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Connecting the dots on the economy
</p> In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, the job losses were at 116,000.
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</p> In the fourth quarter of 2025 alone, the job losses were at 116,000.
Bill Cassidy, state Sen. Blake Miguez dropped his Senate bid and will run for Letlow's soon-to-be vacant House seat instead. He quickly picked up Trump's support. Another GOP Senate contender, St.
Hoyer then won the majority leader post by beating John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, Pelosi's pick, in a secret-ballot vote after the 2006 elections.
Bill Huizenga, R-Mich, sponsored another bill that would allow automatic electronic delivery of certain regulatory documents, such as prospectuses and account statements.
Scott P. Brown (R)↵↵Brown won a 2010 special election in deep-blue Massachusetts to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy but lost reelection two years later to Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
</p> Thirty days in, that’s changing.
</p> </p> It’s been hard to turn on the TV news or open a news website this week without catching California Rep. Kevin Kiley.
</p> #LASEN: Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy landed another primary challenger in Louisiana this week, with St. Tammany Parish Council member Kathy Seiden joining the race.
Scott P. Brown to drop out of the GOP primary and support Sununu. </p> #VASEN: Virginia state Sen.
President Donald Trump has long been pushing for a comprehensive crime bill, declaring on his Truth Social platform in late August that “it’s what our Country [needs], and NOW!”
Then, it was Republicans angry over Barack Obama’s health care overhaul; today, it’s Democrats outraged by Donald Trump’s recently enacted domestic policy bill.
Bill Cassidy faces a number of challenges should he go forward with his reelection bid next year, given his impeachment trial vote against President Donald Trump and the state’s new primary system, as
</p> And Huizenga isn’t running for Senate: Michigan Rep. Bill Huizenga said Wednesday that he would not run for the state’s open Senate seat next year, seemingly clearing the field for former Rep.
</p> A trip to ‘beautiful’: It’s been a week since House Republicans narrowly passed their sweeping budget reconciliation bill, and Roll Call Managing Editor Jessica Wehrman takes a look at the spectacle
</p> Starting gate Reconciliation and resistance: Last week’s House vote on a sweeping reconciliation bill encompassing much of the Trump agenda is already becoming a focal point of the campaign for control
</p> Getting closer: The GOP budget reconciliation bill proposes allocating $5 billion a year to provide a tax break for private and religious school vouchers, bringing conservatives closer to their long-standing
</p> Indeed, to promote innovation and improve quality of care, Congress will also need to pass theORPHAN Cures Act, a bipartisan bill that would remove barriers to developing new medicines for the 30
</p> </p> The push-pull between conservatives and more moderate-minded Republicans over how to address Medicaid spending in the GOP budget reconciliation bill was on full display this week, as lawmakers
</p> Meanwhile, also on the voting front, the House has already passed a bill, known as the SAVE Act, intended to require stringent voter ID requirements across the country.