In school your teacher told you not to take credit for the work of others. If you did it was considered plagiarism or cheating. Apparently Congressman Zack Space missed class that day.

Depending on which media interview he’s giving, U.S. Representative Jason Altmire, D-PA, was either a wide receiver on Florida State University’s storied 1989 Sugar Bowl Championship team, or a member of its practice squad, who didn’t play a single down in a single game during his four years as a Seminole.

As a candidate for Congress in 2006, Texas’s Nick Lampson continuously railed against Congressional pork projects and lobbyist influence.  Pork projects, or earmarks, are placed in annual appropriation bills at the request of Members of Congress.

While a number of freshmen Democrats purchased campaign stationery in 2007, only one of them could spell it correctly, the Majority Accountability Project (majorityap.com) recently learned.

 While U.S. Representative Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, is the most frequent campaign traveler in the Democrat’s freshmen class, spending nearly $44,000 on hotels, travel agents, airline and rail tickets in 2007, she is not its most pampered.  That distinction belongs to Florida’s Ron Klein.

U.S. Representative Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, paid more for campaign travel than any member of her Democrat freshman class, spending nearly $44,000 on hotels, travel agents, airline and rail tickets in 2007, research by the Majority Accountability Project (majorityap.com) has found. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, Gillibrand’s 2007 travels took her across the United States, from California to New Hampshire, and to cities such as Chicago, Atlanta, and Fort Lauderdale. In contrast, the man Gillibrand defeated, former U.S.

Critical reviews and sales tracking figures from Amazon.com have not been kind to U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy’s nearly two-month old memoir, Taking the Hill.

Stung my tumbling book sales, bad reviews and a lackluster marketing campaign by his publisher, U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy, D-PA, has turned to his re-election committee to help promote his controversial memoir, Taking the Hill, research by the Majority Accountability Project (majorityap.com) has found.

A spokesman for U.S. Representative Henry “Hank” Johnson, D-GA, responded to a Majority Accountability Project (majorityap.com) report that the freshman Democrat pays the highest campaign rent of any member of Georgia’s Congressional delegation by telling the Atlanta Journal Constitution that Johnson’s law firm paid for the space when the campaign couldn’t afford to, a likely violation of federal campaign laws, research by majorityap.com has found.

U.S. Representative Henry “Hank” Johnson, D-GA, pays more in rent for his campaign office than any other member of Georgia’s Congressional delegation, including the Peach state’s two U.S. Senators - a distinction made more dubious by the fact Johnson’s landlord is the law firm that bears his name.