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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Republicans criticized President Joe Biden for the high price of gasoline. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell chides Democrats for hailing Judge Jackson’s ‘empathy’ in criminal cases

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden is flanked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, after arriving on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 6, 2022. Biden will give his State of the Union address to Congress on March 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

House-passed Russian energy ban sidelined in Senate as lawmakers say Biden’s embargo is enough

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sen. Lindsey Graham doubles down on calling for Putin’s ouster

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominee to be the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors vice chair for supervision, the nation's top bank regulator, listens during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via AP)

Sarah Bloom Raskin withdraws from nomination for Federal Reserve Board

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., center, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., right, speak after the Democratic strategy meeting at the Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Durbin doubts talk of reviving Biden’s $1.75T social welfare bill will succeed

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

The flag of Iran waves in front of the the International Center building with the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2021. On Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, negotiators were gathering in Vienna to resume efforts to revive Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-line new government in Tehran led to a more than five-month hiatus. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter, File)

49 Senate Republicans pledge to reject any new Iran deal negotiated by Biden

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sarah Bloom Raskin, a nominee to be the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors vice chair for supervision, the nation's top bank regulator, speaks during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Sen. Joe Manchin opposes Sarah Bloom Raskin for Fed board, endangering nomination

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (House Television via AP)

Women’s anti-violence law keeps transgender access provision

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after being hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.S., allies push China to rein in Russia as civilian suffering rises in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, Friday, March 11, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden’s budget bill funnels millions in pork to vulnerable Democrats

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, arrives to speak to reporters about the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a Democratic strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate approves $1.5 trillion spending bill with Ukraine aid, earmarks

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, arrives to speak to reporters about the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a Democratic strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer poised to pass Biden’s $1.5 trillion bipartisan budget after cutting deal with GOP

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., arrives to vote on an appropriations bill that funds the government through Feb. 18 and avoids a short-term shutdown after midnight Friday, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sixteen GOP senators join Democrats to keep earmarks in Biden’s $1.5 trillion budget bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers strike a deal to provide nearly $14 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R- Iowa, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, in Washington. If confirmed, Jackson would be the court's first Black female justice. Mr. Grassley has expressed concern with the speed with which Democrats hope to move the confirmation process. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

GOP warns that Democrats are rushing Supreme Court confirmation process

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey gives his state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Republican ‘unforced errors’ threaten path to Senate control

By Steve Peoples and Brian Slodysko - Associated Press

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez pauses as he was speaking outside a hospital, announcing the identity of the slain Harris County Sheriff's office deputy as Sandeep Dhaliwal in Houston on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. Dhaliwal was shot and killed while making a traffic stop Friday near Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s pick to lead ICE was probed over domestic violence complaint

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, escorted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives on Capitol Hill to have lunch with Senate Republicans and push for his tax reform agenda, in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate recruiting becomes proxy war in Trump-McConnell feud

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, arrive to speak at the start of a discussion with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, on how "to establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th." The event marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, the violent attack by Trump supporters that has fundamentally changed the Congress and raised global concerns about the future of American democracy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Congress takes weekend off despite urgent calls for emergency action on Ukrainian aid

By Haris Alic and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 5, 2021, file photo, a healthcare worker receives a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. The number of Americans getting COVID-19 vaccines has steadily increased to a three-month high as seniors and people with medical conditions seek boosters, and government and employer mandates push more workers to take their first doses. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Senate votes to ditch vaccine mandates on health workers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times