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Dec 07, 2019
Senators, temporarily relegated to the sidelines as the House begins impeachment proceedings against President Trump, lament inaction as legislation languishes.
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Dec 06, 2019
In a sharply worded letter, the White House counsel denounced the impeachment inquiry and called on Democrats to end it, or get it over with quickly so it could proceed to a Senate trial.
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Dec 04, 2019
The appointment of Ms. Loeffler, a politically untested businesswoman, pits Gov. Brian Kemp against President Trump and his allies, who had lobbied for a different candidate.
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Dec 04, 2019
The House Intelligence Committee has given its report on President Trump to the Judiciary Committee. What comes next will look very different.
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Dec 03, 2019
The claim by Senator John Kennedy and others that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election offers the president a defense but contradicts intelligence agencies, which call it Russian propaganda.
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Dec 03, 2019
She was crowned the perfect Democrat for 2020. Here's what doomed her campaign.
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Dec 02, 2019
The appointment would pit the governor against President Trump, revealing an intraparty rift over the best way to maintain Republican dominance in Georgia.
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Dec 02, 2019
A detailed look at each stage in a process that could lead to the removal of President Trump.
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Nov 29, 2019
After initially resisting calls to lead Republicans' impeachment counteroffensive, the senator has now taken on the role with zeal.
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Nov 29, 2019
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health scare raised the question of how the Senate would handle a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year.
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Nov 26, 2019
Military aircraft were scrambled over Washington after a plane violated restrictions.
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Nov 26, 2019
Military aircraft were scrambled over Washington, D.C., after an airplane violated airspace restrictions, prompting a brief lockdown at the White House and on Capitol Hill.
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Nov 25, 2019
The president has vowed to ask the justices to intercede, but the Constitution and precedents are against him.
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Nov 23, 2019
Unlike Presidents Richard M. Nixon or Bill Clinton, Mr. Trump will face an election after his impeachment battle if he isn't removed from office.
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Nov 22, 2019
The president's campaign against the Mueller report and its author is a road map of what is likely to lie ahead.
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Nov 22, 2019
They are not all depressing.
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Nov 21, 2019
President Trump wants an aggressive defense, but White House officials and Republicans are divided over whether to aim for a brief process or a drawn-out spectacle.
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Nov 21, 2019
President Trump wants an aggressive defense, but White House officials and Republicans are divided over whether to aim for a brief process or a drawn-out spectacle.
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Nov 21, 2019
The measure delays the threat of a government shutdown until just before Christmas.
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Nov 21, 2019
The measure now heads to President Trump's desk, delaying the threat of a government shutdown until just before Christmas.
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Nov 21, 2019
The federal appeals courts are not irretrievably lost for liberals.
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Nov 20, 2019
After winning House and Senate approval, the bill could complicate the administration's already rocky talks with China to end the trade war.
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Nov 20, 2019
The nominee, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, said the decision to restrict flavors would not be his, if confirmed, because it was already under final review by the White House.
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Nov 20, 2019
The state's demographics have been favorable to turn it blue, but destiny is shaped by history, too.
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Nov 20, 2019
Even if she wins the presidency — hardly a sure bet — she may jeopardize Democrats in the House and the Senate.
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Nov 18, 2019
The whistle-blower had filed a complaint accusing Treasury Department officials of improperly interfering with the handling of President Trump's tax returns.
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Nov 18, 2019
David Holmes, a top aide in the United States embassy in Ukraine who overheard President Trump talking about the investigations he wanted the country to launch, is scheduled to testify on Thursday.
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Nov 18, 2019
Kurt D. Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, will modify his testimony, saying he was kept out of the loop at key moments of President Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign.
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Nov 18, 2019
Kurt D. Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, will modify his testimony in the impeachment inquiry, saying he was kept out of the loop at key moments of President Trump's pressure campaign.
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Nov 18, 2019
Senator Ron Johnson traveled to Ukraine as part of a delegation attending the president's inauguration in 2019 and has repeatedly found himself drawn into the impeachment inquiry.
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Nov 15, 2019
Threatening, malicious, contemptuous of the law and public service: Trump to Ukraine is Trump in all departments.
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Nov 15, 2019
The Adam Driver film dramatizes a contentious investigation into post-911 torture. But it leaves out a tense episode that could have buried the results altogether.
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Nov 15, 2019
Explosive testimony. News media frenzies. A trial in the Senate. Here is how impeachment works - and how it has played out in the past.
