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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and the GOP leadership talk to reporters following a weekly closed-door strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republicans close ranks on spending reforms ahead of debt ceiling talk with Biden

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives to speak with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Facing the risk of a government default as soon as June 1, President Joe Biden has invited the top four congressional leaders to a White House meeting for talks next week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer wants a new China competition bill, Rubio slams effort as unserious

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr., speaks during a Senate Armed Services budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden to nominate top Air Force general to lead Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, arrives for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearing before the committee, Oct. 14, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Feinstein announced Tuesday that she will not seek reelection in 2024, signaling the end of a groundbreaking political career spanning six decades in which she shattered gender barriers and left a mark on political battles over reproductive rights, gun control and environmental protection. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Sidelined 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she will return to Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Senate chambers sits nearly empty at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore., Thursday, May 4, 2023. Republican members of the Oregon Senate on Thursday extended their boycott of Senate proceedings into a second day, delaying action by the majority Democrats on bills on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

GOP Oregon state senators boycott 2nd day, prevent quorum

Associated Press

The Oregon state Senate convenes for the first day of the legislative session on Jan. 17, 2023, at the state Capitol in Salem, Ore. Republicans were absent from the Oregon state Senate, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, heightening partisan tensions ahead of planned votes on abortion and gun control bills. (AP Photo/Claire Rush, File)

Why did Oregon GOP senators stay home? A look at the tension

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

Solar panels work at the DTE O'Shea Solar Park in Detroit, Nov. 16, 2022. The House voted Friday, April 28, 2023, to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost the U.S. solar industry, a key part of his climate agenda. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Democrats join Republicans to reverse Biden’s solar policy and punish China

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., speaks at the Capitol, Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Phoenix. Sinema was discussing newly announced water conservation funding for Gila River Indian Community and water users across the Colorado River Basin aimed to protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Race for Sinema Senate seat stirs up ‘land of the weird in politics’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., speaks at a hearing Oct. 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic congressman from California is calling on U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein to step down because of health problems. Rep. Ro Khanna says in a tweet, "We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

House Democrat floats Biden-McConnell meeting to resolve debt limit standoff

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Rep. Zooey Zephyr poses for a photo at the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont., on April 26, 2023. The banishment of transgender lawmaker Zephyr from Montana's House floor has showcased the rising power of hardline conservatives who are leveraging divisive social issues to gain political influence. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino, File)

Zooey Zephyr row spotlights rise of GOP far-right caucuses

By Matthew Brown and Sam Metz - Associated Press

Rep. Cherrish Pryor, left, talks with Rep. Jeff Thompson at the Statehouse, Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Indiana governor endorses revised GOP state budget package

By Tom Davies - Associated Press

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks with reporters about reproductive rights for U.S. veterans, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats anxious over default, but refuse to abandon Biden’s no-negotiation pledge on debt limit

By Haris Alic and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents on Dec. 16, 2021, in Salt Lake City. With legislators in Florida barring even the mention of being gay in classrooms and similar restrictions being considered in other states, books with LGBTQ+ themes remain the most likely targets of bans or attempted bans at public schools and libraries around the country, according to a new report Monday, April 24, 2023. Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer,” was the most “challenged” book of 2022, the second consecutive year it has topped the list. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**

Indiana school library materials bill revived in committee

By Arleigh Rodgers - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks to the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, April 27, 2023 in Washington, before South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks to a joint meeting of Congress. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Equal Rights Amendment fails again as Senate GOP mounts filibuster

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a news conference Sept. 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. The Biden administration is making $450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects across the country at the site of current or former coal mines. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Senate passes resolution nixing Biden’s truck emission rules

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Quentin Fulks, who managed Sen. Raphael Warnock's re-election campaign in 2022, stands for a portrait outside the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. After directing Warnock's midterm reelection win, Fulks is in the running for a top job on President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Top Biden campaign aide sees lessons for Dems in Georgia

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, boards Air Force One with the president, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y. An IRS special agent is seeking whistleblower protection to disclose information regarding what the agent contends is mishandling of an investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. That is according to a letter to Congress obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Democrats greet IRS whistleblower complaint about Hunter Biden probe with skepticism, indifference

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022. House Democrats will be forced to replace one of their top House candidates next year in Slotkin, who will run for an open Senate seat in the state. Her exit opens one of the country’s most competitive districts in a year where every seat matters for Democrats, who look to overcome the Republicans’ five seat majority in the U.S. House. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Slotkin’s Senate run may complicate Dems bid to retake House

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

Marijuana plants are pictured at a growing facility in Oklahoma City, Feb. 26, 2020. Many older adults are using medical marijuana to treat a variety of conditions, but experts say that conflicting laws, unclear safety standards and complicated rulemaking processes mean it could be years before Medicare may cover the drug. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Wisconsin GOP lawmakers working on medical pot legalization

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Julie Su speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing for her to be the Labor Secretary, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden’s labor chief pick haunted by $30B COVID-era fraud payments

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times