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President Joe Biden speaks during an event at Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Biden is in Wisconsin this Labor Day to kick off a nine-week sprint to the crucial midterm elections. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden uses Labor Day speech to call MAGA Republicans a threat to democracy

By Joseph Clark and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, listens during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the IRS budget request on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Grassley warns Garland to back off from FBI whistleblowers

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Farm Bill Overreach Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Fate of 2023 Farm Bill hangs in the balance of November’s election

By Chuck Muth

President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to speak about the economy during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, July 30, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Biden team prepares for possible winter surge in COVID-19

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, center, along with other lawmakers, talks with reporters outside the West Wing of the Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, following their meeting with President Joe Biden. Jayapal is joined by from left, Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Democratic Party’s march to the left empowers Pramila Jayapal for House leadership race

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

The Twitter application is seen on a digital device, Monday, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Congress wants to hear what Twitter whistleblower has to say

By Marcy Gordon

Incumbent candidate New York's 12th Congressional District, Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., presides over a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, in Washington on June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Two top House Democrats reluctantly battle in NY primary

By Karen Matthews - Associated Press

Letter to the editor: Nix ‘proxy’ voting now

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Then-Attorney General William Barr appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

DOJ ordered to publicly release memo Barr used to clear Trump of obstruction

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro speaks to the media as he leaves federal court in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Peter Navarro accuses Justice Department of ‘selective prosecution’

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden hands the pen he used to sign the Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden signs $740 billion ‘inflation reduction’ bill that economists say won’t lower inflation

By Dave Boyer and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Members of the U.S. Secret Service Counter Assault Team walk through the Rotunda as they and other federal police forces responded as violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Top congressional Democrats are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general hand over information on deleted Secret Service text messages related to the Jan. 6, 2012 attack on the Capitol, accusing him of using delay tactics to stonewall their investigation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Dems up pressure on DHS inspector general to produce missing Secret Service texts

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks before President Joe Biden signs the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Nov. 15, 2021. Sinema received a $1 million surge of campaign cash over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge funds and venture capitalists whose interests she has staunchly defended in Congress. That's according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance disclosures.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors

By Brian Slodysko - Associated Press

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

In Biden’s big bill: Climate, health care, deficit reduction

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., prepares to lead a vote on the Inflation Reduction Act in the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Democrats pass $740 billion spending bill, send to Biden’s desk

By Ramsey Touchberry and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Workman with Power Shift Solar put solar panels on a house Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change bill on Friday, Aug. 12. The crux of the long-delayed bill is to use incentives to accelerate the expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, speeding the transition away from the oil, coal and gas that largely cause climate change. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Big climate bill; Spending green bucks to boost green energy

By Seth Borenstein and Matthew Daly and Michael Phillis - Associated Press

In this May 14, 2013, photo, the Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) ** FILE **

Feds charge first person under new firearms trafficking law

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on congressional responsibility by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Congress is broken. It can be fixed

By Michael McKenna

FILE - A placard for Washington Commanders' Dan Snyder is seen during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Commanders' workplace conduct, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Snyder is set to testify later Thursday morning, July 28, before a congressional committee that is investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Time looms as factor for House panel’s Snyder probe

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., appears before reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The premier congressional races in Pennsylvania feature two Republican House members from opposite sides of the party's ideological spectrum trying to hang on for another term after recording narrow wins two years ago.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump ally Rep. Scott Perry says FBI seized his cellphone

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times