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Nov 22, 2024
The second Trump administration appears likely to inherit broader powers to force American service providers to help a warrantless wiretapping program.
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Nov 22, 2024
Readers respond to an essay by Roxane Gay. Also: A Republican plan to bar a transgender member from the women's bathroom; Matt Gaetz; Elon Musk's cuts.
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Nov 22, 2024
The Senate majority leader is staying out of Republican turmoil over the more contentious picks for strategic reasons.
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Nov 22, 2024
Mr. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate.
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Nov 22, 2024
The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king.
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Nov 22, 2024
Lessons from a Democratic winner in Trump country.
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Nov 21, 2024
Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation's top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.
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Nov 21, 2024
The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.
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Nov 21, 2024
Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for attorney general, faced what appeared to be long odds of securing the votes needed for confirmation in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Nov 21, 2024
Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, bowed out of his race against David McCormick, a Republican who led narrowly amid a recount of votes in one of the nation's top Senate races.
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Nov 21, 2024
Some Republican senators, who will consider his nomination to be defense secretary, shrugged off the accusations and defended him.
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Nov 21, 2024
Some Republican senators, who will consider his nomination to be defense secretary, shrugged off the accusations and defended him.
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Nov 21, 2024
Since 1906, new members of Congress have drawn lots to choose their new homes on Capitol Hill. Staff and lawmakers often scout and strategize far in advance to find the best spaces.
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Nov 21, 2024
Trump failed to push Republicans past their red line.
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Nov 21, 2024
Most Democrats opposed the measure, reversing their previous positions as they warned that President-elect Donald J. Trump could use it to punish nonprofit groups he saw as political antagonists.
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Nov 21, 2024
Legisladores republicanos buscan impedir que Sarah McBride, primera integrante transgénero del Congreso, utilice los baños de mujeres del Capitolio.
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Nov 21, 2024
The vaunted chamber's degradation preceded him. But he may trash it once and for all.
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Nov 21, 2024
Impuestos atrasados, consumo de marihuana y niñeras indocumentadas descalificaron a anteriores elecciones presidenciales para altos cargos. Algunos de los candidatos del presidente electo enfrentan mayores cuestionamientos.
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Nov 21, 2024
Plus, a $6.2 million piece of fruit.
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Nov 20, 2024
The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.
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Nov 20, 2024
Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's candidates face bigger questions.
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Nov 20, 2024
After a victorious Senate campaign, Ruben Gallego thinks others can follow his lead by signaling that they hear Latino voters' economic pain. But repeating his success might not be so easy.
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Nov 20, 2024
The G.O.P. speaker sided with hard-right members of his conference who called for blocking Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from using Capitol women's rooms.
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Nov 20, 2024
Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's candidates face bigger questions.
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Nov 20, 2024
Plus, this musical wants France to love it back.
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Nov 19, 2024
The closest House race in the nation is in Southern California, where Representative Michelle Steel is trailing her challenger, Derek Tran, by a tiny margin after more than 307,000 votes have been counted.
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Nov 19, 2024
G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from women's rooms on Capitol Hill.
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Nov 19, 2024
The Constitution allows the president to circumvent the Senate and put appointees in place while the chamber is in recess, a loophole created back when Capitol commutes involved long treks by horse.
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Nov 19, 2024
The Constitution allows the president to circumvent the Senate and put appointees in place while the chamber is in recess, a loophole created back when Capitol commutes involved long treks by horse.
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Nov 18, 2024
The president-elect is taking a flood-the-zone approach to his cabinet nominations, betting that the Senate won't dare to turn them all down.
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Nov 18, 2024
The president-elect is taking a flood-the-zone approach to his cabinet nominations, betting that the Senate won't dare to turn them all down.
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Nov 18, 2024
The president said the aid was "urgently needed" as emergency programs face funding shortfalls amid the devastation after Hurricanes Helene and Milton and a string of other natural disasters.
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Nov 17, 2024
As a Senate recount plays out, at least four counties are ignoring an order from the State Supreme Court that undated or misdated mail ballots cannot be counted.
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Nov 17, 2024
A vendetta over the congressional ethics investigation into Matt Gaetz helped sink the last speaker. The new speaker has moved to quash it.
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Nov 16, 2024
The right-wing mudslinger built his brand on mercilessly trolling his adversaries, including some Republican senators, on TV and social media. Now he needs their votes to be confirmed.
