• Don’t trust the Congress to do the right thing http://www.livemint.com/leisure/vvqwjnabpnrcfkqqtcco7h/dont-trust-the-congress-to-do-the-right-thing.html 5 comments 8/4/2016 india
• First Thing: Congress plans commission into Capitol attack https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/16/first-thing-congress-plans-commission-capitol-attack-nancy-pelosi 3 comments 16/2/2021 politics
• How Bernie Gets Things Done in Congress Without Being Bought Off https://observer.com/2016/03/how-bernie-gets-things-done-in-congress-without-being-bought-off/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 3 comments 10/2/2020 politics
• Why Congress Doesn't Always Do the Right Thing https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/opinion/congress-incentives-public-good.html?action=click&pgtype=homepage&clicksource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&wt.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region 4 comments 7/2/2018 politics
• Five startling things Betsy DeVos just told Congress https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/24/five-startling-things-betsy-devos-just-told-congress/ 14 comments 24/5/2017 politics
• Congress Just Undid The One Good Thing It's Done On Climate Change http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/congress-flood-insurance_n_4981226.html 57 comments 18/3/2014 politics
• Exercising your rights is apparently an abhorrent thing to do per congress….. http://www.cnn.com/2010/politics/01/20/state.dinner.hearing/index.html?hpt=t2 5 comments 20/1/2010 reddit.com
• Have things become too political for Twitter in India? Twitter India boss addresses Congress SM conference. http://www.medianama.com/2013/08/223-things-get-political-for-twitter-in-india/ 4 comments 23/8/2013 india
• Right-wing blowhards are having a tough time with this whole women-in-power thing in Congress https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heffernan-ocasio-cortez-and-misogyny-20190104-story.html?outputtype=amp 4 comments 5/1/2019 politics
• Poll: Most say more women running for Congress is a good thing http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/402997-poll-most-say-more-women-running-for-congress-is-a-good-thing?amp 6 comments 22/8/2018 politics
• Ingraham: Time for old timers in Congress ‘to do the decent thing and retire’ http://thehill.com/media/361501-ingraham-time-for-old-timers-in-congress-to-do-the-decent-thing-and-retire 8 comments 22/11/2017 politics
• Candace Owens Is Racist White America’s Black Friend and She Just Told Congress That White Nationalism Isn’t a Thing https://www.theroot.com/candace-owens-is-racist-white-americas-black-friend-and-1833921887 3 comments 11/4/2019 politics
• I'm proud of America today. We scared Congress into doing the right thing. Feel the Power ! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/house-bailout-vote-the-up_b_130290.html 5 comments 29/9/2008 politics
• Warren Buffett on $700B bailout: "I am betting on the Congress doing the right thing for the American public and passing this bill" Where's your God now reddit? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aref_dux6acu&refer=worldwide 2 comments 25/9/2008 reddit.com
• Army General: Republican Congress is the worst thing that's happened to the US Army and Marine Corps http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/10/general-eaton-republican-congress-worst-thing-thats-happened-to-us-army-and-marine-corps/ 17 comments 10/3/2007 reddit.com
• Struggling Gun Industry Looks To Congress To Make Silencers The Next Big Thing http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-gun-silencers-bill_us_59b95c08e4b0edff97188620?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 27 comments 14/9/2017 politics
• Big legal things coming down the pipline over the next few weeks. Congress is being lobbied to strip privacy from the internet. http://gamergate.me 36 comments 28/11/2014 privacy
• Populism to Rahul's magic: Six impossible things Congress still believes in http://www.firstpost.com/politics/populism-to-rahuls-magic-six-impossible-things-congress-still-believes-in-1693387.html 7 comments 3/9/2014 india
• In the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, Congress adopted legislation designed to make things safer for unaccompanied immigrant children arriving into the U.S. http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/the-anti-trafficking-law-that-backfired-into-the-current-flood-of-child-immigrants-140710?news=853641 32 comments 10/7/2014 politics
• Ocasio-Cortez on challenging Schumer: 'I'm trying to decide what is the most effective thing I can do to help our Congress' https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/532501-ocasio-cortez-on-challenging-schumer-im-trying-to-decide-what-is-the-most?amp&__twitter_impression=true 7 comments 6/1/2021 politics
• Ocasio-Cortez on challenging Schumer: 'I'm trying to decide what is the most effective thing I can do to help our Congress' https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/532501-ocasio-cortez-on-challenging-schumer-im-trying-to-decide-what-is-the-most 59 comments 4/1/2021 politics
• Congress Is the Problem Child of American Democracy - If Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have the same complaint, then things must be really broken. https://newrepublic.com/article/160750/congress-covid-relief-dysfunction 21 comments 23/12/2020 politics
• Trump administration could leave Congress no choice but an impeachment inquiry: Rep. Lieu — By fighting subpoenas, Trump is abusing his power to curb probes into his potential abuses of power. But impeachment is another way to find things out. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/05/07/trump-congress-subpoenas-abuse-of-power-impeachment-column/1127942001/ 5 comments 7/5/2019 politics
