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In this Aug. 28, 1968, file photo, a demonstrator with his hands on his head is led by Chicago Police down Michigan Avenue during a confrontation with police and National Guardsmen who battled demonstrators near the Conrad Hilton Hotel, headquarters for the Democratic National Convention. During the convention, hundreds of demonstrators waged war with police and National Guardsmen on the streets of Chicago. (AP Photo/File)

History As It Happens: The long 1960s

By Martin Di Caro

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., joined by the popular app's supporters, leads a rally to defend TikTok at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Bowman, D-N.Y., who has more than 180,000 followers on the app, held a news conference with TikTok influencers before a House hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chewg. Bowman accused Republicans of pushing a ban on TikTok for political reasons. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Members of Congress on TikTok defend app’s reach to voters

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Intensity and insults rise as lawmakers debate debt ceiling

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade

By Amanda Seitz and Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Airmen with the 436th Aerial Port Squadron use a forklift to move 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The Pentagon announced a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, marking the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion with a $2 billion commitment to send more rounds of ammunition and a variety of small, high-tech drones into the fight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House lawmakers want special inspector general to oversee more than $113B in Ukraine aid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, on Jan. 7, 2022. Landry, who opposes abortion, has urged the state Bond Commission to withhold financial approval for a New Orleans power plant project, amid city leaders stating they would not enforce the state’s abortion ban. The state Bond Commission on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, approved the financing for the project. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Weaponization hearing finds at least 20 White House employees involved in tech censorship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters during a news conference outside of the chamber, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The Senate is preparing to vote to repeal the 2002 measure that green-lighted that March 2003 invasion of Iraq. The measure would end more than 20 years of authorization for U.S. presidents to use force in that country and return those war powers to Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate moves to repeal president’s Iraq war power authority

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., returns to the Capitol as he steers the repeal of two decades-old measures that approved American military action in Iraq, in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate votes to repeal 2002 measure that approved Iraq War

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, left, and Ranking Member Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., attend a full committee hearing about China, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ukraine aid watchdogs say sufficient measures in place to track funds, warn against more oversight

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Members of the Washington, D.C. government are sworn-in before testifying during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing about Congressional oversight of the Nation's Capital, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left stand D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, Council Member Charles Allen, CFO Glen Lee, and D.C. Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Congress must fight D.C.’s ‘shocking’ crime trend, says Rep. James Comer

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on Congress term limits by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Congress should get a raise as well as term limits

By Michael McKenna

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., returns to the Capitol as he steers the repeal of two decades-old measures that approved American military action in Iraq, in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. McConnell was critical of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. The conservative commentator is working to reverse the narrative of the attack that had played out for the world to see into one more favorable to Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell urges lawmakers to keep Iraq war powers in wake of strikes by Iranian-backed militias

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

From left, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg; Michael Barr, Vice Chairman For Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Nellie Liang, Undersecretary for Domestic Finance of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, testify before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearings to examine recent bank failures and the Federal regulatory response on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Ba lce Ceneta)

Fed official tells lawmakers that Silicon Valley Bank failed from mismanagement

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate HELP Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., questions Moderna CEO and Director Stephane Bancel during a Senate HELP Committee hearing on the price of the COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bernie Sanders, other ideological warriors stumble in ratings of lawmakers’ effectiveness

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Bill Clinton vetoes portions of the federal budget and tax-cut law in the Oval Office of the White House Aug. 11, 1997, as Vice President Al Gore, far right, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Janet Yellen look on. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson, File)

Bank failures and rescue test Yellen’s decades of experience

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, addresses supporters at an election night party in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. According to data from AP VoteCast, about four in five people with no religion voted for Josh Shapiro and Fetterman, both Democrats elected Pennsylvania's newest governor and senator, respectively. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sen. John Fetterman a perfect example of congressional perks

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, joined from left by, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., with Democratic members of the Joint Economic Committee, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., and Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., talks to reporters about the Joint Economic Committee Report on the Republican Party's debt limit position, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats warn of dire consequences if Republicans refuse to raise the debt limit

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024 for the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

GOP senators grill Biden EPA chief over ‘eye-watering’ budget request

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on power confrontation between China and the USA by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Republicans seem in no hurry to address China problem

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times