Pentagon Spending

On his show last week, Stephen Colbert responded with righteous indignation to the concept of cutting the military budget, saying we need to flood the world with weapons for the good of our [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqZOJdjdYE&feature=uploademail] Last week, the House engaged in a budget free-for-all, debating hundreds of amendments on the continuing resolution [...]

It’s hypocrisy at its worst. House Republicans are pushing a budget resolution for 2011 to slash $100 billion for domestic spending while letting the bloated Pentagon budget grow. [...]

The Republican House leadership took a meat cleaver to the continuing resolution that would fund the government through the rest of the 2011 fiscal year (ending October 1st). The Republicans on [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvt8CIucZ0] This week, Republicans put forward a resolution to reduce all nonmilitary spending to fiscal year 2008 levels as part of their crusade against [...]

Our political team spent a couple of days last week making the rounds of key congressional offices to strategize, feel out the new political landscape, and push for action on ending the war in [...]

We’ve all seen the devastation in our communities caused by the economic crisis—teachers laid off, health care a luxury, services cut off for our most vulnerable friends and neighbors. Yet [...]

The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, is delaying a vote on new Afghanistan war funding until Congress extends funding to states and the unemployed. It’s a move [...]

The total cost of wars since 2001 has passed the trillion dollar mark, according to the National Priorities Project, which has been tracking this kind of spending since 1983. It is important for [...]

This is an excerpt from Peace Action West’s 2009 congressional voting record. Click here to see the voting record and learn how your representatives voted on key issues from Afghanistan to [...]