Mindless cuts that are utterly penny-wise and pound-foolish show how distorted our deliberative process has become. In the headlong rush to provide a better fiscal future for our children, we should not be providing a less safe present for all of us.

Vulnerable incumbents like to tout their clout. This campaign season, they will ask voters: "Do you want to lose all of my power and seniority and be stuck with an ineffective freshman?"

Politicians may cry crocodile tears about deficit spending, but their actions demonstrate that they remain addicted to big government.

Politicians are crying crocodile tears about deficit spending, but their actions demonstrate that they remain addicted to big government.

Unless politicians from both sides get their acts together, the recent voting conflict in the U.S. House of Representatives is bad news for the nation.

John Dingell marks fifty years in Congress;there is a decline in regular order inCongress; andRoy Blunt must be careful about fundraising activities.

Tuesday, February 3, was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Barack Obama.

You have to give Obama some credit for journeying to Capitol Hill to talk with House Republicans.