Republican Bachmann under congressional ethics probe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Representative Michele Bachmann is being probed by the Office of Congressional Ethics for allegedly misusing campaign funds, media reports said on Monday. Bachmann, a Tea Party-backed conservative congresswoman from Minnesota was among a large field of Republicans who ran unsuccessfully for their party's presidential nomination before last year's election. She ...

TRENDING: White House is no dog's life, Bachmann says

(CNN) - If Rep. Michele Bachmann had been elected president, would she have walked Boomer? The former 2012 presidential candidate and Minnesota Republican said Saturday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington that the White House is overly lavish, citing several examples including the minder of the presidential pooch. “We are also [...]

Controversial former White House hopeful Bachmann faces tough challenge

ST. CLOUD, Minnesota (Reuters) - Representative Michele Bachmann, known for controversial comments during her Republican presidential nomination bid, faces a tough congressional election challenge on Tuesday in a Minnesota district that should be friendly to conservatives. The race in the sprawling Minnesota 6th Congressional District has been the nation's most expensive in both money raised and ...

Democrat congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans

Trick-cyclists discover 'Michele Bachmann effect' Time-rich psychologists in the USA say they have discovered that female Democratic politicians are significantly less feminine in appearance than Republican ones - so much so that it's often possible to tell which party a woman politico belongs to just by looking at her.…