Links tagged with “congress”
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PLOS ONE: The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives
For the couple of diagrams showing how the number of congresspeople voting cross-party has changed over time. I love attempts to visualise party political changes over time.
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Modern Two-Party System in the Senate Timeline
Fascinating and detailed graph of shifts in Republican/Democrat senators from 1857-2006. I’d love to see something similar for the UK.
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Senator Charles Grassley on the costs of health care (C-SPAN video)
In case you missed the clips on The Daily Show, here’s the full video of Grassley’s bizarre cartoon-powered Arthurian mixed metaphors. It’s stunning that this nonsense happens in government.
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YouTube - Daily Show - Federal Bail Out
I could link to the Daily Show every day but here Jon Stewart *really* gets going on Congress. If you only have two minutes to spare, skip to 2:30 for a very fine, and justified, rant. Can we clone him for the UK?