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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0dm07G9ud8&feature=player_embedded] One thing that keeps me going in our challenging work to end wars is the confidence that there are some members of [...]

Last week, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), chair of the State & Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that she would cut $4 billion requested for State Department and USAID [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au7CF_k63KI&feature=player_embedded] While we have seen hours of footage of members of Congress (rightfully) beating up on BP CEO Tony Hayward about [...]

It’s sad to say that every time I sit down to write to you about Afghanistan, there is more bad news to report. At least 26 NATO soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last week. General McChrystal [...]

A congressional staffer told me months ago that she feared that the war funding bill would get loaded up with “Haiti relief and jobs and puppies and sunshine,” making it difficult for some [...]

Today marks a heartbreaking milestone in the US’s misguided military engagement in Afghanistan. 1,000 American soldiers—fathers, mothers, daughters, sons—have perished in the war. It’s difficult [...]

Facing a tenacious primary challenge from progressive Marcy Winograd, Jane Harman (CA-36), who once described herself as “the best Republican in the Democratic Party,” has been [...]

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 [...]

After the historic 2008 election, we had a new political landscape before us full of possibility for real foreign policy change. Did your representatives in Congress help move that vision [...]

Wednesday afternoon we saw something that is all too rare in Congress—prolonged debate on the merits of the US’s military strategy in Afghanistan. For three and half hours, representatives took [...]