WASHINGTON–Think you’ve got big plans for Memorial Day? You’ve got nothing on Reps. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, and John Shimkus, R-Collinsville.

Both have signed up for European get-aways during next week’s Memorial Day recess (or “district work period,” as lawmakers…

WASHINGTON—Congress is back. And so is the Iraq war.
After slipping off the political horizon for a few weeks—overshadowed by a cloud of bad economic news—the war is poised to take center stage again in the coming weeks.
It’s not…

The progressive Drum Major Institute recently published it’s grades of everyone in Congress on so-called middle class issues. The ratings covered voting history on topics ranging from the U.S.-Peru free trade proposal to SCHIP funding.

The general trend of the…

WASHINGTON—In case the voting public hasn’t had their fill of political debates in this intensely contested presidential election season, House leaders have decided to get into the action too.

Perhaps feeling overshadowed by the White House contest, House leaders announced…

WASHINGTON–Will the much-criticized scandal-plagued practice of earmarking survive this Congressional session? One would think not, given the rhetoric flying around Washington these days, where “earmark” seems to have become a dirty word.

But if you look closely, you might see lawmakers winking…