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

Senate Democrats block GOP bill to hit Russian pipeline with sanctions

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to reporters during her weekly press conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

House passes partisan voting measures, setting up a showdown in the Senate

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

FILE - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 26, 2007. Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)

Liar in state: Harry Reid, master of corruption, finally dead

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., listens to witnesses during a hearing on 2020 census on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Biden’s plan to blow up the filibuster, rewrite the nation’s voting laws killed by Sinema

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at an extended meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Control Center in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 21, 2021. (Sergey Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Republicans calling on Biden to toughen up against the Kremlin

By Joseph Clark and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The flag-draped casket of the late Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., arrives at the U.S. Capitol where he will lie in state, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 in Washington. Reid, who served five terms in the Senate, will be honored Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda during a ceremony closed to the public under COVID-19 protocols. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

Former Senate leader Harry Reid lies in state at the U.S. Capitol

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speak to reporters outside the White House after a meeting with President Joe Biden, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

McConnell blasts Biden as ‘profoundly unpresidential’ for divisive, partisan Georgia speech

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, in Washington. The Biden administration is increasing federal support for COVID-19 testing for schools in a bid to keep them open amid the omicron surge. The White House said Wednesday the administration is making a dedicated stream of 5 million rapid tests and 5 million lab-based PCR tests available to schools starting this month. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to lobby Senate Dems in person on gutting filibuster for partisan rewrite of U.S. voting laws

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, to examine the FBI "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Democrats seek to ram through Biden judicial nominee despite criminal record

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021, in Washington. As President Joe Biden wraps up his first year in the White House, he has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and has taken part in fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors. That's according to new research from Towson University professor emerita Martha Joynt Kumar. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden goes nuclear on the filibuster and Republicans, but his ploy runs into Democratic resistance

By Jeff Mordock and Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returns to his office at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in this file photo. Mr. McConnell criticized Democrats for exploiting the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in their efforts to overhaul the filibuster and rewrite America’s voting laws. . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McConnell threatens to paralyze Senate if Democrats blow up the filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this image from video, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. During his 23 years in the Senate, Mr. Schumer has voted more than 500 times to sustain a filibuster, according to data compiled by GovTrack. (Senate Television via AP) ** FILE **

Dems have voted for more filibusters than Republicans as power devolves into divisive partisan tool

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, March 25, 2021, in Washington. As President Joe Biden wraps up his first year in the White House, he has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and has taken part in fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors. That's according to new research from Towson University professor emerita Martha Joynt Kumar. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden to champion Senate Democrats’ plan to nuke the filibuster, force through election overhauls

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., leaves the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., after a lengthy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021, in this file photo. Mr. Manchin and other red- and purple-state Senate Democrats have expressed caution about a push by progressives to change the upper chamber's rules governing the filibuster. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Manchin, other Senate Dems unsold on Biden’s plan to nuke the filibuster for voting bills

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is shown at a March 18, 2021 news conference in Annapolis, Md., in this file photo. On Jan. 5, 2022, Mr. Hogan nominated Rosalyn Tang to be a judge on the Court of Special Appeals, Maryland's second-highest court. If confirmed, Ms. Tang would be the youngest woman and the first Asian American placed on the bench of the state's intermediate appeals court. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) **FILE**

Republicans step up efforts to woo Larry Hogan into bid for Senate in Maryland

By Steve Peoples - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden, Obama honor Harry Reid’s legacy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returns to his office at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in this file photo. Mr. McConnell and 46 other Senate Republicans signed onto an amicus brief to the Supreme Court opposing the Biden OSHA vaccination mandate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McConnell slams Democrats for exploiting Jan. 6 to push partisan voting bill, blowing up filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., walks to a caucus lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

McConnell-aligned group spending $1M to pressure Manchin against abandoning filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference after the weekly Democratic policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Chuck Schumer’s filibuster hypocrisy

By Cal Thomas

In this March 25, 2020 file photo, Vermont House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, left, wears a mask while talking to a lawmaker in the Vermont House chamber at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. The Vermont Legislature started the 2022 session Tuesday with the House voting to work remotely for the first two weeks after the Senate had previously voted to do so. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File) **FILE**

With rising cases, omicron, Vermont Legislature goes remote

By Lisa Rathke - Associated Press