Taxpayers better brace themselves. A new catchy tune from house Democrats sings Hey Hey Hey the stimulus package just wasn’t enough money.

Y’know, I’m really happy with the world as it is and the wonderful politicians we have in Washington. They really know how to make things work. Forgive me if I may be mistaken, but this Jobs Bill (I refuse to call it a stimulus or bailout) to the tune of $789 billion is absolutely wonderful. [...]

I don’t know why there are so many people upset with this bail out plan. We have all been there haven’t we? You know, paying one credit card off with the other. I do it all the time. It works real swell. As long as I have income I have no problems.
Sing these next words [...]

Last year, the Sunlight Foundation began the Open House Project, a diverse coalition of people working together to help the House of Representatives be more open and accessible through using the internet. They’ve made incredible progress – developing a solid list of recommendations and helping the House to reform their rules so that Members [...]

There is only one thing left for Congress to do this session: come back after the November elections and try to pass an economic stimulus package for Main Street America. One of the major Democratic priorities that has emerged for the stimulus is investing – through tax cuts and new spending – in [...]

The Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act would increase disclosure by requiring the Senate to file their campaign contribution forms online, but it’s being blocked in the Senate by Sen. John Ensign (pictured at right). Today at a press conference in D.C., Ensign got grilled on his objections to the bill and laid out what [...]

In my post below comparing 50 key votes from Obama and McCain, I overlooked their records on space policy. Luckily, PopSci is on the case.
(h/t/ Instapundit)

Mark Cuban has just launched BailoutSleuth, a blog to “keep an eye on our taxpayer dollars and call Bullshit when necessary.”
Sounds good. From their post over the weekend, it definitely looks like it will be a good thing to have someone watching closely how the bank bailouts are being executed.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped build momentum for Congress to come back after the November elections and pass a second economic stimulus package. Breaking from the Bush administration’s ambivalence up to now on the issue, at a hearing today on Capitol Hill, Bernanke came out with a strong, but vague, endorsement of another [...]

In the three presidential debates between John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL), we’ve heard a lot about their voting records in the Senate. Votes on funding the troops in Iraq, stem cell research, equal pay for women, childrens’ health care, and energy policy have been raised by the candidates several times. Here’s [...]