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• Is Congress Getting Stupider or Just Better at Writing?
21 May 2012 at 11:25am
In recent years, Congress has gone from speaking at an 11th level to a 10th grade level, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation featured on NPR Monday, and while it's easy to see this as an example of our dumbed-down discourse, it seems more like a sign that our politicians are becoming better at communicating.

• Is Congress getting dumber?
21 May 2012 at 1:40pm
Think members of Congress act like a bunch of high school students? You might be on to something. A recent study from the Sunlight Foundation found that members of Congress tend to speak at about a 10th-grade level. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed every word spoken by every member of Congress on the floor of the [...]

• Congress sounding increasingly like teenagers, study says
22 May 2012 at 5:22am
WASHINGTON -- If it sounds like the debates in Congress have devolved to that of teenagers, it?s because they have.

• Library of Congress names 25 new entries for National Recording Registry
23 May 2012 at 2:03am
The Library of Congress has named 25 new entries for its National Recording Registry, honoring historically significant sound recordings. Recordings by Donna Summer, Dolly Parton, Leonard Bernstein and others are joining the registry.

• Library of Congress?s National Recording Registry adds new picks
23 May 2012 at 2:01am
Keep your eyes peeled for the Mothership on Wednesday. That?s when Parliament?s legendary 1975 funk album ? Mothership Connection ? is cleared for landing on the Library of Congress?s National Recording Registry, a collection of recordings deemed ?culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.? Read full article >>

• Staying in America, No Thanks to Congress
22 May 2012 at 10:34am
PALO ALTO, Calif.?Congress still hasn?t done right by Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don. But they?ve managed to stay in the United States anyway.

• Congress staring over edge of 'fiscal cliff'
22 May 2012 at 9:22pm
For Congress, the outlines of the pending fiscal crisis are clear: Don't do a thing, and watch the economy slip into a double-dip recession early next year. Or cancel the looming tax increases and spending cuts, watch the deficit rise, and push the government ever closer to a European-style debt ...

• Library of Congress taps 25 sounds for registry
23 May 2012 at 2:39am
From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.

• Gridlock in Congress? Blame the GOP
21 May 2012 at 7:55am
Congress is reaching a point where it will no longer be able to function at all. Over the past two years, some members of the Republican Party have ramped up the partisan wars on Capitol Hill. They are threatening to bring the legislative process to a standstill.

• FIFA Congress to tackle first reforms
22 May 2012 at 8:28am
The upcoming FIFA Congress in Budapest is set to be a particularly significant one, as member associations gather to vote on the first set of proposals put forward as part of FIFA?s ongoing reform process.

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