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By Tiffany Brown · June 16, 2009 · 4:02 p.m.

Sen. John Ensign speaks to the media about an affair he had with a former staffer Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas. (Related story).

President Barack Obama receives a kiss from first lady Michelle Obama after speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. applaud.
Ethics group urges president, lawmakers to boycott prayer breakfast
Thursday, February 4, 2010
By Lisa Mascaro
An ethics group urged President Barack Obama and lawmakers not to attend today’s National Prayer Breakfast, the annual gathering organized by the group that runs the C Street Christian home where Republican Sen. John Ensign and other lawmakers have lived.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid listens as President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session Congress Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, in Washington.
Nevada lawmakers react to Obama's feisty address
State of the Union: Obama takes on Congress, both parties and the Supreme Court in his first State of the Union
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON — The White House promised a feisty first state of the union speech, and President Barack Obama delivered tonight as he gently scolded Congress, both parties and even the Supreme Court in a talk that Nevada’s Democrats said reasserted Obama’s dominance after a year of difficult setbacks.
FBI gets involved in Sen. John Ensign affair
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON -- The FBI has begun interviewing former aides to Republican Sen. John Ensign as it probes the fallout from the Nevadan’s affair, the Sun has confirmed. The senator’s former staff members are being contacted by the FBI.
Political antics you might have missed
Friday, January 15, 2010
By Jon Ralston
Another busy week early in the 2010 cycle, so big that Mayor Oscar Goodman’s State of the City speech was relegated to oblivion by other stories. But His Honor’s thin skin and thug dialect should not be forgotten, nor should more evidence (as if we need any) of John Ensign’s hypocrisy and a post-mortem on Rory Reid’s “Let’s have a community conversation and then ignore it” committee (I think that’s the official name):
Sen. John Ensign hosts forum on health reform
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By J. Patrick Coolican
Sen. John Ensign on Wednesday hosted a town hall forum at the Summerlin library on health care legislation being considered by Congress, using the occasion to rally opposition.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., posed the question Tuesday of whether it is constitutional to require U.S. citizens to purchase health insurance.
Health coverage requirement raises constitutionality debate
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
Republican Sen. John Ensign has inserted a complicated legal question into the health care debate: Can the federal government require Americans to buy health insurance? The health bill before the Senate would mandate it by 2014.
Obama welcomes 'historic' health care advance
Nevada Sen. John Ensign joins GOP senators in effort to fight passage
Monday, December 21, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed what he called the Senate’s “historic vote” to advance health care reform on a path toward possible passage – but by midday Republican senators had vowed to continue fighting the bill to the final hour on Christmas Eve.
John Ensign calls for probe into Internet claim
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON -- The proxy war between Nevada’s two senators has taken various twists over the years as Sen. John Ensign rose in Republican leadership and Sen. Harry Reid became the majority leader.
Tiger Woods vs John Ensign
Tiger Woods vs John Ensign
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
By Las Vegas Weekly Staff
We rate the scandals, including hotness, ick factor and hypocrisy.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., has been making floor speeches opposing health care reform and plans to participate in the debate.
John Ensign working his way back, trying to put affair behind him
“Senators don’t necessarily want him taking center stage, but he shouldn’t go into hiding either.”
Monday, December 7, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
As Republican Sen. John Ensign was exiting the Capitol on Wednesday night, a Democratic senator entering the building stopped to greet him and thank him for having helped out on an earlier issue. The next afternoon Ensign strode toward the main doors of the Senate chamber to deliver a floor speech on health care, making his way through a gaggle of reporters who not too long ago would have bombarded the Nevadan with questions about his affair and potential ethics violations.
On the unintentional comedic stylings of John Ensign
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
By Jon Ralston
John Ensign’s future in the United States Senate may be limited, but his future as a stand-up comedian is assured.
Sen. John Ensign speaks with KXNT-AM's Alan Stock Monday morning.
John Ensign: Resignation would hurt GOP, shift focus from ousting Harry Reid
Monday, November 30, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. John Ensign gives his first, full-length interview this morning since disclosing an affair last summer, and says he is getting Republican requests to campaign in 2010, has no plans to resign and cannot understand the health care bill.
What might result from a national airing of Ensign’s dirty laundry
COMMENTARY:
Sunday, November 22, 2009
By Jon Ralston
Mark down 8:35 p.m. PT Monday: That’s when the plug will be pulled on John Ensign’s grand delusion, the moment, as the Wachowski brothers might appreciate, that the Matrix is revealed and the grotesque reality becomes unavoidable.
John Ensign absent from Senate floor during health care debate
Saturday, November 21, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
WASHINGTON -- As senators speak on the Senate floor today to discuss health care reform in a lively, rare Saturday session, one voice that has been absent is that of Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada.
Sen. John Ensign would not discuss his move with the Sun.
Ensign moves out of home on C Street
Town house shared with Christian colleagues had gained notoriety because of Nevadan’s affair
Sunday, November 8, 2009
By Lisa Mascaro
Sen. John Ensign has moved out of the C Street house, the Christian home he shared with other elected officials on Capitol Hill that came under scrutiny for its residents’ beliefs and practices and their role in trying to end the Nevada Republican’s affair with a campaign staff member.