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Election 2022: Voters to decide Ohio’s heated Senate primary

By Jill Colvin and Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Rep. Andy Biggs debuts ‘America First Contract’ with aggressive conservative agenda for GOP majority

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, listens to a reporter during a press conference about gas prices, Thursday, April 28, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Democrats pitch boosting FTC to curb gas price gouging

By Kevin Freking and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

McCarthy works to stanch the fallout from leaked post-Jan. 6 recording

By Joseph Clark, Tom Howell Jr. and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this March 1, 2021 file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democrats’ massive social spending and climate change bill could put the U.S. back on a path to reducing its persistent pool of uninsured people. Estimates range from 4 million to 7 million Americans gaining health coverage as a result of the legislation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Kevin McCarthy is ‘a liar and a traitor’

By Tom Howell Jr. and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The inside of a computer is seen on Feb 23, 2019, in Jersey City, N.J. A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities, so Congress is looking to boost chip manufacturing and research in the United States with billions of dollars from the federal government. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Congress seeks compromise to boost computer chip industry

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., responds to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 3, 2021, about the behavior of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy to deal with a handful of Republican lawmakers who have stirred outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments. If you can't police them, promote them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McCarthy sees no one challenging his leadership in next Congress

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - Connecticut State Representative Joe de la Cruz (D-Groton) announces he will not be running for re-election during the opening day of the legislative session Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, at the State Capitol in Hartford, Conn. In efforts to raise the salaries of lawmakers, advocates in several states say there needs to be better pay to help improve diversity in statehouse ranks, in terms of race and ethnicity and economic background. Legislative proposals are pending in places including Connecticut and Oregon, states where lawmakers have recently announced they are not seeking re-election to part-time legislatures because they can no longer afford to serve. (Dana Jensen/The Day via AP)

Some state lawmakers calling it quits, can’t afford to serve

By Susan Haigh - Associated Press

In this May 14, 2021 file photo, the Missouri House of Representatives finishes the final hours of the current legislative session at the Capitol building in Jefferson City, Mo. New Missouri laws including to-go cocktails, coronavirus liability protections for businesses, and penalties for cities that cut police funding are set to take effect. The laws are among several that kick in Saturday, Aug. 28. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP).

Missouri House OKs elections for transgender sports bans

By Summer Ballentine - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., answers questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in this Dec. 3, 2021 file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Kevin McCarthy’s fundraising powerhouse creates glide path to the speakership

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., center, and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., left, of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, testify before the House Rules Committee seeking contempt of Congress charges against former President Donald Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in response to their refusal to comply with subpoenas, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Liz Cheney: Congress mulling criminal referral against Trump over election claims, actions

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy rules out weaponizing impeachment if GOP takes House majority

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, walks to watch the video address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the U.S. Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

House GOP plot changes to Big Tech, energy production as they vie for House takeover

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks briefly to reporters as she leaves a courthouse in New York, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Sarah Palin hints at a comeback as Alaska works to fill House seat

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

China competition bill set to advance to final negotiations in Congress after months of delays

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after being hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.S., allies push China to rein in Russia as civilian suffering rises in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, Assemblyman Rudy Salas Jr. asks questions during a hearing in Sacramento, Calif. One of the country's most competitive U.S. House races is unfolding in California's farm belt. Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao is facing a growing list of Democratic and GOP challengers. On Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, Salas became the latest to get in. The Central Valley district is heavily Latino and has a huge Democratic registration edge, but Valadao had displayed an independent streak and was among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

House Democrats go on offense against vulnerable Republicans with liberal challengers

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting, on Dec. 13, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Deutch says he will not seek reelection in the fall. He is the 31st House Democrat to announce plans to leave the chamber as this year's midterm elections draw closer. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

Ted Deutch joins stampede of retiring House Democrats

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., smile after it was announced that the Biden administration will enact a targeted nationwide eviction moratorium outside of Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. Lawmakers and activists primarily led by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., sat on the steps of Capitol Hill to protest the expiration of the eviction moratorium. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) ** FILE **

Far left rejects fears they are denting Democrats’ midterm hopes

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Opponents of a Republican-backed bill that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity, gather in the Indiana House balcony, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, during a House Education Committee hearing at the Statehouse. Opponents maintained that Hoosier youth would be unfairly discriminated against by the bill, which Indiana lawmakers advanced to the full House. (AP Photo/Casey Smith)

Indiana debates on classroom rules, vaccine limits unsettled

By Tom Davies - Associated Press