Pete Sessions

When it comes to money in politics, the new normal is already on vivid display. It could be seen last week in posh restaurants and corporate townhouses on Capitol Hill, where politicians held fundraisers at a record pace. It was evident at Washington's...

Also, Hillary Clinton, Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Rep. Pete Sessions and Colin Powell....

Video. The change starts right now, the House Speaker designate says in brief remarks. No time for celebration....

Remember when Bucks County Republican Mike Fitzpatrick was hanging out at his swearing-in party and then whoops he missed taking the oath of office on the House floor? And remember how Texas Republican Pete Sessions was there too? And the......

Gov. Tom Corbett on Saturday ... ... hinted at an increased privatization of public services, most notably the sale of state-owned liquor stores, to close a more than $4 billion budget deficit and to pay for such long-term needs as......

WASHINGTON — Former GOP congressional candidate Karen Diebel plans to make another run at it in 2012 — but doesn’t intend to challenge any of the current Republican incumbents, said a source who worked on Diebel’s 2010 campaign....

Under the dull roar of a desire for change, about 50 people got on their hands and knees this afternoon at The Progressive Center in Dallas. They made signs, putting their thoughts on paper about the need for health care reform. Julia Rogers says, "It's...

News item: President Obama meets today with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge (Mass.) police sergeant James Crowley. Crowley arrested Gates for disorderly conduct at the professor???s home earlier this month, after police fielded a...

by Richard Simon Responding to the public furor over bonuses paid to executives of Wall Street firms bailed out by taxpayers, the House today voted to give shareholders a bigger say over compensation in the first piece of President Obama's......

A bunch of conservatives who want to boot U.S. Reps. Alan Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas are going to be outside Orlando City Hall on Saturday — and for once, it's not tea party activists. The National Republican Congressional Committee is hosting a &#...

First, Robert F. Bennett was denied renomination to another Senate term by Utah Republicans, a reliably conservative Republican ousted by Republicans for not being conservative enough. Utah's other Republican senator, Orrin G. Hatch, a conservative who...

U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions is in Orlando today, getting ready for the “Pink Slip Party” Republicans are throwing on Saturday. The National Republican Congressional Committee, of which Sessions is chairman, wants to “fire” Democrat...