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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters about support for Israel following a closed-door caucus meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republicans accuse McConnell of undermining Speaker Johnson on Israel war aid

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Harlan Crow attends a book release reception by The George W. Bush Institute for "The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs," on July 17, 2012, in Dallas. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Senate Democrats likely to subpoena Clarence Thomas allies in push for ethics code on Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - State Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, presents the newly-drawn congressional maps in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. A federal judge ruled Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, that some of Georgia's congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Judge says Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts are discriminatory and must be redrawn

By Jeff Amy and Kate Brumback - Associated Press

FILE -The Virginia Capitol in Richmond, Va., is seen Thursday, March 4, 2010. In about half of Virginia's General Assembly's committees, membership is not based on proportional seating, creating a dynamic in which the majority party has sometimes been wildly over-represented. Democrats who controlled the Senate with 55% of its membership — a 22-18 majority — during this year's session wielded a 10-5 majority in the chamber's powerful budget-writing panel, for example. Another influential committee that shapes energy and business-related bills was stacked 12-3. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Outside voices call for ‘long overdue’ ‘good governance’ reform at Virginia General Assembly

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks as Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations budget hearing on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2021, in Washington. Menendez and his wife were indicted Friday, Sept. 22, 2023 on bribery charges. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Why Senate Republicans are in no helping mood to expel Bob Menendez

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. speaks to media about Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Sen. Rick Scott rejects Biden’s aid package as ‘unserious’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew speaks during the discussion panel at the World Bank/IMF annual meeting at IMF headquarters in Washington, Oct. 7, 2016. The Senate is moving quickly to confirm Lew as ambassador to Israel, holding a hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Biden’s pick as ambassador to Israel tells senators he’ll ensure the U.S. ally ‘has what it needs’

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

FILE - Michael Whitaker, of Vermont, testifies during his nomination to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation, on Capitol Hill, Oct. 4, 2023, in Washington. President Joe Biden's pick to lead the FAA has moved a step closer to Senate confirmation. Whitaker was endorsed Wednesday, Oct. 18 by a voice vote of the Senate Commerce Committee. Republicans supported the nominee during the committee meeting, indicating that Whitaker appears to have a clear path to final approval by the full Senate. The FAA hasn't had a Senate confirmed leader since March 2022, even as it has dealt with a surge in close calls among airline jets. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

Biden’s choice to lead the Federal Aviation Administration wins endorsement from a key Senate panel

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers tells reporters in the state Capitol that Republican rejection of his appointees is "insanity" on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in Madison, Wisc. The state Senate was voting to reject four appointees made by Evers to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Board. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin Republicans reject eight Evers appointees, including majority of environmental board

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks to a vote on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Fetterman wants Senate to boot Menendez amid new charges

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

The legislative wing of the North Dakota state Capitol as seen on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Bismarck, N.D. The Republican-controlled Legislature will be meeting soon to resolve a major budget bill struck down last month by the state Supreme Court. Republican Senate Majority Leader David Hogue said a three- to five-day session is likely. Gov. Doug Burgum expressed confidence in a resolution before Nov. 1. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

North Dakota lawmakers must take ‘painful way’ as they try to fix budget wiped out by court

By Jack Dura - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Senate Republicans seek to block Biden’s $6 billion payout to Iran for U.S. prisoners

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Former Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake looks to the audience after speaking during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Policy Conference in Washington, June 24, 2023. Lake is preparing to launch a U.S. Senate campaign with a splashy rally outside Phoenix on Oct. 10, having never conceded that she lost last year’s race for Arizona governor. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Kari Lake wants to be elected to the Senate. She also wants to keep fighting the election she lost

By Jonathan J. Cooper - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, walks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, at Capitol Hill on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Despite wide support for Ukraine aid in Congress, it seems no one could muscle $6 billion to passage

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

The Pentagon would receive funding for a host of programs under the Senate Armed Services Committee's proposed defense authorization bill . (Associated Press/File)

Defense bill talks continue despite House speaker drama

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

The George Santos of the Senate: Dems still willing to work with embattled Sen. Bob Menendez

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters outside his office after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Washington. The measure, now before the Senate, has been held up by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who objects to funding for Ukraine not being included in the bill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

GOP senators alarmed over House speaker fiasco as government careens toward another shutdown drama

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, announces her candidacy to run for the U.S. Senate during an event, Sept. 5, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Johnson raised $1.3 million in the first weeks of a 2024 U.S. Senate bid fueled by a failed Republican attempt to expel her, but GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn more than doubled that haul and has millions more in the bank to defend her seat, the two campaigns said Wednesday, Oct. 4. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Tennessee Dem Gloria Johnson raises $1.3M, but GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn doubles that in Senate bid

By Jonathan Mattise - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe poses for a photograph outside the Wisconsin Capitol building, Aug. 31, 2020, in Madison, Wis. On Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, Chris Kapenga, the Republican president of the Wisconsin Senate, called on the Assembly to impeach Wolfe, the presidential battleground state's nonpartisan top elections official, who has remained in office while Democrats fight in court against a Senate vote to fire her. (Ruthie Hauge/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Top Wisconsin Senate Republican calls on Assembly to impeach state’s top elections official

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, swears in Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., left, to the Senate to succeed the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein during a re-enactment of the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Butler's wife, Neneki Lee, center, holds the Bible. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Laphonza Butler sworn in to replace late Dianne Feinstein; 3rd Black female senator in U.S. history

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Michael R. Blood - Associated Press