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UNITED STATES - JULY 1: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., right, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and members of the Democratic Women's Conference hold their news conference about the care economy on Thursday, July 1, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol. The group is pushing for extending funding for the nations care economy to be included in infrastructure legislation.  (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Fourth of July jet fumes, huckleberries and push ups — Congressional Hits and Misses

Previewing the 2022 battle for the Senate

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 24: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks outside the White House with a bipartisan group of senators after meeting on an infrastructure deal June 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. From left to right are Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA). Biden indicated that a framework for an infrastructure bill is in place following the meeting.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Tired of talking about Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — Congressional Hits and Misses

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers arrives for the House Republican leadership elections at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Nov. 17, 2020.

McMorris Rodgers on COVID-19 origins, gain-of-function research

UNITED STATES - JUNE 17: Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., arrives in the Ohio Clock Corridor for the annual Seersucker Thursday photo-op in the Capitol on Thursday, June 17, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

‘Damn good to be back’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

Sen. Cory Booker speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee markup in the Hart Building on June 10, 2021.

Aliens, magnets and altering the moon’s orbit — Congressional Hits and Misses

Gen Z is most hesitant on COVID-19 vaccines, and this group wants to change that

UNITED STATES - MAY 26: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., arrives for a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

A Rand Paul voice vote, Scooby Snacks and a cicada attack — Congressional Hits and Misses

Will Congress and ‘Amtrak Joe’ bring passenger rail into the 21st century?

An Amtrak train pulls out of Union Station. in Washington.

CQ Future: Amtrak

UNITED STATES - MAY 20: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., right, and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., attend a news conference to highlight Cuban Independence Day outside the Capitol on Thursday, May 20, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

To be productive, no one in Congress can be involved — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - MAY 12: A squirrel dines on a Snickers almond bar around lunch time in Upper Senate Park outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Cicadas, Snickers and feeling naked without a mask — Congressional Hits and Misses

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., participates in a TV news interview in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

CQ Budget: Infrastructure week, again

UNITED STATES - May 12: Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters after House Republicans voted to oust her from her leadership post as chair of the House Republican Conference in Washington on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Cheney vows to do ‘everything I can’ to keep Trump from Oval Office

How redistricting will shape the fight for House seats

UNITED STATES - MAY 3: Workers power wash the colonnade at the main entrance to Union Station in Washington on Monday, May 3, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

‘Galaxy Quest,’ ‘Down Periscope’ and ‘Die Hard 2’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

President Joe Biden speaks with lawmakers as he exits the House chamber at the end of his address to the joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.

Intern IDs, Lincoln’s ghost and vaccines on Mars: Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - APRIL 28: Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,clap as President Joe Biden delivers his address to the joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.(Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Top 3 health care takeaways from Biden’s address

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., runs to the Capitol for a vote on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

Cardi B, 420 and a Green New Deal debate: Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - APRIL 22: Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., stops to pose with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., as she holds a card on the House steps with the final vote count after the House passed HR 51 with a 216-208 vote at the Capitol on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The legislation would create the new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, with one representative and two senators. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Watch: House passes DC statehood bill once again, despite uphill fight in Senate

UNITED STATES - APRIL 20: The Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., center, speaks at a news conference surrounded by members of the Congressional Black Caucus after the reading of guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. The Congressional Black Caucus gathered in the Rayburn Room to watch the verdict before holding a press conference outside. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

‘This is accountability’ — Lawmakers react to Chauvin guilty verdict

Watch: Tribes see progress in COVID-19 fight

The Capitol dome is framed by red tulips on the East Plaza on April 15.

‘What’s my vote supposed to be?’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

How Aaron Burr may have created the filibuster by mistake

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - DECEMBER 08: Dr. Rochelle Walensky, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Centers for Disease Control, speaks during a news conference at the Queen Theater December 08, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. With the novel coronavirus pandemic continuing to ravage the country with daily records for infections and deaths, members of Biden's health team said they will make fighting COVID-19 the priority. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

CDC: Deaths jumped 16 percent in 2020

UNITED STATES - MARCH 25: Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, runs out of the Capitol after the last vote before the the Easter recess on Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

‘One of my favorite times of the week’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - March 23: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., listen to Sen. John Thune, R-S. Dak., speak during a news conference following the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in Washington on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Fact-checking the filibuster’s racial history

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell conducts a Fox News interview in the Russell Building on Wednesday.

