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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges involving hush money payments and lying to federal agents, the Chicago Tribune reports. The Tribune wrote that Hastert ...

(WTVO) — Michael J. Madigan, once the most powerful lawmaker in Illinois, is scheduled to report to federal prison at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, to begin serving a 7.5-year sentence for corruption. U.S.

How do you make do when you now have nothing? Two panels of community leaders on Tuesday recalled being confronted with that dire situation immediately after Hurricane Katrina devastated metro New ...