“Til death do us part” is not an oath that applies to congressional seats.

After a long battle with brain cancer, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died Tuesday at age 77.

Roland Burris announced last week that he won’t campaign to retain the Senate seat that went vacant with the election of President Barack Obama.

Democrat Al Franken has finally been declared the new senator from Minnesota.

A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame could have a hand in deciding the outcome of the contested U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

Michael Bennet may be rich and well connected, but he’s a political unknown in Colorado.

Susan Bayh isn’t the only congressional spouse to sit on a corporate board.

The recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be U.S. attorney general might have passed for a meeting of the Yale Law School alumni association.

Mukasey, class of 1967, was introduced to the committee by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., also Yale Law class of ‘67.

The family name has stood money and power since John D. Rockefeller built one of America’s great fortunes with Standard Oil Co. Subsequent generations have continued to hold sway in politics, finance and philanthropy.