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Mar 31, 2025
The problem is that competence and execution matter.
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Mar 31, 2025
A House race in a deep-red Florida district is seeing millions of dollars in spending ahead of Tuesday's election. Even in a loss, Democrats hope it will signal much-needed momentum.
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Mar 30, 2025
Democrats are hoping to do better in Florida's Sixth District than they did in November, when President Trump won it by 30 points.
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Mar 29, 2025
Representative Victoria Spartz, a Republican, defended Elon Musk's DOGE cuts to the federal government, drawing jeers from the crowd.
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Mar 28, 2025
Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.
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Mar 28, 2025
Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.
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Mar 28, 2025
Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration's excesses, but Elise Stefanik's pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.
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Mar 28, 2025
As President Trump and Elon Musk slash deeper into federal programs and the work force, G.O.P. lawmakers are leveraging their connections to try to insulate themselves and their voters.
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Mar 27, 2025
The agency's acting director told senators of the new policy after it was revealed that tracking technology had been disabled before a deadly midair collision in January.
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Mar 27, 2025
The president said he wanted the New York Republican to stay in Congress to bolster the party's slim House margin and protect her seat.
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Mar 27, 2025
About that rule of law …
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Mar 26, 2025
Dark pronouncements by Republicans about a "communist agenda" espoused by public media were intercut with lighter references to "Sesame Street" and "Curious George."
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Mar 26, 2025
Republicans accused the nation's two largest public media networks of institutional bias. Democrats dismissed the hearing as an excuse for Republicans to air a familiar list of grievances against the news media.
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Mar 26, 2025
Instead of clinging to power, he could step down honorably from his leadership role, setting an example for his party and the country.
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Mar 26, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized PBS for featuring a drag queen named Lil Miss Hot Mess in its children's programming.
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Mar 26, 2025
A Democrat from Louisiana, he pushed for nuclear power and ending the nation's reliance on foreign oil in his four terms on Capitol Hill.
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Mar 26, 2025
Top lawmakers say the White House must provide a full accounting of actions surrounding sensitive military information shared on a text chain that included a journalist.
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Mar 26, 2025
The M.T.A. has a five-year capital budget proposal for critical upgrades to the subway, buses and commuter railroads. The catch: It depends on $14 billion in federal funding.
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Mar 25, 2025
Students sued to stop Columbia from giving their disciplinary records to the federal government, which has demanded that the university rein in demonstrations.
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Mar 25, 2025
Some Republican lawmakers have called for an investigation, but most have shied away from criticizing the Trump administration.
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Mar 25, 2025
A group of House Democrats calling themselves the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn't clear how they planned to do so.
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Mar 25, 2025
The national security adviser has been walking a tightrope even before the disclosure of the group chat.
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Mar 25, 2025
Frank Bisignano is expected to face questions about the White House's plans for the agency, which supplies monthly benefits to 73 million people and normally moves slowly.
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Mar 25, 2025
Top executives from the public media networks are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Mar 24, 2025
Ms. Love, from Utah, held a seat in the House for two terms until she aroused the enmity of President Trump. She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.
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Mar 24, 2025
An aging star playing to massive crowds of supporters in head-to-toe merch? It's not the Grateful Dead, it's the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
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Mar 24, 2025
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana's voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map.
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Mar 24, 2025
Cait Conley, a former National Security Council official, will run against Mike Lawler, a second-term Republican.
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Mar 24, 2025
Mr. Brown, the Ohio Democrat who lost his race for re-election last year, is forming the Dignity of Work Institute, which will highlight workers' struggles.
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Mar 24, 2025
The case, which centers on whether Louisiana's congressional districts are an illegal racial gerrymander, tests the leeway that states have in drawing voting maps.
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Mar 23, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said a government shutdown would have been "10 or 20 times worse" than the Republican stopgap spending bill.
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Mar 23, 2025
With Bernie Sanders unlikely to run for president again and Democratic voters fuming at party leaders, many progressives see an open lane. But who will fill it?
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Mar 23, 2025
Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades. Challengers are lining up as she weighs running again or retiring.
