Minority Report

After listening to Senator John McCain being interviewed on the Sean Hannity show yesterday, I'm convinced that the back room fix is in for the McConnell plan.

The difference between history and future! Very Interesting. This article compares the future to history through the movie Fahrenheit451 and the movie Minority Report.

The Canadian Senate serves as the upper house of the Canadian legislature's bicameral process. The House of Commons is directly elected by the people, and is intended to serve as a watchdog to the ministers and the governor general.

Tom Cruise may be controversial, but his films are often top sellers. This article explores his films.

California Senators vote unaminously to bring back indentured servitude as part of its minority report approach to child support collections. Punishing citizens for crimes that are not committed, after all debtors prisons are becoming fashionable again.

United States Senate passed into law a massive, far-reaching defense bill which includes language to authorize the indefinite detention of civilians, without the benefits of due process, trial or Constitutional rights, for merely being suspected of terror

Fiction - How Osama was located actually!

One state legislature hopes to make politicians more efficient by equipping them with Apple iPads.

You know how things sometimes just don't add up, signaling to us right away that something's just not right? Or that someone is not exactly telling the truth?

This piece details some of the supposed savings of Senate Bill 5 in the state of Ohio. It discusses how these savings will be minimal and how the legislation will impact the middle class.

While thousands protested outside the capital building in Madison, Wis., Democratic state senators took their business elsewhere Friday so they wouldn't have to conduct legislative business with the Republican majority. Knowing that...

The number of guaranteed new faces in the Senate of the 113th Congress has increased to six. Sen. Jeff Bingaman announced that he plans to retire from his seat at the end of the current term. Bingaman is the third Democratic incumbent to announce...

The Founding Fathers never intended the United States Senate to be as big as it is. If you want to bring us back to the Constitution, think about firing your staff and selling your office buildings.

The Senate still broken? The ratified START treaty, the 9/11 first responders bill, the repeal of DADT, tax cuts for the middle class, and a food safety bill. Salon's Alex Pareene says the Senate should have passed these things months ago.

Someone has to stand up to the bullies and I can think of no one in a better position to do so than you.

Palo Alto based State Senator Joe Simitian has extended the deadline on the 10th annual "There Oughta Be a Law" contest until November 24.

A new technology, based on pre-crime software developed by Richard Berk, is being used to predict crimes before they happen. While seemingly advantageous, this software may lead to a loss of individual rights in the future.

Sen. Goodwin's vote broke the Senate stalemate that saw the bill fail to gain cloture on four previous occasions. Although it still has to pass the actual cloture vote itself, the most difficult hurdle, getting the bill out of debate, has been cleared.

There were hopes of a best-case scenario playing out and state labor agencies beginning the process of getting the unemployed their benefits extension checks in the mail (or direct deposited) by week's end. That best case scenario was soon scuttled.

We fought and reduced the influence of lobbyists in Washington but while we were not looking a new enemy arose, they are called pollsters.

What will happen next week when the Senate is expected to finally vote? It's more drama than jobless workers who have exhausted their benefits can take.

Review of the documentary 14 Women, about the increasing number of women in the U.S. Senate. Celebrates this development, so "liberal" in that sense, but mostly a very tame, somewhat bland, well-intentioned film trying hard not to offend.

One lone senator is able to stymie progress by blocking the unemployment extension for the entire nation

When the senators vote on a legislative proposal, debate is ended. In one of three ways, each representative of the people gives a final opinion. The decision either enacts a bill into law or ends the consideration.