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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Thursday, March 30, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Jeffries says White House did not undercut Democrats on bills

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks at the state Capitol on April 10, 2020, in Bismarck, N.D. Burgum on Thursday, March 30, 2023, vetoed a bill that would prohibit public schools teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by pronouns other than those reflecting the sex assigned to them at birth in most cases. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

North Dakota’s Republican governor vetoes transgender pronouns bill

By Margaret Stafford - Associated Press

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks to a motorcade vehicle after stepping off Air Force One behind President Joe Biden, Feb. 3, 2023, at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. On Thursday, Feb. 16, Fetterman's office announced that the senator had checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Sen. John Fetterman set to return to Capitol week of April 17

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters during a news conference outside of the chamber, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The Senate is preparing to vote to repeal the 2002 measure that green-lighted that March 2003 invasion of Iraq. The measure would end more than 20 years of authorization for U.S. presidents to use force in that country and return those war powers to Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate moves to repeal president’s Iraq war power authority

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., returns to the Capitol as he steers the repeal of two decades-old measures that approved American military action in Iraq, in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate votes to repeal 2002 measure that approved Iraq War

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., returns to the Capitol as he steers the repeal of two decades-old measures that approved American military action in Iraq, in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., arrives for a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to examine the Department of Agriculture, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 16, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate votes to end three-year-old COVID-19 national emergency

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis poses for a photo at her office, Feb. 24, 2021 in Atlanta. Willis is opposing a new Georgia bill that passed the House Monday, March 27, 2023, that would create a commission to discipline and remove elected prosecutors, saying it unfairly targets minority Democrats. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

Emanuel AME shooting survivor Polly Sheppard, left, and state Sen. Penry Gustafson, R-Camden, right, speak after a South Carolina Senate subcommittee hearing on a hate crimes bill, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Racist massacre survivors urge S Carolina hate crime bill

By Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. McConnell was critical of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. The conservative commentator is working to reverse the narrative of the attack that had played out for the world to see into one more favorable to Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell urges lawmakers to keep Iraq war powers in wake of strikes by Iranian-backed militias

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Chairwoman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to examine the Department of Agriculture, on Capitol Hill, March 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate HELP Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., questions Moderna CEO and Director Stephane Bancel during a Senate HELP Committee hearing on the price of the COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bernie Sanders, other ideological warriors stumble in ratings of lawmakers’ effectiveness

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Members of Pennsylvania's 400 yard freestyle relay team from left Margot Kaczorowski, Hannah Kannan and Lia Thomas, right, celebrate after winning the race at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Bans on biological males competing in girls’ sports now sweeping the nation

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

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's office expects him to return soon to the chamber, although Democratic leaders are giving no timeline five weeks after he sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. John Fetterman of Pa. expected to return to Senate ‘soon,’ says staff

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2024 for the Department of State with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Ethics Committee admonishes Sen. Lindsey Graham

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, March 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

GOP bill seeks to break up part of NIH that Dr. Anthony Fauci led, impose term limits

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Moderna CEO and Director Stephane Bancel arrives to testify to the Senate HELP Committee on the price of COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Moderna CEO defends COVID vaccine price hike, citing pivot to endemic phase

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the final passage of a measure to create domestic terrorism units in the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Senate votes to keep 2001 authorization for war on terror

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to the media, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at the Capitol in Washington. McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson has launched a wholesale Republican effort to rewrite the history of the deadly siege. Carlson aired the first installment of some 41,000 hours of security footage on his prime-time show and promised more Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House GOP not sold on Senate-approved repeal of U.S. war powers in Iraq

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a Nowruz celebration in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs measure nullifying D.C. criminal code overhaul

By Ashraf Khalil - Associated Press