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Sep 20, 2020
*The survey erred in listing the Green Party, but it's still clear that Daines and Bullock are in a tight contest.
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Sep 19, 2020
Social conservatives and evangelical groups sprang into action after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, encouraging a speedy confirmation and rallying support for embattled Senate Republicans.
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Sep 19, 2020
The fight over the confirmation of Judge Garland in 2016 set the tone for an even more brutal battle over who should succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 19, 2020
Republicans want to push forward. Democrats are seething. A bitterly divided nation gets more so as a Supreme Court nomination fight looms.
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Sep 19, 2020
Protesters rallied outside the home of Senator Mitch McConnell, after he said he would move forward with President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, reversing his 2016 position.
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Sep 19, 2020
The political jockeying intensified on Saturday about what the Senate would do to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Sep 19, 2020
Republicans hold a narrow majority in the Senate, meaning they can only afford to lose a few votes in their push to confirm a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here are the potential swing votes.
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Sep 19, 2020
The rules and partisan breakdown of the Senate make it possible for Republicans to swiftly confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Here's how.
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Sep 19, 2020
President Trump has vowed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg "without delay." Here is who might fill the seat.
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Sep 19, 2020
After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that President Trump's right-wing coalition would be more motivated by a confirmation fight than the alliance of liberals and moderates supportive of Mr. Biden would be.
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Sep 19, 2020
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday left an opening on the Supreme Court 46 days before Election Day.
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Sep 19, 2020
If Republicans give Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat to some Federalist Society fanatic, Democrats should pack the court.
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Sep 19, 2020
In the rearview mirror, the victories of a trailblazing feminist. On the road ahead, the threat of an entrenched and powerful minority.
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Sep 18, 2020
But she also knew something about the unreliability of happy endings.
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Sep 18, 2020
The majority leader pledged that President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg would receive a Senate vote, despite his 2016 move to block President Obama's nominee in the waning months of his term.
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Sep 18, 2020
Democrats warn Republicans to follow the precedent they set in 2016, when they refused to consider President Barack Obama's choice for the court on the grounds that it was an election year.
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Sep 18, 2020
A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine's Senate race.
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Sep 17, 2020
House and Senate Democrats said they would continue to fight for a stimulus package as the death toll in the United States from coronavirus neared 200,000.
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Sep 17, 2020
Democrats rolled out sprawling legislation that proposes substantial new funding over a decade in a bid to reinvest in the nation's economy and challenge Beijing.
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Sep 17, 2020
Trump's former director of national intelligence on how to firmly and unambiguously reassure all Americans that their votes will be counted.
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Sep 16, 2020
A public scolding of the C.D.C. chief was only the latest but perhaps the starkest instance when the president has rejected not just the policy advice of his public health officials but the facts and information that they provided.
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Sep 16, 2020
Next time maybe they'll bring back the Whigs.
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Sep 16, 2020
Listing potential justices may distort how we see the judiciary and how it behaves. Joe Biden should stick to "no names."
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Sep 15, 2020
Ms. McBride, who would be the first openly transgender person to serve in any state's senate, won a primary for a safely Democratic seat in Delaware.
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Sep 15, 2020
The announcement came as concern grew among rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties over the prospect of returning home to face voters without having enacted another recovery package.
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Sep 13, 2020
In a bad week for deals, a new aid bill fizzled in Congress and Tiffany's sale fell apart.
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Sep 12, 2020
His effort to stop the census count early, in the middle of a pandemic, is in line with his campaign of exclusion.
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Sep 12, 2020
The bids of two congressional candidates are shaping up as crucial tests of whether a centrist label can overcome resistance to Democrats in a conservative-leaning state.
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Sep 10, 2020
A show vote in the Senate reflected a continuing partisan divide that appears increasingly likely to scuttle any recovery package to address the toll of the pandemic before the November election.
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Sep 10, 2020
Senate Republicans failed to advance their substantially scaled-back stimulus plan amid opposition by Democrats who called the measure inadequate.
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Sep 09, 2020
Dr. Francis S. Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, who testified before senators along with Surgeon General Jerome Adams, said a vaccine wouldn't be made available unless it was safe.
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Sep 09, 2020
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, emphasized to senators that coronavirus vaccine development and distribution would be determined based on science and not politics.
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Sep 09, 2020
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won't stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides a solution.
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Sep 08, 2020
The economic recovery measure Republicans presented on Tuesday is a fraction of the size of their original offer and was immediately dismissed by Democrats as inadequate.
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Sep 08, 2020
Coronavirus ads are one thing, but Democrats are also bringing back the messaging that worked so well for them in 2018.
