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Jan 18, 2019
A civil rights advocate, taking issue with an Op-Ed article, defends the senator's record.
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Jan 18, 2019
Senator Jeff Merkley asked the F.B.I. to open an inquiry, citing a document that he said conflicted with the homeland security secretary's congressional testimony on family separations at the border.
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Jan 18, 2019
For Mr. Jones, the fight over the shutdown, in a state where President Trump is popular and many federal workers live, is a reminder that his party's views are out of step back home.
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Jan 17, 2019
As the shutdown drags on, Trump-like behavior proliferates. The president "does generally force people to play down to his level,'' says a biographer.
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Jan 17, 2019
She gets under his skin. He punches back. Game on.
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Jan 17, 2019
Representative Sean P. Duffy's proposal, which has alarmed business groups and which is unlikely to pass Congress, would also give the president sweeping powers to make trade deals.
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Jan 17, 2019
Elizabeth D. Herman and Celeste Sloman photographed the women of the United States Congress in a style historically reserved for male politicians.
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Jan 16, 2019
A measure that would have forced President Trump to leave sanctions in place on a Russian oligarch's companies fell three votes short in the Senate.
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Jan 16, 2019
A measure that would have forced President Trump to leave sanctions in place on an oligarch's companies came three votes short in the Senate.
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Jan 16, 2019
A reader says William Barr should not be confirmed as attorney general if he refuses to commit to the full release of the investigative report.
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Jan 16, 2019
The former coal lobbyist took the stand before a Senate panel to make his case for leading the E.P.A. and steering President Trump's agenda of rolling back environmental rules.
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Jan 16, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi cited security concerns from the government shutdown in her request to reschedule the speech or to have the president deliver it in writing.
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Jan 16, 2019
Finally, the Legislature gets to work.
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Jan 16, 2019
We look at how President Trump's nominee for attorney general navigated the first day of his confirmation hearings.
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Jan 15, 2019
Eleven Senate Republicans defied their leadership and the Trump administration in a clash over removing sanctions on companies controlled by a Kremlin ally.
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Jan 15, 2019
The White House doubled its estimate of the shutdown's drag on growth, and other economists warned a long stalemate could push the economy into a contraction.
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Jan 15, 2019
The senator from New York announced on Stephen Colbert's show Tuesday night that she's running for president in 2020. Ms. Gillibrand is the latest candidate to join what is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary. Here's what you need to know about her.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, a once and likely future attorney general, testified at his confirmation hearing at a time of constitutional tumult.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, a once and likely future attorney general, testified at his confirmation hearing at a time of constitutional tumult.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, a once and likely future attorney general, testified at his confirmation hearing at a time of constitutional tumult.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, a once and likely future attorney general, testified at his confirmation hearing at a time of constitutional tumult.
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Jan 15, 2019
A former head of Export-Import Bank of the United States writes that the agency is being blocked from doing its job by Senate Republicans.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, said "it is in the best interest of everyone" that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, be allowed to finish his investigation. He also pledged not to allow the president to "correct and put spin on" a Mueller report before it was released publicly.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, the president's nominee for attorney general, faced questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee. He vowed on Monday to allow the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to complete his Russia investigation.
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Jan 15, 2019
William P. Barr, the president's nominee for attorney general, faces questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee. He vowed on Monday to allow the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to complete his Russia investigation.
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Jan 15, 2019
We look at whether the changing of the guard at the Justice Department could also alter its often-acrimonious relationship with the president.
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Jan 15, 2019
We look at whether the changing of the guard at the Justice Department could also alter its often-acrimonious relationship with the president.
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Jan 14, 2019
In Trump country, even some furloughed federal workers are backing the president's wall demands, and keeping Republican senators in line as the shutdown stretches on.
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Jan 14, 2019
But the nominee, William P. Barr, also suggested that he was aware that he could not stop the president from ordering him to end the investigation.
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Jan 13, 2019
Reports about the use of homegrown disinformation online in a 2017 Senate race suggest foreign operatives may be just one thing threatening the integrity of the next presidential election.
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Jan 13, 2019
Reports that a group of Democrats used online disinformation in the Alabama Senate race in 2017 raise the question of how low will the next presidential campaign go.
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Jan 13, 2019
Top senators say it may finally be time to allow news photographers into the chamber for special events.
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Jan 12, 2019
David Leonhardt enumerated the ways that President Trump is "unfit for office" and offered scenarios for what comes next. Readers offer their suggestions.
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Jan 12, 2019
The stalemate over funding the president's wall suggests that reaching any agreement on security arrangements at the border is more elusive than ever before.
