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It's beginning to look like Arizona's going to have a bit more congressional clout after 2022.

Former U.S. Rep. Ed Pastor, Arizona's first Hispanic congressman, has died at age 75.

Arizona’s two newest members of Congress joined more than 80 other newly elected House members for freshmen orientation November 13, as Democrats prepare to seize control of the lower chamber for the first time in eight years.

Former Gov. Fife Symington is contemplating running in the 2020 special election to fill the seat long held by Sen. John McCain.

John McCain's first congressional chief of staff and the former Republican state attorney general is weighing a bid to win his seat when it becomes available again in 2020 -- as a Democrat.

Photographer Timon Harper was listening to NewsTalk 550 KFYI one morning and heard Sen. John McCain say he was eyeing a presidential run. It was the late-1990s.

The personal loss felt by many was apparent in every tribute delivered at North Phoenix Baptist Church on August 30, but Biden’s eulogy spoke to a grander loss for democracy - the loss of the civility and values that allowed a Democrat like Biden to befriend a Republican like McCain.

Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America."

Two former presidents are expected to speak at Sen. John McCain's service and he will lie in state in both the nation's capital and Arizona as part of a cross-country funeral procession ending with his burial at the U.S. Naval Academy, according to plans taking shape Sunday.

Sen. John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer, the Arizona senator's family said.