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Nov 14, 2019
Republicans are weighing whether to draw out the proceeding, hindering the presidential campaigns of several Senate Democrats, or seek a quicker resolution.
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Nov 14, 2019
The first public hearing in the impeachment proceedings was sad, yet necessary.
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Nov 14, 2019
Parents need better options for after-school care, but longer school days may not be the answer.
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Nov 12, 2019
As the House opens public hearings into whether President Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors, the battle over President Bill Clinton's impeachment 21 years ago looms large.
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Nov 12, 2019
The president's efforts to prevent the House from doing its job are just as worrisome as the Ukraine scandal.
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Nov 12, 2019
Here are the lawmakers to watch as the process unfolds.
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Nov 12, 2019
Here are the lawmakers to watch as the impeachment process unfolds.
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Nov 12, 2019
Mr. Espy, a Democrat, lost a special election runoff last year to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who apologized during the campaign for a reference to a public hanging.
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Nov 08, 2019
While Republicans get most of the attention, a Senate trial could complicate Democrats' drive for the majority.
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Nov 08, 2019
Minority-serving colleges and universities are looking on helplessly as vital funding for their science, engineering and math programs are bogged down in the Senate morass.
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Nov 07, 2019
The former attorney general's decision will most likely put him on a collision course with President Trump, who still harbors resentment toward him.
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Nov 07, 2019
Democrats aim to repeal an expired deadline on the measure to ensure equality of the sexes, clearing the way for Virginia — where they just won legislative control — to be the last state to ratify it.
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Nov 06, 2019
"We are going to be, I think, just about No. 1 by the time we finish — No. 1 of any president, any administration," President Trump said on Wednesday.
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Nov 06, 2019
The former attorney general and four-term senator risks reigniting attacks from President Trump, who could undermine his standing in the primary race.
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Nov 06, 2019
The former attorney general and four-term senator risks reigniting attacks from President Trump, who could undermine his standing in the primary race.
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Nov 06, 2019
The Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that, if signed into law, would make the torture of animals a federal felony punishable by fines and up to seven years in prison.
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Nov 06, 2019
The Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that, if signed into law, would make the torture of animals a federal felony punishable by fines and up to seven years in prison.
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Nov 05, 2019
Trump is not the first president to defy Congress. A struggle for power has been playing out since the nation's founding — as its framers intended.
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Nov 04, 2019
And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.
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Nov 02, 2019
Beto O'Rourke's meme-ready instincts and hope-and-change flourishes seemed like a credible bet to counter President Trump. Until they didn't.
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Nov 01, 2019
They may be on respirators. But conscientious conservatives still count.
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Nov 01, 2019
A former commander of the most secretive part of the prison compound told how the accused plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks were guarded by a secret force dressed like U.S. troops.
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Nov 01, 2019
The former Texas congressman, who energized Democrats in a Senate race last year, began his White House run to great fanfare but failed to build significant support.
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Nov 01, 2019
The former Texas congressman, who energized Democrats in a Senate race last year, began his White House run to great fanfare, but failed to build significant support.
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Oct 30, 2019
Voting rights advocates described the removals as troubling, saying it was just the beginning of efforts to suppress the vote in battleground states.
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Oct 30, 2019
With a batch of nominees being considered Thursday, the president could soon have appointed a quarter of all federal appeals court judges.
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Oct 30, 2019
Civil discourse and bipartisanship in America aren't dead. At least when the subject is criminal justice reform.
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Oct 29, 2019
House Republicans broke from President Trump en masse for a second time this month to condemn his foreign policy in Syria.
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Oct 29, 2019
The former attorney general, who previously held the seat for 20 years, would seem to be a formidable candidate. But President Trump's antipathy toward him could complicate the picture.
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Oct 28, 2019
The uncertainty could further muddle the already fraught process of trying to prevent another government shutdown.
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Oct 28, 2019
A Democrat, she served one term after defeating Elizabeth Dole. She was found to have a tick-borne virus in 2016.
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Oct 28, 2019
The founders were extremely clear about the importance of dealing with the abuse of executive power.
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Oct 27, 2019
The government has been handing over more responsibility to manufacturers for years. The new law makes it even harder for regulators to review Boeing's work.
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Oct 27, 2019
The government has been handing over more responsibility to manufacturers for years. The new law makes it even harder for regulators to review Boeing's work.
