This is the grave of Jim Wright. Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1922, Wright grew up not super well off. His father was a traveling salesman, which meant no real stability and the family moved all the time across both Texas and Oklahoma. He...
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Oh gee, seems like a time to put of a picture of Nathaniel Banks, who became Speaker of the House in 1856 after a mere 133 votes spread over two.
Thanks to some state courts taking some responsibility for stopping Republicans just fixing elections (not that this is going to survive the Supreme Court much longer based on the high.
The rich people who dominate the leadership of the Democratic Party are very, very, very unhappy at the movement from within the party to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. Facing stiff political headwinds and a flagging election-year agenda, the most vulnerable Democrats in...
Sean McCaffity I've known Sean McCaffity since he was in high school—and probably since I was in high school, but I'm not entirely sure. We both debated in high school.
This is the grave of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg. Muhlenberg, a son of the founder of the Lutheran Church in America, was a Pennsylvania minister and supporter of the American Revolution..
Get used to this guy Really, really screwed. The Cook Political Report came out with ratings Wednesday for how House elections are shaping up. The simple math: Just 33 seats out of 435 are truly competitive, including 27 held by Republicans and six held by...
I ran across former Speaker of the House Galusha Grow today. Hadn't thought of him in awhile and remembered he is one of the great names in Congressional history. I.
Scott claims one of the most important questions of our time is why Canadian teams haven't won the Stanley Cup for so long. He may be right, but THE MOST.
This is pathetic: Barring a burst of productivity in the lame-duck session in November and December, the 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least productive body in the post-World War II era. It had passed a mere 173 public...
Is the current Congress the worst ever for environmental issues? Almost certainly, though you could probably say the same thing for many issues. Worst Congress ever? There's a lot of.
As the Pauls note below, the horrible debt deal is not a pleasant thing to come back to, and I'm sure it's not hard to convince most of our audience.