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FILE - Kentucky Republican State Senator Julie Raque Adams speaks on the floor of the Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, March 2, 2020. A Kentucky Senate committee advanced a bill Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 to expand an address confidentiality program intended to protect domestic violence victims from their abusers. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)

Bill advances to expand address confidentiality program

By Bruce Schreiner - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters following a Democratic Caucus meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer says McCarthy giving Jan. 6 tapes to Fox News ‘one of the worst security risks since 9/11’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., leaves an intelligence briefing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Knocked down again: Fetterman’s debilitating post-stroke depression imperils his political future

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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)

Fetterman draws praise for getting help for depression

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says that Senate Republicans have no agenda to consider cuts or reforms to Medicare or Social Security, as he pushes back against a plan by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell: Dems prioritizing ‘identity politics, demographic box-checking’ with judicial nominees

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during a news conference at the Chicago Family Health Center on the South Side, Aug. 4, 2022, in Chicago. On Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, Pritzker proposed a $350 million expansion in pre-school education. His “Smart Start Illinois” plan would add 5,000 seat for 3- and 4-year-olds this fall, with plans to ramp up the program to 20,000 in future years. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Pritzker to float universal preschool and expanded day care

By John O'Connor - Associated Press

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 FCC nominee counting on Democratic Senate majority to advance languishing nomination

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

From left, nominees Douglas Russell Cole and Matthew Walden McFarland to be U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of Ohio; Robert Anthony Molloy to be District Court of the Virgin Islands Judge; and Kea Whetzal Riggs to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New Mexico are sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee nominations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 26, 2019. Senate Democrats celebrated Tuesday the confirmation of President Biden’s 100th judge, touting the speed in placing progressive, diverse judges on the federal bench. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Senate Democrats celebrate Biden’s 100th judicial confirmation, outpacing Trump

By Alex Swoyer and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

FILE - A sign hangs outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, on May 4, 2021. The IRS issued guidance Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, recommending that taxpayers hold off on filing their tax returns for 2022 if they received a special tax refund or payment from their state last year due to the agency’s uncertainty about the taxability of the payments. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS nominee faces herculean challenge of modernizing agency

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

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**

Feinstein announces retirement as liberals jockey for Senate seat in 2024

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Jeremy Baldwin tags young cannabis plants at a marijuana farm operated by Greenlight, Oct. 31, 2022, in Grandview, Mo. Voters in North Dakota and Arkansas have rejected measures to legalize marijuana, while those in Maryland have approved legalization. Similar measures also were on the ballot in Missouri and South Dakota. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Because cash is king, Scotts Miracle-Gro presses Congress to legalize cannabis

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Matthew Loeb, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, introduces U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., to members of the IATSE in Burbank, Calif., Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California 2024 U.S. Senate contest kicks off at furious pace

By Michael R. Blood - Associated Press

Assistant manager Mandy Gratz arranges a display at Good Day Farm dispensary Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, in St. Louis. Recreational marijuana sales were allowed to begin on Friday in Missouri after the state's health department gave approval. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Scotts Miracle-Gro catches cannabis fever, lobbies Congress to lift federal pot prohibition

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee delivers his State of the State address in the House Chamber, Jan. 31, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee's Republican-dominant Legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, advanced a handful of proposals that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth and severely limit where drag shows can take place. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

Bill that would restrict drag shows passes Tennessee Senate

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., arrives for a meeting of the Senate Homeland Security Committee at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 3, 2022. Sinema won Democrats a Senate seat from Arizona for the first time in a generation thanks in no small part to unity in her party and division among Republicans. Since then, Democrats have picked up the other Senate seat and won the top three state offices. But that winning formula is in jeopardy because of Sinema's estrangement and divorce from the Democratic Party, a situation that could complicate President Joe Biden's path to reelection and the party's hopes for maintaining control of the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sinema’s split from Democrats shows party discord in Arizona

By Jonathan J. Cooper - Associated Press

The push to legalize throwing stars under certain conditions in Indiana cleared its first hurdle by being passed by the state’s Senate last week. (Photo File credit Zysko Sergii via Shutterstock)

Indiana lawmakers one step closer to legalizing throwing stars

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

South Dakota state Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller speaks in a Senate session on Jan. 26, 2023, in Pierre, S.D. The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 1, censured and reinstated the Republican senator who was suspended last week amid allegations she had harassed a legislative aide during an exchange about childhood vaccinations and breastfeeding. (AP Photo/Amancai Biraben, File)

A South Dakota Senate aide’s allegation roils GOP politics

By Stephen Groves and Amancai Biraben - Associated Press

Gov. Glenn Youngkin gives remarks on his proposed tax cut, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, at Weinstein Jewish Community Center in Richmond, Va. (Shaban Athuman/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Senate Democrats kill Gov. Glenn Youngkin-backed bill on school awards in Virginia

Associated Press

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., listens to a question during a news conference March 30, 2022, in Washington. Tuberville said Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022 that the country has too many “takers” instead of workers and suggested that many in younger generations — including people in their 40s — do not understand that they need to work. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Senators introduce bill to help military veterans ripped off by scammers

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., calls for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rep. Andrew Clyde formally objects to DC crime overhaul with weaker penalties

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times