May 22: The House passes the Americans with Disabilities Act with a unanimous voice vote. Oct. 16: The House passes an Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, which raises taxes. A month later, President ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tall and courtly, Tom Foley served 30 years in the House when partisan confrontation was less rancorous than today and Democrats had dominated for decades. He crowned his long ...

From 1975: Tom Foley, the area’s U.S. House Representative, planned to return to work after he suffered dizzy spells and checked himself into Bethesda Naval Hospital earlier in the week. “He’s ...

As we continue to mark the Inlander’s 30th anniversary, every week we’ll look back at a different article from years past. This week, we’re rerunning a piece originally published on Nov. 2, 1994 and ...

"Connecticut is suffering from lost jobs and a weak economy. Our legislature is not responding to these problems while our state is in crisis. "My Plan Forward for Connecticut addresses the biggest ...

Tourism expert Tom Foley describes his outlook for summer travel in destinations like Colorado as “cautiously optimistic” — a term to describe the combination of rising revenues and wavering summer ...

Former Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley has died at the age of 84, NBC News has confirmed. The former speaker had suffered a stroke last December and was hospitalized in May with pneumonia, ...