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Jun 14, 2025
The senator from Alaska reflects on her many years in Washington and what is happening in the country right now.
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Jun 13, 2025
Some Republican senators are voicing concern over the House-passed bill that would rescind $9 billion that Congress already approved, including money for NPR and PBS stations in their states.
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Jun 13, 2025
The senator is known on Capitol Hill for being kind and nerdy. His forcible removal from a news conference resonated as a call to action among Democrats.
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Jun 13, 2025
Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forced to the floor, handcuffed and removed by federal agents after interrupting a news conference by the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday.
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Jun 13, 2025
Plus, Friday's news quiz.
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Jun 12, 2025
The provision, long advocated by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, would revive and broaden a law for compensating those who developed serious illnesses from government-caused nuclear contamination.
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Jun 12, 2025
Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was forcibly removed from an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, forced to the floor and handcuffed.
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Jun 12, 2025
Alex Padilla, Democrat of California, was shoved out of a room and handcuffed after he disrupted Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, during a news conference.
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Jun 12, 2025
Republicans whose constituents rely on nutritional assistance worry that cuts to those programs approved by the House will saddle their states with huge costs and harm low-income children.
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Jun 12, 2025
Mr. Padilla, Democrat of California, was shoved out of a room and handcuffed after he disrupted Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, during a news conference.
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Jun 12, 2025
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the richer Americans were, the more they would benefit from the measure carrying President Trump's agenda. And the poorest would lose out altogether.
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Jun 11, 2025
G.O.P. senators are considering whether to further curb the president's favorite tax cuts as they rewrite key portions of the sprawling domestic agenda bill passed by the House.
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Jun 11, 2025
Federal tax breaks have fueled a boom. The House bill would end that immediately.
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Jun 10, 2025
Senators criticized the head of the National Institutes of Health for not taking responsibility for Trump administration cuts to research funding.
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Jun 10, 2025
A youth movement in Iowa is aiming to appeal to voters who have abandoned Democrats in the Trump era. There are pitfalls for people who grew up sharing everything online.
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Jun 09, 2025
There's an undercurrent of Democratic support for elements of President Trump's tax agenda, a dynamic that Republicans are trying to exploit as they make the case for enactment of their sprawling domestic legislation.
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Jun 07, 2025
Before they can run in 2028, numerous top Democrats will first face re-election in 2026. And for everyone, the midterms will serve as a new political proving ground.
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Jun 07, 2025
Critics say proposals to restrict or even ban Chinese student visas take a "sledgehammer to a problem that needs highly targeted tools."
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Jun 06, 2025
Once a seemingly offhand remark at a campaign rally, President Trump's pledge to not tax overtime could become federal law.
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Jun 06, 2025
The senator said that the GENIUS Act, as it's written, should be struck down, fearing that it would be a "huge giveaway to Big Tech."
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Jun 05, 2025
Evangelical Christianity has taken a wrong turn.
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Jun 05, 2025
President Trump's flagship legislation, projected to add $2.4 trillion to the national debt, is raising questions among Republicans about the true purpose of Trumpism.
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Jun 05, 2025
At the highest level, the U.S. government looks like a gerontocracy, with average ages around 60 in both the House and the Senate.
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Jun 04, 2025
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump's agenda.
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Jun 03, 2025
The sprawling legislation carrying President Trump's domestic agenda squeaked through the House with one vote to spare, but some Republicans now say they didn't realize what they voted for.
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Jun 03, 2025
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure's opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.
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Jun 03, 2025
The president has been pressing Republicans in the Senate to move quickly to embrace sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, including by savaging opponents online.
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Jun 02, 2025
J.D. Scholten, a state representative who is also a minor-league baseball pitcher, said he had felt compelled to take on Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, after her defense of Medicaid cuts.
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Jun 02, 2025
Huge deficits are already making bond investors nervous. Economists warn that could make it harder to respond to future crises.
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Jun 02, 2025
Senate Republicans understand that energy abundance is essential for the economy, national security and the country's well-being. Now they must act.
