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Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill being prepped in Congress includes a provision that over five years would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden urges Senate Dems to rally behind $1.9T virus bill

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and 15 other Republican secretaries of state told congressional leaders that their legislation would “blatantly undermine the extensive work we … have completed in order to provide safe, accessible voting options.” (Associated Press)

John Merrill warns bill will nationalize elections

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Judge Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden's pick to be attorney general, answers questions from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., as he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Senate panel advances Merrick Garland, Biden’s pick for attorney general

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The Tennessee Senate conducts business on the first day of the legislative session Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee lawmakers gathered to start their annual session Tuesday in Nashville amid a pandemic and an FBI probe that drew searches of multiple legislative offices by federal agents last week. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee Senate OKs anti-trans athlete bill

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann reviews the progress made so far this session in the Senate with reporters at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Hosemann: Mississippi Senate will analyze House tax plan

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Kentucky Senate backs COVID liability shield for businesses

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

FILE — In this Feb. 7, 2019 file photo, Bloomfield High School transgender athlete Terry Miller, second from left, wins the final of the 55-meter dash over transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood, left, and other runners in the Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn. Lawyers for several Connecticut school districts and the organization that oversees high school sports in the state went before a federal judge Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit that would prevent transgender girls from competing in girl's sports. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)

Women’s sports bills in states face Equality Act headwinds

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Idaho panel OKs new version of constitutional amendment

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Bills to curb wolf numbers advance in Montana Legislature

By IRIS SAMUELS and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill being prepped in Congress includes a provision that over five years would hike the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Minimum wage hike all but dead in big COVID relief bill

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Demonstrators chained together protest HB 531 outside of the Georgia State Capitol Building on day 25 of the legislative session in Atlanta, Monday, March 1, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia House passes GOP bill rolling back voting access

By BEN NADLER and ANILA YOGANATHAN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

Senate GOP takes aim at Pelosi’s ‘tunnel to nowhere,’ Schumer’s bridge in COVID-19 package

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Rep. Ed Blackmon, D-Canton, points to a Mississippi state flag on an upper floor of the Capitol and calls for it to be brought down and replaced, Thursday, June 25, 2020, during a news conference with a large number of Black pastors at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. The current flag has in the canton portion of the banner the design of the Civil War-era Confederate battle flag, that has been the center of a long-simmering debate about its removal or replacement. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Historians oppose bill to change archives board nominations

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Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing with pharmacy benefit managers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, exploring the high cost of prescription drugs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Sherrod Brown: Democrats ‘going to find a way’ to raise minimum wage

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on investments in infrastructure, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Washington. From left, Biden, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, on screen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden team readies wider economic package after virus relief

By KEVIN FREKING and HOPE YEN and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

Report on GOP senator backs some of aide’s complaint

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks with Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, after stepping off Air Force One at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Analysis: Biden ambitions run into reality of Senate’s rules

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters before the House votes to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Pelosi is flanked by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden hails House passage of $1.9T virus bill, now to Senate

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Sen. Jeremy McPike, D-Prince William, left, Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, center and Sen. Adam Ebbin, D-Alexandria, right, confer on marijuana legislation before the floor session of the Virginia Senate, which is meeting inside the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia lawmakers vote to legalize marijuana in 2024

By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters before the House votes to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Pelosi is flanked by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., left, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

House passes $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times