With the sad news that Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) passed away, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is now third in the line of presidential succession, behind the vice president and House Speaker John Boehner.

92-year-old Republican Senator Chuck Grassley struggled to answer a simple question at a press conference, despite already planning for a re-election bid for the 2028 election. Grassley was first ...

"A moonlight mind" -- "My politics are short and sweet" -- "The monstrous injustice of slavery" -- Dred Scott -- "The better angels of our nature" -- "All the laws but one" -- "A people's contest" -- ...