Fewer than a million souls live in Montana, the state that sprawls out under the Big Sky. Yet, during the 20th Century, Montana produced...

It is hard to find in the recent history of the U.S. Senate a bigger upset than the game changer in Massachusetts yesterday. Republican...

Next to operating from the Oval Office, the front row desk on the majority side of the aisle in the United States Senate is arguably the...

Max Baucus (right), the current chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, is on the verge of making history by writing (and...

Continuing the theme of how certain Senators came to be Senators. Two Northwest governors exercised what just might be the height of...

The old joke asks: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Answer: “Practice, practice, practice.” How do you get to the United States Senate?...

It didn’t take long for the suggestion to surface that Ted Kennedy’s widow – Victoria Reggie Kennedy – would be a suitable replacement...

The U.S. Senate has been graced over more than 220 years by many greats. The passing of Ted Kennedy – a great senator of the last fifty...

I have Bethine Church, the wife and political partner of the late Idaho senator, to thank for my one brush with the senator from...