All posts tagged "Representative"

Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA), who campaigned on banning stock trading among lawmakers, is now one of the House's "most prolific traders," according to Business Insider.

The report said that Bresnahan wrote an op-ed in a local paper in March 2021 "stating that if elected, he would co-sponsor legislation to ban stock trading in Congress."

Bresnahan argued at the time, "Some of the most prolific traders in the country serve in Congress. Whether or not they have done something wrong, the idea that we can buy and sell stocks while voting on legislation that will have a direct impact on these companies is wrong and needs to come to an end immediately."...

Americans reflexively assume the worst about atheists, according to new research – and even other atheists share the prejudice.

Racial stereotypes influence how people view members of Congress, according to research published in American Politics Research this month.

After not one, but two debates and a couple of weeks of candidates playing a game of "who can blow the hardest on the racist dog whistle?", we're finally reached the South Carolina primary. Honestly, in my mind, this is when it really starts. New Hampshire and Iowa aren't representative enough to matter.* South Carolina is totally a different ball game for Republicans. While it's not a moderate group at all, it's bigger and more representative. So if an outlier candidate like Gingrich actually comes out on top, that's going to matter. A lot. 

During yesterday's "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations, a group of "money zombies" rampaged through the streets of New York City, as a theatrical mockery of the wealthy elite who runt he financial sector.

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama called Sunday for a "representative government" in Egypt and said that regardless of when President Hosni Mubarak steps down the country had changed forever.