As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Saturday laid to rest their leader of 13 years, Gordon B. Hinckley, they bid farewell to a devoted and energetic man whose vigorous public relations outreach helped pluck his religion ...
Mitt Romney is facing an unexpected challenge in Iowa from rival Mike Huckabee, who has enjoyed a groundswell of support from religious voters, particularly evangelical Christians wary of the clean-cut former Massachusetts governor because of his ...
Actor Jon Voight in the hallway of the Hart building (John Shinkle) "September Dawn," a new movie depicting the slaughter of 120 innocent pioneers by zealous Utah Mormons in 1857, features Jon Voight as a fanatical bishop who claims the travelers took ...
Going strictly by the numbers, Bettina Inclan sure seems to be climbing up a steep hill. The executive director of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly says her fellow Hispanics are a GOP voting bloc -- even though only 29 percent of Hispanics who ...
Paula Nowakowski, Chief of Staff for Rep. John Boehner, R-OH, in House Minority Leader Boehner's office in Washington, D.C. on Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. (Photo by John Shinkle) Paula Nowakowski has a love-hate relationship with her job as one of the ...
The Congressional Black Caucus met with President Bush for the first time in two years Thursday, engaging in what its chairwoman called a “very cordial’’ but noncommittal discussion of proposed cuts to social programs, sluggish reconstruction efforts ...
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., has been playing an awful lot of hooky these days. Last month, he missed more than half of his Senate roll call votes, according to AbsentCongress.org , a Web site launched Thursday that tracks senatorial absenteeism. Only ...
As Valentine's Day candy prices get slashed today, the sugar industry may be feeling a little glum. However, sugar executives have a Valentine of their own on Capitol Hill: Rep. Charlie Melancon. With deep family roots in the sugar business, the ...
Ron Pollack is a sucker for the underdog. An idealistic college student in the 1960s, he began his advocacy work as a civil rights volunteer in the drive for desegregation in Mississippi. After law school, he argued on behalf of food-stamp recipients ...
In American folklore, "lobbying" and "lobbyist" originated more than 125 years ago in the Willard Hotel at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Businessmen, so the legend goes, would swarm in the building's lobby because that's where they could find, ...
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