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Ex-Division I athlete presses fellow lawmakers to rethink college sports rules
Plus: Senate passes three more funding bills, Trump rolls out health care plan on last day of ACA open enrollment and Schumer unveils Democratic housing…
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Democrats say GOP stock trading bill doesn’t actually ban trading
House Republicans advanced a stock-trading proposal that their colleagues across the aisle warn doesn’t go far enough to restore public trust.
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AOC eyes House path as Senate clears deepfake bill
Plus: Inflation remained flat to close 2025, Pressley and Markey push to end qualified immunity and the DNC launches a new voter registration push.
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ICE fallout tests Democrats’ hard-won message discipline
Plus: Former Fed chairs come to Jerome Powell’s defense, former Steny Hoyer campaign aide launches bid to succeed him and Senate clears first hurdle on…
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Don’t look now, but housing policy is having a moment
Plus: How this week’s House GOP bills would tilt labor rules toward employers and why the Senate is juggling foreign policy and government funding.
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GOP cries fraud as ACA subsidies head to Senate
Plus: The Senate advances Venezuela war powers resolution, House Homeland Security Democrats demand Noem testimony after Minnesota ICE shooting and…
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Democrats brush off Trump impeachment warning to House GOP
Plus: ICE kills Minneapolis woman, Trump requests $1.5 trillion military budget, and nine House Republicans cross party lines to set up final passage on…
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How Congress marked five years since Jan. 6
Plus: A California Republican’s sudden and tragic death, Judiciary senators get their Maduro briefings, and the Supreme Court announces a…
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Why Democrats distrust Trump’s Venezuela briefers
Plus: Pete Hegseth’s move to review Mark Kelly’s military rank, the status of Minnesota’s 2026 map after Tim Walz bows out, and House appropriators…
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Trump’s Venezuela strike upends a packed January agenda
Plus: How this week’s marquee House bills harken back to “Refrigerator Week” and MTG officially calls it quits.
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December 2025

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