As a GOP Senator, Alan Simpson attacked Social Security with insults and lies. Why has Washington overlooked his record?

As a GOP Senator, Alan Simpson attacked Social Security with insults and lies. Why has Washington overlooked his record?

It was the softest of softball questions. The date was Sept. 19, 1987. Judge Robert Bork’s five days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee were drawing to a close, and the committee had ...

Wyo., famous for his quick wit and ability to work across the aisle in Congress, died Friday morning. He was 93 years old. He died in Cody, surrounded by family and friends, after struggling to ...

Simpson was a tough-as-nails Wyoming senator who often expressed things exactly as he saw them. But he knew when to apply a ...

U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson speaks at the Ramada hotel in Casper, while Rep. Dick Cheney chuckles, in this archival image. (Casper ...

FILE – President Joe Biden awards the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to former Wyoming ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political ...

Former Wyoming Republican senator Alan Simpson died on Friday at the age of 93 after decades of work in politics. Simpson ...

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a ...