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President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget request, expected to come Monday, will propose new spending levels for defense and nondefense programs at a time of soaring inflation in an election year. CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak preview the major elements of a budget package that Congress will wrestle with in coming…Continue Reading

A Maryland judge tossed the state’s congressional map, calling it an “extreme partisan gerrymander” in a ruling Friday that gave the state just a few days to arrive at a new plan.Judge Lynne A. Battaglia, who found the map violated the Maryland constitution’s protections for fair elections, gave the legislature until March 30 to draw…Continue Reading

Posted March 25, 2022 at 1:48pmPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — House Republicans are leaving their annual retreat Friday with policy proposals largely still in the works and an overarching sentiment of fighting against what Democrats and the Biden administration have done while in power.As GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., forges ahead on his mission to…Continue Reading

Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona urged President Joe Biden against lifting a public health directive used to close the border to asylum-seekers until the administration has a plan in place to process migrants’ claims.Their position, outlined in a Thursday evening letter, puts them at odds with their fellow Democrats, who have…Continue Reading

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson endured three days of a public job interview conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Roll Call photojournalists were there each day to document the historic hearings. The post Photos of the week: Supreme Court confirmation edition appeared first on Roll Call…Continue Reading

This week, as the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the Supreme Court confirmation hearings have consumed most of the media’s attention, another story has flown under the radar: that of the dire condition of childcare. During a Tuesday hearing held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, or HELP Committee, experts sounded…Continue Reading

Clarence Thomas’s wife believes a lot of the same things that QAnon supporters believe. In texts sent to Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, in the lead-up to the January 6 insurrection, Virginia Thomas, who goes by “Ginni,” urged him to keep fighting the results of a lawful and legitimate election. She couldn’t…Continue Reading

The spouses of Supreme Court justices rarely, if ever, make news. They typically do not seek out the spotlight or comment on political issues. They do not usually engage in activities that could create conflicts of interest. Those who are lawyers themselves take jobs that keep them far away from the high court’s docket. Martin…Continue Reading

There is rarely bad news in a district attorney’s office. Prosecutors almost never lose at trial because 90 to 95 percent of criminal cases end in plea deals. They report so little data on their performance—on charging decisions, sentencing patterns, or even misconduct—that experts refer to the average prosecutor’s office as a “black box.” Americans…Continue Reading