Gene Taylor

The sign on the door at the Frederick office still says "Rep. Roscoe Bartlett." But inside, it is an office in transition. Late last month, boxes were waiting to be packed. Some computers and televisions had been dismantled and were on a center table....

WASHINGTON -- Running for reelection in a new district that is no longer a GOP stronghold, incumbent Republican Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett announced Wednesday he had scored an endorsement from a former Democratic congressman from Mississippi. The move...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who moved the nation with an improbable comeback after a gunman shot her in the head last year, formally resigned Wednesday in an emotional appearance in theU.S. House of Representatives. "I will recover and will return," the...

by Mark Silva 220-215. The first full vote on the health-care reform that President Barack Obama is demanding from Congress by year's end arrived late last night in the House. "Let's keep making history,'' the president told supporters in a......

by Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger Two House committees will question government and oil industry officials about worker safety aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig the day it exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, focusing in part on worker complaints......

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon unveiled a sweeping plan to reorganize America's armed forces yesterday, a proposal that would close 33 major defense installations, shuffle more than 218,000 military and civilian jobs around the country and reach deep into...

William Jefferson Clinton was impeached yesterday on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, setting in motion a landmark Senate trial that will determine whether the 42nd president of the United States will be the first in history to be removed...

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broadly apologized today for the abuses of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody and sent a sharp warning that "many more" images and videos exist depicting violence on the captives. In hearings today on Capitol Hill,...