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Nov 16, 2024
Even as Democrats rebuked Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts for saying he didn't want his daughters "getting run over" by "formerly male" athletes, he defended his remarks.
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Nov 16, 2024
Why supermajority thinking is urgently needed on the left.
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Nov 15, 2024
Es incierto si el Senado ratificará a Kennedy, un escéptico de las vacunas y quien tiene opiniones poco ortodoxas sobre la medicina.
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Nov 15, 2024
The president-elect has selected several allies in Congress, along with a current governor, to join his administration.
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Nov 15, 2024
The House speaker said revealing the findings of a yearslong inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use would be a ‘terrible breach of protocol' because Matt Gaetz had resigned.
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Nov 15, 2024
The Republican speaker, once viewed as an interim figure, maintained the House majority and his job. But his narrow margin of control could pose major difficulties.
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Nov 15, 2024
The last five presidents have all had periods where both the House and the Senate were in friendly hands — but most lasted just two years before the backlash set in.
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Nov 15, 2024
Political independence and ethics are the bedrock of our armed forces. Today, I am concerned that both are in danger.
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Nov 15, 2024
Political independence and ethics are the bedrock of our armed forces. Today, I am concerned that both are in danger.
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Nov 15, 2024
Laura Gillen was elected to Congress in Nassau County, where Democrats are grappling with a new political reality.
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Nov 15, 2024
Mr. Kim will be the first Korean American senator. Nowhere in the United States is his community's imprint more clear than in northern New Jersey.
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Nov 15, 2024
Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department is a flagrant provocation that is, like a pulpy B movie, so bad it's good.
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Nov 14, 2024
Las designaciones del presidente electo para formar su gabinete demuestran su desprecio por un poder ejecutivo responsable.
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Nov 14, 2024
The president-elect's choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate's prerogatives.
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Nov 14, 2024
Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department is a flagrant provocation that is, like a pulpy B movie, so bad it's good.
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Nov 14, 2024
Whether the Senate would confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who has unorthodox views about medicine, is an open question.
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Nov 14, 2024
The president-elect's choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate's prerogatives.
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Nov 14, 2024
Republicans and Democrats alike insisted that the findings of the House Ethics Committee, which has been investigating the Florida Republican for years over sexual misconduct and other charges, be made public.
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Nov 14, 2024
El comité había estado investigando las acusaciones de que Gaetz, elegido como fiscal general por el presidente electo Donald Trump, incurrió en conducta sexual inapropiada y consumo de drogas ilícitas.
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Nov 14, 2024
El partido afianzó su control en la cámara tras conservar un puñado de escaños cruciales en Arizona y California y derrotar a demócratas en funciones en distritos disputados clave.
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Nov 14, 2024
State Representative Janelle Bynum, a Democrat and the first Black woman elected to represent Oregon in Congress, ousted the freshman Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
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Nov 14, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet picks show that he prizes loyalty over experience and is fueled by retribution.
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Nov 14, 2024
Plus, a Chinese government cover-up.
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Nov 14, 2024
Listen to our political round table on Donald J. Trump's first week as president-elect.
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Nov 14, 2024
Three extreme cabinet nominations demonstrate his contempt for a responsible executive branch.
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Nov 13, 2024
The committee has been investigating allegations that Mr. Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for attorney general, engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.
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Nov 13, 2024
The party protected vulnerable incumbents and picked off Democrats in competitive districts, handing the president-elect a unified Congress to enact his agenda.
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Nov 13, 2024
The success of the G.O.P. push to keep the majority suggests that it paid no political price for the chaos and paralysis of its past two years in control of the House.
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Nov 13, 2024
The Florida Republican's departure effectively ends the House Ethics Committee's investigation of allegations that include sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.
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Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet picks show that he prizes loyalty over experience and is fueled by retribution.
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Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general has set a new bar for in-your-face nominations.
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Nov 13, 2024
The South Dakota Republican failed in his first try for the Senate but came back to defeat a chamber leader. Now he will be the leader himself.
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Nov 13, 2024
Rick Scott, who would have agreed to Trump's idea of bypassing the Senate for nominations, lost his bid to become leader.
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Nov 13, 2024
Eric Hovde, who lost his Senate campaign, is the first prominent candidate to suggest his race was rigged. We fact-checked his case.
