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As Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, faces allegations of domestic abuse, his fellow House Republicans have mostly stayed on the sidelines and avoided weighing in.  Miller has been accused by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, of pouring hot water on her and pushing her against a wall, among other allegations. Miller denied the allegations in a livestream […]

The Senate took a baby step Monday toward passing a funding extension that would head off a partial government shutdown this fall. On a lopsided vote of 89-4, the Senate agreed to limit debate on taking up a legislative vehicle for a bipartisan stopgap measure unveiled over the weekend to extend current funding through Dec. […]

Senate Commerce Committee aides said Monday the full chamber could begin voting on a sweeping college sports bill before starting a monthlong summer break, but Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., stopped short of penciling it onto his packed pre-recess calendar. Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking Democrat Maria Cantwell of Washington, along with co-author […]

The Senate is back on track to consider acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to lead the Justice Department permanently after two key GOP holdouts said they were “pleased” with a deal they struck.  The DOJ said in a statement posted Sunday night that it has “rescinded” a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund meant to compensate […]

The House Ethics Committee recommended a censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., after an investigation found there was “substantial reason to believe” he violated sexual harassment and hostile workplace rules.  The panel’s report, released Monday, concluded that Edwards engaged in “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two female staffers of his. Edwards denied his conduct […]

Senate appropriators announced a bipartisan deal Sunday to fund the government into early December, while temporarily blocking a contested Trump administration rule that critics say would politicize the awarding of federal grants. The draft continuing resolution, unveiled Sunday afternoon, would extend current funding through Dec. 11 — a week later than House Republicans proposed in […]

President Donald Trump has made his position clear: He wants Senate Republicans to nuke the legislative filibuster and push through a sprawling voter ID bill. It’s enough to make some Republicans think twice before leaping to the filibuster’s defense, as the arcane details of Senate procedure spark strong emotions and bitter online feuds. But others […]

Former House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, the first Republican woman to lead the powerful spending committee, has died at the age of 83. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced her death in a Sunday night post on X, calling her a “dear friend who will be greatly missed.”  “Throughout her career, she broke barriers for women […]

The timeline is slipping for senators to strike a bipartisan deal on a short-term funding patch before their August recess as leadership struggles to work out the finer details. Senior appropriators had been hopeful of unveiling text before the weekend for a stopgap measure expected to keep the government funded into early December. But sources […]

Staff working for Senate Democrats are significantly more diverse than a decade ago, according to the results of their annual survey. Forty-three percent of Senate Democratic staff now identify as nonwhite, up from about a third in 2017, when the survey first began. The report comes as President Donald Trump continues to lash out against […]