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Lawmakers in Ukraine scuffle, throwing punches and eggs, during a parliamentary session to ratify a naval treaty with Russia.

In a recession, state lawmakers are taxing personal vices. It’s good for you, they say, but it’s really better for their budgets.

Former New York congressman Eric Massa wrote a $40,000 check to his chief of staff shortly before resigning his seat last month ...

Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents.

Lawmakers scale walls and flee by helicopter after protesters storm Parliament. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Wednesday, handing the army broad powers to restore order after weeks of disruptive street protests by anti-government demonstrators.

Lawmakers have received death threats and been victims of vandalism after voting in favor of the health care bill.

A Republican congressman from Texas on Monday admitted he shouted “baby killer” from the House floor as Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak defended his change of position on health care legislation.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington - Unsatisfied with Toyota Motor Corp.'s statements that internal testing has ruled out electronics problems as the cause for sudden acceleration, two top lawmakers Friday asked the company to provide results from those tests and make employees with "personal knowledge" of the testing available for congressional interviews.

The Senate's second-ranking Republican leader says he expects GOP lawmakers will vote to extend unemployment benefits this week — derailing a fellow Republican's objections.

Rep. Charles Rangel, the influential chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was publicly admonished by the House ethics panel Thursday for taking trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by private corporations.