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Just after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a major housing bill Thursday, the top Senate Democratic lawmaker and the top House Republican on the issue diverged over what the House response to the measure should be. The Senate voted, 89-10, in favor of the bill that comprises more than three dozen provisions designed to increase housing […]
On paper, Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Tracey Mann don’t seem like they’d agree on much. A Democrat representing California’s Central Coast and a Republican whose district spans half of Kansas make for an unlikely duo. But the pair are on shared turf as they co-captain the Mean Machine, the members’ team for the Congressional Football […]
Democrat Shawn Harris and Clayton Fuller, a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump, were the top two finishers in Tuesday’s nonpartisan special election to fill GOP former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat. The pair will face each other in an April 7 runoff. Harris, a former Army brigadier general and cattle farmer, captured the largest […]
Texas is more than a thousand miles away from Capitol Hill, but the race between Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the state’s Senate seat Wednesday centered on a D.C.-centric topic: the filibuster. The fight is the latest chapter in both men’s quest to earn an ever-coveted endorsement from President Donald […]
Congressional attendance was up in 2025, in spite of off-year elections, a number of members beset with health crises and the political turmoil that marked President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. In a Senate newly under Republican control and a House held by the slimmest of GOP majorities, lawmakers cast more votes last […]
Amid an unpopular war with Iran and slumping poll numbers linked to a sluggish economy, President Donald Trump resorted to name-calling Wednesday in a bid to boost Ed Gallrein in his GOP primary against Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie. Trump took a break from overseeing his 12-day-old bombardment of targets inside Iran to make a stop […]
Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts carries a bag from District Taco into the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday.
Now that a long-delayed plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack has been given a temporary place on the Senate side, some say they aren’t giving up their fight for a permanent home. A resolution adopted in January and led by Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., […]
Republican Rep. Kevin Hern, a fiscal hawk with a pro-business outlook, is running for Oklahoma’s newly open Senate seat. The former McDonald’s franchise owner, who has served four terms in the House, is the first well-known Republican to launch a Senate bid in the ruby-red state after President Donald Trump’s decision last week to nominate […]
Two key Trump administration officials huddled with Senate Republicans behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss a powerful but controversial surveillance authority that expires next month, an issue that for years has bitterly divided privacy hawks and intelligence-focused lawmakers. FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe came to Capitol Hill as the Republican-controlled Congress […]
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Senators sparred at a hearing Tuesday over local jurisdictions that have policies against cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, as the Senate teed up another floor procedural vote to end a Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., used the hearing to highlight his proposal to make it a crime for local […]
Rep. James E. Clyburn is the go-to for both reassurance and resolve. That makes sense, since the South Carolina Democrat is a student of history — and has lived it. He chronicles some of the country’s past, and his own, in his book “The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who […]
ANALYSIS — Democrats have a difficult and narrow road to the Senate majority, but Republicans apparently want to make it a bit easier. While Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s expected departure to join President Donald Trump’s Cabinet doesn’t alter the Senate battleground, Montana Sen. Steve Daines’ last-minute drop changes the landscape. It was an unforced error […]
After Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin announced his retirement plans last year, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi dug into his substantial war chest, becoming the first candidate in the race to air television ads, building an early lead for a Senate seat that hadn’t been open in nearly 30 years. But with days until Illinois Democrats pick […]
Senate Democrats stepped up pressure on Republicans to conduct public hearings on the conduct of the Iran war, but senior GOP senators were noncommittal on whether they would do so. The partisan tension comes as the Pentagon announced Tuesday that approximately 140 troops have been injured since the U.S. and Israeli strikes began on Feb. […]
Escalating his feud with Rep. Thomas Massie, President Donald Trump on Wednesday will hit the pause button on overseeing the Iran war with a swing through the rebellious Kentuckian’s district amid Massie’s primary battle. Trump ostensibly will be in Ohio and the neighboring Bluegrass State to push his administration’s efforts to lower prices. But he […]
No golden ticket is required to take a seat in the sweet spot in the Senate: the famous “candy desk.” But with Sen. Markwayne Mullin soon vacating it to lead the Department of Homeland Security, questions are swirling over who the chamber’s new candy maestro will be. The tradition began in the 1960s, when California […]
Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump’s adding weight to that dogpile this week. “We don’t have the votes either to proceed to get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it,” said […]
As most Republicans avoided questions last month about allegations Rep. Tony Gonzales had an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide, three GOP women made their demands clear: their colleague has to go. Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida each used their social […]