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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, Washington Democrat, is shown in this July 2020 file photo. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) **FILE**

Defense bill veto could send fight with Trump into overtime

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Alaska’s Young among 5 in GOP who voted to decriminalize pot

Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 11, 2019 file photo shows Visa credit cards in New Orleans. The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from keeping up with their credit card payments, thanks in large part to government relief programs passed by Congress earlier this year. For some, however, the ability to keep buying things with plastic and then pay the bill likely depends on whether current negotiations in Washington produce another round of economic aid. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Americans can pay their credit card bills, but for how long?

By KEN SWEET - Associated Press

In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra discusses various issues during an interview with The Associated Press, in Sacramento, Calif. President-elect Joe Biden has picked Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Biden picks Xavier Becerra to lead HHS, coronavirus response

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) **FILE**

Lawmakers say COVID-19 relief bill won’t offer $1,200 checks

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

Illustration on the Georgia runoffs by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What’s at stake in Georgia Senate runoffs

By Michael McKenna

President-elect Joe Biden speaks as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens at left, during an event to introduce their nominees and appointees to economic policy posts at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Biden predicts ‘bleak future’ if Congress doesn’t act on aid

By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

Owners of The Black Italian restaurant and catering service, Paula Hunter, left, and her husband Anthony Hunter in their empty restaurant in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The Hunter's spun off their catering service into a restaurant but now, hit with a recent statewide order closing restaurants to indoor dining until mid-December, the couple is hoping for another round of federal aid to hang on until vaccines can conquer the virus. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Hardships mount in Kentucky as COVID-19 relief talks drag on

By BRUCE SCHREINER and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN - Associated Press

A bronze sculpture of four llamas is wrapped in plastic near the Palace of Justice in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. The municipality of Lima for the the first time in 485 years took precautions to protect historical monuments and statues, while Peru was mired in a whirlwind of demonstrations and a political crisis that resulted with three presidents in nine days. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AP PHOTOS: Peru’s monuments mostly left alone in protests

Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump veto threat doesn’t stall Defense Authorization Act

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

"Today, it is clear to us that Congress has ceded many of its powers and responsibilities to unelected bureaucrats in regulatory agencies," writes Andrew R. Wheeler, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (Associated Press)

Vanishing Congress cedes too much power to regulators

By Andrew R. Wheeler

In this Nov. 8, 2018, file photo, a home burns as the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

California wildfire victims still waiting years later for $1.3B OK’d by Congress for relief: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Asian-Americans still politically underrepresented after 2020 election

By Chi Wang

This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. Those are the words President Donald Trump challenged in an executive order Thursday, May 28, 2020 one that would strip those protections if those companies engaged in “editorial decisions” — like, for instance, adding a fact-check warning to one of Trump's tweets. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Donald Trump makes bold play to strip Section 230 from Big Tech

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump arrives back at the White House aboard Marine One, Monday evening, Oct. 5, 2020 in Washington, after being treated for COVID-19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The president's personal physician, Dr. Sean Conley, told reporters on Monday afternoon that Trump is not out of the woods yet, but that there is no care at the hospital that the president cannot get at the White House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

James Inhofe rejects Donald Trump’s threat to veto NDAA over Section 230

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fist bumps Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Fed and Treasury urge Congress to approve more virus relief

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, as the Senate works to pass a coronavirus relief bill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

$908 billion: Centrists propose bipartisan breakthrough for coronavirus relief

By Stephen Dinan and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this file photo, a Washington, D.C., man rides the escalator up at the Metro subway Congress Heights train station in Washington, Friday, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

D.C.-area officials say coronavirus relief bill must fund public transit

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this file photo taken Sunday, July 30, 2017, and released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping stands on a military jeep as he inspects troops of the People's Liberation Army during a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PLA at Zhurihe training base in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP) ** FILE **

China military expanding, has global ambitions: Congressional report

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to talk to reporters after a Republican Conference luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

McConnell urges action on coronavirus relief as Congress returns from break

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times