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Mar 23, 2025
Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades. Challengers are lining up as she weighs running again or retiring.
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Mar 22, 2025
Senator Steve Daines said in an interview that in meetings with Chinese officials, he called for talks between President Trump and China's leader, Xi Jinping.
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Mar 21, 2025
The senators asked the inspectors general to look at future job cuts as well.
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Mar 21, 2025
A psychiatrist and a patient respond to an article in Science Times. Also: A plea to Congress; an upside-down definition of waste, fraud and abuse.
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Mar 20, 2025
Judges have rarely been removed from the federal bench, and only for criminal acts. But House Republicans are intensifying efforts to oust them for decisions against President Trump.
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Mar 19, 2025
Amid a controversy over whether President Trump will abide by court rulings, Elon Musk gave the maximum to the campaigns of Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
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Mar 19, 2025
Leaders in the upper chamber of Congress occasionally have to take a political beating to protect their members in tough spots, like the showdown over government funding.
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Mar 19, 2025
The confirmation process of Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, has been delayed while House Republicans relied on her vote to maintain the slimmest of majorities.
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Mar 19, 2025
The Democrats' best chance to constrain President Trump is retaking control of the House in 2026. Here's how they might do it.
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Mar 19, 2025
The Democrats' best chance to constrain President Trump is retaking control of the House in 2026. Here's how they might do it.
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Mar 18, 2025
Top congressional staffers met with Oracle on Tuesday to talk about TikTok, which faces a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April.
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Mar 18, 2025
Derided by the MAGA right and yelled at by the far left, the Senate Democratic leader is inhabiting a very Jewish place right now.
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Mar 18, 2025
A softball question and he was out.
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Mar 17, 2025
In a deeply conservative district and a more liberal one, two Republicans found uncertainty and anxiety about the Trump administration's agenda and their support of it.
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Mar 17, 2025
Responses to Senator Chuck Schumer's reversal on the stopgap spending bill. Also: A Trump threat to law firms; the risk of TB; theaters in peril.
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Mar 17, 2025
Christian Menefee, the outspoken Harris County attorney, jumped into the race for a U.S. House seat representing a heavily Democratic district. But Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to set an election date.
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Mar 17, 2025
A debate over a government shutdown has exploded into an argument about the Democrats' leadership in the Trump era.
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Mar 17, 2025
If Democrats don't get a better grip on what is achievable in Congress, they will fall victim to the infighting that has long plagued Republicans.
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Mar 16, 2025
Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, continued to face criticism from members of his own party after he reversed course and allowed the stopgap spending bill to come to a vote.
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Mar 16, 2025
A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
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Mar 16, 2025
The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.
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Mar 16, 2025
Mr. Waltz has worked hard to burnish his credentials among the president's supporters, in the process dismaying his former associates while not convincing his new ones.
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Mar 15, 2025
The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government.
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Mar 15, 2025
It is very hard to be principled, independent or any of those other bygone adjectives in today's G.O.P.
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Mar 14, 2025
The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to pass in the House. Senator Susan Collins said it had President Trump's support.
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Mar 14, 2025
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Senator Chuck Schumer for siding with Republicans on a plan to avert a government shutdown. Her tough language drew talk of a primary challenge.
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Mar 14, 2025
The Senate voted to advance a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown on Saturday.
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Mar 14, 2025
The son of an immigrant, he represented a majority Hispanic district in Arizona for 12 terms but had lately been absent from Capitol Hill while being treated for cancer.
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Mar 14, 2025
Enough Democrats have voted with Republicans to ensure the advance of a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past midnight.
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Mar 14, 2025
A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers' impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don't understand new media, has emerged as one of the deepest rifts within the party.
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Mar 14, 2025
The measure, which passed with bipartisan support and minor changes, now heads back to the House. It is just the second legislative victory for the new Republican-controlled Congress.
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Mar 14, 2025
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized a fellow New York lawmaker, Senator Chuck Schumer, for siding with Republicans. Her tough language even drew talk of a primary challenge.
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Mar 14, 2025
Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and making a politically painful decision. But the backlash from his party was intense.
