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Sep 12, 2025
Democrats should go to the ramparts on three issues, with a popular solution for each.
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Sep 11, 2025
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
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Sep 11, 2025
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump's nominees, weakening Congress's vetting role.
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Sep 11, 2025
The killing of the right-wing activist deepened lawmakers' fears of violence directed against them, and the toxic discourse that has fed such threats.
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Sep 11, 2025
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
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Sep 11, 2025
Ms. Menendez, the wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said her husband had led her astray.
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Sep 11, 2025
Ten Democratic senators called on the Senate Banking Committee to hold hearings into the role that financial institutions may have played in enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes.
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Sep 11, 2025
The wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat already in prison for taking bribes, faces punishment on Thursday.
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Sep 10, 2025
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta's chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.
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Sep 10, 2025
Though it failed, Mr. Schumer's proposal brought the contentious debate over the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files to the Senate, which has largely avoided it.
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Sep 10, 2025
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.
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Sep 10, 2025
A bipartisan group in Congress has increased scrutiny of the fire engine industry. Firefighters complain that escalating prices and yearslong delays are straining public safety resources.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Republican response to the release of a suggestive note to Jeffrey Epstein apparently signed by President Trump followed a familiar pattern of deflection.
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Sep 09, 2025
The report, which follows a draft leaked last month, demonstrates both the ambitions and limits of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" agenda.
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Sep 09, 2025
Readers respond to a column by Ezra Klein about what the Democrats should do. Also: Florida and vaccines; no award for Tom Hanks at West Point.
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Sep 09, 2025
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
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Sep 09, 2025
State Representative James Talarico, who is studying to become a Presbyterian pastor, has sparred with Fox News hosts and bantered with Joe Rogan. Now he wants Senator John Cornyn's seat.
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Sep 08, 2025
Republicans said the maneuver to change the Senate's rules, the latest step that would weaken the filibuster, was necessary to overcome Democratic obstruction of President Trump's nominees.
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Sep 08, 2025
Two senators have begun an investigation into whether government officials could have done more to stop the Los Angeles fire. President Trump and other Republicans have blamed Democratic leaders for the disaster.
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Sep 07, 2025
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.
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Sep 07, 2025
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.
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Sep 07, 2025
On national security, spending and oversight, the president continues to undercut the legislative branch, and Republicans in charge have done little to stop him.
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Sep 07, 2025
A new crop of candidates has turned away from the aspirational "American dream" message of campaigns past and is leaning into how difficult life can be for working people — including them.
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Sep 07, 2025
Democrats aren't powerless, and they don't have to enable autocracy.
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Sep 06, 2025
On this week's round table, the G.O.P's shutdown spiral.
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Sep 06, 2025
On this week's round table, the G.O.P's shutdown spiral.
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Sep 06, 2025
On this week's round table, three Opinion writers discuss how to fight Trump's takeover.
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Sep 05, 2025
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.
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Sep 05, 2025
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.
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Sep 05, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questions after a tumultuous few weeks.
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Sep 04, 2025
During often tense exchanges, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his positions on Covid vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and autism.
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Sep 04, 2025
At a contentious hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, Republicans who voted to confirm him were among his critics.
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Sep 04, 2025
Republicans and Democrats agree they will need a temporary measure to fund the government past Sept. 30, but have yet to come to terms on what it should look like.
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Sep 04, 2025
Some Republican lawmakers have questioned whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent actions contradict pledges he made about vaccine access in order to win confirmation.
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Sep 04, 2025
The Republican rift over whether to demand greater transparency in the case has once again highlighted a gender divide in the male-dominated party.
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Sep 04, 2025
Senator Mark Warner's visit was classified and not intended to be publicized. It was to include a meeting with the head of the agency and a briefing on the agency's use of artificial intelligence.
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Sep 03, 2025
Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging "legal war" against Beto O'Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.
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Sep 03, 2025
Stephen Miran is scheduled to face members of the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday as the administration steps up its attacks on the Federal Reserve.
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Sep 03, 2025
The former senator has been out of office for more than 15 years, but his last name is synonymous with Republican politics in a state where party leaders see a chance to flip a seat.
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Sep 03, 2025
Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait for Maine's Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is "seriously considering" a run for Senate.
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Aug 29, 2025
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.
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Aug 29, 2025
Democrats still face an uphill fight to win in Iowa and retake the majority in the closely divided Senate.
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Aug 26, 2025
Ms. Menendez was convicted of taking bribes of gold, cash and a Mercedes in exchange for political favors dispensed by her husband, a former New Jersey senator.
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Aug 26, 2025
He will continue to oversee an office that often handles cases involving violent drug cartels and transnational repression. In making the choice, the judges avoided a political fight.
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Aug 26, 2025
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
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Aug 25, 2025
President Trump told Lisa Cook that he had found sufficient cause "to remove you from your position." Her dismissal could touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
"I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position," Mr. Trump said in a letter. Her dismissal threatened to touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
Few are happy with how Congress is performing these days, including its members, with increasingly unpleasant jobs. It's time to recruit better talent.
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Aug 22, 2025
Nadine and Robert Menendez, a former senator, were convicted of taking bribes. Seeking leniency, Ms. Menendez's relatives and friends agree she is "not a criminal mastermind."
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Aug 20, 2025
Leaders of the Appropriations Committee are trying to tighten up funding legislation to give the Trump administration less leeway to refuse to spend federal money.
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Aug 19, 2025
Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man's pitch thinks he has a better chance.
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Aug 18, 2025
Republicans in Congress managed to recess for the summer without voting on the issue, but it has continued to dog them and awaits them when they return.
