U.S. Senate

An interview with Marc C. Johnson, author of Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate. The book highlights two Senate leaders whose commitment to bipartisanship lead to the passage of groundbreaking legislation, even in tumultuous times.

Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.

It’s been a tough year for cryptocurrency – especially with the collapse of the massive exchange FTX. Yet, some Mountain West states are still courting crypto companies.

A bill to address shrinking saline lakes across the West passed the U.S. Senate last week. It’s part of an ongoing effort to study what's stressing these important ecosystems in the Great Basin, especially the Great Salt Lake.

Democratic nominee David Roth, the executive director of the Bonneville Youth Development Council, and Scott “Oh” Cleveland, an independent who owns an investment firm in Eagle, are challenging the incumbent Republican.

The City Club welcomed Marc Johnson for a virtual conversation about his latest book “Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization…

This is an encore presentation.While not a household name, Burton K. Wheeler may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was…

Idaho’s Jim Risch was among the senators to question the heads of all the nation’s intelligence agencies in the annual hearing on worldwide threats this…

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week to shed light on the recent meeting between President…

Idaho Senator Mike Crapo’s bill to ease financial protections established by the Dodd-Frank Act passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis got the…