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Nov 01, 2025
Congress is dying in real time.
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Nov 01, 2025
El líder de la mayoría del Senado no está dispuesto a recurrir a la "opción nuclear" para superar la obstrucción parlamentaria demócrata y reabrir el gobierno.
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Nov 01, 2025
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump's tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn't it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains.
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Nov 01, 2025
This is what happens when no one wants to govern.
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Nov 01, 2025
These extreme maps may not be likely, but they might soon be legal, with temptations to go further than ever before.
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Nov 01, 2025
A 2013 attempt to leverage minority power in a health care fight blew up on Republicans. Can today be different for Democrats?
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Nov 01, 2025
Enrollment for A.C.A. health coverage begins Nov. 1, with some staggering price increases. Here is a guide to help you choose a plan while Congress is at an impasse over tax credits.
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Nov 01, 2025
The president attended a Halloween party Friday and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom.
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Oct 31, 2025
The South Carolina congresswoman went on an extended shouting and cursing "tirade," according to a police incident report, after security agents who were supposed to escort her failed to meet her as planned.
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Oct 31, 2025
Republicans hold 10 of the state's 15 seats in the House. The new map improves the party's odds of picking up two more in next year's midterm elections.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the "nuclear option" to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the government.
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Oct 31, 2025
A Senate candidate's popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.
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Oct 31, 2025
Senators opposed the president's plan to import beef from Argentina and voted three times this week to end his power to enforce sweeping tariffs.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the "nuclear option" to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the government.
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Oct 31, 2025
Our interview with Representative Kevin Kiley of California on what he thinks his party is getting wrong in this moment.
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Oct 31, 2025
Our interview with Representative Kevin Kiley of California on what he thinks his party is getting wrong in this moment.
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Oct 31, 2025
A Senate candidate's popularity reveals the depth of Democratic disaffection.
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Oct 31, 2025
The Texas attorney general has escalated the pace of high-profile legal actions, raising concern that his Senate campaign is influencing his law enforcement work.
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Oct 31, 2025
The president said it was time for G.O.P. leaders to get rid of the longstanding rule requiring most Senate legislation to have 60 votes to pass.
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Oct 30, 2025
The map, which is expected to be approved on Friday morning by the state's redistricting commission, improves Republicans' odds of picking up two more seats.
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Oct 30, 2025
Dr. Means was set to face questions Thursday from members of a senate health committee. The hearing was postponed.
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Oct 30, 2025
If confirmed as "the nation's doctor," Dr. Means will act as a figurehead of a health care system that she has condemned as broken and corrupt.
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Oct 29, 2025
Republicans in Texas, North Carolina and Missouri have passed new maps while Democrats in California, Illinois and Virginia are pursuing similar efforts in response.
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Oct 29, 2025
Significant milestones over the next few weeks could shuffle the status quo. For now, both sides remain dug in as the closure heads into a fifth week.
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Oct 29, 2025
Democrats in California are already starting campaigns and declaring their intentions for hypothetical seats that voters must first approve with Proposition 50.
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Oct 29, 2025
It may take an imperial Congress to correct its flaws.
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Oct 28, 2025
Mike Johnson, the speaker, won't swear in the Democratic representative-elect from Arizona.
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Oct 28, 2025
A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president's trade war.
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Oct 28, 2025
Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt to pressure Democrats to relent. The effort fell flat.
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Oct 28, 2025
Three Republican senators whose votes would be needed to advance Amer Ghalib's nomination said they would oppose him, all but assuring it would stall.
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Oct 28, 2025
In a closed-door meeting with the vice president, Republicans vented about a White House plan for Argentine beef they said would hurt ranchers in their states.
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Oct 28, 2025
Candidates are already starting campaigns and declaring their intentions for hypothetical seats that voters must first approve in the Nov. 4 election.
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Oct 28, 2025
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Representative David Trone.
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Oct 28, 2025
The Oversight Committee said aides to former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. covered up his deterioration and asserted that many of his decisions are "void." The committee's ranking Democrat called the report a "sham investigation."
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Oct 28, 2025
Democrats in California are already starting campaigns and declaring their intentions for hypothetical seats that voters must first approve in the Nov. 4 election.
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Oct 28, 2025
Mike Johnson, the speaker, won't swear in the Democratic representative-elect from Arizona.
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Oct 27, 2025
Republicans have accused some people who worked for Mr. Smith, the former special counsel who investigated President Trump, of hiding behind grand jury secrecy rules.
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Oct 27, 2025
Indiana is the latest state to consider redrawing its House district boundaries, though it was not clear whether Republicans had enough votes in the legislature to pass a new map.
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Oct 27, 2025
A suit filed by an election law firm contends that the state's 11th Congressional District, represented by a Republican, is drawn in a way that disenfranchises Black and Latino voters.
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Oct 27, 2025
State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow redistricting before next year's midterms, though the process would take months.
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Oct 27, 2025
Indiana is the latest state to consider redrawing its maps at the request of the Trump administration, though it was not clear if Republicans have enough votes.
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Oct 27, 2025
Republicans aren't just gerrymandering my state. They're erasing its political identity.
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Oct 27, 2025
The Harvard historian on why change requires "determination and imagination."
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Oct 25, 2025
South Florida will feel some of the most intense reverberations if Congress allows the extra insurance subsidies it approved during the pandemic to expire.
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Oct 25, 2025
The speaker's decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch — and his own post.
