Subject: U.S. House of Representatives

• The Year of Living Anxiously

  Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?

  December 29, 1994

• Gloom And Doom For Uninsured Texas Children

  November 3, 2008

• Sheila Keeps Quiet

  November 24, 1994

• The Wendy Card

  April 6, 1995

• Archer's Way

  April 11, 1996

• Artist of the Week: The Sans-Bayonet

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. It was recently mentioned to us that in Artist of the Week's near eight-month reign as the local music scene's preeminent kingmaker - that's right Handstamp, Skyline, FPH and SCR, we said it - we had yet to interview anyb

  January 28, 2009

• Into the Den of Stockmania

  June 13, 1996

• Brothers of the Road

  May 22, 1997

• Alison Cook looks back at 1997: The Year That Bit

  January 1, 1998

• Letters

  August 20, 1998

• Ron Paul, Crusading Against All Pork But His

  Photo courtesy Ron PaulOf all the Republicans in the US House of Representatives, who do you think has the most earmarks in the omnibus spending bill? Some RINO from up north?Nah. It's our own Ron Paul, stalwart criticizer of government spending (that's not in his district.)Fox News is touting the story of Paul's $73 million in earmarks.Neil Cavuto asked Paul if it wasn't a case of him having his cake and eating it too.Shockingly, it wasn't, according to Paul:But -- but, Neil -- Neil, you're --

  March 11, 2009

• News Hostage

  April 29, 1999

• News of the Weird

  July 15, 1999

• The DREAM Act Might Be Dead, But These Kids' Hopes Are Not

  June 19, 2008

• Online Fun

  You, too, can patrol our borders

  November 23, 2006

• A Fallen Star Is Born

  Tom DeLay's scandals are a gold mine for two Texas filmmakers

  May 18, 2006

• Crossing Lines

  A Houston teenager learns how convictions can lead to convictions

  February 16, 2006

• Shortchanged

  Houston-based immigrants who flock to New Orleans can get all the jobs they want. Getting paid is a lot harder.

  February 9, 2006

• Rapping on Heaven's Door

  December 23, 2004

• Letters

  October 14, 2004

• Lessons to the Left

  Young conservatives start to monitor liberal college profs

  May 6, 2004

• Race for the House

  Chris Bell finds it's lonely being white on this campaign trail

  February 19, 2004

• Best Role Model

  Terry Hershey

  September 25, 2003

• Shore Thing

  Plus: Driving Us Nuts, Cheap Thrills, Gong Wrongs

  August 1, 2002

• Best Republican

  State Representative John Culberson, winner of the GOP nomination in the Seventh Congressional District

  September 21, 2000

• This Bud's for John

  John McCain's family

  March 2, 2000

• Uploading

  If her capers as comptroller don't catch her, Carole Rylander is ready to ride the Internet to greater political fame

  January 6, 2000

• Placed in the Discard Pile

  About to be booted from the Fourth Ward, poor people are being told they are too poor to qualify for public housing in Houston

  October 28, 1999

• The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker

  Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.

  June 17, 1999

• The Exterminator

  Tom DeLay, the bug man from Sugar Land, has always despised environmental regulation. Now, as House majority whip, he's in a position to do something about it.

  November 23, 1995

• Tom DeLay to Debut the "Bitch Slap" on Dancing With the Stars Next Month

  News is leaking out of Hollywood that former U.S. House Majority Leader and mugshot model Tom DeLay will be part of the cast of next season's ABC hoofer ratings smash Dancing With the Stars. What hasn't come out yet is DeLay's plans to debut a new dance called the "Bitch Slap," an arm-movement-heavy variation of the foxtrot inspired by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Rocks Off can't wait for DeLay to try the Bitch Slap on his lady partner, whoever she may be, while fellow Dancing co

  August 17, 2009

• Stranger Musical Pairings Than Dancing With the Stars' Tom DeLay and Cheryl Burke

  ​Dancing With the Stars announced the pairings for its upcoming season Monday - like you care - and while some out there are no doubt crunching the odds of Debi Mazar and that Russian guy squaring off with Chuck Liddell and...that Russian chick in the finals, local interest is still focused on former U.S. House speaker Tom DeLay and his partner, Cheryl Burke. Burke is a two-time DWTS winner, and has had her own share of what passes for controversy on network TV. Granted, accusations of being

  August 25, 2009

• No Justice

  October 29, 2009

• The Tug of War

  November 19, 2009