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Jun 02, 2025
When the Trump administration slashed a successful food aid program, Austin Flamm set out to put politics aside. "Everybody needs a meal,'' he said.
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May 31, 2025
Jared Isaacman was a close associate of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX company has multiple contracts with NASA.
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May 30, 2025
The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed.
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May 30, 2025
A bipartisan duo met with the Ukrainian president and made the case for Congress to impose harsh economic penalties on Moscow for its continuing offensive.
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May 30, 2025
Senator Joni Ernst's flip response in an exchange with constituents about the effects of Trump's domestic policy bill spread quickly online.
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May 30, 2025
Down in initial polls of the race, Senator John Cornyn of Texas said he would make charges of corruption against his challenger, the state's attorney general, stick.
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May 29, 2025
We explore how the parliamentary maneuver is changing.
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May 29, 2025
In a recent pair of focus groups, voters loyal to President Trump judged members of Congress almost entirely according to whether they backed him — and rejected lawmakers who dared to dissent.
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May 29, 2025
The Senate skirting the filibuster to strike down California's plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles was the latest wound to a tactic in decline.
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May 28, 2025
Readers respond to an article about gene editing and object to cuts in research funding. Also: The Covid vaccine; Senator John Fetterman.
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May 28, 2025
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and David Leonhardt on the fundamental question Democrats need to answer.
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May 27, 2025
A group of G.O.P. senators has grown more vocal about urging penalties on Russia for its aggression against Ukraine, offering a counterpoint to President Trump's hands-off stance.
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May 27, 2025
The Alabama Republican is the latest federal lawmaker to seek elected office back at home.
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May 27, 2025
Democrats need to figure out how to elevate new voices.
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May 27, 2025
Plus, Disney's unexpected "rebel" star.
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May 27, 2025
Plus, Disney's unexpected "rebel" star.
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May 24, 2025
The Republican tax and benefit cuts are two sides of the same coin.
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May 24, 2025
The Republican tax and benefit cuts are two sides of the same coin.
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May 24, 2025
The first-term Pennsylvania Democrat said his openness about his mental health issues has been "weaponized" against him, prompting him to start showing up for votes and hearings he considers useless.
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May 23, 2025
The Republican tax bill would take health insurance from millions of lower-income Americans and give the savings to the wealthiest Americans.
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May 23, 2025
The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S.
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May 23, 2025
The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S.
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May 22, 2025
Senate Republicans say changes are coming for the sprawling domestic policy bill carrying President Trump's agenda. Their colleagues who took political risks to push it through the House might not like them.
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May 22, 2025
The House-passed bill includes a large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, financed in part by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
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May 22, 2025
In 50 years, California's authority to set environmental rules that are tougher than national standards had never been challenged by Congress. Until now.
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May 22, 2025
After Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis and Representative Gerry Connolly's death, some in the party want more elected officials, as one Democrat put it, to seek an earlier "escape hatch from politics."
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May 21, 2025
Republicans used a procedural tactic to counter Democratic accusations they were gutting the filibuster and lay the groundwork to block a California plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles.
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May 21, 2025
Republicans have readied a plan to overturn California's law phasing out gas-powered vehicles, using a statute aimed at striking down federal regulations. Democrats say it's an end run around Senate rules.
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May 21, 2025
During a Senate hearing, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, falsely described habeas corpus as the president's "constitutional right" to deport people.
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May 21, 2025
The right allows people to legally challenge their detentions by the government and is guaranteed in the Constitution.
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May 20, 2025
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
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May 20, 2025
Billy Long's effort to promote the credit, along with his advocacy of a fraud-ridden pandemic-era tax break, was scrutinized during his Senate confirmation hearing.
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May 19, 2025
Democrats who had sided with the rest of their party last week to block the measure over concerns that President Trump could benefit dropped their objections. They argued that regulating the industry was urgent.
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May 18, 2025
Readers respond to the Missouri senator's argument for protecting Medicaid from cuts.
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May 16, 2025
The lawmakers introduced resolutions as anger erupted over a series of deals involving the president, businesses linked to his family and several countries.
