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The House of Representatives just can’t make up its mind. They have passed two pieces of legislation recently that directly conflict with each other regarding spending levels for certain [...]

The National Defense Authorization Act covers a huge range of issues, authorizing all Pentagon spending for the year. As one of the few bills guaranteed to come up for a vote, anyone and everyone [...]

The presidential election has been all over the media for months (prompting The Daily Show’s apt segment title “Endless Suffrage”), but political junkies like me who want to [...]

One influential Republican in Congress is not too happy that we won our campaign to zero out funding for a new nuclear bomb factory. And rumor has it he is scheming to turn back the clock to the [...]

I have an op-ed in the paper today expanding on the problems with new legislation that is pushing the US toward war with Iran. I was in Iran in 2009 when a family invited me into their home for [...]

Last Friday, 87 House members sent a letter to President Obama stating support for a plan to accelerate the end of combat operations in Afghanistan (as announced by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta [...]

Tomorrow, voters in Oregon’s first district will vote in a special election to decide who will fight for their priorities in Washington, DC. In 2012 we will see major fights in Congress to roll [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about how the House of Representatives eviscerated the foreign affairs budget in the 2012 budget process. Throughout the summer, we mobilized to pressure the Senate to [...]

Last week, the House State and Foreign Operations Committee approved an international affairs budget that endangers critical global diplomatic and development initiatives:   The [...]

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Pentagon’s gargantuan $649 billion budget, at a time when other departments are facing draconian cuts. Many representatives used the bill as an [...]