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Oct 26, 2019
Everyone knows the Senate can remove a president, but a second, lesser-known vote could disqualify someone from future office altogether.
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Oct 25, 2019
Thanks to Trump's deepening dependence on "alternative facts," the assertion of reality is now a viable campaign strategy for 2020 Democrats.
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Oct 24, 2019
Senate Republicans up for re-election in 2020, fearful of straying too far from Mr. Trump yet at pains to defend him, have adopted a strategy of saying as little as possible.
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Oct 24, 2019
President Trump wants his party to defend him more aggressively. Senators instead are denouncing the impeachment process.
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Oct 24, 2019
And what can be done about "deaths of despair"?
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Oct 23, 2019
Violators could face up to seven years in prison under the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act.
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Oct 23, 2019
Every good plan needs a contingency plan. That means making sure states can afford free college expansions, even in the oncoming recession.
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Oct 22, 2019
The California freshman denied a report of a relationship with a congressional staff member, which House rules forbid, but refused to comment on whether she was intimately involved with a campaign aide.
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Oct 22, 2019
Five members of Congress now celebrate the Indian festival of lights with feasts and family gatherings. But some of them think the version on the Hill needs work.
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Oct 21, 2019
The senator acknowledged that he had an account, which he used to monitor political conversations online and defend himself.
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Oct 18, 2019
With an eye toward protecting the Republican majority, Senator Mitch McConnell is preparing a serious review of impeachment articles he sees as unavoidable.
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Oct 18, 2019
With an eye toward protecting the Republican majority, Senator Mitch McConnell is preparing a serious review of impeachment articles he sees as unavoidable.
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Oct 17, 2019
Dennis A. Muilenburg is preparing to face Congress for the first time since the crashes of two 737 Max jets killed 346 people.
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Oct 17, 2019
The vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override President Trump's veto, allowing him to continue circumventing Congress to fund the border wall.
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Oct 16, 2019
Big moves come with hitches. But that's no reason not to go big and bold.
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Oct 16, 2019
Congress wants answers from the transportation secretary, wife of the Senate majority leader, about the apparent mixing of public and family business.
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Oct 13, 2019
The 1998 trial damaged Democrats more than Republicans.
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Oct 10, 2019
Regulators appear poised to cave to the tech industry. What's the rush?
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Oct 10, 2019
After the successful confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, one political operative sees a clear path through the impeachment inquiry. But at what cost?
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Oct 10, 2019
After the successful confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, one political operative sees a clear path through the impeachment inquiry. But at what cost?
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Oct 09, 2019
The only major debate over removing a president that he missed, for obvious reasons, was Andrew Johnson's in 1868. From Nixon onward, the longtime senator has urged caution above all.
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Oct 08, 2019
A report called for steps by Congress, the Trump administration and tech firms, and reiterated a conclusion the president has resisted: Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
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Oct 07, 2019
The push is the latest salvo in a global fight over who gets to set the rules for the internet.
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Oct 07, 2019
President Trump has demonstrated that in his pursuit of ending America's "endless wars," no troop presence abroad is too small to escape his desire to terminate it.
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Oct 07, 2019
After criticism that he was allowing a Turkish incursion into northern Syria, the president pivoted, saying he would prevent Turkey from going too far.
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Oct 03, 2019
Whose armrest is it anyway? An airplane etiquette debate.
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Oct 02, 2019
Congress was expecting the State Department's independent watchdog to deliver a bombshell. Instead, it got a package of opposition research mixing fact and speculation.
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Oct 02, 2019
Congress needs to repair the damage Trump has caused to the effectiveness and morale of the Foreign Service.
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Oct 02, 2019
Congress needs to repair the damage the president has caused to the effectiveness and morale of the nation's diplomats.
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Oct 02, 2019
Its impact on the presidential race will be a wash. But can Mitch McConnell stop it from shaking his hold on Congress?
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Oct 02, 2019
As the Senate contemplates new gun laws in the wake of mass shootings, gun control is not an issue Mark Kelly and Martha McSally can easily avoid.
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Oct 02, 2019
As the Senate contemplates new gun laws in the wake of mass shootings, gun control is not an issue Mark Kelly and Martha McSally can easily avoid.
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Oct 01, 2019
G.O.P. leaders, confused and dazed by the Ukraine scandal, haven't come up with a coherent defense. Maybe because there isn't one?
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