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Jan 22, 2022
Kyrsten Sinema, a first-term Arizona senator, was rebuked by fellow Democrats in her state after her vote on the filibuster helped sink the party's voting-rights legislation.
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Jan 22, 2022
Arguments about the filibuster need the right context.
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Jan 21, 2022
The road to successful vaccines; mask distribution; Starbucks; Build Back Better; Trump's call to Georgia; leaving the G.O.P.; a football fan's plea.
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Jan 21, 2022
Conservatives can't pick and choose which parts of the Constitution they like.
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Jan 21, 2022
When a "federal takeover of elections" is nothing of the kind.
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Jan 20, 2022
As discussions resumed over how to whittle down the plan, Senator Joe Manchin, a key holdout, said any talks would be starting with "a clean sheet of paper."
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Jan 20, 2022
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, chose to plunge ahead because of the importance of the issue even after the outcome became preordained.
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Jan 20, 2022
President Biden will retreat from fruitless negotiations with lawmakers and instead emphasize his power to govern, senior White House advisers said.
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Jan 20, 2022
With midterm elections approaching, a vote taken on Thursday could be the first of several that Congress takes on bills aimed at the industry.
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Jan 20, 2022
The voting rights bill and the filibuster. Also: A Supreme Court ruling; President Biden and Ukraine; Medicare and Covid tests; an American paradox.
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Jan 20, 2022
In a letter to President Biden, dozens of Democrats in Congress raised grave concerns about "repeated civilian casualties arising from secretive and unaccountable lethal operations."
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Jan 20, 2022
After Republicans blocked a voting rights bill aimed at curbing a wave of new restrictions across the country, Democrats failed in an effort to change Senate filibuster rules that would have allowed the bill to pass with 51 votes instead of 60.
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Jan 20, 2022
Some Democrats want to forge ahead with a stand-alone climate bill, but their solution could mean abandoning other parts of President Biden's agenda.
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Jan 20, 2022
Some Democrats want to forge ahead with a stand-alone climate bill, but their solution could mean abandoning other parts of President Biden's agenda.
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Jan 20, 2022
The Massachusetts senator defends her plan to tax billionaires and break up Big Tech.
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Jan 19, 2022
Without the votes to change Senate rules, Democrats had no avenue for overcoming a Republican filibuster against legislation intended to offset new state voting restrictions.
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Jan 19, 2022
Democrats failed to secure enough votes to pass the voting rights legislation that they say would counter widespread voter suppression efforts.
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Jan 19, 2022
The mustaches and dresses have less volume, but the racism carries the same venom.
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Jan 19, 2022
President Biden reserved his most aggressive language for Republicans in Congress, accusing them of conspiring to block everything that his administration has tried to do.
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Jan 19, 2022
Without the votes to change Senate rules, Democrats cannot overcome a Republican filibuster against legislation intended to offset new state voting restrictions.
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Jan 19, 2022
President Biden, in a news conference defending his first year in office, delivered a grim assessment of the ability of the United States and allies to influence the Russian leader.
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Jan 19, 2022
Democrats do not appear to have enough votes to pass the voting rights legislation that they say would counter widespread voter suppression efforts.
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Jan 19, 2022
Senators Tim Scott and Cory Booker clashed over calling Republican-backed voting legislation "Jim Crow 2.0."
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Jan 19, 2022
Mr. Cruz challenged a federal law that caps repayments of loans from candidates to their campaigns from postelection contributions.
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Jan 19, 2022
Senators are debating the bill, which the House approved last week, and arguing over the very nature of their institution as they clash over the filibuster.
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Jan 19, 2022
President Biden knows that he cannot pass a set of laws to protect elections. So why is he still asking the Senate to vote on the bills?
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Jan 19, 2022
Prominent Democrats are expressing rage at their party's two filibuster holdouts, rather than at Republicans who are blocking their voting rights bill.
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Jan 19, 2022
A Senate without the filibuster would be different, but majority parties would still sometimes have difficulty legislating.
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Jan 18, 2022
Democrats' bid to force through a new bill intended to offset state voting restrictions appeared doomed to fall to a Republican filibuster.
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Jan 18, 2022
Democrats say the voting rights bill is meant to counter voter suppression efforts, but they lack the votes needed in their own party to change Senate rules and enact the bill unilaterally.
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Jan 18, 2022
The powerful political action committee said the Arizona senator could find herself "standing alone" in 2024 if she refuses to change Senate rules to force through voting rights legislation.
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Jan 18, 2022
As Republican efforts to restrict voting access and reshape election administration have intensified, the Democrats' path to a solution has narrowed.
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Jan 18, 2022
Why on earth are representatives and senators allowed to trade stocks?
