Senate Dems wrestle over weakening leaders’ power
“He did this two years ago to me. Now he’s put Amy and Debbie in the boat with me,” Durbin...
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Politics Podcast: Where The Georgia Runoff Stands
FiveThirtyEight Election Day in Georgia is just a week away, so the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew shook off their turkey...
Few Midterm Voters Backed Different Parties For Senate And Governor
JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images Heading into the 2022 election, one big question was just how many voters...
What Can The 2022 Midterms Tell Us About 2024?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. nrakich (Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): The 2022...
Bipartisan band of brothers: The West Point grads coming to Congress
But their bond was sealed during three years in the same close-knit group of roughly 100 students at West Point,...
US FCC bans sales, import of Chinese tech from Huawei, ZTE
The U.S. is banning the sale of communications equipment made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE and restricting the use...
Schumer proposes Dem leadership shake-up
After Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Schumer proposes that the next position is the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee,...
Lawmakers fret over another holiday punt on government funding
Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, a top appropriator, laughed when asked about meeting the mid-December deadline: “I just don’t...
GOP downplays its Trump wing on the world stage
The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who co-led the congressional delegation to the conference, downplayed the impact...
Secret Service agent sued over alleged July assault in Israel ahead of Biden visit
An Israeli woman has sued an unnamed U.S. Secret Service agent, alleging that agent assaulted her while in Israel preparing...
