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Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate speaks during a campaign rally on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. Warnock and U.S. Senate Sen. Kelly Loeffler are in a runoff election for the Senate seat. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Raphael Warnock Georgia Senate bid undercut by past military, Israel comments

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

New Mexico statehouse staff talk during a break on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at the New Mexico Rotunda in Santa Fe, N.M. State lawmakers are racing through the final days of a 30-day Legislative session, which ends Thursday. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

Republicans shake up state Senate leadership in New Mexico

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In this Oct. 12, 2020 file photo, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, listens during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator, says he is quarantining after being exposed to the coronavirus. Grassley is 87. He did not say how he was exposed. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)

Sen. Grassley, 87, says he tested positive for coronavirus

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during an event on Operation Warp Speed in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

GOP increasingly accepts Trump’s defeat — but not in public

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The office of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the president pro tempore of the Senate, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Grassley, the longest-serving Republican senator, says he is quarantining after being exposed to the coronavirus. Grassley is 87. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Grassley, 87, says he tested positive for coronavirus

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

US Senate proposal rejects $748M budget cuts for Hanford

Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., opens the lame duck session to work on appropriations bills to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell previews ‘significant outstanding’ legislative priorities for lame-duck Congress

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Sen. Brad Hutto, D-Orangeburg, speaks Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 in Columbia, S.C. Hutto was elected South Carolina Senate Minority Leader on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, file)

South Carolina Senate elects Hutto as new minority leader

By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press

File-This Jan. 16, 2019, file photo shows Senator Gloria Butler, D - Stone Mountain, taking to the well Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, to speak against the senate committee assignments. Senate Democrats in Georgia on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, elected Butler as their minority leader for the upcoming two-year in the upper chamber of the General Assembly. Butler was first elected to the Senate in 1998. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Georgia Senate Democrats choose Butler as minority leader

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Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, speaks about economic recovery at The Queen theater, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Joe Biden must repeal Trump tax cuts, divided Democrats agree

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J. President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to get sweeping health care changes through a closely divided Congress, but there’s a menu of narrower actions he can choose from to make a tangible difference in affordability and coverage for millions of people. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Biden has room on health care, though limited by Congress

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

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**

Post-election rancor clouds chances for COVID relief bill

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

California Senate sweepstakes: Who gets Kamala Harris’ job?

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

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

Pelosi stands firm on $3.4 trillion coronavirus bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Massachusetts Senate releases state budget proposal

By STEVE LeBLANC - Associated Press

Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., questions acting U.S. Park Police Chief Gregory T. Monahan, during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on actions taken on June 1, 2020, at Lafayette Square, Tuesday, July 28, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Jody Hice warns Democrats that Georgia vote-and-run scheme is a felony

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Democrats won’t reach 2/3rd supermajority in Legislature

By SARA CLINE - Associated Press

Illustration on the 2020 election by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Winners and losers from the 2020 election

By Scott Walker