The news this week that former South Dakota U.S. Senator George McGovern is in the last days of his 90 years is a reminder once again...

Given today’s persistent gridlock in Congress, it’s easy to forget that the United States Senate was once a place where bipartisan...

More than 20 years ago I was on the way home from a trip to Washington, D.C. with Clancy Standridge, who was for many years the...

Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas– that’s him in the photo when he was at the height of his influence – still holds the record as the...

Years ago as a very young, very naive reporter, the boss handed me a piece of wire copy ripped straight off the teletype machine and told...

Republicans and many conservative legal authorities are outraged by President Obama’s recent recess appointments to install Richard...

Has there even been a time when the United States Congress ranked lower with the American public or when dysfunction more profoundly...

Commie Bashing Baseball Talent Scout The passing of the great Harmon Killebrew recently caused a few Idaho political, history and...

History will record that Sen. Jim McClure, who died Saturday at the age of 86, was one of the most significant politicians in Idaho’s...

The great Nebraska Senator George Norris (that’s him in the photo) had many ideas during his long years of public service. His ideas and...

The great Nebraska Senator George Norris (that’s him in the photo) had many ideas during his long years of public service. His ideas and...

At least three times in the last sixty-plus years Wisconsin voters have sent packing a respected national politician with a record of...

But just as BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” brand washed away in the Gulf oil spill, so has McCain’s maverick brand forever vanished thanks to...

Alaska says “goodbye” today to the guy the state legislature once voted “the Alaskan of the Century.” I’m betting the ceremony in the...

Stevens, the longest serving Republican senator in the country’s history, died Monday night in a back country plane crash in Alaska, the...

The recent death of Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia has many, many consequences. For example, until his replacement is decided, Byrd’s...

Much is being made today – as it should be – of the honors being afforded Robert C. Byrd, the longest serving member ever in the United...

The news that the longest serving member of Congress in the nation’s history, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, had died got me to thinking...

In Otto Preminger’s 1962 film of Allen Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Advise and Consent, Walter Pidgeon – playing the Senate...

In Otto Preminger’s 1962 film of Allen Drury’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Advise and Consent, Walter Pidgeon – playing the Senate...