Former Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker took the lead in early election results Tuesday night in the Republican party’s race to be on the November ballot for Congressional District 9.

The waiting game continued Wednesday for David Schweikert and Susan Bitter Smith, the top two finishers in the Republican primary for Arizona's 5th Congressional District race.

Voters changed the balance of Arizona's congressional delegation from heavily Democratic to majority Republican on Tuesday.

Former Democratic state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been elected to represent a new Phoenix-area congressional district, emerging victorious after a bitterly fought race that featured millions of dollars in attack ads.

TEMPE --  A divided Independent Redistricting Commission late Tuesday adopted a plan for the state's nine congressional districts that Republicans contend is not only politically unfair but unnecessarily splits up communities with common interests.

TEMPE --  A divided Independent Redistricting Commission late Tuesday adopted a plan for the state's nine congressional districts that Republicans contend is not only politically unfair but unnecessarily splits up communities with common interests.

TEMPE --  A divided Independent Redistricting Commission late Tuesday adopted a plan for the state's nine congressional districts that Republicans contend is not only politically unfair but unnecessarily splits up communities with common interests.

The Republican-run House voted to clean up its ethics scandal by — heaping more paperwork on lobbyists and crimping the Democrats’ campaign cash.

Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick defeated Republican Sydney Hay for the open seat in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, giving U.S. House Democrats a 5-3 edge in Arizona, their first majority in decades.

For Arizona Native Americans Duane Yazzie and James Anaya, the need for the U.S. to stop marginalizing indigenous peoples and start listening has never been greater.

Arizona and a few other states could be in line for some extra federal judges — but only if members of Congress from the rest of the country go along.

The fight to represent a far-flung congressional district could be determined by how Arizonans feel about whether children of illegal immigrants are entitled to U.S. citizenship.

A national Democratic group is pumping millions into congressional races across Arizona and large swaths of the East Valley, giving its candidates a huge financial advantage over their Republican rivals.

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Former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon declared victory in his battle against former state House Speaker Kirk Adams for the East Valley’s Fifth Congressional District.

Stan Barnes, a former state legislator and longtime political fixture in the East Valley, said Thursday he will challenge incumbent Rep. Jeff Flake in the Republican primary for the District 6 congressional seat.

Democrats are beginning to rally around a broad plan for addressing the war in Iraq, thus filling an awkward gap in their political agenda, namely that they didn’t have one.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords can't be forced from office for not doing her job while she is recovering, at least not by state law.

Sometime next year, Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Tucson seriously wounded by gunshot in January, will reveal whether she will run for re-election.

Members on Monday defeated, 205-228, a proposed bailout in which the Treasury would pay up to $700 billion to acquire shaky assets from weak financial firms in order to restore liquidity and growth to the U.S. economy.

I think I’m one of the few, if any, who actually enjoy getting political calls or knocks on my door.

WASHINGTON - Policy debates affecting every corner of the economy are likely to shift in major ways if Tuesday’s election, as expected, gives Democrats more power in Congress.