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Republican candidates and strategists are increasingly confident that such a decision would not seriously harm the GOP’s chances of regaining House and Senate majorities come November, as Democrats have suggested it might.
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Republicans for months have been on the rhetorical offensive against President Biden and fellow Democrats — hammering them on the Afghanistan withdrawal, on increasing homicide rates, on a chaotic southern border and on seemingly ever-rising inflation. Now they’re the ones searching for the right message.
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Sens. Susan M. Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) provided key Senate support to justices who now appear poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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The decision to end a public health order used to expel migrants has resounded on the campaign trail as Republicans eye a potent midterm wedge issue.
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The bills largely reinforce moves that President Biden has already made to ban energy imports and remove trade preferences from Russia. But they represent a significant gesture signaling ongoing bipartisan interest in supporting Ukraine’s quest to maintain its independence amid deadly aggression from its larger neighbor.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to win support from all Democrats and a handful of Republicans in her Senate confirmation vote Thursday. She would be sworn in when Justice Stephen G. Breyer retires this summer.
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Multiple Republicans said Tuesday that they would seek a vote on border restrictions as a condition of the covid package.
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In the five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, Congress has yet to send a piece of stand-alone legislation to President Biden punishing Russia or aiding Ukraine.
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Her vote is being closely watched not only in D.C., where Democrats are eager to put a bipartisan stamp on Jackson’s likely confirmation, but also back home in Alaska, where Murkowski is standing for reelection this year under a newfangled election system.