Tancredo says he won't seek House seat
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Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said Monday he will not seek re-election to his Colorado seat in the House in 2008.
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Rep. Tom Tancredo, who built his longshot presidential campaign on opposition to illegal immigration, dropped out Thursday and endorsed Republican rival Mitt Romney as a man who would carry on the fight.
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A senior House Democrat said yesterday that he will not support a budget increase for the federal regulator of Fannie Mae until questions raised in a confidential report have been addressed.
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The chief justice of the state Supreme Court refused Wednesday to remove himself from a case challenging the results of the presidential election.
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A state senator whose party switch 5 1/2 years ago helped the GOP take control of the chamber said Wednesday he will leave the Republican Party over its actions in a disputed election.
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A former Democratic congressman said Thursday he would reconsider his campaign hours after he dropped out of the crowded free-for-all race against Republican incumbent Rep. Henry Bonilla for a newly-drawn congressional district.
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Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday rejected a bid by a lawmaker earlier ousted as a federal judge on corruption charges to head a congressional panel that helps protect America's security.
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A Colorado Republican retiring after 20 years in the House said Wednesday he will not endorse the GOP primary winner, accusing him of running a "sleazy" campaign.
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Democrats won't try to filibuster Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be attorney general but will hold extensive debate over his role in developing the Bush administration's policies on foreign detainees, the Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday.
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Indicted former U.S. House of  Representatives Republican leader Tom DeLay said on Tuesday he  will not run for his former seat in Congress even though  federal courts have ruled his name cannot be replaced on the  November ballot.
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Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado,  a strong supporter of tougher immigration laws, dropped his  long-shot Republican presidential bid on Thursday and endorsed  former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia, said Friday he won't run for re-election.
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JOLIET, Ill., Sept. 21 -- Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.), facing questions about his ethics, announced Friday that he will not seek an eighth term.
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Two-term Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel revealed Monday morning that he will not make a decision about whether to seek the 2008 Republican presidential nomination until later this year.
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Mexico&#039;s leftist presidential candidate promised Friday to stop calling protests if there is a recount of the vote but said he would never recognize his conservative rival as president.
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Roger Clemens' lawyer wouldn't commit Sunday to having the pitcher give a deposition to congressional investigators, even as he said the seven-time Cy Young Award winner remains willing to testify in open session before a House committee investigating denials that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
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As a Republican candidate for Congress, Joy Padgett says she does not intend to campaign as the alternative to U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, the embattled incumbent she replaces on the Nov. 7 ballot.