By exposing more of Americans' incomes to payroll taxes, the Baucus bill increases the Social Security surpluses and makes the on-balance budget appear more balanced.

In this country, we have a separation of powers, which means that the executive branch shouldn"t be poking around legislative offices without consent from Congress.

The way the Justice Department and the FBI carried out the congressional raid was itself reckless and foolish and a clear affront to Congress, setting an extraordinarily dangerous precedent.

There is a right way and a wrong way to move toward justice, and this was the wrong way.

Aside from the indictment of Representative William Jefferson, the House has performed well of late under Speaker Nancy Pelosi's leadership.

Here is one issue that is crying out for Congressional focus: election procedure and reform.

Without the dodgy accounting of "off balance sheet borrowing," the Reid Senate bill actually increases the non-Social Security/Medicare deficit by almost $250 billion.

The Bush administration's concessions to North Korea will encourage nuclear proliferation to other rogue states seeking the bomb.