Mark Udall

"This is going to be tough. But I have friends here with kids who are going to have an even tougher time with this furlough policy," the 28year-old Salazar said Thursday. "It makes you wish our leaders in Washington would figure out a way to pass a budget...

When Chattanooga Tea Party President Mark West unfurled his newspaper Tuesday morning, he scowled at what he saw: U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., grinning next to President Barack Obama on the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base. Across the state line,...

WASHINGTON – A round of golf with the president of the United States is a rare treat, to be sure. So hitting a hole in one while in a foursome with the commander in chief quickly became the stuff of legend on Capitol Hill after word that Sen....

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hit the golf course on Monday with two Republican senators and a Democrat, part of an effort to advance his second-term agenda by having better relationships with Congress. Obama,...

WASHINGTON -- On the first green, President Obama put his arm around Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican. He shared his golf cart with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Republican from Georgia. Obama hasn’t had much luck schmoozing GOP lawmakers in...

Forty-eight percent of the time that firefighters asked for air tanker support in their fight against wildfires across the United States last year, they didn't come. Those numbers included requests for the 11 large aerial tankers -- and this year...

Rep. James Lankford, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Republican scrutiny of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "is far from over." Lankford is also a member of the GOP congressional committee...

It's debatable as to which is the real news -- the new law saving air traffic control jobs across the country, or Congress passing that law in less than a week. Either way, both happened, and now the tower at the Global TransPark will remain open, along...

The U.S. House this morning has approved a bill ending Federal Aviation Administration furloughs of air traffic controllers. The vote came less than 24 hours after the U.S. Senate did the same. The legislation maintains the savings in the sequester that...

A Wyoming senator asked Tuesday if adding more national parks, including one to include Hanford's B Reactor, is prudent given the maintenance backlog at existing parks. A bill to create a Manhattan Project National Historical Park had its first Senate...

HELENA, Mont. — Stephen Watt is no stranger to gun violence. In 1982, as a 26-year-old Wyoming state trooper, he stopped a fleeing bank robber who pumped five bullets into Watt before leaving him for dead on an empty stretch of highway. Watt...

WASHINGTON -- Some new traditions have taken hold amid the familiar rituals of a State of the Union address, and they seem to have a common goal: drawing some of the spotlight away from the president and to his audience. The newest push on the part of...