Gov. Chris Christie

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been honored for his parenting skills.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized Washington for its partisan ways in a campaign appearance in Tennessee for Sen. Lamar Alexander, who's facing a tea party-styled challenger in the Republican primary.

About 20 percent of Gov. Chris Christie's staff got pay raises this year, and for those who did, the gains were big, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Governor Christie has come under fire for his recent to decision to help balance the budget by cutting $2.5 billion off the public employees pension payment.

The largest public employees union in the Garden State will join with the New Jersey Education Association and sue Gov. Chris Christie, after he announced plans to cut the contribution to the public worker pension system by $2.5 billion over the next 13 months.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday that he is thinking about running for president and that by the time 2016 arrives the controversy over last year's George Washington Bridge lane closures "will be a footnote."

As has become customary on the mornings of 'Ask the Governor' Jim uses the last hour of his show for listeners to call in with their questions for the governor. Many listeners may not have the ability to call in tonight for the show, so Jim takes all the questions and passes them along for tonight.

A state appeals court handed a defeat Wednesday to a former county prosecutor who claims he was fired because he complained about the dropping of an indictment that involved a donor to Gov. Chris Christie.

A former aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told lawmakers Tuesday that she had no knowledge of or involvement in the political payback plot at the George Washington Bridge yet described the governor's office as a place where political work was not avoided but rather done during off-hours.

We are streaming live video as Gov. Chris Christie‘s former director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Susan Renna, testifies before the Select Committee on Investigation — the legislative panel probing the Bridgegate scandal.