Congress

While the teams may be on opposites at work and in tonight's baseball game they will be sharing a common theme in honor of Steve Scalise.

Thoughts and prayers are pouring out following the shooting in Alexandria, Va. this morning.

Current Rep. Cedric Richmond also elected Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

A Democrat and a Republican will duke it out for the the chance to represent voters from the Fourth Congressional District.

If the Constitutional Concealed Carry Act becomes law, it would allow any law-abiding, legally-permitted citizen to travel across state lines while carrying.

District 23 State Senator Page Cortez (R-Lafayette) assumes a new role in the Senate as a member of the Senate Natural Resources Committee.

No, your eyes are not deceiving you: a plane landed on Congress Street today.

Politics usually has a way of putting a wedge between people, and it seems that the Affordable Health Care Act is one of those hot-button subjects.

When the news comes on and they start to discuss the "Fiscal Cliff" and the "Debt Ceiling", do you find yourself getting confused?

Does government have it wrong?  I recieved an email recently that contained the following message.  I don't know where it originated so I don't know who penned these statments.  Whether you agree with government or not, use these words as food for thought...

Recently, a poll of their Congressional approval rating found that only nine percent of the American people had a favorable rating of their senators and representatives. So the congressmen buckled down and got to work and got their rating up to…17 percent. If they want to keep up this white hot pace, they should try some of these ideas.

As a child actor, David Pollock played Rudi Stein, one of the lovable losers in the ‘Bad News Bears‘ film franchise from the ’70s. That role was pretty much the bulk of Pollock’s acting career, and he never made the transition to adult actor. Now, he hopes to make the transition to congressman. He is running for Congress as a Democrat representing California’s 26th Congressional District. Read Mor

A tearful Anthony Weiner held a press conference Monday afternoon in New York to address rumors that he had sent a revealing photo of himself to a young woman on his Twitter account. The disgraced congressman, who previously told reporters that his Twitter had been hacked, admitted he had accidentally sent the photo, adding he was "deeply sorry" and that he takes "full responsibilit