Dan Burton (R-Ind.) cut an investigative path along Pennsylvania Avenue unlike that of almost any other committee chairman of the past 50 years. Through a force of will that some called reckless ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. So Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) is finally retiring, after two decades in Congress.

Former House member Dan Burton, famed for shooting a watermelon with his handgun in his back yard to show how former Clinton White House aide Vince Foster (who committed suicide) was allegedly ...