Here is a look at the life of Porter Goss, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director and Florida congressman. Personal Birth date: November 26, 1938 Birth place: Waterbury, Connecticut Birth ...

House speakers have had the power to determine when the oath is administered, and courts have been reluctant to weigh in on that influence.

President Clinton on Saturday urged Republican leaders in Congress to stop playing legislative games and make raising the minimum wage its first business when Congress resumes after the summer recess.

When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer published The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy in 2007, Wexner played a key role in damaging Walt at Harvard, in part through political commentator and ...

A Gallup Poll paints an interesting picture of the Democratic coalition that should give GOP strategists a road map to the future. The analysis says, "Forty percent of Americans interviewed in ...

Insights Sadly, multiple members of Congress have been convicted for various crimes.  Many congressional convictions relate ...

PLANO, Ill. (AP) -- An Indian Christian evangelist who boasts he persuaded warlord Charles Taylor to give up the Liberian presidency came to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's home Tuesday on a similar ...

N.Y., and Democrats block government funding that would restore food stamps and federal programs in exchange for healthcare ...

TOPEKA — Experienced teams have been through the highs and lows across multiple seasons. An inexperienced team has the beauty of ignorant bliss. They don’t know what they are walking into and they don ...

Following former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s retirement announcement, here are archival photos from the California Democrat’s time ...

While condolences for former Vice President Dick Cheney have poured in from both sides of the aisle, President Donald Trump ...