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Can Senate Republicans buck midterm history again?
</p> Like 2018, the bar is higher in the Senate, where Democrats need a net gain of four seats.
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</p> Like 2018, the bar is higher in the Senate, where Democrats need a net gain of four seats.
When then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton happened to meet on the tarmac in Phoenix, they said they exchanged pleasantries about life, family and Brexit.
</p> But both Democrats in the Senate race — state Rep. Josh Turek and state Sen. Zach Wahls — believe things are changing.</p> “We are not a red state,’’ Turek said in an interview.
The ball is currently in the House’s court after the Senate passed the most recent version of the fiscal 2026 funding bill on April 2.
</p> A bill from Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., has more than 80 co-sponsors, but has not advanced out of the House Judiciary Committee. A similar measure from Sen.
bill.
</p> Prediction markets have undergone rapid recent growth.
</p> A sign directs voters on Virginia’s redistricting ballot referendum to the Ellen M. Bozman Government Center in Arlington on March 31.
</p> A tentative schedule last month called for a subcommittee markup of the Defense bill on May 15, followed by a full-committee markup on May 19.
</p> With next week’s deadline for filing federal tax returns looming, House Republicans are working overtime to remind voters about the tax relief measures contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
</p> By Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire</p> April is shaping up to be a relatively quiet month in election world, before the primary season picks back up in earnest in May.
</p> The battle over DEI has emerged as a key line of attack for Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, who’s fighting for his political future against Rep.
It also calls for passing another filibuster-proof reconciliation bill to boost defense and homeland security funding outside of the regular appropriations process.
But the administration is counting on Republicans to provide most of that increase, or $350 billion, through a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill, outside of the normal appropriations process.
</p> Trump set a June 1 deadline for Congress to pass a reconciliation bill funding the immigration agencies, a tight timeline for a cumbersome process that dragged on for roughly five months last year
</p> He also pushed allies in Congress to limit mail-in ballots in most circumstances through provisions of his proposed SAVE America Act voter identification bill.
</p> Amodei, first elected to Congress in 2011, oversees what has been the most difficult appropriations bill this funding cycle.
a reconciliation bill to fund two immigration agencies in the coming weeks.
</p> But Republicans on Capitol Hill also support some changes to the program.
</p> Lawmakers, in passing the bill, hoped to shed light on Epstein’s network and any figures connected to the sexual exploitation of girls.