St. Paddy’s Day, SportsTalk and Tom Carper on a train — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 17: Marie Newman, candidate for Congress in IL-03, speaks to reporters after receiving the endorsement of Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Watch: Marie Newman shares why equality bill matters to her and her daughter

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 8: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., talks to reporters after a vote on the Senate floor in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

GOP senators say their party’s vaccine hesitancy will go away

UNITED STATES - MARCH 10: From left, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attend a bill enrollment ceremony for the American Rescue Plan Act on the West Front of the Capitol after the House passed the $1.9 trillion covid-19 relief package on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

‘Heaven forbid’ Congress accomplish something — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - March 4: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., puts on a tie as he talks with Sen. Maria Cantwell , D-Wash., before the start of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee business meeting to vote on sending the nomination of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to be Interior Secretary, to the Senate floor in Washington on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

‘Power is going to my head’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

Watch: N95 masks are piling up as nurses reuse PPE

Ann Berry arrives to the Capitol to be sworn in as the Secretary of the Senate in Washington on Monday, March 1, 2021.

Ann Berry sworn in as secretary of the Senate

Activists with Our Revolution hold signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday to call on Congress to pass the $15 federal minimum wage hike proposed as part of the COVID relief bill.

‘They may have disagreed on some details’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 25: A transphobic sign was put up by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2020, after Rep. Marie Newman, D-Ill., put up a pro transgener rights flag across the hallway in the Longworth House Office Building. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rand Paul’s questions of transgender nominee were ‘obscene,’ says advocate

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 24: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, center, talks with ranking member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., left, and Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., after the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing titled “Protecting the Timely Delivery of Mail, Medicine, and Mail-in Ballots,” in Rayburn House Office Building on Monday, August 24, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Pool)

Fiery exchanges at Postal Service oversight hearing

Xavier Becerra, nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives for his Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Feb. 23, 2021.

Becerra touts health care record as GOP targets nomination

A man walks along Florida Avenue Northeast as a winter storm moved though the Washington, D.C., area on Thursday, February 18, 2021.

How to refill a toilet and, of course, a trip to Cancún — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 16: A sign notifies customers that covid-19 vaccines are not yet available at a Harris Teeter grocery store in Washington on Feb. 16, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Watch: Biden invests $1.6 billion in COVID-19 tests, genomic sequencing

UNITED STATES - February 9: Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., walks through the Ohio Clock Corridor at the end of the first day of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Trump is charged with “incitement of insurrection” after his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn November’s election result. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Another impeachment trial and lots of sleepy lawmakers: Congressional Hits and Misses

How does budget reconciliation work?

Sydney Register, left, and Pablo Feliciano construct a snow man at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as snow continues to fall in Washington on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.

Groundhog week, cellphones and vote-a-rama — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 26: Workers clean a classroom floor at Heather Hills Elementary School as officials conduct a materials distribution for parents to pick up for distance learning  in Bowie, Md., on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Teachers competing with other groups for vaccines as Biden pushes schools to reopen

UNITED STATES - January 26: A staffer pretends to get run over by Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., as he uses a knee scooter after undergoing foot surgery, to make his way to the Senate floor for a vote in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Scooters, new recipes and the final ‘Time to Wake Up’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations, as US Vice President Kamala Harris (R) watches in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United States in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2021.

Here’s the health care landscape Trump left for Biden

First Lady Jill Biden, left, places her hands on U.S. President Joe Biden during the 59th presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Biden will propose a broad immigration overhaul on his first day as president, including a shortened pathway to U.S. citizenship for undocumented migrants - a complete reversal from Donald Trump's immigration restrictions and crackdowns, but one that faces major roadblocks in Congress. Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/UPI

‘Jill’s husband’ becomes president — Congressional Hits and Misses

UNITED STATES - January 20: President-elect Joe Biden arrives to the West Front of the Capitol for his Inauguration as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Here are Biden’s first executive orders on health care

UNITED STATES - January 20: A Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies volunteer looks at name cards as preparations are made prior to the 59th inaugural ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Views from the Capitol on Inauguration Day

UNITED STATES - January 20: President Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on the West Front of the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Watch President Joe Biden’s full inaugural address