WASHINGTON — 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 political ...
Sixty years ago, the political landscape in the U.S. was drastically different than it is now. Instead of acting solely along party lines, lawmakers worked together, often across the aisle, to find ...
SPOKANE, Wash. — Renowned political commentator and TV personality Chris Matthews will be present at the premiere of a new documentary film about former congressman and speaker of the House Tom Foley.
WASHINGTON – Tom Foley, the courtly former speaker of the U.S. House who lost his seat when Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994, has died of complications from a stroke. He was 84. His wife ...
Former Speaker of the House and Spokane native, Tom Foley, has died at the age of 84. Foley served 30 years in the House representing Eastern Washington’s 5th Congressional District, more than five ...
SEATTLE — Former Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with little political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted ...
President George Bush receives applause from Vice President Dan Quayle, left, and House Speaker Thomas Foley prior to delivering his first State of the Union address Jan. 31, 1990 on Capitol Hill in ...
"The Gentleman Speaker: Conversations with Tom Foley" will air on KHQ-TV on Saturday at 4 p.m. As a young chief of staff to House Speaker Tip O’Neill following Democrats’ sound defeat in the 1980 ...
The Tarrance Group, a Republican polling and strategy firm out of Virginia, has found that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is vulnerable in 2014, while his former GOP opponent, Tom Foley, continues to have the ...
FOLEY, Ala. (WKRG) — By now, a familiar story for anyone who pumped gas into their vehicle Sunday at Tom Thumb in Foley. “It just sputtered and snapping and popping,” said David Griffin. “What the ...
Dallas attorney Tom Foley and chef Tiffany Derry have opened Roots Chicken Shak and Roots Southern Table. Radici in Farmers Branch comes next. Then, they plan to franchise Roots Chicken Shak with ...
Former House Speaker Tom Foley has died. The Washington Democrat spent 30 years in the House until he lost his seat in the 1995 Republican revolution. He went on to serve as ambassador to Japan under ...
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