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Jan 12, 2019
"She's my first choice to be my first choice." In Manhattan, voters met Ms. Harris, a Democratic senator from California, as she prepares for a possible presidential run.
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Jan 11, 2019
The end of felon disenfranchisement in the Sunshine State marks a bright spot in a nation where voting rights remain under siege.
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Jan 11, 2019
As he searches for a way to end the political stalemate with Democratic lawmakers, the president finds himself boxed in — a familiar position when it comes to immigration issues
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Jan 11, 2019
From changing his positions to undermining his vice president, President Trump has left even his own party baffled as lawmakers search for a way to reopen the government.
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Jan 11, 2019
A large class of first-time lawmakers must grapple with the ways and wiles of the Capitol before shaking things up.
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Jan 11, 2019
Unless it's a better deal than Trump is likely to accept.
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Jan 10, 2019
Someone needs to gently explain to the president that, going forward, he might want to adjust his negotiating strategy.
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Jan 10, 2019
Someone needs to gently explain to the president that, going forward, he might want to adjust his negotiating strategy.
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Jan 10, 2019
Someone needs to gently explain to the president that, going forward, he might want to adjust his negotiating strategy.
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump traveled to the border and Vice President Mike Pence went to the Capitol to dig in on a border wall, shattering talk of a compromise.
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump traveled to the border and Vice President Mike Pence went to the Capitol to dig in on a border wall, shattering talk of a compromise.
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Jan 10, 2019
President Trump traveled to the border and Vice President Pence went to the Capitol to dig in on a border wall, shattering talk of a compromise.
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Jan 10, 2019
Even as he invited Democrats to negotiate, the vice president essentially blocked potential offramps for the shutdown, which is approaching the longest in American history.
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Jan 09, 2019
The Alabama Democrat said "deceptive tactics have no place in American politics and must be repudiated by those involved in our political system."
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Jan 09, 2019
The president faces the urgent task of persuading wavering Senate Republicans that he could still come to an accord with Democrats.
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump's Oval Office address appeared to do little to change minds as cracks spread among Senate Republicans ready to reopen the government.
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump's Oval Office address appeared to do little to change minds as cracks spread among Senate Republicans ready to reopen the government.
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Jan 09, 2019
President Trump slammed a table, then stormed out of a negotiating session with Democrats, declaring it "a total waste of time" as the shutdown stretches on.
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Jan 09, 2019
Even a feeble president can impose his will on the nation if he lacks any sense of restraint or respect for political norms and guardrails.
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Jan 09, 2019
Even a feeble president can impose his will on the nation if he lacks any sense of restraint or respect for political norms and guardrails.
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Jan 08, 2019
President Trump sought to go over the heads of Congress to enlist support for his border wall, raising the stakes of a conflict that has closed many federal agencies.
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Jan 07, 2019
Only Senate Republicans can make government work.
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Jan 07, 2019
A prohibitionist campaign appeared to be led by supporters of the Republican Senate candidate in 2017. But it was created by progressives — the second such secret effort to be unmasked.
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Jan 07, 2019
A prohibitionist campaign appeared to be led by supporters of the Republican Senate candidate in 2017. But it was created by progressives — the second such secret effort to be unmasked.
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Jan 07, 2019
The Dry Alabama campaign appeared to be led by supporters of the Republican Senate candidate. But it was a stealth creation of progressive Democrats.
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Jan 06, 2019
A close look at the 2018 midterm results shows why he is so weak.
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Jan 06, 2019
President Trump's evolving definition of a border wall animated negotiations to end a partial government shutdown on Sunday.
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Jan 05, 2019
A killing in Gaza. Meet the freshmen in Congress. How to find friends after 50. Catch up with Michelle Yeoh and Chadwick Boseman. And more.
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Jan 04, 2019
Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, said he will not be seeking re-election for fifth term in 2020. Mr. Roberts, who never lost a race for office, will leave as the longest-serving lawmaker in the state's history.
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Jan 04, 2019
Mr. Roberts became the second long-serving Republican lawmaker to announce he will not seek re-election, joining Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
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Jan 04, 2019
President Trump and congressional leaders emerged from a meeting to negotiate an end to the government shutdown with messages signaling that a deadlock remained over the president's demand for a border wall.
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Jan 04, 2019
A meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders broke up without a deal but he said talks will be held over the weekend.
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Jan 04, 2019
Congressional leaders will head to the White House Friday for a midday meeting with President Trump, trying to find a way around an impasse over funding a wall at the Mexican border.
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Jan 04, 2019
A meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders broke up with little progress made to reopen a government partially closed now for two weeks.
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Jan 04, 2019
A meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders broke up without a deal, but he said talks will be held over the weekend.
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Jan 04, 2019
A meeting between President Trump and congressional leaders broke up with little progress made to reopen a government partially closed now for two weeks.
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Jan 04, 2019
The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said he refuses to bring up any legislation that President Trump does not support on the Senate floor. Mr. McConnell repeated this sentiment on Thursday, while a few Republicans called for an end to the shutdown.
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Jan 04, 2019
House Democrats were expected to detail an ambitious bill — including changes to ethics, campaign finance and voting laws — on Friday. But a meeting on the shutdown could deflect attention.
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Jan 04, 2019
House Democrats detailed an ambitious bill — including changes to ethics, campaign finance and voting laws — on Friday. But the ongoing the shutdown deflected attention.
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Jan 04, 2019
As the 116th Congress was gaveled in, Nancy Pelosi took her place at the helm of the most diverse House in history.
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Jan 04, 2019
Both sides seemed to be standing firm, suggesting no easy end to a funding impasse that shuttered a large portion of the federal government.
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Jan 03, 2019
By absenting himself, the Senate majority leader had hoped to push the blame for a prolonged shutdown onto Democrats while protecting Republicans running for re-election next year — including himself.
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Jan 03, 2019
By absenting himself, the Senate majority leader had hoped to push the blame for a prolonged shutdown onto Democrats while protecting Republicans running for re-election next year — including himself.
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Jan 03, 2019
Redistribution is important, but it comes too late.
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Jan 03, 2019
On the eve of a new Congress, the Senate minority leader sat down with "The Daily" to discuss his hopes — and his strategy for getting things done — before the next election rolls around.
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Jan 03, 2019
New House members should study how their earlier counterparts saw their jobs and their relationship to constituents. For starters, keep it local.
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Jan 02, 2019
Congressional leaders, including Representative Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, met with President Trump to discuss border security. Ms. Pelosi said Democrats will put forth legislation to end the shutdown.
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Jan 02, 2019
Several Republicans assailed Mr. Romney, including the party leader who is also his niece. One Republican official urged colleagues to change party rules to ensure Mr. Trump's renomination in 2020.
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Jan 02, 2019
During the contentious meeting, the president made his case for a border wall and rejected Democrats' proposals for reopening the government while the two sides ironed out their differences.
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Jan 02, 2019
President Trump torpedoed a proposal to spend $2.5 billion on border security, rejecting his own team's plan as he prepared to host congressional leaders in the White House Situation Room
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Jan 02, 2019
President Trump will meet with congressional leaders in the White House Situation Room, a session that will either worsen the border wall dispute or begin peace talks.
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Jan 02, 2019
The president is facing a level of intraparty criticism that has no recent precedent.
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Jan 01, 2019
The Utah senator-elect criticized the president in an op-ed essay in The Washington Post days before he enters Congress, raising speculation that he could try to challenge Mr. Trump in 2020.
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Dec 31, 2018
The spending measures are expected to pass the House, but there is no guarantee the shutdown will end soon given the Senate is still firmly controlled by Republicans.
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Dec 31, 2018
The House Democratic class of '19 is planning a major push on voting, ethics and campaign finance reform. All that stands in the way is the Senate.
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Dec 30, 2018
The president has repeatedly called allies, reassuring them that he will not yield on his wall demands. But he has not reached out to Democrats, whose votes he needs for a deal.
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Dec 29, 2018
Congress may still approve a raise, perhaps as part of legislation to reopen the government. But union leaders condemned the order as unnecessary provocation.
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Dec 28, 2018
Mr. Culver, who served five terms in the House and one in the Senate, won praise across the political spectrum for his independence.
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Dec 28, 2018
The president's tweets were the latest indication that he was digging in for a protracted partial government shutdown.
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Dec 27, 2018
The federal government will be partly shut down into the new year, Republicans announced, and the new Democratic leadership will have to get money flowing again.
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Dec 27, 2018
A serious debate over the future of America's wars is worth having. But the way President Trump made and announced his decisions snuffed out any opportunity.
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Dec 26, 2018
The tech billionaire Reid Hoffman said he had no idea his money had been spent on a Russian-style social media disinformation campaign.
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Dec 24, 2018
As the partial government shutdown bled into Christmas, lawmakers from both parties lamented that the legislative branch had ceded so much power to the executive branch.
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Dec 23, 2018
There have been at least 21 lapses in government funding over the last 40 years, under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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Dec 23, 2018
With a resolution further out of grip, a sense of resignation settled over lawmakers, in a sharp contrast to the frenzied political warfare of previous shutdowns.
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Dec 23, 2018
Mick Mulvaney, the budget director and incoming chief of staff, said that the White House had made Democrats an offer below the $5 billion figure President Trump had demanded for a border wall.
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