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Sen. Al Franken has found a sure-fire way to rile his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill -- and keep them riled: Force them to cast a vote that pits corporate interests against victims of rape.

Thousands of people are working together in an effort to replace every single member of Congress.

On a lonely stretch of beach 70 miles south of Galveston, there sit two enormous airfields that are a reminder of a Texas past.

The numbers include at least seven such Congressional Districts in the State of Texas--and that has lots of folks here in the Lone Star State--and around the nation--sitting up and paying close attention.

Votes in Congress Service Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Nov.

A very happy birthday to First Reading's own Maureen McCann of News 8 Austin, who diligently sends me the next day's weather every evening and gets nothing but my undying gratitude in return.

Since 2005, state and federal environmental officials have known the source of dangerous levels of the carcinogen dioxin originating in the San Jacinto River and contaminating seafood harvested from northern Galveston Bay.

Farouk Shami will make his entry into the Democratic primary for Governor official tomorrow afternoon at his business' headquarters in Houston; details are on his website.

November 16, 2009 Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:22 AM CST Last updated: November 16, 2009, 8:58 PM CST Port Arthur beat out 11 other Gulf ports - including mega ports in Houston and New Orleans - for designation as a "strategic seaport," officials announced Monday.

Blogroll Archives Posted on: November 18, 2009 9:23 AM, by Ed Brayton Marcy Wheeler does a brilliant job of mining the transcripts of the healthcare reform debate to show that Republican legislators were literally reading from a script written for them by lobbyists from Genentech.

Farouk Shami is a candidate to dye for, according to the Texas Tribune. His recent political contributions are what stand out to me, however ... Shami's business, founded in 1986, took off when he signed a distribution deal with Austin-based Armstrong McCall.

The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time wea TMre calling out the House GOP .

Gov. Rick Perry has been campaigning against Washington, and Washington is returning the favor - no endorsements here.

Football players using one of their favorite weapons: their heads. This being Texas, it struck me as surprising that no Chronicle blogger has written about the current hot topic of football vioence and brain damage, which last week reached Congress .

Sadly, it seems that Alaska may no longer be an accurate microcosm of America. Or at least not in the eyes of Sarah Palin, who, via Facebook on Saturday night, sought to reassure her following and encourage them to "hold on to hope" and remained girded to "fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an ...

Two U.S. Congressmen Friday introduced federal legislation that would fund creation of HOPE programs around the country.

In 2005, 19-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones of Houston was working for Halliburton/KBR in the Green Zone, Iraq.

We were all appalled at the recent news of the gang-rape of a 15-year-old high school student outside of her high school homecoming dance in Richmond, Calif.

Why do they hate America? When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess... Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party ...

In one last salvo aimed at the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, Houston-area Republican congressmen claimed Wednesday that famed medical institutions such as the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Medical Center will suffer the brunt of a federally controlled medical system.