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Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security hearing on children's online safety and mental health, Sept. 30, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Sen. Ben Ray Lujan: ‘Absolute honor to be back’ after stroke

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks to the media after senate democrats luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Biden is meeting privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party's long-stalled voting and elections legislation. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Sen. Joe Manchin outlines compromise on Biden’s $1.75 trillion bill; focuses on taxes, drug prices

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, shakes hands with Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, right, at the beginning of their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with senators ahead of confirmation hearing

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this March 25, 2014, file photo, Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., left, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hartzler, who is running for U.S. Senate in Missouri, is airing a TV ad that refers to an NCAA transgender athlete — Ivy championship-winning University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas — and attacks the practice of letting transgender athletes compete against athletes of their adopted gender. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s account locked for tweet criticizing transgender athletes in women’s sports

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A Russian construction worker speaks on a mobile phone during a ceremony marking the start of Nord Stream pipeline construction in Portovaya Bay some 170 kms (106 miles) north-west from St. Petersburg, Russia on April 9, 2010. Surging energy prices and fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are making European leaders think hard about energy security — particularly their decades-old reliance on Moscow for natural gas. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

EXCLUSIVE: Ads blast Senate Democrats for killing Russia-pipeline sanctions bill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, mail delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Postal reform bill light on actual reform

By Brian McNicoll

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb., 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington. President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senators expect less contentious, quicker confirmation battle for historic Supreme Court pick

By Alex Swoyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Sen. Rubio takes aim at Marxism in CPAC speech

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks after President Joe Biden announced Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Cross Hall of the White House, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris listens at right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson thanks God, credits faith

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 15, 2022. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "yearning for empire" and a perception of American weakness led to the crisis in Ukraine and urged President Biden not to hold back in the next round of economic sanctions against Moscow. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McConnell to Biden: Ratchet the sanctions against Russia all the way up

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Commanders’ stadium search heating up now that name is out of way

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Nevada state Attorney General Adam Laxalt speaks at the Southern Hills Republican Women's Club in Henderson, Nev., on Aug. 28, 2018. Democratic Sen. Cortez Masto raised $3.3 million the last three months of 2021 in her bid for re-election in the swing-state of Nevada, more than twice as much as each of the leading candidates seeking the Republican nomination to try to unseat her. Former GOP state Attorney General Laxalt reported raising $1.35 million for the quarter and Republican Sam Brown $1.06 million, their campaigns said Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Adam Laxalt pursues Senate run in Nevada to ‘win the war of ideas’ against the left

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and fellow Republicans speaks to reporters about crime at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Ted Cruz says he won’t engage in attacks against Biden’s Supreme Court pick

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, right, speaks as he stands beside state Attorney General Josh Shapiro during a news conference about legal action in the dispute between health insurance providers UPMC and Highmark, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ** FILE **

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman hulks over Pa.’s Dem race for Senate with no-nonsense style, far-left views

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations to examine U.S.-Russia policy with testimony from Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Senate passes bipartisan resolution rebuking Kremlin after failing to agree on sanctions

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined at right by Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. McConnell asserted that debate over a government funding bill will be worked out and there's "no danger of a shutdown." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell says gas tax holiday is a political stunt by vulnerable Democrats

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Marsha Blackburn R-Tenn., walks to her office following a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Blackburn has threatened to hold up the stopgap funding bill because she believes that the Biden administration is trying to set aside money to hand out crack pipes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans vow to delay funding bill to win concessions on crack pipes, vaccine mandate

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Senate GOP threatens to delay government funding bill over Biden’s vaccine mandate

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Crackdown on tech for child sexual exploitation slammed as ineffective, affront to privacy rights

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Demings’ war chest faces test of Florida GOP’s expanding voter edge as she bids to oust Rubio

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times