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In this image from Senate Television video, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., delivers the Republican response to President Joe Biden's speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Washington. (Senate Television via AP)

GOP’s Sen. Scott suggests Dems use race as political weapon

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Joe Biden signals compromise on immigration legalization scope

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Debt Burden Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s unconstitutional debt burdens future generations

By Andrew P. Napolitano

The Capitol is seen in Washington, early Wednesday, April 28, 2021, as President Joe Biden prepares to address House and Senate lawmakers on his first 100 days in office. Biden will speak before a pared-down gathering of mask-wearing legislators due to coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: In GOP response, Scott says US isn’t racist

Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19, on the North Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden $1.8 trillion ‘American Families Plan’ taxes rich, investors for middle-class ‘security’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 8, 2021, file photo, National Guard soldiers stand their posts around the Capitol at sunrise in Washington. Partisan tensions have only gotten worse on Capitol Hill since Pelosi’s defiant act last year, days before the Senate acquitted Trump in his first impeachment trial. Since then, the Capitol has been through the Jan. 6 insurrection, another House impeachment and another Senate acquittal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Cooling the temperature: Biden faces fractious Congress

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. The United States flew strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday for the second time this month, a show of force meant to deter Iran from attacking American or allied targets in the Middle East. (Senior Airman Roslyn Ward/U.S. Air Force via AP)

History As It Happens: The American way of war

By Martin Di Caro

FILE - In this April 14, 2021 file photo people walk along Market Street in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania is expected to get the official word from the U.S. Census that its population growth continues to lag behind the nation's, marking the 10th consecutive decade the Keystone State has lost clout in Congress and presidential contests. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pennsylvania population lag costs state a US House seat

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

FILE — Pedestrians walk past the Rhode Island Statehouse, in this Sunday, March 1, 2020 file photo, in Providence, R.I. Rhode Island has clung to enough of its population to retain both of its two seats in Congress. That’s according to the latest census count released Monday, April 26, 2021. Many had expected the Ocean State to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would have set up a political showdown between Democratic Reps. David Cicilline and James Langevin. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Census surprise: Rhode Island keeps both US House seats

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 15, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden, accompanied by from left, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Mark Takano, D-Calif., Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Executive Committee at the White House in Washington. The outreach to Congress is nothing new for presidents, but Biden is a veteran of Capitol Hill who knows how to tap the desire of even the most partisan legislators to legislate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Chocolate chip diplomacy: Biden courts Congress with gusto

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

US Capitol Police officer testifies in lawmaker threat case

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Florida House to Congress: Don’t take our gun rights

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus walk to make a make a statement on the verdict in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. From left are Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

After Floyd, Congress ready to plunge into policing laws

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

NY man’s trial starts for Jan. 6-related online threats

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 2019, file photo, in this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly in front of the tents of Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A plan to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which was halted earlier in 2021 amid a political backlash, is on again as health authorities on April 19, 2021 expanded the vaccination program on the Navy base in Cuba to the entire adult population of the remote facility (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US military: 32 of 40 Guantanamo prisoners now vaccinated

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021, on the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) **FILE**

An American repudiation of Reps. Maxine Waters and Rashida Tlaib

By Newt Gingrich

House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., and Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021, on the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) **FILE**

Democrats to revive earmarks despite past abuses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Marjorie Taylor Greene prods Congress to expel Maxine Waters over ‘incitement of violence’

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Leaders of Proud Boys ordered jailed on Capitol riot charges

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks to the media, Thursday, April 15, 2021, during her weekly briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nancy Pelosi backs Maxine Waters’ call to ‘confront’ police, says no apology needed

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times