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U.S Police officers patrol on bicycles past the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

House overwhelmingly passes Supreme Court protection bill after threat to Justice Kavanaugh

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., listens during a ceremony in a room dedicated to former Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Another room was also dedicated to former Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, making both rooms the first ones to be named after women senators. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mitch McConnell backs bipartisan gun deal, buoying hopes for passage

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Republican Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt waits to speak at a campaign event June 11, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nevada GOP contest crucial to Senate control

By Michelle L. Price and Ken Ritter - Associated Press

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., responds to a question about a funding bill to fight the coronavirus outbreak, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats to bring Supreme Court protection bill to floor

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith talks about President Trump's leverage over the NFL regarding its national anthem protests. (Image: ESPN screenshot)

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith says he was ‘approached’ about running for Senate

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., speaks during a rally near Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2022, urging Congress to pass gun legislation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senators break logjam on guns, school safety with bipartisan deal

By Seth McLaughlin and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., right, speaks about prescription drug prices during a news conference with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., left, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Behind Masto is Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP, center, and Bill Kramer, Executive Director for Health Policy at the Purchaser Business Group on Health, at back left. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in ‘perilous’ reelection position

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Democratic ‘dark money’ group spends big to sway GOP Senate primary in Colorado

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks at a Gun Violence Memorial installation on the National Mall in Washington, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. Standing behind Schumer are Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., from left, Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, and Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Senate leaders give bipartisan group more time to craft gun deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin engages with people outside the Glen Park BART station ahead Tuesday's recall on Monday, June 6, 2022, in San Francisco. San Francisco voters fed up with brazen burglaries and auto smash-and-grabs could oust Boudin, one of the most progressive prosecutors in the country, in a rare recall election Tuesday that has bitterly divided Democrats. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Primaries in California and six other states to test progressive firepower

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a gun control advocate, waits to speak to activists demanding action on gun control legislation after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a Texas elementary school this week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Chris Murphy urges Biden to not get involved in bipartisan gun talks

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Mondaire Jones peaks at a Protect the Results rally, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in front of the Westchester County Courthouse in White Plains, N.Y. Jones and Ritchie Torres, both Democrats, became the first gay Black men elected to the U.S. House. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) **FILE**

Mondaire Jones threatens court-packing, eliminating Senate filibuster to get tough new gun laws

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., takes a question during a news conference following a closed-door policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, on May 24, 2022. The Biden administration foresees unnecessary deaths if lawmakers don’t approve billions of dollars more to brace for the pandemic’s next wave. Yet the push to provide the money is in limbo in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Gridlock could delay COVID funds until fall — or longer

By Alan Fram - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference, Thursday, May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi is facing criticism from the leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party after saying Congress won’t approve a trade deal with the U.K. if Britain scraps the agreement governing post-Brexit trade on the island. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Pelosi accused of jeopardizing bipartisan gun talks

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Flowers and candles are placed outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, to honor the victims killed in Tuesday's shooting at the school. Desperation turned to heart-wrenching sorrow for families of grade schoolers killed after an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in their Texas classroom and began shooting, killing several fourth-graders and their teachers. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Lawmakers eye bipartisan national ‘red flag’ law in wake of Texas school shooting

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer blasts ‘radicalized’ GOP ahead of vote on domestic terrorism bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during a Donald Trump rally for Georgia GOP candidates in Commerce, Ga., March 26, 2022. Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military who struggle with mental health. The football legend and leading Republican Senate candidate in Georgia says the outreach is done through a program he created, called Patriot Support. But court filings and company documents offer a more complicated picture. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Walker set to breeze through Senate GOP primary, into tougher battle against incumbent Dem Warnock

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt speaks to a GOP club meeting on March 1, 2022, in Opelika, Ala., on May 16, 2022. Alabama’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby is a bitter high-dollar fight between three frontrunners battling for a spot in an anticipated runoff. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks who won _ and then lost _ former President Donald Trump’s backing in the race faces Katie Boyd Britt, the former leader of Business Council of Alabama and Shelby’s former chief of staff and Mike Durant, the owner of an aerospace company but best known as the helicopter pilot shot down and captured in in the events that inspired “Black Hawk Down.” (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

GOP primary race for Alabama Senate seat turns bitter

By Kim Chandler - Associated Press

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Bipartisan bill targets near-total control of online advertising by Facebook, Google

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks through a construction tunnel at the Capitol on his way to welcome visiting Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2022. The two nations are moving quickly to try to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate passes $40B Ukraine aid package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times