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Sep 08, 2020
As voters cast ballots today, the Democratic governor's race and the Republican Senate contest may help preview the parties' future in the presidential swing state.
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Sep 08, 2020
The victories by Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, reinforced the state's status as a battleground in November.
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Sep 06, 2020
As a United States senator, he spoke of transforming China through trade. As a presidential candidate two decades later, he denounces it as a "dictatorship."
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Sep 04, 2020
There are lessons here for Joe Biden.
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Sep 03, 2020
The package being pushed by the Trump White House — which could shift the military balance in the Middle East — includes an electronic warfare plane, the EA-18G Growler.
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Sep 02, 2020
Election experts said that Tuesday's primary offered a mix of smart policies and harsh deadlines, and that the state benefited from not having a highly charged political atmosphere.
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Sep 02, 2020
The Iowa senator's comments echoed a false claim, spread by President Trump over the weekend, that deaths from Covid-19 have been inflated.
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Sep 02, 2020
Members of Congress questioned whether the racial benchmarks used to settle dementia claims were consistent with discriminatory economic practices like redlining.
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Sep 01, 2020
The result was the first loss by a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election and demonstrated the progressive energy that is reshaping the Democratic Party.
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Sep 01, 2020
"If the leader comments, I'll be sure to pass it along," said a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. As of Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing to pass along.
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Sep 01, 2020
The Treasury secretary's House testimony, combined with renewed stimulus discussions among Republicans, highlighted divisions over how big an economic package should be.
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Sep 01, 2020
New York City cannot recover without a robust transit system, and the country cannot rebound without New York.
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Sep 01, 2020
Senator Edward J. Markey is facing off against Joseph P. Kennedy III, while the powerful Representative Richard E. Neal is confronting a challenge from the young mayor Alex Morse.
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Aug 31, 2020
Edward Markey, 74, entered Congress before Joseph Kennedy III was born. But in their Senate race he has harnessed the energy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the ascendant left, much to Mr. Kennedy's frustration.
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Aug 30, 2020
The elimination of in-person election security briefings to Congress could leave the public with a diminished understanding of the threats facing the election as it enters a critical phase.
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Aug 29, 2020
Lawmakers in both parties worry the move will block their ability to question and test intelligence assessments when they are crucial to ensuring that foreign powers do not undermine election results.
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Aug 28, 2020
The House Foreign Affairs Committee cited Mike Pompeo's defiance of subpoenas related to the State Department's compliance with Senate Republicans' investigation targeting the Bidens.
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Aug 28, 2020
Industry leaders say it will be the nation's schoolchildren and parents who will suffer, as they alter their lives and figure out how to replace a mode of transportation that was once a certainty.
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Aug 28, 2020
Despite its importance to the next president, the contest for the Senate majority was relegated to the background as the convention focused almost exclusively on President Trump.
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Aug 27, 2020
A reader asks Joe Biden to condemn the violence, while another calls for a truth commission on "systemic abuse and racism." Also: Senator Sherrod Brown, on getting the Senate back to work.
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Aug 25, 2020
American Airlines said it would furlough 19,000 workers if lawmakers do not extend aid to the industry, which has been hammered by the pandemic.
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Aug 24, 2020
Thirty million households didn't have enough food in the last week. Only the Fed has acted forcefully.
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Aug 24, 2020
Thirty million households didn't have enough food in the last week. Only the Fed has acted forcefully.
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Aug 24, 2020
The G.O.P. was supposed to be celebrating in the state this week. Instead, it is trying to hold on to a Senate seat and lift President Trump's low poll numbers.
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Aug 22, 2020
At President Trump's behest, the Treasury Secretary sought out appointees who would restructure the United States Postal Service.
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Aug 22, 2020
The Democratic bill would send $25 billion to the Postal Service and reverse changes that have slowed service until after November's election.
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Aug 21, 2020
The postmaster general, under fire for recent changes that have slowed mail delivery, defended his approach and asked Congress to help free the Postal Service from costly retirement obligations.
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Aug 21, 2020
Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general, defended his first three months overseeing the Postal Service on Aug. 21.
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Aug 21, 2020
Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general, will testify to senators to defend his first three months overseeing the Postal Service.
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Aug 21, 2020
A new study shows that 11 percent of top aides shaping policy and public messaging in senators' Washington offices are people of color, compared with almost 40 percent of the American populace.
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Aug 20, 2020
Louis DeJoy's appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee will be his first congressional testimony since he suspended cost-cutting measures at the Postal Service.
