Bart 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 fig

U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais has worn all of those labels in the two years hes been in politics. But now his public career appears to have taken a turn that could be the biggest surprise of all: standard-bearer of the Tennessee Republican establishment. Ju

When members of Congress hear from groups hoping to get a law passed or a regulation changed, they often look across the table at men and women they once worked with. More than 300 former House members or senators, including presidential candidates Newt

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

By Michael Cass, The Tennessean Bob Clement was elected to Congress nine years after Newt Gingrich was. But he was accustomed to the ways of the Capitol by the time Gingrich took over as speaker of the House in 1995. Clement, a Democrat, didn't especiall