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Jul 19, 2019
A newly created post will oversee intelligence collection and analysis on foreign influence campaigns and efforts to attack election infrastructure.
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Jul 19, 2019
Striking Amazon employees complained about how robots changed their jobs, but the company may help them think differently.
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Jul 17, 2019
I was lucky enough to see firsthand how he embodied judicial, moral and personal independence.
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Jul 17, 2019
Pressure from business groups — and the triumph of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky over his junior partner, Rand Paul — spurred lawmakers to approve updates to the international treaties.
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Jul 16, 2019
Members of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday raised broad concerns about its Libra effort, which the company introduced last month.
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Jul 16, 2019
Lawmakers raised broad concerns about the company's Libra effort at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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Jul 15, 2019
The scant condemnation of the president's remarks on four Democratic congresswomen reflected his tightening stranglehold on lawmakers of his party, and a collective eye on 2020.
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Jul 14, 2019
A new bill would give nannies, house cleaners and home care workers long overdue protections.
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Jul 11, 2019
Gen. Mark A. Milley's comments came during his Senate confirmation hearing for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Jul 11, 2019
The use of L.L.C.s and shell corporations to hide the true source of funds has been an issue for the United States for more than a decade. A bill in Congress seeks to address it.
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Jul 10, 2019
The C.I.A. wants the law to protect the identities of more covert officers and informants, citing its defunct torture program and groups like WikiLeaks.
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Jul 10, 2019
The fund-raising haul was the most ever in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. But Mr. McConnell is a formidable fund-raiser as well.
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Jul 10, 2019
The fund-raising haul was the most ever in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. But her opponent, Mitch McConnell, is a formidable fund-raiser as well.
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Jul 10, 2019
The fund-raising haul was the most ever in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. Mr. McConnell is a formidable fund-raiser as well, who spent more than $30 million in his 2014 re-election campaign.
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Jul 10, 2019
Even if Democrats win the White House and the Senate in 2020, effectively combating climate change might require the elimination of the Senate filibuster.
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Jul 09, 2019
The sales, along with a pending visit to the United States by Taiwan's president, are likely to put further strain on Washington's relationship with Beijing.
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Jul 09, 2019
The sales, along with a pending visit to the United States by Taiwan's president, are likely to put further strain on Washington's relationship with Beijing.
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Jul 08, 2019
Mr. Kobach, who was the Republican nominee for governor last year, has most recently championed an effort to build a border wall with private funding.
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Jul 08, 2019
Mr. Kobach, who was the Republican nominee for governor last year, has most recently championed an effort to build a border wall with private funding.
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Jul 08, 2019
State tax officials will be required to release the returns for any ‘specified and legitimate legislative purpose' to three congressional committees.
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Jul 06, 2019
"If the left doesn't think I'm left enough, so be it," she told me.
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Jul 06, 2019
Mr. Sanders met with scorn when he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1990. But in the years since, he has evolved from a gadfly to a reliable team player.
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Jul 06, 2019
Senator Susan Collins said she would decide this fall whether she would seek re-election, but Maine's Republican mainstay faces a shifting political landscape.
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Jul 05, 2019
Readers call Republicans in the Senate "collaborators" and urge Democrats to mobilize to oppose his far-right agenda.
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Jul 03, 2019
During Mr. Alvarez's emotional plea before Congress, his frail appearance brought in stark relief the realities facing many of the first responders.
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Jul 03, 2019
Nicholas Fandos covers the Capitol, where "a lot of energy goes into being in the right place at the right time." Some in-house resources help.
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Jul 03, 2019
As a senator, he opposed busing and championed laws that transformed the criminal justice system. Now, as a presidential candidate, he faces renewed scrutiny over the legacy of those decisions.
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Jul 02, 2019
The denial came after a Democratic senator warned that the United States could halt arms sales to the United Arab Emirates if the law was broken.
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Jul 01, 2019
If the party is interested in restoring some semblance of good government to Washington, it needs to think about more than winning the White House.
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Jul 01, 2019
Senate Democrats want to know why Eric Blankenstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official, has been hired to an agency that enforces fair housing laws.
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Jun 28, 2019
Multiple rivals attacked the former vice-president in Thursday's debate, but he has survived setbacks before in this campaign.
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Jun 28, 2019
Multiple rivals attacked the former vice-president in Thursday's debate, but he has survived setbacks before in this campaign.