• 'Do the Right Thing': MLK's Daughter Sends a 'Plea to Congress' to Pass Trump-Backed Prison Reform https://ijr.com/mlk-daughter-pass-trump-backed-prison-reform/ 29 comments 10/12/2018 politics
• Iceland’s former PM was recorded having a conversation at a bar with 2 other MPs - where they compared a disabled member of congress to “a seal” and made seal noises, among many other improper things. https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2018/11/29/recording_of_centre_party_mp_s_making_derogatory_co/ 9 comments 4/12/2018 worldnews
• Sanders beats Trump by double digits in the national polls. Sanders has a track record of getting things done: he reached across the aisle and co-sponsored a veterans health care bill with Sen John McCain. Sanders has valuable legislative and executive experience, having served 24 years in Congress http://www.montereyherald.com/article/nf/20160527/local1/160529845 68 comments 5/6/2016 politics
• "Not only has Sanders gotten a lot more things done than Clinton did in her own short legislative career, he's actually one of the most effective members of Congress, passing bills, both big and small, that have reshaped American policy on key issues like poverty, the environment and health care." http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-gets-it-done-sanders-record-pushing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you 592 comments 7/11/2015 politics
• "Congress has done some dumb things. One of the dumbest is the GOP’s penny-wise-pound-foolish campaign to defund the IRS. We now have official word about what its mindless tantrum against the IRS has produced for taxpayers: a tax season that was 'by far the worst in memory,' ..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/07/22/this-is-the-dumbest-expression-of-republican-anti-tax-orthodoxy/ 105 comments 23/7/2015 politics
• The War On Drugs Is Over (If You Want It): Want to end the war on drugs? Don't lobby Congress. Lobby your local police department. They've quietly had the power to end the whole thing this entire time—and some are doing just that. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/08/the-war-on-drugs-is-over-if-you-want-it.html 845 comments 8/5/2015 politics
• 5 things to know before Obama rolls out his budget Monday | "If Congress is sure to reject and redo Obama's budget proposal, you might wonder: Why does he bother?" http://nr.news-republic.com/web/articleweb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=35481787 4 comments 31/1/2015 politics
• A gridlocked Congress failed to do the big things: overhauling the nation's immigration system, reforming the loophole-cluttered tax code and stiffening background checks on gun buyers. Now it's time to see whether it can just do the basics http://bigstory.ap.org/article/lawmakers-face-long-do-list-uncertain-success 47 comments 22/7/2014 politics
• Congress is scheduled to meet 75 more days this year. They have just 3 things to do in that time "Bottom line: As if this wasn't already evident to anyone keeping tabs, Democrats running the Senate and Republicans running the House plan to do very little to rock the political boat until Election Day http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/04/congress-is-scheduled-to-meet-75-more-days-this-year-they-have-just-3-things-to-do-in-that-time/?tid=rssfeed 4 comments 5/4/2014 politics
• The Grand Bargain Is Dead, Dead, Dead -- "the remarkable thing about Congress isn't that it can't cut deals on issues where the public is sharply divided—that's pretty understandable—but that it can't even cut deals on issues where there's a pretty strong public consensus" http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/grand-bargain-dead 13 comments 4/9/2013 politics
• There is no such thing as the "Monsanto Protection Act". It was not snuck in by Congress. The term was made up by anti-GMO activists in reference to a section of H.R. 933, which actually protects farmers from immediately having their crops destroyed if they are found to be out of regulation. http://badskeptic.com/?p=123 25 comments 2/6/2013 politics
• "A record 84 percent of Americans say they disapprove of the way the Congress is doing its job compared with just 13 percent who approve of how things are going, according to a Washington Post/ABC News public opinion poll published on Monday [16 January 2012]." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/us-usa-congress-poll-idustre80g03a20120117 32 comments 17/1/2012 politics
• Mention of indian caste system in Malaysian text book has Malaysian Indian Congress up in arms who said they would rather forget such a thing ever existed and don't need to be reminded of it http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4555718 13 comments 3/1/2011 worldnews
• Congress agrees to control television commercial volume. The House passes the Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation Act, setting rules on how loud television commercials can be. Is this the one thing lawmakers can all agree on? http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/12/03/am-congress-agrees-to-control-television-commercial-volume/ 5 comments 3/12/2010 reddit.com
• Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Sunday that the ethical charges against Rep. Charles Rangel are the kind of thing that could get him "thrown out of Congress." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/25/dean-ethics-charges-rangel-thrown-congress/ 6 comments 26/7/2010 politics
• Ron Paul wants to money-bomb B.J. Lawson for $250,000 on October 7th. Donate on that day if you think having another "Ron Paul" in congress is a good thing. http://www.lawsonforcongress.com/?s=0701&skip=1 25 comments 3/10/2008 politics
• DoJ to Congress: We've got better things to do than act as pro-bono lawyers for Hollywood, scrap the IP Enforcement proposal http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/24/doj-to-congress-weve.html 53 comments 24/9/2008 technology