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In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel D-N.Y., speaks during the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Venezuela at Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

House votes to block Saudi weapons deals despite Trump veto threat

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, speaks at the AARP Presidential Forum at the Waterfront Convention Center in Bettendorf, Iowa on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (Olivia Sun/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Senators: Bill on 9/11 victims fund to be voted on next week

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

This Monday, July 15, 2019 photo shows Democrat Mike Broihier standing in front of the map of Kentucky at The Associated Press bureau in Louisville, Ky. Broihier announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday, July 18. Broihier is a first-time candidate with a broad resume as a Marine officer, farmer and small-town newspaperman. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner)

Another military veteran joins Kentucky US Senate race

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Court rejects state candidate’s bid to reinstate law license

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Recent Missouri Editorials

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: GOP, stop undermining Trump

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A statue of Justice is seen at federal court in this file photo from Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Senate confirms Donald Trump’s 43rd circuit court nominee

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Defense nominee Mark Esper testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Pentagon nominee regrets Turkey’s ‘drift’ from West

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., left, and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., condemns remarks by President Donald Trump as he speaks to reporters following a Democratic policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer on ending filibuster: ‘Nothing’s off the table’

By ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

Wisconsin Democrats promote new redistricting plan

By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., rides the escalator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 10, 2019, as he heads to a briefing on election security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Top Senate Democrat gives backing to reparations bill

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK - Associated Press

Female recruits stand at the Marine Corps Training Depot on Parris Island, S.C., Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) ** FILE **

Competing defense bills offer boost to women in the military

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this July 8, 2019, photo, acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper waits for the arrival of Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the Pentagon. The Pentagon says that Esper expects to be formally nominated for the top job very soon, setting off a complicated leadership replacement shuffle at top Army, Navy and senior Defense Department levels(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump nominates Esper to be defense chief, succeeding Mattis

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Sports, horse betting bill for Cherokee gets final approval

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, joined by Acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, stands on stage in the rain during an Independence Day celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Thursday, July 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Mark Esper, defense secretary nominee, ready for Senate showdown

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Michael McCaul

House GOP slams Democrats for effort to repeal 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, stops to talk to members of the media after meeting with President Donald Trump and members of the GOP leadership at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Michael McCaul: House restrictions in ‘illegalize all global counterterrorism operations’

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Restoration work begins in the House and Senate chambers

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In this Oct. 3, 2018 file photo, then-Democratic congressional candidate Max Rose campaigns in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Rose is running against incumbent Dan Donovan in New York's 11th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) ** FILE **

Max Rose: Mitch McConnell ‘sociopathic’ for unwillingness to work with Dems

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

FILE- In this May 15, 2019, file photo Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testifies about the budget during a Financial Services and General Government subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a letter Friday, July 12, to House and Senate leaders, Mnuchin told congressional leaders that Congress should raise the debt ceiling before leaving for its August recess. He says he could run out of maneuvering room to avoid an unprecedented default on the national debt before lawmakers return. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Mnuchin urges Congress to quickly pass new debt limit

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press