Representative Kevin McCarthy News

Twenty years ago, Fresno Democrat Jim Costa lost to Hanford Republican Phil Wyman in a special election to fill the 16th state Senate seat.

The congressman previously co-wrote the book " Young Guns " with fellow Republican Reps.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will support moving the House farm bill forward, Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson told reporters Friday.

That's what yesterday's House Republican conference meeting was like, Roe said, with Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders declining to give any suggestion about which direction they would like to go on the debt ceiling.

When the Washington D.C. city council held a hearing last week on new proposed regulations of the District's burgeoning food truck scene, it took seven hours to get through all the complaints.

AN ALREADY bad week for the US president Barack Obama became much worse on Tuesday when it was revealed that his administration had secretly seized two months of telephone records for the Associated Press, one of the world's largest newsgathering agencies.

Republicans like Jeff Denham and Kevin McCarthy are doing all they can to undermine and stall the high speed rail project.

Congressional Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission to finally implement the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

All over California Saturday May 11, prayer vigils were held to bring awareness to immigration and let those who deal with the issue daily to share their stories.

He holds one of the oldest political jobs in the book, just as the book is being rewritten.

NOTHING FITS the Obama administration's economic project better than high-speed rail.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican-backed bill Wednesday that would give American workers the option of taking paid ``comp time'' off for working more than 40 hours a week, instead of receiving overtime pay.

Representatives of Media81 Group announced today that they have completed the new website design for music artist, Alessandro Porcella , whose new single Regina will hit all digital stores May 8, 2013.

The U.S. House is expected to vote Wednesday on legislation to give hourly workers in the private sector the option to take paid time off instead of collecting overtime pay.

With another fight over the national debt brewing this summer, congressional Republicans are deemphasizing their demand for politically painful cuts to retirement programs and focusing on a more popular prize: A thorough rewrite of the US tax code.

Gauging congressional clout is arguably an enterprise that falls somewhere between happy hour argument and inexact science.

The April 9 New York Times Editorial, "Eating with our eyes closed," is a real eye-opener. As usual, there's always more to bizarre stories.

Susan Rainey has been named interim president/CEO of the United Way of Inland Valleys.

Today Chuck Todd of MSNBC's The Daily Rundown was doing some political analysis on the President's press conference with Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibb and Republican Strategist John Feehery.

It's not too premature to now say that President Obama's second-term agenda is adrift - that is, if he ever had a really well-thought-out agenda to begin with.