What’s a surefire way to identify Members of the House amid the swarm of faces on Capitol Hill? Look at their lapel. With each new Congress comes a new Congressional pin, and the pins are unique ...

Since we began our round-the-clock, if-it-moves-blog-it coverage of the Cynthia McKinney cop-punching scandal, we’ve been getting the same question from our readers: Do you mean to tell me the… ...

Pins, on the other hand, can be left on at all times. (The sergeant-at-arms does tell lawmakers not to wear their pins around town when there’s a high risk of terrorist attacks.) ...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he no longer wears an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for “true patriotism” since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...