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Cranky Congress: House GOP hopes a holiday can ease its factional warfare

“I really think most of this stuff is going to be out of their system” by the time his defense bill gets a...

House Dems fume at Senate over Biden nominations

“It’s once again the party harming itself,” he said, adding he hoped undecided senators will “get on board.” It’s a reflection of House Democrats’...

Group seeks boost to labor organizing in Senate

Currently the only senator whose staffers have unionized is Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), but the Senate hasn’t passed its own resolution to authorize...

George Santos’ father and aunt backed his bail bond, court papers show

He had taken numerous steps to try to keep his sureties’ names private. When the sureties appeared in court, Santos’s lawyers moved to...

5 takeaways from the House’s marathon debate on the Pentagon’s policy bill

Expect an amendment to reverse a Pentagon policy that pays for troops’ travel to obtain abortions, which the House Armed Services Committee didn’t...

Why one prominent conservative won’t knife McCarthy (right now)

His reasoning goes back nearly a decade to a chapter of Biggs’ career that gets little attention: his time as Arizona’s state senate...

Military base talks in Cuba and Biden’s ‘dictator’ quip complicate thaw of U.S.-China ties

Now, the relationship between the world’s two foremost powers is teetering again after it showed brief signs of stability, complicating Biden’s search for...

Durbin announces vote on Supreme Court ethics bill

“The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards. But for too long that has been the case with...

Republicans take aim at Biden Pentagon policies on diversity, abortion

“We all have the same goal, to support the men and women who serve our nation. If we keep that goal in mind,...

Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester launches bid for Senate seat in Delaware

Blunt Rochester, 61, is the first person to announce a bid for the Senate seat and began hiring campaign staff earlier this month,...

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