Sean Lengell

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The tiny South Pacific nation of Palau honored Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who is vacationing there with his family this week, with honorary citizenship, the senator said in a Twitter post Thursday. He received the honor after the Palau National Congress invited him to speak, his office said. (Photo: Twitter.com/senjohnmccain)

John McCain becomes honorary citizen of tiny South Pacific nation

Sean Lengell · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., discusses the compromise spending plan during a television news interview on Capitol Hill on Dec. 18. The bill is designed to keep Congress from lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis and ease the harshest effects of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray: ‘Technical error’ that cuts disabled veterans benefits will be fixed

Sean Lengell · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

Blair Roberts, a 22-year-old sales associate at Colorado E-Smokes, demonstrates the use of a electronic cigarette and the smokelike vapor that comes from it at an E-Smokes store in Aurora, Colo. (AP File)

Senators call for probe of e-cigarette marketing

Sean Lengell · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

Jim Matheson, lone Utah Democrat in Congress, calls it quits

Jim Matheson, lone Utah Democrat in Congress, calls it quits

Sean Lengell · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

Longtime Republican Rep. Frank Wolf of Northern Virginia said Tuesday he won't seek an 18th term next year, saying he wants to devote more time working on "human rights and religious freedom" issues. (Photo: Examiner file)

Frank Wolf won’t seek re-election in 2014

Sean Lengell · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, speaks during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's Friends of the Family Banquet in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 9. (AP Photo by Justin Hayworth)

Tom Latham is 3rd House member to declare retirement Tuesday

Sean Lengell · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Jeh Johnson, his choice for the next Homeland Security Secretary, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. Johnson was approved as head of Homeland Security on Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Senate confirms Jeh Johnson as Homeland Security chief, Anne Patterson in State Department

Sean Lengell · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

The Supreme Court asked the U.S. Solicitor General's office to file a brief on a case regarding whether victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their families can sue banks accused of having terrorist ties. (AP File)

Supreme Court asks Obama administration for views on Sept. 11 victims case

Sean Lengell · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

The budget deal inched closer to approval in the Senate on Monday, as Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he will support the package.ÃÂ (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Sen. Orrin Hatch says he will back budget deal

Sean Lengell · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., listens to testimony during a budget conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Patty Murray: The self-described ‘mom in tennis shoes’ rises to the Senate’s leadership circle

Sean Lengell · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

House passes one-month farm bill extension, though measure uncertain in Senate

House passes one-month farm bill extension, though measure uncertain in Senate

Sean Lengell · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., discusses congressional progress and the budget deal at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 5. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi: Budget deal doesn’t guarantee greater bipartisanship on Capitol Hill

Sean Lengell · December 12, 2013 5:00 am