Sen. James Jeffords announced Thursday his decision to leave the Republican Party and become an independent, a move that will give Democrats control of the Senate for the first time since 1994. "In ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords, who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent, died Monday. He was 80. Jeffords died in ...

Sen. James Jeffords walked into the Senate chamber shortly after noon Wednesday, his first visit as an independent. The Vermont senator cast a vote on an education amendment and then moved down the ...

The obituaries for former Vermont Sen. James Jeffords, who died earlier this week, uniformly began by referencing his decision in 2001 to bolt the Republican Party, thus shifting the Senate majority ...

Why we chose him: This quiet Republican Senator jumped ship from the GOP this week to become an independent, causing perhaps the most significant mid-term shakeup in the history of Capitol Hill. Jim ...

The defection of Jim Jeffords may be remembered as one of the most successful covert operations in American political history, with Democratic leader Tom Daschle as the mastermind and Jeffords as the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — James Merrill Jeffords, who was a Republican congressman and senator before breaking with his party in 2001, has died. He was 80. Jeffords, the last Republican to hold federal office ...

U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords died this week at the age of 80. For most people in the U.S., he will be remembered as the former Republican who shifted the power of the Senate to the Democrats in 2001 when ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords, who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent, died Monday. He was 80. Jeffords died in ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords, who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent, died Monday. He was 80. Jeffords ...