Matt Laslo

In the State of the Union address, President Obama announced he’s putting Vice President Joe Biden in charge of an initiative to cu ...

U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy from suburban Pittsburgh remembers first hearing about the mass shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College ...

In the wake of recent mass shootings, Democrats have been holding high-profile press conferences on gun control in Washington. Sen ...

Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner was once considered one of the most conservative lawmakers in Congress. But he angered the tea party ...

Bassetts Ice Cream is America’s oldest ice cream company. Michael Strange’s great-great-grandfather founded it, and he’ ...

U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Secretary of State John Kerry know each other well from their days serving together as Senate De ...

It’s hard, if not impossible, to tell the true impact of trade agreements. Take NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreeme ...

For a few weeks, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, has had a federal indictment hanging over him. The Garden State’s senior sen ...

Lawmakers and nonprofits launched the Superstorm Sandy Task Force in Washington Tuesday as a way of pressuring the government to provide ...

The last time the Supreme Court took up so called Obamacare, it surprised court watchers by ruling the individual health insurance mandat ...

The 113th Congress was so unmemorable, it will likely be confined to a footnote in history books: it’s the second least produc ...

The campaign to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act helped Republicans capture control of the U.S. House in 2010 and ...