Saxby Chambliss

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. The question now is whether the...

In virtual lockstep on topics such as guns, God and limited government, Southern Republicans in the Senate differ on how to balance national security interests with First Amendment protections. Last week, lawmakers from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and...

In 1994, U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1, pledged support for a constitutional amendment implementing term limits. The legislation never got anywhere, though, and Kingston has held on to the office for two decades, or 10 terms, counting the current two-...

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss said on Monday that he plans to ask the CIA to declassify all e-mails surrounding the Benghazi, Libya, attacks in an attempt to make the investigation into last year's assault a national security issue and not a "political...

One man's path to the PTA ... Saxby Chambliss says he's retiring from the United States Senate. Congressman Jack Kingston announces he will run for Chambliss' Senate seat, opening up his spot in the House of Representatives. State Sen. Buddy...

For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington's inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on the...

Another Democratic shoe just dropped. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. John Barrow announced that he would pass on a 2014 race for U.S. Senate. Thursday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed did likewise -- ruling himself out as a candidate in the 2016 Senate contest....

For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington’s inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on...

After years of struggle to fix the federal budget mess, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner is in a familiar place. Decades ago, not long after graduating from Harvard Law School, he stumbled repeatedly in his quest to be an entrepreneur. He lost $5,000 -- his life...

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,...

The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...

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....