Republican Sen. David Vitter took some time away from making sure his staff has to pay for Obamacare to support accepting the law's Medicaid expansion in Louisiana. Apparently opposing all parts of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2007, it was revealed that Sen. Vitter’s telephone number was included in the ...

Who would’ve thought in 2008 that President Obama would get into political trouble for being too cool? Echoing a growing sentiment that the president has not responded passionately enough to the ...

David Vitter effectively announced his candidacy for re-election to the U.S. Senate last week when he filed nearly three dozen bills on the opening day of the 111th Congress. Most of Vitter's bills ...

As Gov. Bobby Jindal single-mindedly plans for life beyond Louisiana, the state Republican Party is planning for life beyond Jindal. And nobody is poised to play a bigger role than a man whose career ...

Sen. David Vitter took to YouTube to announce his intention to run for governor of Louisiana after Gov. Bobby Jindal is termed out in 2015. Can he win? Depends. "As much thought, prayer, and ...

Republican Sen. David Vitter and Democrat Rep. Charlie Melancon took clear leads in the Senate race of Louisiana’s first party primary election on Saturday. Despite his 2007 prostitution scandal, ...

David Vitter lost the 2015 governor’s race, after being favored to win, and then didn’t run for reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2016. But he remains present in Louisiana politics. Vitter, who served ...

David Vitter isn’t going to attend President Obama’s speech tonight, not because he’s sending a message to the president, but because he’s got better things to do. “I have a Saints party,” the ...

Vitter is nothing if not single-minded. Since the dark days of the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal in 2007, he has methodically rebuilt his image and his statewide network to the point that he is the ...

<> on July 26, 2011 in Washington, DC. Washington “scandals” have a predictable rhythm, and the Solyndra solar loan “scandal” has entered the phase where critics start exploiting the controversy to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- After months of attacks about his prostitution scandal, Republican candidate for governor David Vitter is addressing the issue in a new television ad -- though without using the ...