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Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., center, speaks as Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., left and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., right, listen during a news conference on the debt limit, Thursday, May 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Male senators are expected to wear a jacket and tie on the Senate floor, but Fetterman has a workaround, he votes from the doorway of the Democratic cloakroom or the side entrance, making sure his “yay” or “nay” is recorded before ducking back out. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Back in hoodies and gym shorts, Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Marc Levy - Associated Press

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a town hall, May 8, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. Scott plans to begin airing ads in Iowa and New Hampshire early next week as he prepares for an expected 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The ad buy, valued at about $5.5 million, is scheduled to run through the first GOP presidential debate in late August. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Sen. Tim Scott files paperwork for 2024 GOP presidential bid

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Alaska Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel, left, speaks with Senate Finance Committee co-chair Bert Stedman on the Senate floor on Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. Thursday marked the start of a special legislative session on the state budget. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Alaska lawmakers open special session after failing to reach budget deal

By Becky Bohrer - Associated Press

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is assisted to a wheelchair by staff as she returns to the Senate after a more than two-month absence, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Feinstein’s health worse than previously disclosed; she calls it ‘really bad flu’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 24, 2013. All the hand-wringing over a potential government default if Congress doesn’t increase the national debt limit has conjured up images of past government shutdowns. In fact, there’s a big difference between a government default and a government shutdown. A default would occur if the government exceeds its legal borrowing limit and can no longer pay all its creditors or pay for existing programs. (AP Photo/LM Otero) **FILE**

Debt ceiling negotiators rushing for weekend deal, but much work remains

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House is seen, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The building houses the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Democratic-led Senate confirms Brad Garcia as first Latino judge to D.C. Circuit Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Don’t ‘finish the job’: President Biden’s electric vehicle pipe dream

By U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., listens during a news conference in the Rayburn Room at the Capitol in Washington, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Biden meets Congress leaders in urgent debt ceiling talks, weighs cutting short foreign trip

By Lisa Mascaro, Fatima Hussein and Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

House and Senate cannabis bill authors Rep. Zack Stephenson, DFL-Coon Rapids and Sen. Lindsey Port, DFL-Burnsville conferred before the start of the final committee conference on the cannabis bill, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, St. Paul, Minn. The cannabis bill was approved in a conference committee today and will move to the House and Senate for voting this week. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Negotiators finalize details of bill to legalize recreational marijuana in Minnesota

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Protesters on both sides of the issue hold signs, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Raleigh, N.C., as they wait to enter the Senate gallery as North Carolina legislators debate on whether to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of a bill that would change the state's ban on nearly all abortions from those after 20 weeks of pregnancy to those after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Both the Senate and House had to complete successful override votes for the measure to be enacted into law. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

North Carolina 12-week abortion bill becomes law after Republicans override veto

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, expresses criticism for Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as she testifies on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

How energy prices will shape key House and Senate races in 2024

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The "electrolier" is lit in the Minnesota State Capitol dome in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, May 11, 2023, to mark Statehood Day, Minnesota's 165th birthday. The electrolier," an old term for "electric chandelier," is over 100 years old, dating from when electricity was new. It measures 6 feet in diameter, contains 92 light bulbs and hangs over 140 feet above the floor in the Capitol Rotunda. It's lit only on special occasions, such as the annual Statehood Day or on the first days of legislative sessions. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Democrats in the Minnesota Legislature poised to pass contentious gun control measures

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young speaks during a U.S. Senate debate, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, Pool)

GOP senator says he won’t back Trump for president: ‘Where do I begin?’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Republican Sen. Tim Knopp, leader of the minority Republicans in the Oregon Senate, waits for a press conference to start, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore. Republican state senators boycotted the Senate, denying the majority Democrats a quorum and casting doubt on planned votes on legislation pertaining to abortion rights, gun control and gender-affirming health care. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Oregon Senate Republicans refuse to bend as legislative walkout hits ninth day

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Gun safety advocates rally on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in support of gun safety legislation that was scheduled for debate in the Minnesota House in Saint Paul, Mich. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Gun safety proposals take big step forward at Minnesota Legislature

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Idaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence

By Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., speaks during the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade on Commodity Programs, Credit and Crop Insurance hearing at Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats complain Tuberville’s hold on promotions for generals hurts national defense

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., walks through a Senate corridor at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 14, 2023. Feinstein is returning to Washington after a more than two month absence led to calls from within her own party for the oldest member of Congress to resign. The California Democrat announced in early March that she had been hospitalized in San Francisco and was being treated for a case of shingles. The 89-year-old senator planned to be back in Washington in March but never appeared as her recovery took longer than expected. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dianne Feinstein returns to Senate after a monthslong absence from Washington

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on partisan responses to the debt ceiling crisis by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

316 pages of debt ceiling legislation proposed by Republicans, zero from Democrats

By Newt Gingrich

A person uses a smartphone in Chicago, Sept. 16, 2017. (AP Photo, File)

Congress eyes new rules for tech: What’s under consideration

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press