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Capitol Ink | Speed trap

By R.J. Matson
Posted September 15, 2021 at 7:00am
Instead of changing course amid a big slide in the polls, Joe Biden is doubling down on progressive policies and politics, Winston writes.

Biden’s dug a hole for himself, but he keeps digging

By David Winston
Posted September 15, 2021 at 6:00am
Senate candidate Adam Laxalt championed the Trump campaign’s unsuccessful effort to overturn the 2020 presidential result in Nevada.

GOP Senate candidates backed legal challenges to the 2020 election

By Bridget Bowman
Posted September 15, 2021 at 5:00am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves the Senate Democratic Caucus lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate Democrats prepare to tweak House reconciliation package

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted September 14, 2021 at 8:08pm
Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Biden administration took 'risks' with its Afghanistan exit plan.

Theories of Afghan withdrawal failures emerge as Blinken defends chaotic exit

By Rachel Oswald
Posted September 14, 2021 at 4:14pm
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III says he hopes to muster the support of at least 10 Republicans for the new voting rights legislation.

New election overhaul bill faces same Republican opposition

By Kate Ackley
Posted September 14, 2021 at 1:15pm
House Science, Space and Technology ranking member Frank D. Lucas is concerned that several bipartisan research and development bills are doomed.

Republicans warn reconciliation may stall bipartisan R&D proposals

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted September 14, 2021 at 6:00am
Congress has a busy next few weeks with Democrats’ two-track strategy on jobs and infrastructure bills and a possible government shutdown looming.

After August recess, Congress faces legislative deluge

By Todd Ruger
Posted September 13, 2021 at 6:30am
President Joe Biden’s defensiveness about his Afghanistan withdrawal decision was a departure from the empathetic and straight-talking demeanor that helped win him the White House, Bennett writes.

Biden has himself to blame for lost leverage

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 13, 2021 at 6:00am
New Democrat Coalition Chair Suzan DelBene backs a four-year expansion of the child tax credit.

Centrist Democrats push stronger child tax credit expansion

By Laura Weiss
Posted September 10, 2021 at 3:18pm