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Volunteers from Families Belong Together and the Franciscan Action Network place teddy bears along a cage to call attention to children separated frmo their families at the border.
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Volunteers from Families Belong Together and the Franciscan Action Network place teddy bears along a cage to call attention to children separated frmo their families at the border.
Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to Republican lawmakers on the Hill.
Newly elected senators and House members descended on the Capitol this week to begin their orientation. Meanwhile, some members packed up their offices.
A new program will embed Gold Star family members among lawmakers’ staff, where they can show the next Congress what the term really means.
Photo of the day: Rep.-elect Barry Moore, Republican from Alabama, arrives in Washington for new member orientation in Congress.
Kai Kahele was elected to Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district, making him the second Native Hawaiian ever to become a voting member of Congress.
Photo: Friends of the WWII Memorial wreath during the virtual Veterans Day ceremony at the WWII Memorial in Washington
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell exits the Kennedy Caucus Room to speak to reporters after being reelected as leader of the Republican Conference.
DC area residents flooded downtown Washington on Saturday after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were projected to win the 2020 election on Saturday.
As Joe Biden inches closer to 270, Bob Casey did his best cable news impression and Mitch McConnell pondered his role in the 117th Congress.
Photos of the week: Scenes from the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia and DC
“When it’s done, it’s done,” one congressman says. Even before the election, retiring members started cleaning out their offices.
Twelve years ago, the celebration of Barack Obama’s historic election to the White House extended into the early morning hours of Nov. 5, 2008.
A worker power washes the colonnade at Union Station on Wednesday morning after Election Day.
Mondaire Jones won the race for New York’s 17th District Tuesday night, making him the first openly gay, Black man elected to Congress.
Kat Cammack, a former Hill staffer for retiring Rep. Ted Yoho, was elected to represent the outgoing lawmaker’s seat Tuesday night.
“The muse of history writes everything down / She writes just what she sees in Washington town,” sings frontman Matthew Caws.
Democrat Jaime Harrison and GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham campaign across the state in the tight South Carolina Senate race days before the election.
The beginning of the week was busy, with the Senate confirming Barrett to the Supreme Court, while the latter half saw action heat up on the campaign trail.
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