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Solar panels cover the roof of Masjid Al-Wali, a mosque in Edison, N.J., Tuesday, April 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Congress moves to reverse Biden policy, crack down on China for flouting U.S. solar tariffs

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Contractors working for the Florida-based company Cyber Ninjas examine and recount 2020 general election ballots for Maricopa County, Ariz., at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on May 6, 2021. In late March 2023, the Arizona Senate agreed to pay $150,000 to American Oversight, which promotes government transparency, to settle a public records lawsuit over emails, texts and other records involving a partisan audit of the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool,File)

Arizona Senate settles lawsuit over election audit

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during a hearing on the fiscal year 2023 budget for the FBI in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Ting Shen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Republicans object to replacing Feinstein on Judiciary panel

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., flanked by Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference after a democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Top House Democrats oppose Feinstein resigning, but expect her ‘to participate’ against GOP

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, walks to the Senate Chamber, Monday, April 17, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington, after almost six weeks away after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and extended treatment for a concussion. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘It’s good to be back’: McConnell returns to Senate, takes on Biden

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 28, 2023. McConnell will be back at work in the Capitol on Monday, April 17, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and undergoing extended treatment for a concussion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP leader McConnell returning to Senate after head injury

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens as the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination for the Supreme Court, in Washington, April 4, 2022. Democrats’ efforts to temporarily replace Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee met quick opposition Monday, April 17, 2023, from some Republicans, potentially complicating the plan even as some of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees remain on hold during her extended medical absence. Feinstein last week asked to be temporarily replaced on the Senate Judiciary Committee while she recuperates in her home state from a case of shingles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republicans balk at plan to replace Feinstein on Judiciary

By Mary Clare Jalonick nd Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens as the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination for the Supreme Court, in Washington, April 4, 2022. Democrats’ efforts to temporarily replace Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee met quick opposition Monday, April 17, 2023, from some Republicans, potentially complicating the plan even as some of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees remain on hold during her extended medical absence. Feinstein last week asked to be temporarily replaced on the Senate Judiciary Committee while she recuperates in her home state from a case of shingles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP senators say they’ll reject Democrats’ plan to replace Feinstein on judiciary committee

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with business leaders about the debt limit in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Oct. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

House lawmakers return to face debt ceiling fight; Senate takes on judicial nominees, panel vacancy

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., arrives for the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership election at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Feinstein's months-long absence from the Senate has become a growing problem for Democrats. Feinstein's vote is critical to confirm President Joe Biden's nominees to the federal courts, but Feinstein is away from the Senate indefinitely as she recovers from the shingles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Democrat: Sen. Feinstein ‘made the right decision’ to step off Judiciary panel amid absence

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 14, 2023. McConnell says he opposes repeal of the 2002 and 1991 authorizations of force against Iraq, arguing that that authority "bears directly on the threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McConnell to return to Senate Monday amid retirement rumors

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

The New Hampshire Statehouse stands on June 2, 2019, in Concord, N.H. In a victory for abortion-rights supporters, the Republican-led but closely divided New Hampshire House on Thursday, March 23, 2023, rejected multiple bills to further restrict abortion access while also approving legislation to protect it. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer) **FILE**

New Hampshire Senate rejects lifting abortion ban penalties

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

South Carolina Senators Shane Massey, Gerald Malloy, Greg Hembree, Brian Adams and Dick Harpootlian discuss a bond bill on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 in Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Senate voted Wednesday to pass a bill revoking bond for anyone charged with a violent crime or gun-involved felony while out awaiting trial over other charges of the same nature. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

Bond limits for people with violent charges clears SC senate

By James Pollard - Associated Press

Martha Williams (center), director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, talks with Jimmy Laurent (left), regional energy coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Thomas Harris, secretary for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, as they visit the B-5 orphan well site in the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Lottie, La., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Dozens of scientists from universities across the nation are challenging whether Williams has the education needed to run an agency in charge of managing endangered species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

Scientists challenge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director’s qualifications

By Susan Montoya Bryan and Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens as the Senate Judiciary Committee begins debate on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination for the Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 4, 2022. Feinstein announced Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, that she will not seek reelection in 2024, signaling the end of a groundbreaking political career spanning six decades. Feinstein said in a statement that she intended to remain in Congress through the end of her term. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dianne Feinstein to take break from key Senate committee so Biden judicial picks can advance

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The North Dakota Capitol tower rises in the background behind a stone sign, April 19, 2012, in Bismarck, N.D. Qualifying parents in North Dakota would receive private school tuition assistance for their children, under a bill the Senate passed Tuesday, April 11, 2023 — two weeks after the House failed to pass a measure that would have given free lunch in public schools to children from families with lower incomes. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

North Dakota advances bill to help with private school costs

By Trisha Ahmed - Associated Press

State Rep. Dan Knodl (R-Germantown) is shown during debate on Assembly Bill 24 Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. A special election to fill an open Wisconsin Senate seat could give Republican legislators enough votes to impeach Gov. Tony Evers and other civil officers. Voters on Tuesday will pick either Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin or Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl to represent the 8th Senate District. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

GOP lawmaker wins Wis. Senate seat, creating supermajority

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks at the Battle Born Progress Progressive Summit, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in North Las Vegas, Nev. Rosen, a Democrat from Nevada who steered a moderate path during her first term in the chamber, announced Wednesday, April 5, 2023, that she will seek reelection in the perennial battleground state. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada running for reelection

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Kansas state Sen. Cindy Holscher, left, D-Overland Park, gives a high-five to Leland, the young son of Sen. Kristen O'Shea, right, R-Topeka, during a session of the Senate, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lawmakers are preparing for an intense four days of work ahead of their annual "Drop Dead Day" deadline. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Taxes, trans rights, abortion hot as Kansas deadline looms

By John Hanna - Associated Press

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., leaves an intelligence briefing on the unknown aerial objects the U.S. military shot down this weekend at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 14, 2023. Fetterman is in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek treatment for clinical depression. His office said Thursday that Fetterman checked himself in Wednesday night. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. John Fetterman discharged from Walter Reed after treatment for depression

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times