U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper speaking at a fundraiser as U.S. Attorney Ed Yarbrough looks on.

Gov. Winfield Dunn (r.) entertains Jack, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn's grandchild, as the representative speaks at the Davidson GOP Picnic.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at the Education Forum held in Nashville.

"On (allowing guns in bars) there are a whole bunch of people who are wishing they had paid more attention during the session .... the General Assembly may wish they had spent a little more time on (this).

Then-Gov. Lamar Alexander turned to Lewis Donelson who many of you know is now 90. I said, 'Lewie, go secure the capitol.' Somebody behind me said, 'He's been waiting all of his life for someone to ask him to do that!"

Wendell Potter, a former reporter for Tennessee newspapers and a UT communications graduate, made headlines last week with his Congressional testimony as a truth-telling former health care insurance executive.

Bobbie Partray, Tennessee Eagle Forum, and Kathleen Starnes, Davidson County Republican, ready their booths for the July 4th weekend Patriot's Tea Party.

Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, Brenda Wynn, and Bob Tuke, former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. Tuke is the former Democratic Party chairman who ran against incumbent Alexander for his Senate seat in 2008.

Governor Phil Bredesen joined TDOT Commissioner Gerald Nicely, Senator Douglas Henry, Representative Gary Odom, Mayor Karl Dean and other state and local officials in Nashville to break ground on Phase II of the Interstate 40-White Bridge Road interchange

Gov. Phil Bredesen (center) marks PEW Charitable Trusts' recognition of Tennessee's leadership in the clean energy economy. The governor is flanked (l.-r.) by Sen. Andy Berke, Deputy House Speaker Lois Deberry, Sen. Lowe Finney, House Speaker Kent William

Gov. Phil Bredesen, ECD Commissioner Matt Kisber and House Speaker Kent Williams confer. Behind Bredesen is House Democratic Caucus chairman Mike Turner.

Judy Blackburn,the first woman in Tennessee history to serve on the State Election Commission, was sworn in June 10.

Carolyn Presswood is an unsung '59ers Reunion hero. She kept up the ever-changing email list, sent out planning meeting minutes and everything else needed for the reunion.

Carolyn Presswood is an unsung '59ers Reunion hero. She kept up the ever-changing email list, sent out planning meeting minutes and everything else needed for the reunion.

New GOP Chairman Chris Devaney, flanked by his family, thanked the Republican Executive Committee for their support.

Councilman Frank Harrison, a Vietnam veteran, with Sen. Thelma Harper at Nashville's National Cemetery for Memorial Day observance.

Sixth Circuit Senior Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey predicted the U.S. Senate will confirm Sonia Sotomayor as a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Former FCC Commissioner Deborah Tate praised Obama's initiative against cyber crime.