
What Happens With Congress During A Federal Shutdown?
What congressional activities are still performed during this impasse?

What congressional activities are still performed during this impasse?
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 8th, 2011″Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation]…and sometimes the BBC doesn’t seem to like Rupert Murdoch either,” top U.K. documentary filmmaker Adam…
By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 3rd, 2011On Aug. 1st, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a damning indictment of the Debt ceiling agreementput together by Congress, declaring that it “concludes…
By Cliff Montgomery – July 29th, 2011The American economy is at the crossroads, you are told by the billionaire and millionaire shareholders runningthe corporate media.We are in a crisis of…
By Cliff Montgomery – July 24th, 2011″[The Department of] Interior does not have reasonable assurance that it is collecting its share of billions of dollars of revenue from oil and…
By Cliff Montgomery – July 18th, 2011These are tough times for Rupert Murdoch. But it’s becoming clear that the chairman and CEO of News Corporation–which owns FOX News and The…
By Cliff Montgomery – July 12th, 2011By 2050, renewable fuels such as solar or wind power will become significantly cheaper thanks to expectedtechnological advances, a draft United Nations study recently…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 29th, 2011″Germany was forced to agree to bail out Greece for the second time in a year,” stated The London Guardian on June 17th, “under…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 24th, 2011The War of Terror has cost American taxpayers about $1.3 trillion so far and may cost $1.8 trillion by 2021, even as essential U.S.…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 18th, 2011By nearly every measure, federal spying increased on American citizens and residents in 2010, stated a recently-released Justice Department (DoJ) report prepared for Congress.The…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 14th, 2011American Special Operations Forces (SOF) have rapidly grown across the board since Sept. 11th, 2001, with a new host of missions, swelling ranks and…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2011The corporate media may not be able to ask the tough questions about things like Iraq, the so-called ‘War onTerror’, or why not one…
By Cliff Montgomery – June 2nd, 2011A direct order from President Obama intended to declassify numerous federal records apparently is being ignored by the majority of executive branch agencies.Obama in…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 29th, 2011The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC-based think tank specializing in economic policy, earlier this month released a 10-page study…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2011A February Congressional Research Service report entitled, Political Transition in Tunisia, openly described the current revolutionary wave sweeping across the Middle East thus:”The Tunisia…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 18th, 2011The twisted economic policies of America and other wealthy countries “are pushing us to the brink of social, economic and political unsustainability,” recently declared…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 14th, 2011A top financial markets expert recently revealed the U.S. government’s stunning lack of legal oversight on foreclosures, and how it continues to plague our…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 8th, 2011 The American intelligence community is preparing a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) which will discuss the security weaknesses brought on by the steady decline…
By Cliff Montgomery – May 2nd, 2011Imagine the following events…For the last several years, a certain nation–any nation, in any part of the world–has become known for such activities as…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2011Americans were told numerous lies as a justification for the fruitless nation-building of Iraq. Among those lieswas the boast that our armed forces invaded…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 25th, 2011The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in February issued a little-known–yet absolutely fascinating–report on the true state of America’s Afghan War.“No allied…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2011In late March, The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a preliminary study on the recent earthquake and tsunami that has crippled Japan.CRS reports are…
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 13th, 2011The Wisconsin election for State Supreme Court justice is beginning to look oddly familiar–and once again, computer e-mails may help to uncover the truth.To…