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May 16, 2025
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
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May 16, 2025
Responses to a guest essay about the effects of Medicaid cuts. Also: A third presidential term; a display of faith; loud music in public.
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May 15, 2025
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
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May 15, 2025
The measure would have compelled the administration to inform Congress about how it is complying with court orders involving deportees to El Salvador and to provide a human rights report on the nation.
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May 15, 2025
The surprise firing of the head of the Library of Congress and efforts to install Trump loyalists at the iconic institution have stirred bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill.
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May 15, 2025
Concerns about the deficit-stretching potential of President Trump's tax plan is spooking some investors, even as Republicans argue over its particulars.
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May 15, 2025
We look at Trump's agenda in Congress.
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May 14, 2025
Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.
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May 13, 2025
A Republican known as Kit, he was the state's youngest governor. When he retired from Congress after four terms, he said he didn't want to be the state's oldest senator.
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May 13, 2025
Republicans on Capitol Hill seem unlikely to challenge President Trump as he pushes ethics guardrails around profiting from the presidency to the breaking point.
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May 12, 2025
The Republican senator from Missouri called potentially deep cuts in the program "morally wrong" and "politically suicidal" for his party as it courts working-class voters.
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May 12, 2025
Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker's influence looms large.
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May 10, 2025
The party is trying to leverage local entrepreneurs' concerns to argue that President Trump's tariffs are yet another gift to the rich and powerful at the expense of everyday Americans.
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May 09, 2025
In a lengthy Friday night social media screed, the Republican congresswoman savaged her party's leaders as she declared she would not pursue a Senate run.
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May 08, 2025
After telling House lawmakers that the F.B.I. needed more resources, Kash Patel told senators that he agreed with a proposal to slash more than $500 million from the agency.
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May 08, 2025
Democratic supporters of the measure to regulate parts of the industry refused to allow it to move forward amid concerns in their party that President Trump and his family are profiting from cryptocurrency.
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May 08, 2025
The means of Ed Martin's ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney's office in Washington was his path out of power.
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May 08, 2025
Representative Buddy Carter became the first Republican to enter the primary field to take on Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, one of the nation's most vulnerable Democrats.
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May 08, 2025
Senator Chris Murphy argues voters want to know who's screwing them.
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May 06, 2025
Mr. Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, will lead an agency upended by big staff cuts and other significant changes.
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May 06, 2025
In the latest chapter in a battle over spending powers, lawmakers charged that the administration removed crucial information in violation of the law. The White House argues the data shouldn't be public.
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May 06, 2025
The nomination of the prosecutor, Ed Martin, has been teetering amid revelations that he once compared former President Biden to Adolf Hitler.
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May 06, 2025
To win back the U.S. Senate in 2026, Democrats will need to compete in some of the most conservative terrain in the country. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times, surveys the Democrats' strategies.
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May 06, 2025
Facing long odds to retake a majority, Senator Chuck Schumer and his allies are trying to think outside the box and recruit candidates who might be able to pull off upsets in red states.
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May 05, 2025
Some Democrats who had supported legislation for so-called stablecoins are now demanding tougher language to prevent fraud and money laundering.
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May 05, 2025
The popular two-term governor of Georgia had been seen as the strongest potential Republican challenger to Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat.
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May 05, 2025
Republicans in Congress are clashing over whether to repeal Biden-era clean energy tax credits that are a lifeline for some of their constituents.
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May 03, 2025
As G.O.P. lawmakers have largely ceded power to President Trump, they are also pushing the bounds of a little-known statute to undo federal rules — and potentially undermining the filibuster.
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May 02, 2025
The former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman last year wrote to a doctor who had treated him, pointing to "warning signs" that suggested the senator could be backsliding on his recovery from a mental health crisis.
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May 02, 2025
Senators expressed concern with a military budget they said was far too scant, and one objected to the plan's gutting of vital programs, including one that offers home heating assistance for the poor.
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May 02, 2025
House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump's campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.
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May 02, 2025
The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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May 01, 2025
Plus, a wiener dog's 529 days in the wild.
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