After weeks of speculation and before weeks of heated partisan bickering over his appointee's controversial record, President Obama will nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense "as early as Monday."
Newly retired Representative Barney Frank confirmed Friday morning his interest in temporarily filling John Kerry's soon-to-be abandoned Senate Seat — and said that he'd told Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick "I would now like, frankly, to do that."
Frank wouldn't confirm or deny whether he would accept a short-term appointment to replace Sen. John Kerry, should Kerry be appointed Secretary of State, and before other candidates line up for a special election next spring.
John McCain thinks Republicans should generally stop talking about abortion, and he's starting to soften his stance a little on Susan Rice. Meanwhile, a trio of Republicans started to move away from Grover Norquist's no tax pledge.
If you didn't get invited to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank's wedding earlier this month, you missed a fun-sounding party, which the congressman and his husband Jim Ready planned themselves, Frank said in a NewsBeast video Wednesday.
Barney Frank became the first sitting member of Congress to enter into a same sex marriage on Saturday evening. Frank married Jim Ready, who he's been with since 2007, and The New York Times gave them the full nuptial treatment.
Barney Frank, the 16-term congressman from Massachusetts, plans to marry his longtime partner Jim Ready, just in time for them to enjoy Frank's upcoming retirement.
In something of an exit interview with The New York Times Magazine, retiring Congressman Barney Frank took the opportunity to score one last dig against Newt Gingrich, bookending their drawn out match of verbal fisticuffs.
Joseph Kennedy III, who you can probably guess is a member of that Kennedy family, wants to run for Barney Frank's vacated seat in Congress, reports The Boston Globe.
Barney Frank has never been known for looking put together, but his outfit for his speech on the House floor Monday is attracting a bit of internet attention for being notably ... frightening
A Real Housewife learns a lesson in paying for things, Kate Middleton keeps us guessing, and Barney Frank is now a meat product.
In the three decades it took for Newt Gingrich to climb from impoverished college professor to multi-millionaire presidential candidate, he made some enemies along the way.
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Last night Jon Stewart bid a brief farewell to Barney Frank, who, he notes, might just be missed most by the conservatives who were giddy at the news of the 16-term congressman's upcoming retirement.
In an interview with the usually cheery, softball-question-laden Today show, Barney Frank got irritated with Savannah Guthrie's questions, calling it "gotcha journalism."
Retiring Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank hasn't snarked his last (he's still in office for another year after all) but we're already starting to miss him.
With Massachusetts' Barney Frank announcing he won't run for reelection to Congress next year, America will soon lose one of its few elected officials both willing and able to say rude (and often funny) things on camera.
Barney Frank, the 16-term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts, says he won't seek re-election in 2012.
The Congressman's response: "he talks even sillier than he sometimes does"
Who isn't the Winter Hill Gang leader connected to in Boston?
The duo have unveiled legislation that would leave the issue to the states
Congressman and colleagues object to anti-DADT language
Some Democrats are calling for a larger than planned troop withdrawal this summer
And the Barney Frank lines keep on coming...
"He had no interest in a discussion... It's what he does."
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