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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of Senate Democratic Steering Committee, stops for questions by reporters after meeting with White House officials to work on a way to lift the debt limit without Republican votes, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Amy Klobuchar predicts social welfare spending bill will pass by Christmas

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This Dec. 4, 2019, file photo shows Dr. Mehmet Oz at the 14th annual L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Gala in New York. Oz joins the Republican field of candidates aiming to capture Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat in next year's election. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

GOP field in Pennsylvania’s Senate race heads for reshuffle

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

Shalanda Young testifies during a Senate Budget Committee hearing to examine her nomination to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 2, 2021. President Joe Biden is set to nominate Shalanda Young to head the Office of Management and Budget. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden nominates Shalanda Young as White House budget director

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Washington National Guard members walk in formation away from the Legislative Building, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Members of the Guard and Washington State Patrol troopers have been in place all week on the campus providing security against possible protests connected with the inauguration of President Joe Biden and the departure of former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Backers of D.C. National Guard local control say they’re not giving up the fight

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AOC pleads with Senate to rescue immigration amnesty in Biden budget bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on Congress and UFOs by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Congressional encounters with UFOs

By Dillon Guthrie

Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., questions former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Welch, Vermont's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who has said he won't seek reelection. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont Democrat, to seek Patrick Leahy’s Senate seat

By Lisa Rathke and Wilson Ring - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters following a Democratic strategy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate adjourns for Thanksgiving amid impasse over defense bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) ** FILE **

Bill Hagerty pushes for updated presidential war powers ahead of Senate vote to repeal them

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, center, is surrounded by reporters as he walks to a policy luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. The moderate, who is a key vote on President Joe Biden's domestic spending agenda, has used his leverage in the evenly divided Senate to whittle away some of his party's most ambitious and costly policy proposals. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manchin doubles down on opposition to paid leave in Biden welfare bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Illustration on the pregnant workers bill by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Pregnant workers bill helps women, avoids controversy

By Ericka Andersen

Thanksgiving dinner. (Associated Press)

GOP blames Biden for rising food prices: ‘Most expensive Thanksgiving in history’

By Haris Alic - 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. Europe is short of gas. Russia could in theory supply more beyond its long-term agreements, but hasn't, leading to accusations it is holding back to pressure Europe to approve a new controversial Russian pipeline. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) **FILE**

Russian pipeline sanctions back on table as Senate debates defense bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., appears at a news conference following a Democratic strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, on Oct. 26, 2021. Democrats $1.85 trillion package of social and climate initiatives seems afflicted by a maddening parade of hurdles. Looming ahead is the Congressional Budget Office, which could cause problems that would be messy but probably surmountable. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Big fights in play as Senate tackles massive defense policy bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the NH 175 bridge over the Pemigewasset River to promote infrastructure spending Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Woodstock, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden visits New Hampshire in effort to shore up bridges, Democrats’ fortunes

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison speaks at a watch party in Columbia, S.C., after losing the Senate race Nov. 3, 2020. Harrison was Biden's pick for DNC chair, in part, because of the extraordinary fundraising success he had in his underdog campaign against South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham last year. Harrison's campaign raised an eye-popping $109 million, although he lost the election by 10 points. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File)

Inside DNC chair’s ‘challenging’ bid to avert midterm defeat

By Steve Peoples - Associated Press

The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021, in this file photo. President Biden’s nominee of Saule Omarova for a top Treasury job has rattled several Senate Democrats because she previously said she wants the coal, oil and the gas industry to “go bankrupt." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Biden nominee for top Treasury post under fire for extreme views on energy, Wall Street

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Trenton, N.J., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

NJ senate president concedes to newcomer Edward Durr, cites ‘red wave’

By Mike Catalini - Associated Press

Sen. John Kennedy (R-18, Macon) introduces SB 1 EX in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. The hearing was a step toward votes on new political maps for the state House, state Senate and Congress during a once-a-decade redistricting session of the General Assembly. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia Senate GOP passes map to retain Republican majority

By Jeff Amy - Associated Press

Then-Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., foreground, raises his hand to the crowd at a campaign rally in downtown Atlanta, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2002. Cleland, who lost three limbs to a Vietnam War hand grenade blast yet went on to serve as a U.S. senator from Georgia, died on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. He was 79. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

Max Cleland dies; senator and veteran lost limbs in Vietnam

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