In this carnival atmosphere throbbed the omnipresent and not that because his father was Muslim, the son is forever Muslim — assuming, of course, that faith Islam is disqualifying. ..…

Kyl (rhymes with vile), who was brought back to the Senate to replace John McCain, once had members of the Alliance of Retired Americans arrested for trespassing while trying to deliver a letter from retirees to his office. .   ... The educators’ coalition, strongly supported by..…

Led by victims of aggression, tens of thousands of women and men marched and demonstrated nationwide on September 24 against GOP President Donald Trump's nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh, accused abuser, to U.S. ..…

At the request of Senator Richard Lugar, the most prominent Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Carl Meacham, director of Latin America on the Senator’s political team, met with staff from the State Department, senior foreign diplomats and industry representatives over..…

Another system used in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Malta, local elections in Scotland and in the Australian Senate is the Single Transferable Vote (STV), which allows people to vote for a team of legislators rather by ranking them in order of preference. ..…

“One shot and a 12-minute verdict got me 20 years,” Alexander said in February before a state Senate committee, as the Florida Times-Union reported. ..…

Members of Education Minnesota, ISAIAH, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and Service Employees International Union Local 284 held news conference on Tuesday to Senate hearing on SF 256.. ..…

Keith Ellison, Muslim- American of Congress only one of two Muslim lawmakers on Capitol Hill, is vying for the position of chair of Democratic National Committee. ..…

PHILADELPHIA They're calling it the 64-million-worker question, possible new bloc of voters that could have big influence on this year's election. ..…

In a taped phone conversation between President Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, Johnson describes the Nixon team’s actions, saying, “They oughtn’t to be doing this. ..…

The new attorney general has agreed to a private meeting to discuss the law with the American Civil Liberties Union, an audience the group said that it never got from Ashcroft. . 'It is a grand departure from your predecessor,' Senate Democratic Whip Richard J. ..…

Hudson is lobbying on behalf of 210 Lutheran congregations Maryland as he tries to persuade General Assembly to pass bill to require 25 percent cut greenhouse gases statewide by 2020. ..…

He came to office facing number of judicial vacancies, in part to prolonged dispute between Bush White House and Democrat-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee. Reagan and Bush appointees still hold 11 of 13 federal appeals courts, according to Alliance for Justice... ..…

No state has outdone New York, where 14 lawmakers have left office since the beginning of 2012 due to ethical or criminal issues, according to a count by Citizens Union, an advocacy group. That does not include the former leaders of both the Assembly and the Senate, who were charged in..…

But Levinson's of the great compromises ignores the fact that the failure to reach agreement would have preserved Articles of Confederation. Chip Somodevilla Getty Images Members of the US Senate escorting the college ballots through Statuary Hall January 2009 on their way to House..…

All four point toward the climax on the day of 1863, one of those great national acts, in the words of Frederick Douglass in speech that year, properly belong to the human family.. ..…

Click on Senator Parry's photo to watch his comments and hearing highlights.. ..…

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), sponsored by a bipartisan congressional coalition, was passed unanimously by both the House and Senate.  ..…

Sinema has received award from Center for Inquiry for Advancement of Science and Reason Public Policy and she was present at the opening of Secular Coalition for Arizona. She was member of Arizona House of Representatives from 2005-2011 and member of Arizona Senate from 2011-2012 .. ..…

Although its demographics aren’t significantly imbalanced, they are also relatively rigid and the Republican coalition is a little larger than the Democratic one. Thus, Democrats swung and missed when they tried to pick up a Senate seat in Georgia in 2008. ..…