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Vermont state Sen. Becca Balint, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for Vermont's vacant U.S. House seat, speaks to voters in Colchester, Vt., on July 24, 2022. The Vermont primary is Aug. 9. The incumbent, Rep. Peter Welch, is running for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

Becca Balint wins Democratic primary, would be first woman to represent Vermont in Congress

By Wilson Ring - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels, left, speaks as former President Donald Trump, right, listens at a rally Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Michels casts himself as an outsider, although he previously lost a campaign to oust then-U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold in 2004 and has long been a prominent GOP donor. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

What to watch in Wisconsin, 3 other states in Tuesday’s primaries

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. A Democratic economic package focused on climate and health care faces hurdles but seems headed toward party-line passage by Congress next month. Approval would let President Joe Biden and his party claim a triumph on top priorities just as November’s elections approach. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Democrats hopeful climate and health care bill will mobilize voters in vulnerable election year

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

John Gibbs talks to a room full of people after defeating Peter Meijer in the Republican primary for Michigan's third Congressional District during a GOP unity reception at the Kent County GOP headquarters in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (Joel Bissell/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

Trump’s candidates winning primaries, but concerns loom for November

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed Saturday, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Senate Democrats clear procedural hurdle on marquee tax and spending bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this June 15, 2018, file photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed Saturday, Aug. 2, 2022, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

Prescription price controls chopped as Senate eyes debate on tax and spending bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Parliamentarian scrub of Democrats’ tax and spending bill nearly complete as Senate braces for slog

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a press conference on the Inflation Reduction Act, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Schumer sets weekend showdown for Democrats’ tax and spending bill in Senate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, on March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Tougher IRS enforcement central to Dem economic package

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 small business relief programs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Biden racks up badly needed victories ahead of critical midterm vote

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about the economy during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington,July 28, 2022. Recent bipartisan action in Congress on matters ranging from producing computer chips to expanding NATO isn’t extending to the latest economic package from Democrats. For Biden, the Senate Democrats’ $739 billion package can help lower inflation, cut the budget deficit, address climate change and lower medical bills — a message that he’s trying to sell to the wider country amid intense Republican criticism. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden urges quick Senate vote after Sinema announces support for Manchin-Schumer deal

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers berate FBI chief over allegations of partisanship in Trump, Hunter Biden probes

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 1, 2022. Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking, and two opposition senators as prime targets, in the upcoming battle over an economic package the Democrats want to push through the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin bucks Biden, votes with GOP to slash red tape on energy production

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is seen in Silver Spring, Md., on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Biotech investors sound alarm on Senate drug-pricing bill

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, left, Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attend a media conference after the signature of the NATO Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden in the NATO headquarters in Brussels, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Senate set to vote to ratify adding Sweden, Finland to NATO

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right, welcomes Paivi Nevala, minister counselor of the Finnish Embassy, left, and Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden's ambassador to the U.S., center, just before the Senate vote to ratify NATO membership for the two nations in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate approves NATO expansion to Finland, Sweden in rebuke to Putin

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, offers up an amendment as lawmakers debate among three proposed laws that are designed to deal with distracted driving caused by cellphone use on the floor of the House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol, in Phoenix, Wednesday, April 18, 2019. Bowers faces a primary challenge from a Donald Trump-endorsed candidate in former Arizona state Sen. David Farnsworth. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Rusty Bowers expresses no regrets after loss in GOP race: ‘I would do it again in a heartbeat’

By Bob Christie - Associated Press

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, offers up an amendment as lawmakers debate among three proposed laws that are designed to deal with distracted driving caused by cellphone use on the floor of the House of Representatives at the Arizona Capitol, in Phoenix, Wednesday, April 18, 2019. Bowers faces a primary challenge from a Donald Trump-endorsed candidate in former Arizona state Sen. David Farnsworth. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Arizona House speaker who rejected Trump pleas faces voters

By Bob Christie - Associated Press

An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The House has approved a significant expansion of health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

Veterans refuse to decamp from Capitol Hill until Senate passes Republican-blocked toxins bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump gestures to the audience after speaking at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Trump towers over Tuesday’s GOP primary races as he tests his political reach

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times