Dan Popkey

The senator has 'significant concerns' about Saturday's trading five Taliban leaders for the Idaho soldier. GOP Sen. Mike Crapo said Thursday that he earlier objected to an Obama administration proposal to free six Taliban prisoners in exchange for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

With shouts of "Amen!" from a raucous crowd, Sen. Russ Fulcher began his race against a powerful incumbent by making a populist appeal to tea party Republicans.

Veterans of the 2009 battle over raising highway taxes aim for success with a new partnership and a softer sell.

Seizing on the sweeping defeat of Superintendent of Public Instruction Luna’s K-12 reforms last November, Idaho’s minority party wants to make education the signature issue of 2014.

House Speaker John Boehner said Monday that getting the GOP-controlled House to agree to raising the U.S. debt ceiling will only come with a bipartisan deal to make cost-saving changes to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, farm programs and government pensions.