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The Secret Service leads planning for high-profile happenings deemed as National Special Security Events. In the past those have included inaugurations and State of the Union speeches. Above, workers install a security fence around the Capitol in March, ahead of the State of the Union.

Lawmakers hail ‘prudent’ decision to up security on Jan. 6

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. He announced Thursday that the Senate will vote again on a legislative package that would establish a statutory right to IVF.

Schumer tees up second vote on IVF

Capitol Ink | Mopped

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for fallen servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

Six-month stopgap funds bill yanked from House floor

Democratic congressional candidates Maggie Goodlander, left, and Colin Van Ostern shake hands after the Live Free or Die Debates at the Rosamond Page Putnam Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of New England College in Henniker, N.H. on Sept. 4. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP)

Key primary results from Delaware, New Hampshire, Rhode Island

Inspector general reports can provide a glimpse inside the police force charged with protecting Congress. Transparency advocates want to see more.

Capitol Police watchdog reports emerge into public view, but slowly