Representative Gabrielle Giffords News

So now there's a big hubbub about the congresswoman from Arizona who's married to an astronaut.

Gabrielle Giffords' "conflict of interest" should be clear to anyone with half a brain cell to work with.

Arizona's resign-to-run law is an example of good intentions rendered useless by a lack of enforcement, skirt-arounds and an everything-but approach where everyone knows who is running for a new office a ' even though it's not been made "officially" official.

WASHINGTON For nearly two hours last September, members of a House science committee hammered Norm Augustine, the head of a White House panel reviewing NASA's space plans.

Here's how Arizona members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Dec.

Iran's nuclear threat to Israel was the overwhelming focus of this year's AIPAC breakfast, held Dec.

According to the conventional wisdom after last year's presidential election, Barack Obama's victory proved that a number of once reliably red states -- Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado, among them -- were turning blue, perhaps permanently.

Mexico may have to wait up to another year for the U.S. aircraft it says it needs to prevail in a fight against drug syndicates that shows no sign of waning.

The U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology is beginning a hearing titled "Decisions on the Future Direction and Funding for NASA: What Will They Mean for the U.S. Aerospace Workforce and Industrial Base?" You can follow the hearing via Webcast and Twitter updates.

With the White House yet to chart a new course for NASAa s human spaceflight, dueling public relations battles to win the hearts and minds of lawmakers and the president are underway.

A storm of red tape has delayed delivery of most of the helicopters and airplanes that the United States has pledged to help Mexico's fight against drug traffickers, a U.S. government report says.

State Treasurer Dean Martin said he didn't mean to be so provocative when he put a countdown timer on his campaign Web site.

WASHINGTON a ' The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year's Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.

The House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing to examine the health of the U.S. aerospace workforce and industrial base and to determine how upcoming decisions on NASA's direction and funding would affect them, including decisions on human spaceflight plans.

One of many uncertainties surrounding next February's release of the FY 2011 budget request is how much money the Obama Administration will seek for NASA's human space flight program.

According to the conventional wisdom after last year's presidential election, Barack Obama's victory proved that a number of once-reliably red states -- Virginia, North Carolina, and Colorado among them -- were turning blue, perhaps permanently.

Congress is not sitting idle waiting for President Barack Obama's decision about what to do with the nation's space program.

Take two Arizonans famous for ignoring any semblance of political delicacy a ' Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth.

SpaceX's first Falcon 9 rocket, designed to launch the Dragon spacecraft, stands vertical atop its Space Launch Complex 40 pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Jan.

The House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a joint hearing to examine the recent results of the independent Fiscal Year 2009 audit of financial operations at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration .