Roy Blunt

by Frank James, Janet Hook and Peter Nicholas and updated Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling a malignant brain cancer, collapsed at the congressional lunch for President Obama currently underway in the U.S. Capitol. Obama confirmed that it was......

by Mark Silva To hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tell it, she was channeling all of America when she voted for the president's $787-billion economic stimulus bill today. "I could feel it myself, when I turned in my voting card,......

by Mark Silva Unemployment at a 25-year high. The stock market at a 12-year low. Mortgage foreclosures, bank failures and massive layoffs -- 2.6 million jobs lost in the last four months, more than 4 million lost since the start......

U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, R-2nd District, spoke to The Courant's editorial board on Jan. 26. The following are edited excerpts from the talk. On congressional earmarks Should Congress get rid of earmarks (the process by which Congress members' favorite...

by Matthew Hay Brown House Republicans unveiled a new slogan today to go with their long-anticipated rebranding effort for the 2008 elections. And as several bloggers now have pointed out, it turns out it's already being used - to market......

by Matthew Hay Brown House Democrats expect bipartisan support today for a bill that would suspend new shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. By reducing demand on the global market, Democrats say, the move could cut the cost of gasoline......

by Matthew Hay Brown The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to suspend shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the House is expected to follow suit momentarily. House Republican leaders say the move, intended to reduce prices at the pump by......

by Matthew Hay Brown Congressional Republicans are agonizing over their third consecutive special election loss, Minority Whip Roy Blunt sees a silver lining to the victories this month of conservative Democrats Don Cazayoux and Travis Childers. "The...

WASHINGTON - Walking through the Capitol last week, Dick Cheney marched past the assembled journalists who hoped to question him, brushing them off in his inflection-less voice with a curt, "Good morning," before slipping behind closed doors. The vice...

The Federal Aviation Administration said this afternoon it would permit a limited reopening of the U.S. air space system, but continued the ban on regular service indefinitely. Airline flights diverted after Tuesday’s attacks on the World Trade Center...