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 man who created the current Democratic majority in the Senate came to Yale Friday. Senator James Jeffords ’58 of Vermont, whose decision to leave the Republican party in May gave Democrats control ...

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 ...

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 ...

Re “My Way, the High Way,” by Sen. James M. Jeffords, Opinion, Dec. 30: Bravo! JFK would have been proud to add Jeffords to his chronicles of the brave and conscientious men in history who exhibited a ...

Two months after Vermont Sen. James M. Jeffords bolted the Republican Party and put Democrats in control of the Senate, Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) finds himself in the midst of a ...

My Declaration of Independence by James M. Jeffords Simon & Schuster, 136 pp., $14.95 ANY SERIOUS STUDENT of the Bible has, at one point or another, had to grapple with the Moses Paradox. The Moses ...

THE BUZZ IN THE MEDIA after senator James Jeffords’s switch put Democrats in control of the Senate was that President Bush must change his ways. He has to become more moderate. Why? Because only that ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- As expected, Senator Jim Jeffords announced this morning he is leaving the Republican party and will align himself with the Senate's Democratic caucus. The move, which Jeffords delayed ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Sen. Jim Jeffords (search), an independent who triggered one of the most dramatic upheavals in U.S. Senate history when he quit the GOP (search) four years ago, announced Wednesday ...