Common Blog

Those of us who held out hope that Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s nominee to chair the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), would provide guidance as to where Mr. Wheeler intends to steer the FCC were disappointed. In what has become the norm for such proceedings, Mr. Wheeler followed the advised script [...]

All right folks, we’re about to learn whether the third branch of government – the judiciary – can summon the will to confront the U.S. Senate and order that body to change its rules to comport with the Constitution. Common Cause on Tuesday filed its opening brief in the U.S Court of Appeals for the [...]

The great thing about American democracy is that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. Right? When baseball legend Roger Clemens told a congressional committee in 2008 that, no, he never used steroids, he was slapped with a federal indictment on three counts of making false statements, two counts of perjury and one [...]

Common Cause and our fellow voting rights advocates are celebrating Monday’s Supreme Court’s decision in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, while warning that more battles over voting are on the horizon. The case presented a challenge to the National Voting Registration Act of 1993, better known as the “Motor Voter Law;” the law [...]

College students are drowning in debt, and keeping student loan rates low won’t be enough to save them. Last week, President Obama urged Congress not to let government-backed student loan rates double; unless the House and Senate act by July 1, student loan interest rates will jump from 3.4 percent to 6.8, adding an average [...]