Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us in this celebration of the arts and the humanities. Two outstanding public servants and ambassadors for the arts are here: Rocco Landesman. Where's Rocco? There he is, right here -- Chairman of the National...

Gingrich played an important behind-the-scenes role in helping block a proposal in 1995 that would have forced Fannie and Freddie — rather than taxpayers — to pay potentially billions of dollars in increased fees, according to interviews and press...

But he needed a job after Newt was done as Speaker and Jim Johnson was very happy to give him one. Not hard to figure out why, after he helped Newt kill the Jim Leach fee proposal. To be somewhat fair to Newt though, you must understand that Fannie and...

At the time, Representative Jim Leach, a senior Republican from Iowa who led the House banking committee and was a fierce critic of Fannie and Freddie, wanted the companies to pay the bulk of about $4.8 billion to finance a reserve for ailing savings...

But it makes me sick to see sole credit being assigned to a Speaker who was driving his erstwhile conservative allies batty while they held things together. Armey did some good work. Archer. Hyde. Livingston. Kasich. Boehner. Shaw. Gerald Solomon. Tom...

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, rejected accusations by Mr Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, who said that the internet company was a “piracy leader”. Mr Murdoch claimed earlier this month via his Twitter...