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If you’ve ever listened to a member of Congress speak and felt like you were being addressed as a child, it’s not your imagination. A new study shows congresspeople now talk at a 10th grade level — a full grade lower than they did just seven years ago.

Recently, a poll of their Congressional approval rating found that only nine percent of the American people had a favorable rating of their senators and representatives. So the congressmen buckled down and got to work and got their rating up to…17 percent. If they want to keep up this white hot pace, they should try some of these ideas.

The re-election rates for members of Congress hovers between 85 and 95 percent. Yet, according to a new survey from Poll Position, the majority of American people would like new rules which would prevent them from sending the same represenatives to Washington, DC year after year.

President Obama said in a press conference today that 'Time is running out' for Washington to pass the payroll tax cut and unemployment extension. With a bill ready to sign, the democrats and republicans can not find middle ground.

The efforts to save the tax breaks for workers seems to have been abandoned as no compromise was met to extend the tax cuts. Now, Washington is packing up and headed out for their holiday recess, leaving Americans wondering if their paychecks will be smaller this year.

Looks like Barney Frank is calling it quits. After 16 terms as a lawmaker in Washington DC, it looks like Barney Frank is done, at least as a congressman.

Members of Congress love pizza as much as any of us. So, when the United States Department of Agriculture threatened to take it off public school lunch menus, they did what many of us would have done in their position — they officially declared it a vegetable. Earlier this year, the USDA proposed new standards that would’ve limited both sodium and potatoes for school lunch lines — moves some conse

After all of the struggles and hardships, however, Giffords declares that she will indeed return to Congress.

Submitted By: Old Time Farm Boy “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” is the first part of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. There are those who say that these words create a wall of separation between church and state, but do they?

Today’s Vent Submitted By: foghorn Dear president Obama, congress doesn't vote on suggestions, campaign rhetoric, or sound bites. They vote on proposed legislation. Dumbass. Please tell CBS, ABC, NBC and other pro-poverty propaganda outlets that fact too...