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Oct 24, 2025
Mr. Jeffries, the House minority leader, had resisted backing Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, for months. But his support provides a late boost.
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Oct 24, 2025
The president said he wouldn't seek congressional approval for his expanding military offensive against cartels, but some in his party believe Congress should weigh in.
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Oct 23, 2025
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.
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Oct 23, 2025
A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
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Oct 23, 2025
We explain what elected officials aren't doing during the government shutdown.
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Oct 23, 2025
Mamdani might be working in Democrats' favor. But what about "No Kings"?
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Oct 22, 2025
The Oregon Democrat achieved a goal of topping the previous longest speech by a senator from his state.
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Oct 22, 2025
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, along with the state's attorney general, argued that the speaker had no authority to delay swearing her into office.
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Oct 22, 2025
"It's like we have given up," one Republican lawmaker said.
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Oct 22, 2025
Graham Platner, a Democrat, had acknowledged the tattoo this week on a podcast. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.
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Oct 22, 2025
Graham Platner, a Democrat, said he would remove the tattoo. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.
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Oct 22, 2025
Scott Wiener, a Democratic state legislator, says he can't afford to keep deferring to Representative Nancy Pelosi.
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Oct 22, 2025
Term limits would help bring our divided nation together.
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Oct 21, 2025
At least four Republican senators, including the majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president's pick to lead the corruption-fighting Office of Special Counsel.
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Oct 21, 2025
The fact that Paul Ingrassia's nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power.
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Oct 21, 2025
The New York man, Christopher Moynihan, appears to be the only rioter so far who has been charged again with committing an offense against an elected official.
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Oct 21, 2025
The New York man, Christopher Moynihan, appears to be the only rioter so far who has been charged again with committing an offense against an elected official.
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Oct 20, 2025
More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.
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Oct 20, 2025
The remarks by Representative Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, align with efforts by the president and G.O.P. leaders to portray the political left as un-American.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
Alex Bores, a second-term state lawmaker and former software engineer, joins a growing primary field for the seat in a deeply Democratic district.
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Oct 20, 2025
Alex Bores, a second-term state lawmaker and former software engineer, joins a growing primary field for the seat in a deeply Democratic district.
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Oct 20, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego says Democrats must strategize more shrewdly. President Trump's base has "already set up the field to fight in," he says. "They have all the information and we're just playing catch-up.
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Oct 20, 2025
Lessons from a Democrat who won in a Republican state.
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Oct 20, 2025
The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.
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Oct 19, 2025
The spending showdown has highlighted Republicans' failure to produce an alternative to Obamacare, which many of them assail but concede is too politically risky to undo.
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Oct 18, 2025
On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. "Good luck George, have a great life!" the president said.
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Oct 18, 2025
The Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made in securing the border.
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Oct 18, 2025
La medida tiene pocas posibilidades, dada la falta de voluntad de la mayoría de los legisladores republicanos para desafiar al presidente Donald Trump, quien con toda seguridad la vetaría.
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Oct 18, 2025
What explains the Republican Party's posture toward these protests?
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Oct 18, 2025
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.
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Oct 18, 2025
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
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Oct 18, 2025
George Santos's lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction.
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Oct 18, 2025
George Santos's lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction.
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Oct 17, 2025
Democrats are battling each other over age, with the nation's oldest president in office.
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Oct 17, 2025
The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump's attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.
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Oct 17, 2025
Ms. Pelosi, 85, has not yet said whether she will run again. The challenge would be the latest example of the Democratic Party facing a push for generational change.
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Oct 16, 2025
After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an uncertain future.
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Oct 16, 2025
Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promised to keep defying Congress.
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Oct 16, 2025
The former Senate Republican leader has had a series of health episodes, including falls, in recent years. He plans to retire in 2027.
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Oct 16, 2025
El representante Dave Taylor por Ohio condenó el símbolo como "vil" y dijo que su oficina estaba investigando con la Policía del Capitolio de EE. UU.
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Oct 16, 2025
For Jon Ossoff, the most endangered Senate Democrat, the shutdown fight could rally support among some voters, but risks alienating others in a state President Trump won in 2024.
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Oct 16, 2025
Representative Dave Taylor of Ohio condemned the symbol as "vile" and said his office was investigating with the U.S. Capitol Police.
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Oct 15, 2025
In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.
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Oct 15, 2025
Representative Kevin Kiley of California has criticized his own party for keeping the House out of session during the shutdown. He is battling boredom and disaffection as the stalemate drags on.
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Oct 15, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said the president and Republican leaders had an "obligation to denounce vile rhetoric," even when it comes from within their own party.
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Oct 15, 2025
In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.
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Oct 15, 2025
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva appeared at the Capitol with other Arizona Democrats on Wednesday to criticize the Republican speaker for continuing to refuse to swear her in.
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Oct 15, 2025
Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.
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Oct 15, 2025
Mr. Moulton, a 46-year-old fellow Democrat, released a video emphasizing the age difference between himself and Mr. Markey, 79.
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Oct 15, 2025
If the justices decide that lawmakers cannot consider race in drafting maps, redistricting could result in congressional seats flipping from blue to red throughout the country.
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Oct 14, 2025
Representative Cory Mills's former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.
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Oct 14, 2025
A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself "battle tested" in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
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Oct 14, 2025
The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power.
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Oct 13, 2025
The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year. His party already holds 10 of North Carolina's 14 congressional seats.
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