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Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that it is time to “introduce articles of impeachment” against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Boxer was discussing Thomas’ ruling against releasing documents to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in light of reports his far-right activist wife texted then-chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning the 2020 presidential election.

How May I Introduce An Idea to the Tea Party Representatives? Free Republic is an amazing national resource that I think should be able to help direct me. How do I seek the opinion of a Tea Party Republican member of Congress? I have an idea for a legislative proposal that I believe would benefit the Tea Party Movement, the Republican Party, and the nation. I emailed Ted Cruz some time back and received a nice form letter suggesting a later response that never arrived. I have given my idea considerable thought and I of course realize that it may...

Senate Democrats introduced legislation on Wednesday that would ban marketing electronic cigarettes to teens. Despite their admission that the health implications of electronic cigarettes “are not yet clear,” Senators Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.), Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), Tom Harkin (D., Iowa), Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), and Edward Markey (D., Mass.) introduced the bill to “protect children” from the smoking simulators.

OTTAWA--Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told U.S. President Barack Obama that he's ready to work on joint plan between the two countries to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector in an effort to secure approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday. The CBC, citing unnamed sources, said Mr. Harper wrote to Mr. Obama in late August, signaling he is ready to accept carbon-reduction targets proposed by the U.S. and prepared to work with the White House to address concerns raised about Keystone and its impact on greenhouse-gas emissions. A spokesman for Mr....

Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren is set to introduce President Obama in Boston during his New England swing, she tweeted a short while ago: "Big news: @BarackObama will be in town tomorrow, and he’s asked me to introduce him at one of his events.Time to work on my speech!" It's a major appearance with Obama and at a time when Warren appears to have put the issue that Sen. Scott Brown has hammered her over for months - Harvard having promoted her as a Native American - behind her. Obama adviser David Axelrod gave her a word of support during...

After a week of preemptive attacks on a possible IMF bailout of Greece, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) introduces the European Bailout Protection Act, aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from going to a rescue plan. "This legislation would require that countries like Greece cut spending and put their own fiscal house in order," says Pence, backed up by other members of the House GOP, "instead of looking to the United States for a bailout. We face record unemployment and a debt crisis of our own, and American taxpayers should not be forced to bear the risk for nations that have avoided...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. state leaders, trade groups and economists descended on the House of Representatives on Wednesday to help work out a second economic stimulus bill that one influential Congressional member said would be introduced on November 17. Representative Jim Oberstar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told a hearing on jump-starting the stalled economy that Congressional staff would be meeting throughout the month and a stimulus bill would be introduced when Congress reconvenes next month. The House passed a sweeping $61 billion stimulus bill last month, but the package was blocked in the...

Democrats have introduced resolutions in the House and Senate that would censure President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., introduced the censure resolutions in the Senate on Aug. 4; New York Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey introduced them in the House a day later. One resolution (S Res 302, H Res. 625), would censure Bush and Cheney for “misleading the American people” about the need to invade and occupy Iraq, as well as for poor planning and conduct of the war. The other measure (S Res 303, H Res. 626) would censure Bush and...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lawmakers in the US Senate introduced legislation designed to stem a flood of illegal immigration across America's southern borders. "This bill strengthens our border enforcement and comprehensively reforms our immigration system, said Republican Senator John Cornyn, one of the authors of the bill, The Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005. "We need both stronger enforcement and reasonable reform of our immigration laws," he said. "In the past, we have not devoted the funds, the resources, or the manpower to enforce our immigration laws or protect our borders," said Cornyn, of the southwestern state of Texas,...

LONDON - The British government said Monday it hoped to pass a new anti-terrorism law by December that would counter the influence of extremist clerics and make it an offense to receive terror training. The law comes after the government reached an agreement with Britain's main opposition parties on how to respond to the London bombings. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said there were "no main outstanding issues of difference" between the parties, and that lawmakers would debate the new legislation when Parliament returns from summer recess in October. If passed, the legislation will outlaw "indirect incitement" of terrorism, including praising...

SACRAMENTO - Senate Democrats rolled out a counterproposal to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's pension reform plan Friday, proposing to crack down on fraud and smooth cost fluctuations for government agencies. The plan would essentially leave the current system intact -- stopping short of the Republican governor's wishes to institute a 401(k)-style program. But the Schwarzenegger administration applauded the proposal, saying it could serve as the foundation for a compromise. "The fact that they want to put pension reform on the fast track is absolutely a positive development and one that we welcome," said H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the governor's Department...

SACRAMENTO - Armed with a new report showing big savings and backed by the Legislature's two leaders, a Democratic lawmaker announced plans Wednesday to reintroduce her bill to create a universal health care system that would cover all Californians. The study by the Lewin Group, a Virginia consulting firm, predicts the legislation would save California $343.6 billion in health care costs over the next 10 years, mainly by cutting administration and using bulk purchases of drugs and medical equipment. The study was paid for by Health Care for All - California, a nonprofit group that supports universal coverage. The bill's...

"It’s very much a get-to-know-you process," said spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter at the same time Kerry’s convention scriptwriters labored to find the combination of words, symbols and images to make the perfect introduction. Campaign strategists said the millions of voters who don’t know about Kerry comprise the audience they’re targeting convention week. At the same time, Kerry’s aides have taken pains to say they don’t expect a major surge in public support as a result of the convention. "Challengers sometimes get their convention and vice presidential selection bounces because they have not consolidated their partisan base," Kerry’s pollster, Mark Mellman, wrote...