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President Joe Biden speaks about domestic manufacturing, unions and electric vehicles in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden to revive climate agenda at meeting with utility company CEOs

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Virginia State Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax, gestures as he presents a bill during a meeting of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee at the Capitol Tuesday Feb. 1, 2022, in Richmond, Va. The Committee killed Petersen's bill that would prohibit campaign contributions from public utilities. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Virginia Senate passes bill to end school mask mandates

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Illustration on Republicans (GOP) campaign plans and platform by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

A GOP platform for the midterms

By Peter Morici

Joining President Joe Biden's efforts on the expanded child tax credit, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the House Appropriations Committee chair, and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., right, speak about the tax credit during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes short-term funding bill to keep government afloat past Feb. 18

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, best-known as the host of daytime TV's "The Dr. Oz Show," speaks during a town hall campaign event at Arcaro and Genell in Old Forge, Pa., on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP, File) **FILE**

Oz, McCormick trade pro-China barbs in Pa. Senate race, show Trump’s imprint on GOP

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., listens as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senate GOP sees path to majority, treads carefully for fear of stumble with suburban voters

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

House passes Dems’ sweeping China competition bill, sets up showdown with Senate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Opponents of a Republican-backed bill that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity, gather in the Indiana House balcony, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, during a House Education Committee hearing at the Statehouse. Opponents maintained that Hoosier youth would be unfairly discriminated against by the bill, which Indiana lawmakers advanced to the full House. (AP Photo/Casey Smith)

Indiana debates on classroom rules, vaccine limits unsettled

By Tom Davies - Associated Press

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

Biden nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin accused of seeking to politicize Fed against oil industry

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

68 senators move to circumvent Schumer and speed up the pace of votes

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

FILE - Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., far right, walks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, and newly-elected Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., far left, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Lujan is recovering at an Albuquerque hospital after suffering a stroke last week, his office said in a statement issued Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Until he recovers, Democrats would have just 49 votes compared to Republicans' 50, assuming all other senators are healthy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Backlash brews over Schumer’s stewardship of Senate, under fire from both parties over slow pace

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., right, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, exchange places at the podium during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Banks and another Republican lawmaker are calling on Democrats on the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol to release staff reports, saying the disclosures are required by House rules. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Republicans criticize Democrats’ China bill

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., center, arrives for votes on amendments to advance the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Lujan is recovering at an Albuquerque hospital after suffering a stroke last week, his office said in a statement issued Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Until he recovers, Democrats would have just 49 votes compared to Republicans' 50, assuming all other senators are healthy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

With one senator absent, Biden and Democrats’ agenda at risk

By Lisa Mascaro and Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

In this file photo, Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress as it convenes to count the Electoral College votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. There is a move underway in Congress to reform the 135-year-old Electoral College Act, the legislation that allows challenges to electoral-vote counts by representatives and senators. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

Senate Dems eye stricter rules for objecting to certifying presidential election results

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., listens during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the CARES Act on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Nearly 1 in 5 lawmakers own tech stocks targeted by antitrust bill, analysis shows

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to a reporter at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) **FILE**

McConnell urges Biden to ignore radical left in picking new justice

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Barriers to separate activists are set up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021, ahead of arguments on abortion at the court in Washington. President Biden was thrown a lifeline this week with a chance to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, giving him a chance to make up for a string of unfulfilled promises on the racial justice front. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden ready for rare racial justice win with Supreme Court pick

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing to review the FY 2016 budget request of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2015. Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer set to retire

By Haris Alic and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., speaks during a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Mr. Lamb is among a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls in 2022 campaigning on abolishing the filibuster. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Democratic Senate candidates see rallying cry in campaign promise to nuke the filibuster

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., walks to the chamber after a Senate Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Sinema, a key holdout on President Joe Biden's social agenda, reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on a plan to lower prescription drug costs for older people, capping out-of-pocket Medicare costs at $2,000 and reducing the price of insulin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Arizona Democratic Party censures Sinema as party reels from string of defeats

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times