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Mar 14, 2025
Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and making a politically painful decision. But the backlash from his party was intense.
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Mar 14, 2025
An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past midnight after the top Senate Democrat said he would not block it.
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Mar 14, 2025
A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and immigration reform.
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Mar 14, 2025
The stopgap measure the G.O.P. is pushing to avert a government shutdown omits billions of dollars in member-requested projects, another way in which Congress has ceded its power on federal spending.
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Mar 14, 2025
The stopgap measure the G.O.P. is pushing to avert a government shutdown omits billions of dollars in member-requested projects, another way in which Congress has ceded its power on federal spending.
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Mar 14, 2025
At least a dozen other mountains and ridges in the U.S. already carry the name McKinley.
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Mar 14, 2025
On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House.
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Mar 13, 2025
Many Democrats had agitated for the party to hang together and block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the leader said doing so would prompt a shutdown that would only empower Mr. Trump.
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Mar 13, 2025
A government shutdown would lead to real pain for the American people.
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Mar 13, 2025
Many Democrats are agitating for their party's senators to block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the leader said doing so would prompt a shutdown that would only empower Mr. Trump.
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Mar 13, 2025
With signs made from crayons and colored markers, children rallied on Capitol Hill with their parents on Thursday, protesting layoffs and spending limits.
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Mar 13, 2025
President Trump said Chuck Schumer was not "Jewish anymore" in comments that have been widely criticized as offensive.
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Mar 13, 2025
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
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Mar 13, 2025
The former transportation secretary, who moved to Michigan from Indiana in 2022, had been seen as the most prominent potential candidate in next year's marquee contest.
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Mar 12, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a Friday night deadline. There is still time for a reversal.
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Mar 12, 2025
Brian Kelsey, a Republican, pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money to his failed campaign for Congress in 2016. He later tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his plea.
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Mar 12, 2025
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.
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Mar 12, 2025
There were protests, arrests, the departure of the school's president. Then, a new administration arrived in Washington.
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Mar 12, 2025
Jeanne Shaheen, 78, is the latest Senate Democrat to say she won't run for re-election. It's the right call, and there's still time for others to follow.
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Mar 12, 2025
Ms. Shaheen's retirement will set off a high-stakes fight for an open seat in a state where she has been a leading political figure for decades.
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Mar 12, 2025
After the Republican lawmaker misgendered Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware, the ranking Democrat in the subcommittee spoke up in her defense.
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Mar 11, 2025
Representative Keith Self of Texas insisted on calling Representative Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, "Mr. McBride," and adjourned the session when challenged about it.
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Mar 11, 2025
Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a filibuster and to passage before a midnight deadline on Friday.
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Mar 11, 2025
The House passed a measure to fund the federal government through September.
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Mar 11, 2025
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
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Mar 11, 2025
Republicans were pressing rank-and-file lawmakers to fall in line behind a stopgap measure that would mostly keep government funding at current levels through September.
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Mar 11, 2025
Plus, a D.O.J. dust-up over Mel Gibson.
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Mar 10, 2025
While in Congress, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was a co-sponsor of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, known as the PRO Act, a sweeping labor bill that sought to strengthen collective bargaining rights.
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Mar 10, 2025
In his second term, President Trump is cultivating warm relationships with G.O.P. lawmakers — and using the implicit threat of ruining them if they stray — to keep them in line behind his agenda.
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Mar 09, 2025
Progressive and moderate Democrats criticized a protest by Representative Al Green as a distraction, and the party leadership tried to refocus attention on economic issues.
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Mar 08, 2025
The administration has circulated a list that includes nine other campuses, accusing them of failure to address antisemitism.
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Mar 08, 2025
Democrats decried the measure as a White House power grab, leaving it unclear whether the legislation could pass.
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Mar 08, 2025
His unusual governing arrangement with President Trump is opening Republicans up to being yoked politically to Mr. Musk, who polls show is broadly unpopular.
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Mar 07, 2025
Trabajadores federales, rectores de universidades, directores ejecutivos e incluso republicanos veteranos no se pronuncian en contra del presidente de EE. UU. por temor.
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