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Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading “This is not normal” as President Donald Trump enters the House chamber on Tuesday night to deliver his address to a joint session of Congress.

Protest, retreat, hide? Congressional behavior, 2025-style

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted March 6, 2025 at 4:05pm
Josh Hawley is among the Senate Republicans who are unenthusiastic about the House’s proposed cuts to Medicaid.

‘Yeah, I don’t love that,’ or how the House learned to start jamming the Senate

By Jason Dick and David Lerman
Posted February 27, 2025 at 4:19pm
Among the small number of Democrats who have shown they can navigate the current political environment, according to Brandon Wetherbee, is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

‘If I can get you to feel’ — politics, wrestling and connecting with people

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted February 19, 2025 at 5:22pm
Political Theater podcast host Jason Dick and “Porcelain War” co-director Slava Leontyev in the Roll Call newsroom.

‘Beauty never gets old’ — Slava Leontyev in the ‘Porcelain War’

By Jason Dick
Posted February 11, 2025 at 2:47pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has largely stuck to his plan to consistently confirm executive nominees and has plans to take the lead on the budget process if the House cannot forge a path.

Having a plan beats not having a plan

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 6, 2025 at 3:14pm
A helicopter flies near the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.

Instability as norm. Or test

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 30, 2025 at 4:59pm
Security barricades the House chamber as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021. Reps. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, blue shirt, and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., right, are also pictured. President Donald Trump issued pardons to all those involved in the attack.

Pardon me? Tales of presidential pardons

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted January 22, 2025 at 2:57pm
Two appointed senators, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Roland Burris, D-Ill., walk through Statuary Hall before President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009. Burris did not seek election following his appointment. Wicker won election and has continued to climb the ranks in the chamber.

Appointed senators: The winners, seat-warmers, losers and weirdos

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 15, 2025 at 8:29pm
Sen. Max Baucus is questioned by reporters outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting on Nov. 17, 2011.

So you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget

By Jason Dick, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted January 8, 2025 at 4:11pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has a thin margin of error now and in the coming 119th Congress.

The top political stories, of next year

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 19, 2024 at 10:58am