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Democrats have few answers on ending losing streak after Manchin’s reconciliation dagger
Losing can often breed more losing. Washington Democrats are on a remarkable losing streak, with few clear answers on how to get a win.
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Losing can often breed more losing. Washington Democrats are on a remarkable losing streak, with few clear answers on how to get a win.
David Valadao, a Republican who was swept up in 2018’s blue wave but managed to win back his California district in 2020 even as it backed Joe Biden by 11 points.
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A federal district judge ruled Tuesday that the Democratic House chairman can get former President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Police focus D.C.’s lawsuit focuses on the costs related to the Metropolitan Police Department response, which it says are still being tallied but are estimated at “millions of dollars” for the week
Circuit Judge Andrew S. Oldham, a Trump appointee, wrote for the panel in an 117-page ruling upholding Kacsmaryk’s decision.
House and Senate leaders removed bipartisan provisions targeting Saudi Arabia before the House passed its defense policy bill.
The final version disappointed Washington, D.C.’s delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, because it did not grant the D.C. mayor control over the city’s National Guard troops.
At a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing last week, Republicans balked at Democratic bills that would carve out exceptions to Section 230’s protections for civil rights violations or cases
Some 295 S&P 500 companies now have policies for general board oversight of political spending, up 13.9 percent from 2020, according to a report released this week from the Center for Political Accountability
The count: 13.9% That’s how many more S&P 500 companies gave their boards of directors oversight of political spending in the past year, a sign corporations recognize how public perceptions about
The aide noted that more amendments were included in past years in the catch-all manager’s package, with only 57 in this year’s compared to 98 in the fiscal 2020 bill’s and 141 in fiscal 2021’s.
The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case that asks it to overturn decisions that established the right to abortion.
following the death of George Floyd and created a public relations nightmare for the USCP, harkening back to the horrific use of police dogs to attack African American civil rights demonstrators in the 1960’s,
The Farm Bureau's annual Thanksgiving shopping trip found this year's meal will cost 14 percent more than last year's. Blame the turkey.
Speier, who survived a shooting as a congressional aide in Jonestown, chairs two House subcommittees and has battled for women's rights.
As some in GOP echo 2020's ‘Stop the steal’ claims, Democrats warn that voting laws in red states could be rigging the system.
A federal judge denied Donald Trump’s request to stop White House records from being turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
Democrats believe Sununu could be vulnerable on social issue,s including abortion, and they view the state’s recent history of electing Democrats at the federal level as a sign that Hassan could have an