congress issues

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."

"Freedom caucus"? The new euphemism for the Tea Party? This furthers my belief that the GOP is going to fracture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus

Sometimes you have to believe that politicians are simply brainless when it comes to common sense. “I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid,” Moran told CQ Roll Call. “I understand that it’s widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that...

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...

Is this any way to run a government? So we'll do it all over again in 6 or 8 weeks. And then what? Another temporary stopgap measure to keep the government running for a few more weeks? :mad: