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The farm bill gets less attention from a national press more focused on White House scandals and hot-button social issues, but it is heavily covered — and debated — in agricultural communities. (Associated Press/File)

Farm bill sends taxpayer subsidies to wealthy

By James Varney - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, the U.S. Capitol in Washington at sunrise. Keep the government running and confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice. Those are the big-ticket items that Republican leaders in Congress hope to accomplish as lawmakers look to wrap up their work in 2018 and head home to campaign for the November elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Congress must consider Kavanaugh nomination, pay the bills

By KEVIN FREKING and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, the U.S. Capitol in Washington at sunrise. Keep the government running and confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice. Those are the big-ticket items that Republican leaders in Congress hope to accomplish as lawmakers look to wrap up their work in 2018 and head home to campaign for the November elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Challenge for Congress: Consider Kavanaugh, keep lights on

By KEVIN FREKING and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., answers a question during his appearance with the Public Policy Institute of California, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. McCarthy blasted his home state of California as out of touch, hitting its leaders for increasing the gas tax while defending the Trump administration's policies on taxes and tariffs. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Kevin McCarthy, House majority leader, raises subpoena option in standoff over Google testimony

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Correction: Trade-US-Canada story

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and PAUL WISEMAN and ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking at the Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump won’t wait for Canada, new NAFTA sent to Congress

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 24, 2018, photo California Attorney General Xavier Becerra talks during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Democrat AGs: Obamacare mandate still exists, even at $0

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, leans in to speak to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) **FILE**

Transatlantic leaders push Congress for election protection measures before midterms

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Thumb on the Scales at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

A 9th Circuit Court decision draws role of courts into sharper focus

By James Skyles

In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017, file photo, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Tammy Baldwin seeks to kill Donald Trump’s Obamacare off-ramp

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a rally with President Donald Trump, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, in Lewis Center, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Jim Jordan speaker of the House bid excites conservatives, garners tea party and right-wing support

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

"Field of Blood," a new book by Yale University scholar Joanne B. Freeman, chronicles the days when the U.S. Congress was a violent place. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Brawls and Bowie knives: Tell-all book reveals the violent days of Congress before the Civil War

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this May 8, 2018, photo, a Jersey cow feeds in a field on the Francis Thicke organic dairy farm in Fairfield, Iowa. Small family operated organic dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business while large confined animal operations with thousands of animals lined up in assembly-line fashion are expanding. Many traditional small-scale organic farmers are fighting to stay in business by appealing to consumers to look closely at the organic milk they buy to make sure it comes from a farm that meets the idyllic expectations portrayed on the cartons. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Lawmakers have an opportunity re-evaluate farm subsidies, and they should

By Ed Feulner

The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Headquarters, across the street from the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump’s decision to rebuild FBI HQ will cost more money: IG report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 28, 2017, photo, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Joe Manchin: GOP running scared from opponent’s Obamacare lawsuit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves to the crowd at a campaign rally in Woodbridge, Va. Aide says senator, war hero and GOP presidential candidate McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He was 81. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Reaction to the death of Arizona Sen. John McCain

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., waves to the crowd at a campaign rally in Woodbridge, Va. Aide says senator, war hero and GOP presidential candidate McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He was 81. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Reaction to the death of Arizona Sen. John McCain

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., left, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, pose questions to witnesses as the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations holds a hearing on relations between the U.S. and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CROSSTALK: Sanctions are coming. What next?

By Edward Lozansky

According to a poll, 61 percent of Americans say political experience is a positive quality, but 51 percent prefer to vote for a "political" outsider. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Americans say the ideal candidate in 2018 is an ‘experienced’ political outsider

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, file photo, Kelly Monroe, investigator with the Georgia Secretary of State office, left, takes a look at a new voting machine that produces a paper record being tested at a polling site in Conyers, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

States move quickly to tap into money for election security

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY - Associated Press