Teresa Watanabe

His wife, brought here illegally at age 6, is about to be deported. 'She's my everything,' her husband says.

Kim Hart

Matthew Bandyk

Andrew Albanese 

Women are more effective lawmakers than men. That is not opinion; it is the conclusion of a new study by Stanford researchers.

Women currently occupy about 17 percent of the seats in Congress, up from 3 percent in 1979.

Bennett Roth

The House ethics committee said Wednesday that it has put off investigating whether Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. or his surrogates offered to raise money for former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich in return for being named to a vacant Senate seat.

 John Bresnahan

The House ethics committee will postpone any investigation into Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-Ill.) at the request of the Justice Department, but the panel will take another 45 days to decide whether to pursue a case against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).

Erika Lovley

Are women more effective lawmakers than men?

That’s the preliminary conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, who say that on average, women in Congress introduce more bills, attract more co-sponsors and bring home more money for their districts than their male counterparts do.

By Eliza Newlin Carney

At a time when partisan rifts threaten to paralyze Capitol Hill, it's a shame that more people don't follow the example of Republican Trevor Potter and Democrat Marc Elias.

The two prominent election lawyers have set aside past disagreements to rally behind a shared cause: modernizing the nation's outdated voter registration system. Together, they have set up a Committee to Modernize Voter Registration that could give pending congressional legislation a shot in the arm.

Jessie Mangaliman

The passionate debate on health care reform rolled into the Bay Area this week, at times mirroring the public showdowns roiling town halls across the country.

While Democratic Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren ran into a hostile crowd on Monday night at a community meeting in Almaden Valley, she found friendlier faces outside her San Jose office on Tuesday, urging her not to waver from her support of the controversial health care effort embroiling the nation.