanent War, Permanent Election Campaigns, Guns, Drones and Su 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1430

Obama Asks Congress to Authorize Another Endless War 1 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1545

After lobbying push, drugmaker resubmits women's sex pill 2 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1725

This is what corporatocracy looks like!: Trading US Democracy for Corporate Profits with TPP 1 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1906

Congress May Expand Veteran Access to Cannabis for PTSD 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1698

What would Confucius say about lack of trust in US government? 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1457

Think Tank Panel Tells House U.S. Military Faces More Challenges, Suggests Pentagon Spending Reforms 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1539

Congress Continued...

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Keystone of Corruption: The Money Pipeline from Big Oil to Congress 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1394

Three Minutes to Midnight: Can We Turn the Clock Back in Time? 1 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1511

McCain seeks to open U.S. domestic routes to foreign ships 1 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1605

Five Reasons Congress Should Oppose the TPP 3 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1732

Stop The Paul-Boxer Tax Holiday; It May Already Be A Job-Killer 2 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1782

Attn. Tea Party: ‘How Immigrants (yes, Muslims and Latinos) can save Detroit & other Cities’ 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1349

GOP Pres. Candidates warn Iran Nukes can hit NYC (despite No Nukes, ICBMs) 0 unhappycamper Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1499

'Low-life Scum' vs. 'Great American Villian' as Citizens Arrest Targets Kissinger 2 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2518

House Resolution 758 - War With Russia 0 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2027

What's the Current GOP manufactured debt Crisis? Social Security Reform 0 M Kitt Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1361

The Triumph of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex 0 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1486

Lawmakers: Carrier fleet should be exempt from cuts 1 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1636

Refinery Lobbyist Invokes WW2-Era Quote, Calls Businesses That Donate to Environmentalists ‘Appeaser 0 unhappycamper Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1624

Blackwater Lobbyist Will Manage the House Intelligence Committee 19 unhappycamper Dec 2014 Dec 2014 32 5098

David Brooks’ latest trick: Exposing the sleight of hand in his defense of the Kochs 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Dec 2014 7 1599

“Don’t Send these Climate Denying Poll-Cats back to Congress: Send them back to Science Class” – Jes 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1589

Lack of Leadership by Washington and Moscow Undermines Treaties and Norms 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1609

Baby boomers ruined America: Why blaming millennials is misguided — and annoying 7 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2948

The United States' Middle East policy is in shambles 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1616

Ted Cruz: Obama’s surgeon general pick isn’t a ‘health professional’ because he’s ‘anti-gun’ 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1744

Big Pharma Lobbies Hard to End India's Distribution of Affordable Generic Drugs 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1864

An Appeal From Okinawa to the US Congress 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1489

Why do Politicians spend $9 billion a year to Jail the Mentally Ill? 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 6 1670

Why Everyone is Lobbying on the F-35 Fighter Jet 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1955

The American Voter: Dumb as Dogshit, Nearly as Inert 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1769

The progressives are coming!: Why the latest attempt to “save” Democrats from populism is so patheti 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1440

America’s flip-flop foreign policy: Rand Paul, Hillary Clinton and the new millennial voter 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1404

Republican senators seek to block funds to combat Ebola 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 9 1818

Louie Gohmert: Obama thought ISIS beheading victim would die from climate change first 2 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1701

On the Ropes in Kansas, Roberts Goes Full Anti-Obama 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1968

Congress Continued...

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Is There a Doctor in the House? 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1303

GOP’s full-blown panic: Why they’re pushing national security again 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1591

The Precise Percentage of Republicans Who Are Certifiable Assholes 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 7 1608

Potomac Fever: Washington's Insane Clown Posse Rides Again 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1503

So the US Is Single-Handedly at War Again 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1510

Anti-Science Congress cut $600 mn. from Agency Leading Ebola Response 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1504

The Neoconservatives and the Islamic State 1 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1556

Rep. Louie Gohmert’s Ebola Theory Is Dumber Than He Is 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 1588

Seditious Republicans Spend Paid Vacation Instigating Rebellion Among Military Generals 37 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Oct 2014 56 12617

GOP House guts White House’s request for funds to fight and contain Ebola 6 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Oct 2014 7 2516

$22 Billion to Fight ISIL in same Year Congress cut $8.7 bn in Food Stamps 0 unhappycamper Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1723

Time to Mobilize the Washington War Hawks to Fight ISIS Terrorists 1 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 1511

Pro-Sullivan group gets $500,000 for U.S. Senate race from NFL owner 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1615

Paul Ryan Admits That The GOP Plans To Win The Senate and Take Healthcare Away From Millions 3 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1860

U.S. reps call for better VA access 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1572

Democrats Run Away from Success of Obamacare 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1538

Jon Stewart: Talking to GOP about climate change is like ‘pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mou 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1737

Who's the dude with the hair nowadays in Congress? 13 valerief Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 5077

Buying Back the U.S. Senate 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 1460

Does Heidi Hall lack "proper background or intellect"? 0 unhappycamper Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 1673

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