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Jan 17, 2022
The holiday came a day before the Senate returns to debate what is expected to be a doomed effort to pass the legislation. But advocates say they aren't giving up.
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Jan 17, 2022
Relatives of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched on Washington and urged the Senate to pass voting rights legislation.
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Jan 17, 2022
The Senate on Tuesday will begin to debate new voting rights protections, even though the measure appears all but dead in the face of two key Democratic defections.
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Jan 17, 2022
Democracy is losing.
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Jan 17, 2022
It's been a very long year for Joe Biden.
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Jan 17, 2022
Wolves have thrived since returning to the Northern Rockies. Now they face relentless assault by hunters and trappers.
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Jan 15, 2022
Donald Trump's rally in Arizona on Saturday will feature a host of election deniers. His involvement in state races and his inability to let go of his 2020 loss worries many Republicans.
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Jan 15, 2022
Donald Trump's rally in Arizona on Saturday will feature a host of election deniers. His involvement in state races and his inability to let go of his 2020 loss worries many Republicans.
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Jan 15, 2022
The strange strategy of a staggering presidency.
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Jan 15, 2022
Less Senate bean soup, more affordable meat.
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Jan 14, 2022
With their broad voting rights push nearing a dead end, Democrats must soon decide whether to embrace a far narrower bipartisan effort to protect vote counting and administration.
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Jan 14, 2022
Democrats already were expecting a rough election year. But their struggle to advance priorities has some calling for a course correction.
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Jan 14, 2022
Readers criticize the court's decision to reverse a vaccine mandate for large businesses. Also: Intransigent senators; Senate rules; "Don't Look Up"; smoking.
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Jan 13, 2022
The measure pitted Ukraine's president, who was pushing for the penalties, against the Biden administration, which successfully lobbied Democrats to oppose them.
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Jan 13, 2022
Senator Kyrsten Sinema's comments came after the House approved a set of voting rights measures on a party-line vote of 220 to 203.
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Jan 13, 2022
Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she would not support undermining the Senate filibuster to enact new voting rights laws, presenting a major obstacle for President Biden's drive to push the protections through Congress.
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Jan 13, 2022
Ms. Brainard, a Federal Reserve governor who has been nominated to be the central bank's vice chair, said she expects workers will come back as the economy chugs along.
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Jan 13, 2022
Senator Kyrsten Sinema's comments came after the House approved a set of voting rights measures on a party-line vote of 220 to 203.
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Jan 13, 2022
A key committee was split mainly on party lines over the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf, foreshadowing divisions in the full Senate for a vote on confirmation.
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Jan 12, 2022
How an inside joke among Republicans became one candidate's tactic for reaching the G.O.P. masses.
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Jan 12, 2022
I hope that this is a better-late-than-never situation.
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Jan 12, 2022
The Trumpiest man in Wisconsin wants another term in the Senate.
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Jan 12, 2022
Congress, always a reflection of the country, is in a testy mood, as the latest coronavirus variant looms over the Capitol and schadenfreude is in full swing.
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Jan 12, 2022
A former Treasury official, Mr. McCormick has drawn comparisons to Glenn Youngkin, the financier recently elected governor of Virginia.
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Jan 12, 2022
Ms. Brainard, a Federal Reserve governor whom President Biden nominated for vice chair, will say the central bank is focused on getting price gains back down.
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Jan 12, 2022
The move will allow for debate on the legislation to begin this week, hastening a confrontation with Republicans and the moment when Democrats could try to change Senate rules.
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Jan 12, 2022
The proposed legislation and the push to reform the Electoral Count Act leave open a variety of pathways to subvert a presidential election.
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Jan 11, 2022
The president left no doubt that he has reached a breaking point, lashing out at senators who are blocking voting rights legislation.
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Jan 11, 2022
President Biden says he won't keep "quiet" any longer about protecting ballot access. But voting rights groups say he should've raised his voice months ago.
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Jan 11, 2022
With a floor fight looming, Democrats have yet to settle on exactly how they would change the rules to sidestep Republican opposition to voting rights bills.
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Jan 11, 2022
President Biden said Republican lawmakers have abused the filibuster and voiced his support for changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections.
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Jan 11, 2022
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci refuted claims by Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, that he was undermining scientists with opposing views.
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Jan 11, 2022
Senator Rand Paul accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of trying to undermine scientists who disagreed with him. Dr. Fauci denied the allegation and accused Republicans of feeding attacks against him.
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Jan 11, 2022
Mr. Reid, who will lie in state on Wednesday in the Rotunda, charted a unique path to power and knew how to exercise it.
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Jan 11, 2022
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, White House Covid-19 adviser, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responded to criticism about scarce coronavirus tests and confusing guidance.
