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A member of the Senate Corrections Committee reviews proposed legislation during a meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi bills still alive: Liquor, guns, pecan theft

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate proceeds with budget resolution, readies Democrats’ COVID-19 package

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center, speaks during a news conference with Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate to vote on budget resolution, readies Democrats’ COVID package

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary

By Hope Yen - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets Republican lawmakers to discuss a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Washington. From left, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden, Yellen say GOP virus aid too small, Democrats push on

By LISA MASCARO and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Attorney General Judge Merrick Garland speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing pushed back until after Trump’s impeachment trial

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Arkansas House backs removing affidavit option from voter ID

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington. Far-right social media users for weeks openly hinted in widely shared posts that chaos would erupt at the U.S. Capitol while Congress convened to certify the election results. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Trump’s lawyers reject accusations of inciting Capitol riot, call impeachment unconstitutional

By Dave Boyer and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

County still refusing demand by Arizona Senate on election

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Heath workers administer COVID-19 nasal swab tests inside the New Mexico State Capitol Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. State lawmakers convened this month for the opening day of a two-month legislative session. Capitol buildings are closed to the public due to the pandemic, and under strict security lockdowns due to the Jan. 6 attack against federal lawmakers in Washington D.C. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

New Mexico legislators seek policing, cannabis reforms

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Pelosi, Schumer announce bill to circumvent GOP on coronavirus

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Utah cosmetologists protest bill proposing licensing changes

Associated Press

President Donald Trump stands in the rain with members of Bikers for Trump and supporters after saying the Pledge of Allegiance, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Bikers for Trump launches ‘Draft Donald Trump for President 2024’ campaign

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Then-President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt delivers remarks on proposed changes to the National Environmental Policy Act, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

David Schoen, Bruce Castor to lead Trump impeachment defense

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arrives at the Senate for a roll call vote to confirm Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden's nominee to be secretary of State, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. The senators will be sworn in later as jurors in the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP centrists outline relief plan, request Biden meeting

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks to members of the media outside a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Portman said Monday, Jan. 25 that he won't seek reelection and plans to end a career in federal government spanning more than three decades. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden to meet with GOP lawmakers to discuss virus relief

By AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 1986, file photo Senate Judiciary Committee members from left, Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Sen. Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr., R-Md. confer prior to voting 13 to 5 in Washington on Capitol Hill in favor of President Ronald Reagan's nomination of William Rehnquist to be chief justice. (AP Photo/Lana Harris, File)

Deal or no deal: Virus aid tests Biden ‘work together’ plea

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., listens as President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in at the 46th president of the United State during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Lip service: Democrats plan end run of GOP despite calls for unity

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009, file photo, attorney Butch Bowers speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Bowers is used to defending public officials in ethics cases. But he's never faced anything quite like this. It's up to Bowers, a South Carolina elections and ethics lawyer, to rise and defend Donald Trump as the Senate plunges into an impeachment trial unlike any other, centered on accusations that the former president incited the mob that rampaged through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)

Trump loses legal team as Senate impeachment trial looms

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

South Carolina Rep. John McCravy, left, and South Carolina Citizens for Life Executive Director Holly Gatling, right, talk after the state Senate approved a bill that would likely ban almost all abortions in the state on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. McCravy has worked to pass similar bills in the House. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins).

Conservatives praise South Carolina win on abortion ban

By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press