While the media has focused on the rise of the Tea Party movement and the success of conservative insurgents in GOP primaries, there is a quiet insurgency taking place under the radar of more moderate Republicans for whom fiscal discipline is not a top priority.

DeLay"s political future depends on the equivalent of a royal flush.

With the election next week, the elected majority leader could soon become the Speaker of the House or alternatively might be quickly deposed in a larger leadership shakeup.

The indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) did not exactly thrill Republicans in the House. But House Republicans should see this "problem" as an opportunity.

The Democrats have fallen short of their goal of an open Congress with a restored order and a real deliberative process.

John Dingell marks fifty years in Congress;there is a decline in regular order inCongress; andRoy Blunt must be careful about fundraising activities.

Every vote against the bill concerning the financial rescue package was irresponsible.

Unless politicians from both sides get their acts together, the recent voting conflict in the U.S. House of Representatives is bad news for the nation.