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Aug 20, 2020
Twelve years after he left the Senate, a President Biden would find a Capitol that is far more partisan and less open to deal-making than the one that shaped his views of legislating.
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Aug 19, 2020
"Cooperation" or "collusion" or whatever. It was a plot against American democracy.
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Aug 19, 2020
The Trump White House is quietly planning sales of F-35 stealth fighters and advanced drones to the Emiratis as part of a wider plan to realign the Middle East, but Israel and Congress may object.
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Aug 19, 2020
A Senate committee went further than the Mueller report on key points about Russia's election sabotage operations and the Trump campaign.
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Aug 19, 2020
Democrats are calling on Louis DeJoy to step down amid concerns that changes already made could disenfranchise voters in November.
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Aug 19, 2020
A "passionate moderate" Republican from Washington State, he served three nonconsecutive terms as a friend to its industries, from logging to tech.
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Aug 19, 2020
They're allowing President Trump to place loyalists in important government positions.
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Aug 18, 2020
How he could win the Latino vote … and the presidency.
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Aug 18, 2020
If he can get these voters to turnout in November, they could ultimately be the ones who send Trump packing.
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Aug 18, 2020
The former campaign chairman Paul Manafort kept in close touch with a longtime colleague whom Senate investigators identified as a Russian intelligence officer.
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Aug 18, 2020
The Senate committee report says that President Trump may have had a relationship with a Russian beauty pageant winner. But investigators say they "did not establish" that Russia had compromising information on Mr. Trump.
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Aug 18, 2020
The measure would reinstate supplemental unemployment benefits at half their original rate, and is unlikely to find support among Democrats.
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Aug 18, 2020
Senators divided along party lines about whether to conclude that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin's election sabotage operations.
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Aug 18, 2020
Policy changes by the postmaster general prompted allegations that the Trump administration was trying to disenfranchise voters ahead of the 2020 election.
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Aug 18, 2020
A nearly 1,000-page report confirmed the special counsel's findings at a moment when President Trump's allies have sought to undermine that inquiry.
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Aug 18, 2020
The report was expected to confirm the special counsel's findings at a moment when President Trump's allies have sought to undermine his inquiry.
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Aug 18, 2020
Beating Trump would be just the beginning. Democrats would still be confronted with a radical Republican Party.
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Aug 18, 2020
The service is perfectly capable of handling election mail.
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Aug 17, 2020
The postmaster general, under fire for his business ties and his cost-cutting measures, will testify before the House next week.
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Aug 15, 2020
As the pandemic wreaks havoc on public transit systems across the country, experts say it is low-income residents, people of color and essential workers bearing the brunt.
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Aug 14, 2020
A private technology company that gathers data for a coronavirus database said a nondisclosure agreement with the Trump administration blocks it from discussing its $10.2 million contract.
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Aug 14, 2020
After a report from the Pentagon, Democrats questioned whether there was enough capacity to help either detainees or their guards if an outbreak occurs.
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Aug 14, 2020
The acting secretary of homeland security, Chad F. Wolf, and his deputy, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, were appointed to their posts in violation of federal law, Congress's watchdog determined.
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Aug 13, 2020
As the Democratic vice-presidential nominee hits the campaign trail, a race to replace her kicks off.
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Aug 13, 2020
Restoring the rule of law is not the same as "lock her up."
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Aug 12, 2020
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin talked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time since negotiations on a new coronavirus relief bill collapsed, but neither side showed any willingness to budge.
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Aug 12, 2020
Un recorrido por los momentos clave de la carrera de la senadora de California, la primera mujer negra y la primera persona de ascendencia asiática en unirse a la fórmula electoral para la presidencia de uno de los dos partidos principales de Estados Unidos.
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Aug 12, 2020
His choice is a characteristic example of his tendency to row in the direction of the day's strongest political currents.
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Aug 12, 2020
Trump's lawyers and economic advisers have studied how far they could stretch executive authority to set tax policy, though the legality of any cuts is dubious.
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Aug 11, 2020
The standoff between the White House and Democratic leaders in Congress over a new coronavirus aid bill showed no signs of resolution — or even of efforts to find a way back to the bargaining table.
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Aug 11, 2020
Ms. Harris, a California senator who is the first woman of color to join a major party's national ticket, ran for president against Mr. Biden last year.
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Aug 11, 2020
Ms. Harris, a California senator who is the first woman of color to join a major party's national ticket, ran for president against Mr. Biden last year.
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Aug 11, 2020
The "blue shift" is real. Take it seriously.
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Aug 10, 2020
It's unclear whether the measures he signed will have any immediate effect, but the president pressed ahead anyway: This is your morning tip sheet.
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