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The industry is pushing to remove many of the legislation’s labor provisions while also looking for more pandemic aid.

Republicans hold the pen in 20 of the 35 states where legislatures control redistricting and the state has more than one congressional seat, compared with Democratic control of 11 such states.

U.S. nuclear missile defenses are in some cases decades old and in need of modernization, but congressional leaders and the military are at odds on how best to update the Cold War systems.

While business groups and Republican senators who supported the bipartisan infrastructure deal push for its swift passage, dozens of House Democrats are pressing leadership to include more resiliency programs in the separate Democrats-only budget reconciliation package.

The Agriculture Department’s announced increase to food stamp benefits this month has been met with resistance from farm state conservatives.

Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban has rendered several provisions of House Democrats’ foreign-affairs budget inoperable less than a month after it passed the chamber and before it was formally taken up by the Senate.

Appeals that promise to triple, quadruple or otherwise multiply a donor’s money are ‘material misrepresentations’ if there’s no evidence such matches actually occur, according to a Justice Department court filing in May.

A new Civilian Climate Corps has become a central progressive demand for the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, and party leaders seem poised to go along.

Antiabortion group Susan B. Anthony List plans to mount a $73 million campaign in the 2022 midterms to topple Democratic congressional majorities, especially in the Senate.

With Democrats facing pressure to keep their reconciliation package under $3 trillion, even proposals from committee chairs and party leaders are likely to be left on the cutting room floor.

More GOP women have announced plans to run for House seats in 2022 at this point than in any recent election cycle, Republican officials say.

Sen. Richard Shelby is retiring at the end of next year after six Senate terms. His affiliated political-action committee is cutting checks for incumbent GOP senators, along with his state party and the RNC.

Members from both parties made clear the Senate’s $10 billion authorization was a nonstarter.

The Internal Revenue Service administered stimulus checks during the Covid-19 pandemic and is set to launch expanded child tax credit payments next month.

Congressional delegations are once again taking to the air, as Covid-19 travel restrictions loosen. Several contingents, at least one bipartisan, hit the road over the Memorial Day weekend.

Democrats are looking to Medicaid expansion fights to juice 2022 races in battleground states like Wisconsin and Florida, and even red ones like Missouri.

Top Biden cabinet officials could be hit with hefty capital-gains tax bills if the president’s tax proposals become law, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Political opposition has prevented the nuclear-waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada from becoming operational, but Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm seems eager to make progress on the broader issue.

Democrats are considering a revamp of the Transportation Security Administration under the watchful eye of labor unions.

Legal battles over redistricting begin in earnest now that the Census Bureau has released its apportionment data. Within hours of the release, a top Democratic lawyer had filed lawsuits in three states with divided government control.