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 ...

With a government shutdown looming in less than a week, the GOP-led House of Representatives started 2024 by checking off an essential item of business: buying new navy-blue identification lapel ...

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 ...

Democrat Obama stopped wearing flag pin to show patriotism through ideas. Oct. 4, 2007 — -- An eagle-eyed reporter for the ABC affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, noticed something missing from ...

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.) ...