Support the Creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency Dear Senator I am asking you to support the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009 which would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. It is time for Congress to act ...

Buried in the billions of dollars of spending on new weapons and other items in the 2010 defense appropriations bill is a little-noticed expression of regret over how the U.S. had in the past used its power. The bill contains an "apology to Native...

We will be writing Representatives to enact a National Event on the Calendar for Youth Outreach Day

Spc. Stephan Mace was one of 8 who died in Oct.3 battle in Afghanistan. To be laid in Arlington Cemetary. Mom: "It was my responsibility as a mother to bring him home"

WASHINGTON - Voter rights advocates are calling on the Obama administration's Justice Department to improve the system for Native Americans

Yet there are already several cases on the docket for this year's term, scheduled to start on Monday, that are both important and actually really interesting.

An innocent man, Leonard Peltier was wrongfully convicted in 1977 and has served over 30 years in federal prison despite proof that he was convicted on the basis of fabricated and suppressed evidence, as well as coerced testimony.

Rep. C Maloney, co-sponsor of the 9/11 Health&Compensation Act, & Dr. J Moline, director of WorldTradeCenter Medical Monitoring&Treatment Program at NY's Mt Sinai medical school join Amy & Joe Picurro, 42, who volunteered for 28 days, now racked with pain

This month a full vote is scheduled in the House on Medicare for all. Expanding Medicare'd bring us in line with the rest of the industrial world. There's also an amndmt that'd enable the states to enact single-payer as part of national reform. More !

The early impact of the worst recession since the 1930s pushed median incomes down, forced millions more people into poverty and left more Americans without health care in 2008, according to new annual survey data from the U.S. Census...