Associates of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband say the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state, believing the job is hers if she wants it.

Republican Sen. Roger Reitz, of Manhattan, wins re-election by the slimmest margin in any legislative race on the Nov. 4 ballot.

The man who's reportedly agreed to be the next Attorney General has impressive credentials from the Clinton administration, though that role could come back to haunt him.

Veteran lawmaker will return to Capitol Hill

Al Qaida released a new video that insults President-elect Barack Obama along racial as well as political lines.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has made her decision on who will be the next state treasurer.

A Democratic senator said Democrats are letting Senator Joe Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican John McCain for president.

Members of the U.S. House and Senate and their colleagues-to-be are meeting to choose the next session's leaders and some committee chairmen in closed-door sessions.

Former presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain are promising to work together to "change the bad habits of Washington."

Senator Joe Lieberman appears increasingly likely to hold onto his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Sen. John McCain.

A key Democrat says a House auto industry bailout would require that U.S. automakers immediately repay $25 billion in government loans next year if they can't show they're financially viable.

Some 60 new faces, the freshman class of the next Congress, are converging on Washington as lawmakers try to bring the current session of Congress to an end.

President-elect Barack Obama and Senator John McCain will get together for the first time since their last debate.

Congresswoman Nancy Boyda says she tried to prove that she could win re-election to her 2nd District House seat without running attack ads against her opponent.

Rep.-elect Lynn Jenkins is hoping for seats on the House Armed Services and Financial Services committees.

A member of one of the state's most prominent political families isn't interested in being state treasurer.

A Kansas Court of Appeals judge, a district judge from Lawrence and an Overland Park attorney are finalists for a seat on the state Supreme Court.

President-elect Barack Obama plans to meet with vanquished Republican rival John McCain on Monday in Chicago, his transition office announced Friday.

President-elect Barack Obama has met in Chicago with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is under consideration for secretary of state.

Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers says he knows President-elect Barack Obama no better than thousands of other people in Chicago.

Two Democratic officials say Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state.

President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that he will resign from the Senate, effective Sunday.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden chose as his chief of staff a man who once served in that same role for Vice President Al Gore, Democratic officials said Thursday.

Obama promised his daughters a dog if he was elected, but noted at a news conference that one of his daughters is allergic so the pooch would have to be hypoallergenic.

If Barack Obama gets as much help with the economy as he's been getting on picking a dog for his daughters, the financial crisis could be solved by, say, February.