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Jun 27, 2019
The vote on Thursday exposed a number of realities about the House majority and its relationship with the Senate.
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Jun 27, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a stinging defeat after a show of Democratic disunity, let a Senate border spending bill pass the House without controls that liberals had demanded.
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Jun 27, 2019
The Anglo-American relationship with the House of Saud may be entering a perfect storm.
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Jun 26, 2019
A photo of a migrant father and his 23-month-old daughter appeared to crystallize the human tragedy at the border, and it was everywhere — on cable, the internet and on the Senate floor.
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Jun 26, 2019
Less speechifying and more policy, please.
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Jun 25, 2019
Focusing on individual privacy consent does little to dismantle a system that's clearly broken.
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Jun 24, 2019
Both chambers have put forward their own versions of legislation that would allocate $4.5 billion and fulfill the Trump administration's request for funds.
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Jun 24, 2019
Congress is trying to rush billions of dollars to the border to alleviate the suffering of detained migrants, but Democrats fear the funds will advance President Trump's immigration policies.
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Jun 24, 2019
Ms. Gideon, a Democrat, said that her decision to run was spurred partly by Ms. Collins's vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Jun 24, 2019
A confessed courier for Al Qaeda is seeking time off his sentence as compensation for what happened to him in the secret C.I.A. prisons.
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Jun 24, 2019
Research released this week finds that many online retailers use so-called dark patterns to influence what shoppers decide to purchase. Cracking down on the practice could be difficult.
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Jun 24, 2019
Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, would cancel all student debt and eliminate tuition at public and community colleges.
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Jun 24, 2019
Speak up. Donate. Educate yourself. Vote.
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Jun 24, 2019
Speak up. Donate. Educate yourself. Vote.
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Jun 24, 2019
Speak up. Donate. Educate yourself. Vote.
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Jun 24, 2019
Though white men still dominate the political arena disproportionately, new research shows that when women and people of color are on the ballot, they win just as often.
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Jun 22, 2019
Years of budget cuts and a stream of departures have left Congress lacking in expertise and experience to challenge a recalcitrant Trump White House.
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Jun 21, 2019
In defending his comments about working with segregationists, Joe Biden cited his record on civil rights and his relationship with Ted Kennedy. But he didn't address his opposition to busing.
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Jun 21, 2019
Many of Joe Biden's views that are currently drawing criticism have been evident for years. But they are now provoking an entirely different response.
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Jun 20, 2019
The Trump administration's campaign of maximum pressure and minimal diplomacy is bringing the two countries ever closer to blows. Lawmakers must weigh in.
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Jun 20, 2019
The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court wants a rematch with Doug Jones, who defeated him in a special election in 2017. Many Republicans are hostile to his plans.
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Jun 20, 2019
The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court wants a rematch with Doug Jones, who defeated him in a special election in 2017. Many Republicans are hostile to his plans.
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Jun 20, 2019
The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court wants a rematch with Doug Jones, who defeated him in a special election in 2017. Many Republicans are hostile to his plans.
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Jun 20, 2019
A reader says his comment about bygone civility in the Senate was well meaning but lacked discretion.
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Jun 20, 2019
The Senate blocked the sale of billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in a sharp and bipartisan rebuke of the Trump administration's attempt to circumvent Congress.
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Jun 20, 2019
The vote illustrated the deep divide between lawmakers and the administration over Saudi Arabia and the president's attempts to circumvent Congress on national security decisions.
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Jun 20, 2019
Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on Wednesday that Cory Booker should apologize for condemning Mr. Biden's working with segregationists in the Senate.
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Jun 19, 2019
Mr. Biden's fond remarks about dealing with segregationist senators are raising questions about both his political past and his political acumen now in dealing with it.
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Jun 19, 2019
Mr. Biden's fond remarks about dealing with segregationist senators are raising questions about both his political past and his political acumen now in dealing with it.
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Jun 19, 2019
Mr. Biden's fond remarks about dealing with segregationist senators are raising questions about both his political past and his political acumen now in dealing with it.
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Jun 19, 2019
The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.
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Jun 19, 2019
The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.
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Jun 19, 2019
The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.
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Jun 19, 2019
The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.
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Jun 19, 2019
The Senate measure cleared a committee with bipartisan support and will be voted on by the full chamber next week, but it is unclear how well it matches the House's plans.
