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Congress needs to acknowledge the reality that most immigrants are here to stay.Businesses should have the freedom to hire any immigrant worker long as the immigrant does not violate the property rights of other Americans.They should have high standards and requirements to qualify for working, citizenship,government funded benefits, and education.

Congress needs to acknowledge the reality that most immigrants are here to stay.Businesses should have the freedom to hire any immigrant worker long as the immigrant does not violate the property rights of other Americans.They should have high standards and requirements to qualify for working, citizenship,government funded benefits, and education.

Many people are outraged that obama reformed anti immigration laws allowing immigrants without papers stay. This opens the door for millions of immigrants job opportunities.

Although knowing reasons of why many are to believe that planned parenthood should or should not be defund, it is also important to know the history of the bill. This site is exactly for that reason. It shows who, where, and when the Planned Parenthood Act was in action.

This is about making the new gun laws but two people debating on weather or not they should be new laws or if they should just have stronger enforcement and better background checks.

Ten years ago, on Oct. 26, 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act. Congress overwhelmingly passed the law only weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. It's designed to give the FBI more power to collect information in cases that involve national security.

history of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) prior to 1984 and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) since 1984.

This is pretty crazy. It's now against the law to unlock the cell phone you just spent hundreds of dollars for.

This is an article from ABC News earlier this year. It mostly focuses on PIPA, the Protect IP Act. It also contains a few videos on censorship.

Major websites protesting the bills on sopa and pipa. Hoping people will take action to stop the internet to be censored. They fear that this would be the stepping stone for more to come.

There are a lot of bad feed back on the bill SOPA, Committee is revising the bill and will be postpone until they reach some agreement.

Privacy in Peril, Article discusses Congress and how they will strengther privacy safeguards, but one hopes that they can protect personal data from Big Brother itself.

This article discusses the SOPA and Project IP bills. Both bills are intended to stop online piracy and the SOPA bill has now been put onhold because so many have opposed the bill. Congress will need to make the bill more focused before trying to pass it agian.

With presidential campaigns dominating the attention of most politicos, a key fight in Congress is going practically unnoticed. The debate contains all the sex appeal of court jurisdiction, statutory language, and acronym upon acronym, so it's easy to understand how it's been crowded out of the headlines.

Editorial page from the New York Times about more legislation being introduced regarding internet piracy. OPEN is the name of the new legislation. No word in the article about when this might be brought up for any kind of vote in Congress.

This artcile brings up a very good point. Americans are responsible for their own ways and actions, especially on the internet. It also discusses that congress wants people to see both sides of the issue.

Congress just spends money like it's going out of style. When the goverment spends more money that it brings in, you know we have a problem. Then we start to play the blame game, republicans blame the democrats, and the democrats blame the republicans. Haven't we learned that blaming each other never solves anything? They need to take responsibility and budget better...pff. Or just raise all of our taxes to try to make up for it...now that doesn't seem fair for us hard working citizens, I don't think we recieved any of that spending money. Lets just fix the problem before our economic well-being is dug into a hole so deep we can't pull ourselves out.

The USA Patriot Act was signed into law with little debate or congress review only 43 days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This article describes some of the pros and cons, and how this Act was created to aid in the War against Terrorists.

The following is a list of smoking bans in the United States. For smoking bans and restrictions outside the United States, see the worldwide list of smoking bans. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any nationwide federal smoking ban. This is a list from Wikipedia that gives you every state that bans smoking and where each location is banned and when the state banned smoking. It also gives overview of smoking and why its banned. Also fun facts about smoking in other states.

(Original) "The religious persecution that drove settlers from Europe to the British North American colonies sprang from the conviction, held by Protestants and Catholics alike, that uniformity of religion must exist in any given society. This conviction rested on the belief that there was one true religion and that it was the duty of the civil authorities to impose it, forcibly if necessary, in the interest of saving the souls of all citizens" (Paraphrased) Fleeing the oppression of a state sponsored religion, both Protestant and Catholic, those souls who risked everything to cross the Atlantic came to the American Colonies with the express purpose to be able to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit without the forced philosophies of a government sponsored religion being forced upon them.

WASHINGTON - President Obama's compromise plan to require free insurance coverage of contraceptives for women touched off a tumultuous debate on Thursday in which members of Congress mixed political theater with soul-searching over potential threats to religious liberty.

About.com Guide - COPA Act, Internet censorship. This site outlines the Child Online Protection Act details and talks about similar bills that have been passed or attempted to pass through congress.