Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is suddenly in high demand. His banishment is over, his rehabilitation almost complete. Several years after acknowledging hi...
On Monday, President Obama nominated Thomas Perez to serve as Secretary of Labor. Immediately, conservative lawmakers and commentators began pushing back, calling Perez a radical, political choice.
Regional leaders at a Gulf Coast Restoration Summit said they're relieved that Congress passed the RESTORE Act in June. But they're unsure when money from RESTORE, which devotes 80 percent of BP's Clean Water Act fines for the 2010 spill to Gulf states, will be available.
By Bruce Alpert
The Times-Picayune/Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS) When Sen. David Vitter admitted in 2007 to a "very serious sin" after his ...
A Republican senator's proposal to count only United States citizens when reapportioning Congress would cost California five seats and New York and Il...
Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.
The head of the Louisiana Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint against Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Friday, accusing Vitter of using his taxpaye...
Check out this statement we just got from the Louisiana Democratic Party, responding to Republican Sen. David Vitter's recent Web ad going after his p...
A Louisiana senator is stalling Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate's nomination as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ....
Don't get me wrong. It was a stupid joke and Joe definitely is a stupid man, but one thing that Mr. The Plumber does know how to do quite well... is market himself.
This hasn't been a very good week for Louisiana Sen. David Vitter but it's ending on a positive note: Family Research Council president Tony Perkins h...
UPDATE 3/24: Vitter has been cleared in the TSA investigation of his airport tantrum. CNN reports:
The Transportation Security Administration said T...
Republicans like Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-AZ), have been attacking the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, claiming that it has too ...
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose career became mired in the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal back in 2007, and is now headed into his 2010 re-election c...
UPDATE 2/13: Daniels has reached out to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt to run her Senate campaign. The Times-Picayune reports:
In a telephone intervi...
A quickie from this morning's chat with Laura Ingraham courtesy of her producer, Tom Elliott. The observation's unremarkable -- the boss mocks the, er...
President Barack Obama's decision to freeze top White House staff salaries may force members of Congress to do something they never want to do -- bloc...
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has been mostly mum on the prostitution scandal that forced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce his resignati...