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Jun 19, 2019
Washington hasn't done enough to bring the murdered Saudi columnist's killers to justice.
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Jun 19, 2019
At a fund-raiser in New York, Mr. Biden mentioned James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, two segregationists, fondly recalling that "at least there was some civility'' in the Senate.
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Jun 19, 2019
At a fund-raiser in New York, Mr. Biden mentioned James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, two segregationists, fondly recalling that "at least there was some civility'' in the Senate.
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Jun 19, 2019
At a fund-raiser, Joe Biden fondly recalled that "at least there was some civility'' when he served in the Senate alongside James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, two segregationists.
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Jun 19, 2019
At a fund-raiser in New York, Mr. Biden mentioned James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, two segregationists, fondly recalling that "at least there was some civility'' in the Senate.
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Jun 18, 2019
Why do Republicans in Congress have so much trouble increasing the number of women in their ranks?
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Jun 13, 2019
An unbound president invites more foreign election interference.
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Jun 13, 2019
The high (and rising) cost of insulin is forcing diabetics to risk their lives to get the drug.
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Jun 11, 2019
Democratic and Republican House leaders tried to broker a deal for an increase after a decade of frozen pay, but ran up against vulnerable freshmen Democrats.
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Jun 11, 2019
Only a few Republican senators stand in the way of the most consequential reform legislation in more than a decade.
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Jun 10, 2019
The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a man who has been held in wartime detention for 17 years with no end in sight.
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Jun 10, 2019
Maybe they are right to be cautious, but keeping the base at a distance could make it easier for Trump to win again.
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Jun 09, 2019
It's time to cut the squabbling and pass an emergency relief package.
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Jun 08, 2019
Legislators should seize the moment to pass meaningful protections for the digital age.
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Jun 08, 2019
Legislators should seize the moment to pass meaningful protections for the digital age.
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Jun 08, 2019
Beyond his findings of presidential misconduct, the special counsel made it clear that lawmakers cannot ignore the ongoing risk to the nation.
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Jun 08, 2019
Beyond his findings of presidential misconduct, the special counsel Robert Mueller made it clear that lawmakers cannot ignore the ongoing risk to the nation.
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Jun 07, 2019
A raft of election-security legislation faces opposition from the Senate majority leader, but House Democrats are readying hearings and votes to raise the pressure.
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Jun 07, 2019
Some Democrats understand that the White House isn't enough.
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Jun 07, 2019
Surely the party can devote one-twelfth of its debate time to the issue that imperils civilization.
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Jun 06, 2019
Mitch McConnell, the "grim reaper," has made the Senate the place where legislation goes to die. So the chances that the Senate blocks President Trump's tariffs on Mexico are slim.
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Jun 06, 2019
The president is again going beyond his predecessors in using powers that lawmakers granted the presidency for use in exigent circumstances. This time, Republicans say they will push back.
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Jun 06, 2019
The president is again going beyond his predecessors in using powers that lawmakers granted the presidency for use in exigent circumstances. This time, Republicans say they will push back.
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Jun 06, 2019
Seven Democrats, including the presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, want the Fed to examine the bank's compliance with anti-money-laundering laws over flagged transactions.
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Jun 05, 2019
Congress should do its job and pass a bill to protect immigrants brought to the United States as children.
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Jun 05, 2019
The Senate majority leader comes out of his shell.
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Jun 05, 2019
The Massachusetts senator is proposing something radical: a country in which adults discuss serious ideas seriously.
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Jun 05, 2019
Senate Republicans weighed in on President Trump's plan to impose tariffs on Mexican imports. Mr. Trump has said that Republicans would be "foolish" to try to stop him.
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Jun 05, 2019
Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, has been meeting with Washington officials all week as Mexico tries to head off President Trump's threatened tariffs.
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Jun 05, 2019
President Trump said not enough progress was made in meetings between the Mexican and U.S. governments but that talks would resume on Thursday.
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Jun 05, 2019
President Trump said not enough progress was made in meetings between the Mexican and U.S. governments but that talks would resume on Thursday.
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Jun 05, 2019
Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, has been meeting with Washington officials all week as Mexico tries to head off President Trump's threatened tariffs.
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Jun 05, 2019
Marcelo Ebrard, the Mexican foreign minister, has been meeting with Washington officials all week as Mexico tries to head off President Trump's threatened tariffs.
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