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Prison bars and a hallway. (txking via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Oregon bill allowing inmates to vote advances

By Andrew Selsky - Associated Press

A great egret flies above a great blue heron in a wetland inside the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Mich., on Oct. 7, 2022. The House on March 9, 2023, voted to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business. The vote was 227-198 to overturn the rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Biden environmental rule on wetlands suffers bipartisan setback in House

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Schumer criticized House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. 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)

33 Senate Democrats join Republicans in major bipartisan rejection of D.C. criminal code overhaul

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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)

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized after fall, spokesman says

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Sen Kevin Cramer, R-ND, speaks during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP, File)

How House Republicans keep Senate Democrats off balance and out of step with Joe Biden

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Washington, D.C., Council Chairman Phil Mendelson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2016, before a House Oversight Government Operations subcommittee hearing on whether the District of Columbia government truly has the power to spend local tax dollars without approval by Congress. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Poor messaging doomed D.C. crime-code rewrite, says council chairman

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Gigi Sohn, who is President Joe Biden's nominee to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, during her nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.( Pete Marovich/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Biden’s embattled pick to lead FCC withdraws from nomination

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A Washington Metropolitan Police officer puts yellow tape around the Potomac Avenue Metro Station in Southeast Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. An armed man shot three people, killing one, Wednesday in a morning rampage that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Senate won’t let D.C. off the hook, proceeds with planned slap-down of city’s contentious crime bill

By Tom Howell Jr. and Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden looks at Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, during an event at United Performance Metals in Hamilton, Ohio, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sen. Sherrod Brown dodges whether Biden is dragging him down in Ohio Senate race

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, 2023. Senior Democratic lawmakers have turned sharply more critical of President Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials after the FBI discovered additional items with classified markings at Biden’s home. Manchin is urging the president to tell the public, “‘Look, I was irresponsible.”‘ (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) **FILE**

Unruly Senate Democrats create political problems for Biden ahead of 2024

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks to reporters after a lunch with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats about his upcoming budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden tells Democrats he won’t veto Congress override of D.C. criminal code

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., attends the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on April 28, 2021. Feinstein is not seeking reelection in 2024. Her announcement Tuesday signals 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. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Sen. Dianne Feinstein hospitalized in San Francisco

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

CPAC fires up GOP activists for 2024 with dire warnings that the left is destroying America

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland as the Senate Judiciary Committee examines the Department of Justice, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate GOP taps Lindsey Graham to boost Republican challengers with war chest

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Montana Democrat is expected to announce Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, that he will seek re-election to a fourth term. (Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP)

Enough Democrats join GOP to nuke ‘woke’ Biden 401(k) rule

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A Washington Metropolitan Police officer puts yellow tape around the Potomac Avenue Metro Station in Southeast Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. An armed man shot three people, killing one, Wednesday in a morning rampage that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

D.C. leaders lean too far left even for some Democrats

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Washington Metropolitan Police officers investigate a shooting at Potomac Avenue Metro Station, in Southeast Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. An armed man shot three people, killing one Wednesday, in a morning rampage that started on a city bus and ended in a Metro tunnel after passengers attacked and disarmed him. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

D.C. crime bill threatened by doubts from Democrats on way to Biden

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, leaves court, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, in New York. The former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

Arrest of former FBI official revives Trump-Russia conspiracy theories

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, the colors of autumn are reaching their peak along the Highland Scenic Highway in Pocahontas County, W. Va. With West Virginia poised to lose another congressional seat due to its long, steady population decline, Republican lawmakers are convinced a massive tax cut is the key to reversing the trend. (Tom Hindman/The Daily Mail via AP, File)

West Virginia lawmakers hope $25,000 in tax credits entice people to come home on country roads

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Rep. Elissa Slotkin launches Senate campaign bid for open Michigan seat

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times