Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
“Constituent service encompasses a wide array of non-legislative activities undertaken by Members of Congress or congressional staff, and it is commonly considered a representational responsibility.
Money talks. While congressmen whine about billionaires taking over DC, the fact is the 535 voting members of Congress spend like trillionaires.
We the Constituents have spent the last several decades staring bewilderedly at Washington. Wondering over and over again why what happens there – happens.
Over and over again we the people are whipped into panic as we are told that grandma will starve if a budget amendment isn’t passed to buy her another day.
The federal government is required by law to engage in a budget process. Which means twelve appropriations bills – written and debated, passed and signed into law. Each and every Congress.
Axios: “The 118th Congress is on track to be one of the most unproductive in modern history, with just a couple dozen laws on the books at the close of 2023, according to data from data analytics firm Quorum.”
For three weeks, the House of Representatives has been in uncharted territory. Now we have newly installed Speaker, Mike Johnson, a new pitcher on a very old mound.
I called my congress critter, Julia Letlow’s, office today to find out if she was supporting McCarthy and his bid to pass another CR without making any needed changes, or if she was supporting Matt Gaetz and the congressmen fighting for fiscal sanity. Know what the receptionist said? She hadn’t had a chance to talk …
Our very own government’s hilarious attempt at following the US Constitution is like watching a circus act gone wrong–only with more politicians and less acrobats.
It doesn’t take long for reality to catch up with people who spend their money recklessly. If the situation is not too far gone, it may be simply a question of cutting back temporarily on unnecessary purchases. However, if the overspending has persisted for a long period of time, an individual may be forced by …
“It should come as no surprise with the maturity of image creation, the explosion of writing tools, and the massive rise of video and audio tools that are driving the growth of generative AI at such a rapid pace, the government and the public at large would start to consider who will directly and legally benefit from the outcome production of these new and developing technologies.” So why is no one talking about it?
Biden’s War on America. Everything that progressives went into hysterics over about Trump doing if re-elected is coming to fruition under Biden. Joe’s Administration is not only a national and international disaster, he’s become an autocrat. Even his own Party is turning on him, if only by small degrees. But power is the watchword and …
Under the “leadership” of the very petty and spiteful Justin Trudeau, Canada has become anything but a safe harbor for freedom. Is this our future?
Greetings my fellow Americans! While I don’t wish to speculate at this time whether our representative republic is truly “over,” it seems pretty clear that, from the results of our most recent election cycle, our federated system is quite broken. And while several key reasons for this most recent disappointment could be identified, of the …
How Congress really works when it comes to spending your tax dollars, is an arcane process meant more to obfuscate details rather than inform citizens.
There was an America First attitude in the late sixties, with a counter vision of American inequities toward blacks, women and non-Americans.
At 75-years-old, longtime New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat, is far from being the oldest member of Congress, but he’s certainly well past his prime. A Democratic staffer told The New York Post that Nadler, who serves as chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, has earned a nickname from his peers: “Rock-A-Bye Baby.” …
“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
Politics in the United States has become far too complex. A big part of that are so called: Omnibus Bills or Comprehensive Reform Bills
