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Power Rankings of Members of Congress
Congress.org scored and weighted 289 variables in 15 categories to determine a ranking of the most powerful or effective Members of Congress.
See Power Rankings by State, Chamber, Party, Committee, Class/Tenure, Position, Influence, Legislation.
Don’t write discrimination into the Constitution.
The measure was put forward by Rep. Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) only [...]

I don’t think I had ever seen South Dakota’s State Senator Bill Napoli speak before tonight. He was commenting on the abortion ban there that would close down - gulp - the only operating clinic that’s left in the entire state (this one clinic has to fly in medical volunteers from out-of-state). Guess there wasn’t [...]

“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
– Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King is dead.
A woman of grace and strength and courage and dignity is gone.
Equality. Human Rights. Non-violence. Peace.
She worked hard to keep these ideas out front and center [...]

Here’s what we should all be pulling for - it’s from FDR’s “Four Freedoms speech,” on January 6, 1941:
“The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are:
Equality of opportunity for youth and for others.
Jobs for those who can work.
Security for those who need it.
The ending of special [...]