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Jan 11, 2022
In Georgia, the president will express support for altering rules around the Senate filibuster, setting up a confrontation with Republicans.
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Jan 11, 2022
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is nominated for a second term. He faces questions from the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
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Jan 11, 2022
In Georgia, the president will express support for altering rules around the Senate filibuster, setting up a confrontation with Republicans.
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Jan 10, 2022
Central bankers will act to keep rapid price gains from becoming permanent, Mr. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, will say during a renomination hearing.
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Jan 10, 2022
Senator Joe Manchin III is caught between the mine workers' union, which supports President Biden's social policy and climate bill, and mine owners in his state who oppose it.
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Jan 09, 2022
Mehmet Oz is a quasi-religious leader, one who has set up his revival tent between a yoga studio and an urgent-care clinic, with the television cameras rolling.
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Jan 09, 2022
In his three-decade Senate tenure, Mr. Reid oversaw the passage of landmark legislation, including the Affordable Care Act, a sweeping economic stimulus and a new set of rules for Wall Street.
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Jan 09, 2022
The renewed bid for office by Mr. Johnson, who has spread many false claims about the 2020 election and Covid, ensures that both parties will be highly invested in Wisconsin's 2022 Senate race.
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Jan 08, 2022
Some of the country's most prominent Democrats recounted tales showcasing the former Senate majority leader's tenacity and modesty.
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Jan 08, 2022
The three-term South Dakotan had considered retiring because of family concerns and the continuing grip of former President Donald J. Trump on the Republican Party.
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Jan 08, 2022
A year into his term, only 41 percent of the president's nominees for Senate-confirmed posts have been approved, a new analysis finds, the worst rate in decades.
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Jan 08, 2022
A year into his term, only 41 percent of the president's nominees for Senate-confirmed posts have been approved, a new analysis finds, the worst rate in decades.
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Jan 08, 2022
Darth Vader as Luke Skywalker, defending the galaxy? Not quite.
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Jan 07, 2022
Our democracy needs your help.
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Jan 06, 2022
President Biden used the anniversary of the Capitol siege to deliver his most sustained and scathing repudiation of Donald J. Trump since taking office.
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Jan 06, 2022
President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and lawmakers in Congress held a series of memorials to mark a year since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building.
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Jan 06, 2022
The anniversary of Jan. 6 was part national commemoration, part group therapy session and part slick production as Democrats marked the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries.
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Jan 06, 2022
Elected Republicans stayed away from the Capitol during a day of solemn remembrance on the anniversary of the attack carried out by supporters of former President Donald J. Trump.
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Jan 06, 2022
President Biden took a confrontational approach to his predecessor, who isn't going away, and other takeaways from the commemoration events.
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Jan 06, 2022
On a day that amplified political divisions, lawmakers from both parties gathered in an Atlanta church to honor one of the Senate's great champions of bipartisanship.
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Jan 06, 2022
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, led a group of lawmakers in recounting last year's Capitol riot by a mob trying to keep Donald J. Trump in office.
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Jan 06, 2022
One year after the Capitol riot, many businesses resumed corporate donations to lawmakers who voted against certifying the 2020 election.
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Jan 06, 2022
Senators deliver floor speeches one year after a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald J. Trump who tried to disrupt the formal certification of President Biden's electoral victory.
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Jan 06, 2022
In a building that is both a legislative body and a living museum, lawmakers are grappling with how to commemorate an attack whose victims cannot agree on the basic facts of the day.
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Jan 05, 2022
J. Thomas Manger, chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, told the Senate Rules Committee that the department has implemented most of the 103 recommendations for improvement made by the inspector general in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol.
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Jan 05, 2022
Chief J. Thomas Manger, the head of an agency still reeling from the Jan. 6 attack, told lawmakers he was already addressing most of the 103 recommendations from an internal watchdog.
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Jan 05, 2022
Chief J. Thomas Manger, head of an agency still reeling from Jan. 6, plans to tell lawmakers he is already addressing most of the 103 recommendations from an internal watchdog.
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Jan 05, 2022
Chief J. Thomas Manger, head of an agency still reeling from Jan. 6, plans to tell lawmakers he is already addressing most of the 103 recommendations from an internal watchdog.
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Jan 04, 2022
Mounting challenges will make the coming months critical for the president's environmental agenda, analysts say.
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Jan 04, 2022
La democracia de Estados Unidos se encuentra en peligro, aunque la situación política parezca más normal.
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Jan 03, 2022
The top Senate Democrat said he would act by Jan. 17 to try to force through the measures if Republicans refused to drop their opposition.
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Jan 02, 2022
Decisions about subpoenas and a Supreme Court ruling loom as lawmakers, staff members and Capitol employees plan to commemorate the day.
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