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Capitol agenda: A brutal blow for Johnson and Trump

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Donald Trump and Mike Johnson failed to convince enough deficit hawks to back the latest budget plan for the president’s agenda — forcing the speaker to punt his planned Wednesday vote on the resolution and sending House leadership scrambling for a compromise that could satisfy hard-liners’ demands for more spending cuts…
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Mourning Dick Cheney — and the US House

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Mourning Dick Cheney — and the US House

The former vice president’s funeral marked the end of a certain kind of Congress…
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The House is scrambling to avoid a censure death spiral

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The House is scrambling to avoid a censure death spiral

In their first full week back after the shutdown, lawmakers voted five times on measures to rebuke colleagues, eating up hours of floor time…
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John Thune offers to tweak controversial phone records language

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune offered Thursday to amend the controversial provision he slipped into last week’s government funding package that could award GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records seized without their knowledge as part of an investigation into President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election…
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