Thursday, March 12, 2026

Tag: Congress

Hillary Clinton didn’t break the glass ceiling, but these female lawmakers...

The 115th United States Congress will have the highest percentage of women legislators in its history.

It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United

Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”

Environmentalists Want Your Help Building a Climate Congress

A group of Californians are trying to crowdsource a Wiki on the environmental stances of candidates for the US House and Senate.

As Congress Prepares for TPP Fight, Another Trade Deal Nears Completion

Sweeping multilateral free trade deals have become a hot button issue in the ongoing US presidential election.

Doing What the Feds Won’t on Corporate Political Disclosure

A tiny Washington nonprofit is trying to do what Congress and the SEC won't.

Ed Norton Occupies the World

“Empires fold up when either they get overrun or their citizens have had enough.”

Whether Sauds, in Effect, Own the U.S. Government

“A dollar paid by a member of the Saudi royal family (or any other foreigner) smells just as sweet to a U.S. Government official as does a dollar paid by an American, especially in the current era of untraceable offshore accounts.”

Drugs and Privilege: Big Business, Congress and the EpiPen

This new price gouge is the latest example of a corrupt system that hurts regular Americans — but we will hold accountable those who are responsible.

The Disney-fication of Our National Parks

Congress is letting major corporations buy naming rights in America’s national park system.

Native Candidates Make a Historic Push for Congress

As the presidential race has demonstrated, 2016 is the year for outsiders, and no group can be considered further from the establishment than Native Americans.

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Senate Democrats demand investigation into Iran school bombing as Fetterman stands apart

Nearly the entire Democratic caucus calls for a probe into a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Minab while one senator backs the military operation.

Americans skipping meals and delaying life decisions as healthcare costs strain households nationwide

New Gallup surveys show tens of millions of Americans cutting back on food, utilities, and daily necessities to pay medical bills while healthcare affordability worsens.

EPA chief met with Bayer CEO over Supreme Court fight, agency records show

The June 17 meeting, between officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bayer CEO Bill Anderson and two other top Bayer executives, came as Germany-based Bayer was working to quash costly U.S. litigation.
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Fossil fuels as a weapon of war:’ US-Israeli war on Iran exposes world’s dangerous...

This comes as Israel has struck oil depots in Tehran, blanketing the capital in smoke and toxic rain.

A growing presence of ‘forever chemicals’ in California produce, new study

According to Environmental Working Group, 37 percent of California-grown produce samples contained at least one of 17 different PFAS pesticide residues.