Congress
4 Reasons Politicians Should Watch The West Wing on Netflix
“You know you’re like 10 years behind, right?” said the bartender at Chifa on Friday as I breathlessly told my fiancee about the season one […]
10 Congresspeople You Will Meet in Hell
On Friday, the House of Representatives finally, a full two months after the fact, voted to greenlight nearly $10 billion in relief funds for victims […]
Chaka Fattah Proposes Bill to “End Fiscal Cliffs” Forever
Chaka Fattah, you’re my hero. The Philly Congressman is kicking off the new year by proposing a lovely-sounding bill called the “Ending Fiscal Cliffs Act […]
Houses Passes Hurricane Sandy Relief…Or At Least Some of It
When Chris Christie speaks, Republicans listen. After taking it on the chin from Christie for scuttling a vote on a $60 billion Sandy relief bill, […]
Joe Biden Lightens Senate Mood/Makes Everyone Extremely Uncomfortable
Just when you thought Congress was getting too dour and fatalistic, Joe Biden waltzes in and tells an incoming Senator, “spread your legs, you’re gonna […]
How Chris Christie Earned My Respect
Chris Christie is spitting mad—and it’s his own party in the crosshairs.
John Boehner Remains House Speaker, Even Though Everybody Hates Him
Who exactly remains in the John Boehner fan club? It can’t be Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whom Boehner last week told to “go f–k […]
House GOP to Shore: Drop Dead
Hurricane Sandy’s victims will have to wait just a little bit longer (or forever) for disaster relief, for no apparent reason. After the fiscal cliff […]
PA Delegation Plays Nice as Fiscal Cliff is (Semi) Averted
A day after we careened over the looming cliff (what, you didn’t feel it?), the frisky and mischievous House of Representatives finally approved the Senate […]
What Philadelphia Traffic Jams Taught Me in 2012
Fifteen years ago, I began driving from my far-corner-of-Montco home to my job at Philly Mag. For 15 long years, I’ve driven a good stretch […]
Congress Okays Extraordinary Rendition of Americans
On Tuesday Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin announced that an amendment designed to protect the constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties of American citizens has […]
A Quick Timeline of the NRA’s Descent Into Madness
To many Americans—particularly those who have little interest in guns—the NRA is a shadowy monolith, a faceless network of right-leaning, pistol-toting Charlton Hestons fighting for […]
This Is the Very Simple Plan for How You and I Can Render the NRA Powerless
It is a sad testament to the depth of our national indifference that it took the massacre of 20 first-graders to finally trigger a united […]
Congress Would Rather Tackle Lawn Darts Than Guns
I started baking the Christmas cookies this weekend. I always start with the springerle, because they’re supposed to sit for a week before you eat […]
Main Line Women Form Bipartisan Group to Change America
I attended a gathering recently of bright, impassioned women. No, it wasn’t Fifty Shades of Grey book night on the Main Line, but rather a […]