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Tom Coburn is a Southern Baptist deacon, a family man married to a former Miss Oklahoma, a white-coated physician back in Muskogee who has delivered more than 4,000 babies and sees patients free of charge every Monday.

But there's a darker side of the story, something that Coburn, a Marcus Welby type in ostrich-skin boots, confesses is his less honorable side.

He's a member of the United States Senate.

'I would fire us all,' Coburn says, blasting Congress, as he does every chance he gets, as a place populated by people who don't do a whole lot to make the country a better place.

When the Louisiana Democratic chairman recently asked federal election authorities to rule on how $5,000 could be funneled from a dormant campaign PAC of ex-U.S Rep.

Little of the same redistricting tension that surrounded the 2000 population census exists now as the Legislature awaits figures of the 2010 census.

Rhodes Scholar Shad White recently shared his success stories with students from the Jones County Junior College Charles Pickering Honors Institute.

By now most people know that John Ensign, Republican Senator from Nevada, was getting it on with his best friend's wife.

The Louisiana Democratic Party chairman's Federal Election Commission complaint alleging that former Republican U.S. Rep.

Louisiana Democrats have accused GOP Sen. David Vitter of accepting campaign money illegally funneled to him by a former Mississippi congressman through a political action committee of that state's governor.

It's an electoral buffet tonight on the Wrap: a few new polls , a couple of pieces of campaign information, and might David Vitter be in trouble ? RACE FOR THE WH: New National Polls Show Obama Stability Two new national polls were released today, and they seem to indicate that, after some tumult, the polling numbers for President Obama have ...

I've been in two in my life. I lost both. One started when a bully called my mother a name.

Set aside the images of lawmakers in hallowed halls of the Capitol yelling about who's lying and why, and picture this: Two Republican heavyweights and the Democratic president they tried to eject from office a decade ago, perched together as elder statesmen in a gilded chamber reserved for events that transcend partisanship.

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., did what few politicians could accomplish yesterday - bring together former President Bill Clinton, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and current Democratic and Republican Senate leaders in a bipartisan show of force for the most genteel of occasions - the unveiling of Lott' portrait in ...

Obama's attempts to reform are prompting extreme reactions such as this protester quoting Thomas Jefferson's 'the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' Photo / AP From the street, the three-storey, red-brick Washington townhouse resembles a fine, upscale American residence.

When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford made the teary-eyed confession of his extramarital affair at a press conference in June, he mentioned in passing that he had met with his colleagues at "C Street" for advice and support.

It's a long and ignominious list. First there was Newt Gingrich. Then came Mark Foley, David Vitter, Larry Craig, Chip Pickering and Vito Fossella.

In the last several months, a political storm has brewed around a religious right group called the Family and its center of activities, a residential dwelling reported for tax purposes as a church located on C Street in Washington, D.C. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Nevada Senator John Ensign, and former Mississippi Congressman Chip ...

Former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott spoke with the Sun Herald about recent major news items, including a Mississippi political sex scandal, judicial bribery investigations and his party's strategy to take back Congress.

The national press for the past two months has roasted "hypocritical" Christians who live in or meet in a ministry-owned house on C Street two blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

Aug. 5, 2009 3:35 p.m. After years of carrying the pure banner of Christian principles and family values, the conservatives have been uncovered for their two-faced lives.

Aug. 5, 2009 3:35 p.m. After years of carrying the pure banner of Christian principles and family values, the conservatives have been uncovered for their two-faced lives.

The curtain went down this past week on "Mouthpiece Theater," a tacky experiment in political parody that made its video debut on the Washington Post Web site early this summer.