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Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown raised $12 million in the first three months of this year for his reelection race in Ohio. That’s close to the $12.9 million Republican Richard Burr spent on his entire 2004 campaign to win a competitive open seat in North Carolina.

Senate fundraising dwarfs past Senate and presidential races

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted April 9, 2024 at 10:30am
Tim Kaine’s new memoir, out April 9, details his travels in Virginia by foot, bike and boat.

Sen. Tim Kaine walks on the wild side

By Justin Papp
Posted April 9, 2024 at 6:15am
Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Nov. 2, 2023.

Senate Democrats weigh Feinstein’s Energy-Water panel successor

By Aidan Quigley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 8, 2024 at 1:06pm, Updated at 5:54pm
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has filed a lawsuit seeking the testimony of two Justice Department attorneys.

House subpoena lawsuit risks change to oversight power

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 8, 2024 at 5:01pm
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., says she has a deal with Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, R-Wash., that enjoys broad support.

Landmark data privacy deal would create first federal standard

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted April 8, 2024 at 8:48am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., set up procedural votes this week on three judicial nominations.

Senate Democrats look to close judicial confirmation gap

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 8, 2024 at 5:00am
Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., gives a tour in the Capitol Rotunda before the House passed the final fiscal 2024 spending package on March 22.

Cardinals shuffle likely under House Appropriations shake-up

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 5, 2024 at 5:00am
A vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, in which World Central Kitchen employees were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Monday is pictured Tuesday.

Biden presses Netanyahu for major changes in ‘hours and days’

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 4, 2024 at 4:38pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., is seen outside a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Dec. 5, 2023.

Cole: No time to waste electing new House Appropriations chair

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 4, 2024 at 5:00am
Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, R-Ala., is seen after a House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on July 19, 2022.

Aderholt wants to delay vote for new Appropriations chair

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 3, 2024 at 10:50am
Matt Stoller, left, and Oren Cass are seen in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024.

From the left and the right, these two thinkers are upending Washington’s neoliberal consensus

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 3, 2024 at 6:15am
Raúl M. Grijalva has been diagnosed with cancer, he said in a statement.

Rep. Raúl Grijalva announces he has cancer

By Justin Papp
Posted April 2, 2024 at 3:44pm
Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais is one of 14 GOP doctors in Congress who a Democratic political group is targeting for opposing abortion rights.

Democratic group takes aim at GOP doctors in Congress on abortion

By Daniela Altimari
Posted April 1, 2024 at 7:00am
Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., challenged New Jersey's ballot design, which has long given preferential ballot placement to candidates backed by powerful county organizations.

Judge blocks ballot design in New Jersey primary

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted March 29, 2024 at 2:00pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate hearing last year.

Mayorkas impeachment headed to Senate for April 11 trial

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 28, 2024 at 5:08pm
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., leaves the Senate Democrats’ weekly lunch in the Capitol last month.

Muslim American appeals court nominee loses Democratic support

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 28, 2024 at 3:06pm
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is pictured near the stairs to the Senate floor in the Capitol on June 13, 2010. The former Connecticut Democratic senator died Wednesday at the age of 82.

Joseph Lieberman: A Capitol life in photos

By Chris Hale
Posted March 28, 2024 at 12:40pm
House Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., attends the panel's hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden in the Capitol on Dec. 12, 2023.

Cole considered early favorite to win House Appropriations gavel

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 28, 2024 at 5:00am
Former Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman talks with reporters as he walks through the Senate subway in Washington on June 22, 2021.

Joseph Lieberman, an iconoclast who frustrated the Democratic Party, dies at 82

By Jason Dick
Posted March 27, 2024 at 7:47pm
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks about Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore during a White House press briefing Wednesday. Vice Admiral Peter W. Gautier, Coast Guard deputy commandant for operations, is standing behind him.

Officials: Baltimore bridge price tag could be at least $2 billion

By Valerie Yurk
Posted March 27, 2024 at 3:45pm
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., won a seat in 2022 that went Republican for president in 2020, and faces a Toss-up race in November.

Race to House majority runs through the 10 Toss-ups

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted March 27, 2024 at 12:12pm
In a ward that’s home to the Capitol campus and plenty of political professionals, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen is facing a recall push. Some current congressional staffers have donated to the effort.

Imperfect recall: How a city council fight is roiling Congress

By Justin Papp
Posted March 27, 2024 at 5:00am, Updated at 11:52am
Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., will not seek another term in November.

Kuster will not seek reelection in New Hampshire

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted March 27, 2024 at 10:59am
Former Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., sits outside his cottage in rural France. McDermott moved to France after retiring from Congress in 2017.

Living abroad, Jim McDermott finds his liberal utopia

By Ariel Cohen
Posted March 27, 2024 at 7:00am
A computer screen with the home page of the OpenAI website displays ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence model.

US agency calls for audits of AI systems to ensure accountability

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted March 27, 2024 at 12:01am
Small boats surround a cargo ship after the ship ran into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning.

Lawmakers eye additional funding after Baltimore bridge collapse

By Valerie Yurk
Posted March 26, 2024 at 12:41pm, Updated at 2:19pm
Apps including Tiktok are seen on the screen of Apple iPhone.

Apple lawsuit pits US free-market goal against app security

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted March 26, 2024 at 7:00am
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, speaks with ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, before an Oct. 31 panel hearing.

Senate sends spending package to Biden, wrapping up fiscal 2024

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 23, 2024 at 2:05am
Palestinians pray on March 22 in the Rafah area of Gaza during the second Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan on the ruins of Al-Farouq Mosque, which was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.

Israeli military operation in Rafah would be ‘a disaster,’ White House says

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 22, 2024 at 4:38pm
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, leaves a House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Jan. 30.

Granger to hand off House Appropriations gavel early

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 22, 2024 at 2:56pm, Updated at 3:57pm