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Demonstrators gather at the steps of the Capitol before going inside to chant in the Rotunda as the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives consider bills during a &quot;lame duck&quot; session in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, Dec 12, 2019. Michigan Republicans moved Wednesday to curtail ballot initiatives by advancing a measure limiting how many signatures could come from any one region of the state, the latest proposal assailed by critics as an unconstitutional, lame-duck power grab from incoming Democratic officeholders or voters. (Dale G.Young/Detroit News via AP)

Michigan Legislature races clock to finish lame-duck session

By DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Republican on the House Federal and State Affairs committee, asked questions in Topeka, Kan. State Sen. Dinah Sykes, of Lenexa, and Clayton, of Overland Park, switched to the Democratic Party on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, joining two other suburban Kansas City lawmakers who made the switch last week. The moderate Kansas Republican legislators said they believed they could be more effective legislators as Democrats. (Thad Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, File)

2 more moderate Kansas GOP legislators defect to Democrats

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, to appear before the GOP-led House Judiciary and Oversight Committees in their probe of conduct by federal law enforcement officials in the investigation of President Trump's alleged Russia ties, and Hillary Clinton's emails. The panels also interviewed former FBI Director James Comey. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP grills Loretta Lynch over tarmac meeting, Comey’s conduct

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Kentucky Speaker of The House David Osborne, R-Prospect, confers with fellow representatives during the opening of a special session at the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. Days after losing at the state Supreme Court, Kentucky's Republican governor called the legislature back in session Monday to try again to reshape the state's troubled public pension system. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Kentucky legislature adjourns without passing pension bill

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Arizona Republican senatorial candidate Martha McSally, speaks with voters, at Chase's diner in Chandler, Ariz. Arizona's governor has named McSally to replace U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl in the U.S. Senate seat that belonged to Sen. John McCain. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday, Dec. 18, that McSally will take over after Kyl's resignation becomes effective Dec. 31. McSally lost the Senate race to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Martha McSally to fill McCain Senate seat after losing race

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and TERRY TANG - Associated Press

"Heck yeah — and I think it'll pass," said Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio. "We're going to have money for the wall — exactly what the president talked about." (Associated Press)

House conservatives support Trump on border wall funding standoff

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 19, 2018, file photo, Democratic challenger Tony Evers, left, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, shake hands during a gubernatorial debate in Madison, Wis. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Scott Walker, Wisconsin gov., signs sweeping lame-duck GOP bills

By Todd Richmond and Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2018, file photo, Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder delivers his final State of the State address at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Snyder signed laws on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, to significantly scale back citizen-initiated measures to raise Michigan's minimum wage and require paid sick leave for workers, finalizing an unprecedented Republican-backed legislative maneuver that opponents vowed to challenge in court. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Michigan governor signs bills to gut wage, sick time laws

By DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

Terry Swann protests against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh outside the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York) ** FILE **

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye leaves GOP — good riddance

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, speaks with reporters about his eight-year tenure and the Legislature’s lame-duck session on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, at his offices in Lansing, Mich. He did not tip his hand when asked about GOP-backed lame-duck legislation to dilute the authority of Democrats taking over top offices in January. He said he is not a &quot;horse-trader” who will sign bills he may not like in exchange for getting his priorities enacted, and his bottom line is whether bills are good for residents. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

Snyder’s trash fee hike for cleanup dies in Legislature

By DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

President Barack Obama shares a humorous moment with a group of doctors from around the country in the Oval Office, Oct. 5, 2009, prior to a health insurance reform event at the White House.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obamacare spiked by federal judge in Texas

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, the speaker-designate for the new Congress in January, walks past reporters at the Capitol after a classified briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel to the House leadership about thekilling of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and, the involvement by the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. The Senate is preparing for a possible vote on two resolutions to condemn Saudi Arabia for its role in the slaying. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House moves to derail anti-Trump Saudi efforts

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Illustration on the disarray of the Republican Party by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

‘The Republican Party is dead?’ has been asked before, Democrats shouldn’t celebrate too soon

By John Duncan Jr.

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2017, file photo, then Rep.-elect Gary Knopp sits in his office at the Alaska Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. Republican state lawmaker Knopp is seeking to create a bipartisan majority coalition in the House after leaving a fragile GOP caucus that he said was &quot;doomed to fail.&quot; Knopp says he wanted to start talks on the potential creation of a bipartisan coalition, with just weeks before the start of the new legislative session. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Lawmaker seeks bipartisan coalition to run Alaska House

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

In this photo from Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly answer questions from reporters during a break in a legislative meeting at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kelly, a Democrat, races a push in the Republican-controlled Legislature to cut state income taxes to offset a revenue windfall caused by changes in federal tax laws at the end of 2017. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas faces new fight over taxes after years of turmoil

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, April 26, 2018, Nikol Pashinian gestures as he speaks to demonstrators gathered at Republic Square in Yerevan, Armenia. Armenians are set to cast ballots in parliamentary elections expected to cement the incumbent prime minister's grip on power. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Armenia premier’s bloc winning vote, early returns show

By AVET DEMOURIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready leans against wallboard as he pauses during a Habitat For Humanity building event in Charlotte, N.C. The nation's last unresolved fall congressional race with McCready against Republican Mark Harris is awash in doubt as North Carolina election investigators concentrate on a rural county where absentee-ballot fraud allegations are so flagrant they've put the Election Day result into question. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Absentee vote changes may have invited ‘ballot harvesting’

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, meets with reporters at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP support for Pelosi as speaker? Don’t hold your breath

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018 file photo, Democratic candidate for state attorney general Josh Kaul, right, claims victory during a news conference at the Dane County Courthouse in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's attorney general-elect, Kaul, campaigned on promises to pull the state out of a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act and to get tougher on polluters. Republicans pushing to hang on to power in Wisconsin and Michigan are trying to hamstring Democrats who are about to take over as attorneys general. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, File)

GOP tries to hamstring incoming Democratic attorneys general

By TODD RICHMOND and DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, with the help of the Mary and Don Miller family from Plainfield, Wis., flipped the switch to light the state Christmas Tree in the Capitol Rotunda, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. The Senate and Assembly are set to send dozens of changes in state law to Walker's desk Tuesday. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Wisconsin Republicans work overnight on lame-duck bills

By Scott Bauer and Todd Richmond - Associated Press