Matthew Hay Brown

by Matthew Hay Brown Rep. Tom Lantos, the 79-year-old chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced today that he will not seek reelection in the fall after tests revealed...

by Matthew Hay Brown Republicans in Washington are hailing the selection of Rep. Roger Wicker, a conservative seven-term congressman from northeastern Mississippi, to replace retiring Sen. Trent Lott. "Gov. [Haley]...

by Matthew Hay Brown While condemning "in the strongest terms" the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Amnesty International warned Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf against using the attack as a pretext for...

by Matthew Hay Brown, updated Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle say the murder of Benazir Bhutto must not slow Pakistan's progress toward democracy. "The assassination today of...

by Matthew Hay Brown It's becoming a holiday tradition in this divided government: Lawmakers have left Washington, but once again, Majority Leader Harry Reid is keeping the Senate open to...

by Matthew Hay Brown A Senate panel investigating EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson's decision to deny California the authority to regulate automobile emissions of greenhouse gases apparently will have to...

by Matthew Hay Brown The battle over the 2008 budget ended today aboard Air Force One, where President Bush grudgingly signed the $555 billion omnibus spending bill passed last week...

by Matthew Hay Brown While Washington debates whether it should talk to Iran, one Maryland congressman has already struck up a conversation. For the past year, Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest...

by Matthew Hay Brown MoveOn.org took a break from criticizing President Bush and his Republican allies this week to raise money for U.S. troops overseas – and netted more than...

by Matthew Hay Brown Rep. Henry A. Waxman opened an investigation into an EPA decision to stop California from regulating greenhouse gas emissions today with a warning to the agency's...