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Lamar Alexander appeared on the Fox News' show "On the Record" last week to explain that the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s offers parallels to reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urged private companies to donate money toward implementing the Affordable Care Act.

Away from their Capitol Hill offices and committee rooms, members of Congress involve themselves in a different sort of work: raising money for their re-election campaigns.

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. is getting a lot of opinions from a lot of people as he weighs the pros and cons of taxing items purchased over the Internet.

Two weeks after officially announcing his candidacy for the 2014 4th District Republican primary, state Rep.

With Democratic colleagues calling the move nothing more than a sideshow, Republican House members, including Reps.

Several Tennessee and Georgia Republicans in Congress will be digging as two House committees investigate the Internal Revenue Service's alleged targeting of right-leaning political groups, including the Chattanooga Tea Party.

The U.S. Senate last week voted to restore balance to the nation's retail market and to sales tax collections nationwide with the passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act.

One of the big bits of news to come out of the May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing was the claim that "whistleblower" Gregory Hicks felt he had been "effectively demoted" within the State Department for speaking out about the September 2012 attacks on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi.

It never ceases to amaze me, when Republicans awaken from their deep slumber to worry about the welfare of this country.

Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker led Senate Republicans Friday in requesting hearings to examine new information coming out this week about the Obama administration's handling of security for the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its response to terrorist attacks.

A bill that would allow workers to swap overtime pay for time off passed the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday with the support of Chattanooga-area Republican congressmen.

Bradley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center rehab patient Bette Lewis, left, and physical therapist Jeannie Ledford visit with 4th Congressional District Rep.

Congressional Republicans investigating the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September are trying to get to the bottom of what really happened, and Democrats are wrong to suggest that partisan politics is what's driving the probe, U.S. Rep.

A former top official at the U.S. Embassy in Libya gave lawmakers a riveting moment-by-moment review of the attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, as he sternly disputed the idea that an anti-Muslim video on the internet had been the cause for the violence.

Senators from Tennessee found themselves among the majority of their colleagues Monday, voting 69-27 to approve legislation allowing for the taxation of online retail sales.

We are one step closer to paying sales taxes for online purchases. The US Senate passed a bill today that could drastically change your shopping experience.

Bradley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center rehab patient Bette Lewis, left, and physical therapist Jeannie Ledford visit with 4th Congressional District Rep.

It's one of the folkways of Capitol Hill: Incumbents keeping large cash-on-hand totals in their campaign accounts as a way of scaring off potential challengers.

While acknowledging pressure for stepped-up U.S. activity on behalf of moderate forces in Syria, Middle Tennessee lawmakers want the Obama administration to move with extreme caution -- and in concert with Congress -- every step of the way.

The decision follows a successful exploratory phase chaired by prominent business leaders, Lee Beaman and Dr.