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Nov 13, 2024
With a dozen races still to be called, the G.O.P. was two seats away from the 218 that would allow the party to claim a coveted governing trifecta: control of the House, Senate and White House.
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Nov 13, 2024
Rick Scott, who would have agreed to Trump's idea of bypassing the Senate for nominations, lost his bid to become leader.
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Nov 13, 2024
Senator John Thune of South Dakota emerged victorious over a right-wing challenge from Senator Rick Scott of Florida.
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Nov 13, 2024
"Isn't it nice to win?" the president-elect asked to raucous applause by fellow Republicans. The influential billionaire Elon Musk joined him at the meeting and also received a standing ovation.
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Nov 13, 2024
Plus, the streaming services you never knew about.
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Nov 12, 2024
Gabe Evans, a right-wing state representative, defeated Representative Yadira Caraveo, a first-term Democrat who was the first Latina elected to federal office in Colorado.
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Nov 12, 2024
George Whitesides, the former NASA chief of staff, defeated Representative Mike Garcia, a Republican, flipping a hotly contested seat in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles.
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Nov 12, 2024
The president-elect is to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday as Republican senators elect a majority leader. His staffing decisions are already depleting the narrow majority the G.O.P. expects in the House.
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Nov 12, 2024
El congresista había aventajado en la mayoría de los sondeos a Lake, expresentadora de televisión y gran aliada de Trump.
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Nov 12, 2024
The three-term senator from Florida viciously criticized Donald J. Trump during the 2016 campaign but has since ingratiated himself and become a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump.
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Nov 12, 2024
The president-elect is to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday as Republican senators elect a majority leader. His staffing decisions are already depleting the narrow majority the G.O.P. expects in the House.
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Nov 12, 2024
The three-term senator from Florida viciously criticized Donald J. Trump during the 2016 campaign but has since ingratiated himself and become a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump.
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Nov 12, 2024
After the president-elect named two G.O.P. representatives to top posts, party leaders warned they may not be able to spare many — or any — more.
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Nov 12, 2024
With the House, Republicans would have full control of the federal government next year.
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Nov 12, 2024
The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.
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Nov 12, 2024
Kamala Harris's defeat is personal for Representative Barbara Lee, a California Democrat retiring this year. But after five decades in the fight, she says she is undaunted.
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Nov 12, 2024
The Democratic congressman had led Ms. Lake, a former television anchor and bombastic Trump ally, in most polls.
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Nov 11, 2024
Advisers to the president-elect, who already has a strong hold on congressional Republicans, want him to tighten his grip by torpedoing the bid of the establishment front-runner for the post.
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Nov 11, 2024
Michael Grimm, a Republican who resigned in 2015 after pleading guilty to felony tax evasion, was paralyzed from the chest down during a polo competition in September.
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Nov 11, 2024
Ten of the 18 races that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives are in California. No state takes longer to tally votes.
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Nov 11, 2024
Should we even call it a comeback?
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Nov 10, 2024
Senators Rick Scott, John Thune and John Cornyn quickly responded to President-elect Donald J. Trump's demand on social media, the latest example of his influence over Republican lawmakers.
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Nov 09, 2024
The victory of the four-term Republican, who has resisted his party's veer to the right, dashed Democratic hopes of flipping a critical district.
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Nov 09, 2024
The former House Speaker reflects on Donald Trump's victory, Kamala Harris's candidacy and the future of the Democratic Party.
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Nov 09, 2024
In her first extended interview after the election, the former House speaker was not interested in analyzing Democratic losses and was eager to put a sunny spin on the future.
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Nov 09, 2024
Coaxing aging Supreme Court justices to give up their power and status during a window of political opportunity can be a delicate endeavor.
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Nov 09, 2024
Ms. Rosen, the low-key incumbent, hung on, but the race was closer than expected amid President-elect Donald J. Trump's strength.
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Nov 08, 2024
Control of the House remains in the balance, and three Senate seats in swing states have yet to be called.
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Nov 08, 2024
The loss of the White House and the Senate majority will end Democrats' ability to fill judicial vacancies come January. They say they want to confirm as many as possible in the coming weeks.
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Nov 08, 2024
Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is on track to win re-election in a rural Washington district, says her party needs to stop demonizing others and change the candidates it supports.
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Nov 08, 2024
Trump is on track to win the popular vote. There's a lesson there.
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