Cummings releases the IRS transcript

Senate Finance Committee ranking member Rep. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- Utah) listens to testimony at the committee's hearing on the IRS's targeting of applicants for tax exempt status on May 21, 2013, in Washington D.C. The continues to burn bright, with ...

Texas Republican John Cornyn Cornyn, who is the minority whip and the No. 2 ranking Republican in the Senate, reported collecting $65,383 in public retirement benefits Cornyn's office did not respond to requests for comment. Elected to the ...

(Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- June 12, 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, made the following opening statement today at the full ...

Republican voters upset over Romney's loss to Obama. Despite ranking dead last among rich developed countries, the U.S. ranks high for civil liberties. Gun violence, the war on terrorism, and political divisions in Washington make the United States ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. A top-ranking Republican senator says Democrats are using their education policies to transfer control of America's public schools from local districts and states to a national school... Read

By Mark Murray, Senior Political Editor, NBC News Since last December, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll has been measuring the favorability-unfavorability numbers for the potential 2016 candidates. And here's a fun little exercise First ...

In a statement, committee chairman Senator Tom Carper and ranking Republican Tom Coburn said that they "fully expect" their panel to hold hearings into the government's performance.

A high-ranking Democratic New York State senator was arrested on Tuesday and charged with trying to buy a place on the Republican ticket in the city's mayoral race, in what prosecutors said was part of a bribery scandal that reflected pervasive corruption in ...

Tennessee: Corker urges aid to Syrian rebels. US Sen. Bob Corker (TN), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent President Obama a letter urging that he begin providing lethal aid to appropriately vetted elements of the ...