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Aug 17, 2025
Many state delegations are already under single-party control. New maps could tighten the partisan grip while decreasing the importance of general elections.
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Aug 15, 2025
Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company's artificial intelligence technology endangers children.
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Aug 14, 2025
Why the left can't win without a new constitution.
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Aug 14, 2025
Why the left can't win until it reckons with this question.
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Aug 13, 2025
The Treasury secretary has been slow to shed assets, including farmland, posing potential conflicts of interest.
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Aug 13, 2025
The Treasury secretary has been slow to divest assets, including farmland, that he pledged to shed.
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Aug 13, 2025
Senator John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton are vying to be the tougher candidate on Democratic lawmakers who left Texas, as potential Democratic rivals seek their own spotlight.
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Aug 12, 2025
The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation's capital.
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Aug 12, 2025
The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.
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Aug 11, 2025
Millions of people could lose access to federal food aid or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest analysis of President Trump's marquee legislation.
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Aug 11, 2025
Ankit Jain, the shadow Senator for the District of Columbia, said President Trump should focus on adding judges, not policing.
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Aug 10, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.
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Aug 10, 2025
The Times editorial board argues that Congress must change the Federal Aviation Administration's funding structure.
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Aug 08, 2025
The announcement comes a week after the National Transportation Safety Board grilled aviation officials about safety gaps in the airspace near the capital.
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Aug 08, 2025
Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess.
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Aug 08, 2025
Amy Klobuchar has taken a crucial step toward the view of the party's base.
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Aug 07, 2025
Deepening its purge, the bureau forced out Steven Jensen, whose ascent had angered Trump supporters, and Brian Driscoll, the acting director in the early chaotic days of the administration.
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Aug 07, 2025
The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.
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Aug 07, 2025
Brian Driscoll, who was the acting director in the early days of the administration, was among those being told to leave by Friday.
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Aug 07, 2025
Brian Driscoll, who was the acting director in the early days of the administration, was among those being told to leave by Friday.
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Aug 07, 2025
The senator said the federal agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state lawmakers who left the state to try to block a vote on new congressional district maps.
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Aug 06, 2025
The political and legal threats against Democrats who left Texas to protest a redrawn political map have gone further and faster than many anticipated.
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Aug 06, 2025
A conservative Trump ally in the Senate, Ms. Blackburn will now try to become the first woman to serve as governor.
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Aug 05, 2025
As a Texas senator summoned the F.B.I. to round up Democrats, the redistricting war that began in Texas was spreading, with California aiming at five Republican House seats.
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Aug 04, 2025
Derek Dooley, a former football coach, cast himself as an outsider candidate as the Republican primary field for a marquee midterm contest takes shape.
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Aug 04, 2025
Creative obstructionism in the Senate, says Tina Smith of Minnesota, has become "a fine art" that has nearly paralyzed the institution.
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Aug 03, 2025
In a social media back-and-forth, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York replied to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas that "anyone with basic decency" would respect the officer's Muslim faith.
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Aug 03, 2025
The former Fox News host, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, had been serving in the role on a temporary basis.
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Aug 02, 2025
The Democrat from Nevada said she refused to be lectured about how to challenge President Trump, and she argues that her party needs to do more to gain voters' trust.
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Aug 01, 2025
Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $506 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the government before a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
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Aug 01, 2025
When it comes to attracting mega-donors, Republicans are crushing Democrats.
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Aug 01, 2025
Dozens of demonstrators, calling for a flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, were arrested at the Manhattan offices of New York's two senators.
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Jul 31, 2025
Ms. Lucas, who has led efforts to attack diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, was confirmed by the Senate for a second term.
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Jul 31, 2025
The office of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked the Department of Homeland Security to release the detainee, who is married to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
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Jul 31, 2025
The measure faces long odds given past Republican opposition to sending additional assistance to Kyiv, but it comes as President Trump has signaled a new openness to finding ways to back the nation.
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Jul 30, 2025
Joe Kent, a former Army Green Beret, had attracted scrutiny over his associations with extremist groups and his promotion of conspiracy theories.
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Jul 30, 2025
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
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Jul 30, 2025
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
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Jul 30, 2025
The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in "Unfettered."
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Jul 30, 2025
Under pressure to show they are resisting President Trump, Democrats have insisted on recorded votes on every nominee, creating a bottleneck ahead of the August recess.
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Jul 30, 2025
The move is part of an effort by Democrats to draw Senate Republicans into the debate over the release of the Epstein files, which has bitterly divided the House G.O.P. and wrought havoc in that chamber.
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Jul 29, 2025
The Trump loyalist was narrowly approved as Republicans brushed aside concerns about his conduct as a senior Justice Department official.
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Jul 29, 2025
When a pair of Democrats sought to win quick approval of a bipartisan package of policing legislation, a third rose to object, saying the party must take every opportunity to challenge President Trump.
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Jul 29, 2025
The senator's treatment of whistle-blowers detailing allegations against Emil Bove, the Trump loyalist and appeals court nominee, has had a chilling effect, critics say.
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Jul 29, 2025
The legislation, led by Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican chairman of a panel that oversees air travel, has a number of high-profile supporters — but no Democrats, yet.
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Jul 28, 2025
Paul Dans will run in the South Carolina primary highlighting the work of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint that President Trump has employed during his second term.
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Jul 28, 2025
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee also pressed the Justice Department for a promise that Ms. Maxwell will not be pardoned for her cooperation in matters related to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Jul 26, 2025
Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, says there is work to do in red states. He also has a few things to say about his uncle, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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