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With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a person waves a rainbow flag as they participate in a rally in support of the LGBTQIA+ community at Freedom Plaza, Saturday, June 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

House Dems pass same-sex marriage protection bill, shore up messaging for midterm campaigns

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman visits with people attending a Democratic Party event for candidates to meet and collect signatures for ballot petitions for the upcoming Pennsylvania primary election, at the Steamfitters Technology Center in Harmony, Pa., March 4, 2022. The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year. Fetterman could help the party keep control of the Senate. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Fetterman knocks Oz with carpetbagger attacks, digs into New Jersey, Pennsylvania rivalry

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden reacts as he attends the the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Tax increases from Democrats

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., joins female House Democrats at an event ahead of a House vote on the Women's Health Protection Act and the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

AOC prods Biden to use executive authority ‘to his limit’ on climate change

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures before his departure to Saudi Arabia from Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, July 15, 2022. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden pledges executive action after Manchin derails Democrats’ spending bill

By Ramsey Touchberry, Joseph Clark and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks at her weekly news conference, Thursday, July 14, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.The House is expected to vote on two bills that would restore and guarantee abortion access nationwide. It’s the Democrats’ first attempt at responding legislatively to the Supreme Court’s seismic decision overturning Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

House making 1st attempt to protect abortion in post-Roe era

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Democrats promise to lower gas prices if voters grow their majorities in Congress

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in Monday's Fourth of July mass shooting grows at a veterans memorial, Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

House approves Amber Alert-type warning system for active shooters

By Mica Soellner and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 8, 2015, file photo, U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach speaks at a news conference in Cleveland. President Biden's pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will likely spark a brutal confirmation fight as resistance from lawmakers has sunk the last two nominees for the post. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Biden’s pick confirmed as first ATF director in nearly a decade

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing to examine a post-Roe America, focusing on the legal consequences of the Dobbs decision, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats, pro-abortion forces warn that women face a death sentence in post-Roe America

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this file photo from September 2021, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is joined from left by Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., as she holds a news conference just before a House vote on legislation aimed at guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion. As Congress returns from its Fourth of July recess, abortion rights will again be atop the House agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Abortion access tops House agenda as Congress returns from recess

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

FILE - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, June 22, 2022. Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party's election-year attempt to craft a scaled back version of the economic package that collapsed last year, Democratic aides have told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dems want to tax high earners to protect Medicare solvency

By Alan Fram - Associated Press

U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks to supporters during an election night watch party, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Atlanta. Walker won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia's primary election. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Herschel Walker vows to bring people together in first Ga. Senate campaign ad

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2020 photo, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Senate Democrats revive talks to score wins by passing spending bill with party-line vote

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

The fence surrounding the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Friday, May 24, 2019. Approval was given for a new and taller fence around the White House complex in 2017 and now construction of a almost 13-foot tall fence is slated to begin this summer. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Poll: Majority of adults say Washington under Biden hurts more than helps with top concerns

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with Democratic governors on the issue of abortion rights, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

No filibuster ‘carve-out’ for abortion

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Police honor guards salute as the Star Spangled is played during the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, May 15, 2022, honoring the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden silent on increase in police suicides while advocates urge more action, less anti-cop rhetoric

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting with Democratic governors on the issue of abortion rights, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden urges voters to back pro-abortion candidates in midterms

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, July 20, 2020, in Washington. The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate. The Senate Republican partnership with Trump to confirm conservative justices paved the way for the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on abortion rights. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Bitter enemies Trump, McConnell notched Supreme Court abortion win with their unlikely alliance

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican collaboration in Democrats’ historic gun control victory unpopular with most GOP leaders

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times