Gordon (forced to retire, 2010) Bobby Bright (removed, 2010) Dan Boren (cutting and running, 2012) Gene Taylor (removed, 2010) Heath Shuler (cutting and running, 2012) Joe Donnelly (switching out to lose Senate race, 2012) John Barrow (going out...

Perhaps more importantly, his donor list shows gifts from the same GOP leaders he has defied, Boehner and Cantor. Its very, very difficult for party leaders in D.C. to turn on an incumbent, said Kent Syler, a political science professor at Middle...

Sometimes the lines are more clearly drawn. The Tennessean was able to identify 22 living former members of Congress from Tennessee. Of those, at least 10 have worked as lobbyists, and two who left Congress last year Democrats Bart Gordon and John...

MURFREESBORO Folks here love federally funded assets such as the Stones River Greenway, but future grants may be harder to obtain as Congress confronts a $15 trillion debt and competition for funding becomes fiercer. And that's how it should be, accordi

Former Vice President Al Gore, who was Clinton's second in command throughout Gingrich's speakership, was unavailable to comment last week, a spokeswoman in Nashville said. Two former congressmen from that era - Democrat Bart Gordon of Murfreesboro and...