WASHINGTON -- As senators speak on the Senate floor today to discuss health care reform in a lively, rare Saturday session, one voice that has been absent is that of Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada.

What's Your Reaction? Doug Hampton, the former co-chief of staff to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., speaks out in his first television network interview, about the affair between his former boss and his wife, Cynthia "Cindy" Hampton, also a former Ensign employee.

Just before Sen. John Ensign took the Senate floor Friday evening to blast Democrats' health care bill, a Senate staffer lugged a 2-foot-tall tower of papers to his desk to make sure it showed up in every camera angle C-SPAN might want to catch of the senator's speech. The real star of the health care debate this weekend has been the 2,074-page bill - a physical manifestation of the size and ...

C notes The famous row house on C Street Southeast where South Carolina’s disgraced governor, Mark Sanford, sought counseling after his affair — as did Sen. John Ensign of Nevada after his affair — has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes.

Just before Sen. John Ensign took the Senate floor Friday evening to blast Democrats' health care bill, a Senate staffer lugged a two-foot tall tower of papers to his desk to make sure it showed up in every camera angle C-Span might want to catch of the senator's speech. The real star of the health care debate this weekend has been the 2,074-page bill — a physical manifestation of the size and ...

Five months after Sen. John Ensign admitted to having an extramarital affair with a staffer, the scandal is still in the headlines — in large part because the husband of his onetime lover keeps making them.

Behind-the-scenes moves to keep Holder away from Ensign show how sensitive the issue has become.

WASHINGTON----After reading the Senate Ethics Committee’s letter of admonishment issued to Sen. Roland Burris , CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan stated, “This is one of the harshest letters the Senate Ethics Committee has issued in recent times and Sen.

Andrew Kiraly has taken to Twitter to poke fun at Nevada politicians like Sen. John Ensign and Gov. Jim Gibbons, in what he calls "a text version of an editorial cartoon."

The famous rowhouse on C Street SE where disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford sought counseling after his affair -- as did Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) after his affair -- has begun paying D.C. real estate taxes, according to city officials.