Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s announcement that the Senate would jump ahead of the House to vote on a budget proposal ...

As spring crept up on Washington, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson declared Congress’ work farther along than for many a session. If nobody drags his feet, promised Texan Johnson, the ...

Picking up his telephone in Milwaukee one August night in 1957, Wisconsin’s Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson’s ...

On the half-deserted floor of the Senate one night last week, a group of Senators huddled tightly around the lanky person of the human calculating machine known as Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The clock in the almost empty Senate chamber stood at a few minutes past 11 one morning last week as Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas unfolded his lanky frame from his first-row seat and ...