Jim Tankersley

By Jim Tankersley WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Valerie Lakey sat with her thin, blue-jean-clad legs pressed together, her skin a pale ivory, brown hair slipping down past her shoulders,...

by Jim Tankersley Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) doesn't get confused with Dennis Kucinich very often. But now the veteran Chicago congressman and the quixotic Ohio presidential wannabe have something in...

By Jim Tankersley Hey there, congressional sports fans - the Sunlight Foundation has a new game for you. Let's call it "Where in the World is Rep. Jan Schakowsky?" The...

By Jim Tankersley At approximately 6:30 p.m., the House will pause for a moment of silence in honor of a man whose voice often rang loud and passionately through the...

John Edwards, the former Democratic senator from North Carolina at the Dec. 4, 2007 National Public Radio for Democratic presidential candidates. To his immediate right were Senators Joe Biden of...

by Jim Tankersley An armed man has apparently taken members of Hillary Clinton's campaign staff hostage in New Hampshire, news outlets and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean have just...

By Jim Tankersley VIENNA, Va. - The first three candidates to hit the stage at the Democratic National Committee fall meeting pitched themselves as champions of American workers and jobs,...

By Jim Tankersley VIENNA, Va. -- The Democratic National Committee is wrapping up its fall meeting today in the suburbs of Washington D.C. It's the last committee meeting before the...

By Jim Tankersley Consider, if you will, a deceptively political question: Three sharpshooters step outside at high noon. Each has a gun and a single bullet. Only one heads back...

By Jim Tankersley As young Capitol Hill staffers are apt to do, Peter Roskam often showed up early for work in the mid-1980s. Often, he recalls, his boss was already...