congress incidents

Maybe, in the grand scheme of things, this isn't that big a deal but I do think it's worthy of discussion. Rep.Emmanuel Cleaver D-MO closed the Congress' opening prayer with "Amen and a-woman." Now, I am all for inclusivity and recognizing gender inequalities and all that; but, "Amen" has...

I have been seeing a lot about this on twitter. Ryan, supposedly a Catholic, got mad at the chaplain, a Jesuit catholic priest, because he had the audacity to give an invocation/sermon/whatever you want to call his speech about doing things like, helping the poor. That was unacceptable to the...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/politics/office-of-congressional-ethics-oversight-of-ethics-committee-amendment/index.html?adkey=bn I'm curious as to who the members are who had to "spend a fortune to get their good name ‎restored so I think there's been an abuse."

Just watched the video and thought it would be deserving of a thread outside of the massive Trayvon thread already created. So Bobby Rush busts out a hoodie on the House floor and starts reading off a bunch of bible verses. Is he a hero or an idiot? Personally I think he is an idiot...

Just when you thought that public approval of our august legislators could not sink lower than the already-lower-than-Communism 9% they currently enjoy..... We are now informed that they have overruled the FDA and declared pizza to be a vegetable, while another congressman has, with charts and...