Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senate Judiciary Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., right, shakes hands with Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., after the committee voted not ...

Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson in 1979. (AP) (Anonymous/AP) Cody is a picturesque town in the tan chaparral of northwestern Wyoming where the rodeo each summer evening plays out against a backdrop of ...

Alan K. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served three controversy-rich terms in the U.S. Senate — a tenure animated by a feistiness that was as earthy as it could be intemperate — and who later ...

A softball question, and Robert Bork was out. By Linda Greenhouse A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and ...

Alan K. Simpson, the three-term Republican US senator from Wyoming who worked with Democrats to overhaul federal immigration law in 1986 and lead a deficit-reduction commission in 2010, has died. He ...

Alan K. Simpson, a Folksy Republican Force in the Senate, Dies at 93 A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and ...

Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson shares his life and his career in the U.S. Senate. In this two-part special from WY PBS, former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson shares his life, his career in the U.S.