Subject: U.S. House of Representatives

• Foley's Chicks Come Home to Roost

  So Representative Mark Foley of Florida's 16th Congressional District has resigned. Why? Sexually explicit emails between him and a congressional page who was 16 at the time (August, 2005). Gross? Not only disgusting-gross, but a gross abuse of power. Let me spell it out for you: H is for homophobia. To associate Foley's crimes with his homosexuality rather than his pedophilia, like Cliff Kincaid, is a form of passive homophobia. Y is for younger. A 16-year-old page is much younger than 50-yea

  October 1, 2006

• It Pays To Be a Rohrabacher

  There's nothing illegal about paying your spouse to work on your congressional campaign. Richard Pombo did it. So did Tom DeLay. Even local boy Dana Rohrabacher does it. The Sunlight Foundation is busily compiling information on all sorts of representatives, but for the moment they're focusing on members of Congress and their families. Using something called a distributive research and reporting model, it took them less than two days to compile a list of every single member of the House of Repre

  October 8, 2006

• Hughcifer Unhinged

  When it came to this election, Hugh Hewitt, our favorite unintentional radio comedian, fought a long, hard battle against reality. One expects no less from him. He took extraordinary measures to blind and deafen himself, even engaged in a little body-snatching from the Democratic political graveyard, in his attempt to hammer the world into the shape of his strange little fantasy-- a three seat gain for Republicans in the House of Representatives. And even though Hewitt couldn't make reality d

  November 8, 2006

• And now a word from Dana Rohrabacher on Mexicans, the Liberal Left, Lucy & Charlie Brown

  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher in the U.S. House of Representatives on 5/22/07: A tsunami of illegal aliens is sweeping into our country, crowding our classrooms, closing our hospital emergency rooms, unleashing violent crime, and driving down wages. This is not theory. It is a harsh, threatening reality borne out not by numerous academic studies, but by the life experiences of the American families from California to Georgia and from Iowa to New Jersey. Our middle class is being destro

  May 26, 2007

• The Grinch Who Stole O'Reilly

  Our rootstacular music contributor, Buddy Seigal (who in another life is rootstacular musician extraordinaire Buddy Blue) sent this in to us a couple days ago, at which time we muttered into the curb, "If ever that Clockwork blog is up and ruining again, we'll share this with our vast reader." But we also felt duty bound to credit the original source, and although we found references to this Rep. John Dingell ditty from the usual suspects (like Wonkette, Democratic Underground, Kos), we could no

  December 20, 2005

• FOO Fighter

  We're re-posting this Oct. 10, 2005, post because: a) A reader wondered why the Weekly had never connected slime-ball GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff to our smurfin' Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach). As the post shows, Clockwork had (and Moxley will mention it in Thursday's edition). 2) For reasons only the gremlins of cyberspace know, the item, "FOO Fighter," never got transferred over from our old database to our--cough, cough, cough--new improved database. thirdly) You'll need w

  January 10, 2006

• Save Our Coast, Kill a Fat Cat

  U.S. House of Representatives Interior and Environment Appropriations bill vote = time to once again argue for opening the California coast to more offshore oil drilling. Within minutes, we received alerts from Surfrider and SaveOurEnvironment.org of this: In the next few days, the House of Representatives will decide whether or not to expose our beautiful coasts and marine wildlife to the perils of offshore drilling when they vote on the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill. Both clean-

  May 15, 2006

• White House Oil Men: OUT! More Taxes on Gas: IN!

  My how times change. The boost that 9/11 gave the oily men in the White House was as short-lived as any post-Seinfeld sitcom starring Jason Alexander. It seems like only yesterday that Dickless Cheney was defending our latest Blood for Oil campaign by suggesting Americans essentially have a God-given right to our "way of life"--even if, no, ESPECIALLY if that means giving a petroleum-jelly-covered middle finger to Kyoto, worldwide imbalances in energy consumption and all the nasty diseases assoc

  May 23, 2006

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: Target Practice on the 55?

  Dana’s Idea of Sacrifice: Ex-Dana Rohrabacher aide Erik Prince and other Blackwater USA corporate officials have been dodging congressional questions about their private army’s alleged corruption, including killing innocent, unarmed Iraqi citizens. Mainstream news accounts thoroughly detail the stories. But an excellent update this morning in the Detroit Free Press quotes Rohrabacher (R-Skipped Vietnam Combat Duty) claiming that Prince has sacrificed himself financially for the nation by ow

  October 7, 2007

• Sic Semper Schroeder

  Is Mike Schroeder a bad lawyer? Or just a bad liar? R. Scott Moxley recently announced Schroeder’s hackneyed effort to kneecap Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook’s election challenge to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Islamabad). It seems Schroeder took issue with Cook’s reference to herself on the ballot as “Mayor” because she was appointed by representatives. At the time, we had no idea just how hackneyed the effort was. In the marvelous words of the court document, prepared by Judg

  March 31, 2008

• Were Gonna Puke

  November 4, 1999

• Sexploitation Producer, Rocker Among Those Who Flood Rohrabacher Coffers

  Dana Rohrabacher, Vietnam War, combat duty, House of Representatives, Huntington Beach, Wall Street, PACs, Debbie Cook, Sammy Hagar, Sierra Club, oil drilling, California, Robert F. Kennedy, assassination, R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, presidential candidate, Los Angeles hotel, Lloyd Kaufman, NSA

  November 3, 2008

• Defense Contractor Airtech, a Big Rohrabacher Contributor, Is Under Investigation for Fraud

  October 23, 2008

• OC's Scariest People

  Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)

  October 25, 2007

• Whatever Happened to the Santa Ana Four?

  July 12, 2007

• This Week in Living Legends

  January 19, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 7, 2004

• Cruelty to an Animal

  January 1, 2004

• Even Then, a Son of a Bitch

  August 12, 1999

• This Year in Lost Letters

  January 7, 1999

• Poof!

  February 12, 1998

• Yes! Dornan is Completely Nuts!

  March 6, 1997

• The Mexican No-Show Show

  January 9, 1997

• The Secret Lives of Bob Dornan

  October 24, 1996

• John Campbell Tries To Honor UCI Volleyball But Gets Spiked

  ​Poor John Campbell (R-Real Housewives). He tried to do a nice thing for his constituents -- which we deserve, given that he refuses to earmark federal dollars for local projects -- but his gesture turned into a political football. Ok, a political volleyball.Fox News's Chad Pergram has written up the sad saga of Campbell's attempt to get federal recognition for UC Irvine's mens' volleyball team, which won the national championship.Campbell introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to c

  October 15, 2009

• John Campbell's Attempt at 'Negative Earmarking' Voted Down

  Say what you will about his e-mails and digestive issues, but you gotta hand it to Rep. John Campbell (R-Newport) for really, really hating federal earmarks. He doesn't request any federal project dollars for his district -- luckily, other members of the Orange County D.C. delegation do that for him -- and he's got his own little online earmark reform center.Yesterday, he introduced an amendment to the House of Representatives to prevent further funding of the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria Count

  May 22, 2009