Outside the Beltway

“You can’t be against everything.”

Why a paper got the story right and no one paid attention and polls over opposition research

How an apparent serial fabulist got elected to Congress

Electoral Count Act reforms are “hidden” in the bipartisan budget bill.

A 4155-page, $1.65 trillion dollar budget deal has been reached.

House Democrats are releasing them because they can.

The ball is now in Merrick Garland’s court.

The January 6 Committee is expected to make a minimum of three referrals.

It would be an abuse of power.

The Arizona Senator runs an online thrift store in her spare time.

Because of course she is.

A truly bizarre vote.

Shockingly, the Defense Department doesn’t keep up with former employees.

Washington has imposed a contract that workers rejected.

Congress is poised to legislate protections previously mandated by the courts.

More centrist fantasies.

There will be 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the next Congress.

Losing has a way of creating intraparty strife.

What should be the bar? Can it ever be reached?

Mary Peltola’s election was a milestone for America’s First Peoples.

And a comment on news coverage of the passage.

Her price to sign on to the Inflation Reduction Act was, well, odd.

Has the frustrating process of securing his vote taught Democrats anything?

Capitol Hill Republicans are turning the concept on its head.

Joe Manchin has come around on a pared back BBB, surprising just about everyone.

Another example of why the filibuster needs to go.

The symbolic vote attracted a handful of Republican votes.

One of these things is not like the other.

The West Virginia Senator has pulled away the football yet again.

Assuming they had the votes, should Democrats carve out yet another exception?

Here we go again . . . .

The laying out of the case begins.

An unprecedented manuever in response to unprecedented obstruction.

Another day, another disappointment for the party’s legislative agenda.

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

The Senator from Maine once against demonstrates that she shouldn’t be prognosticating about people’s future actions.

Mitch McConnell and other senior Republican Senators foolishly believed their colleagues would do the right thing.

Anyone familiar with Betteridge’s law of headlines knows where this is going.

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Hoisted by their own petard.

They’re not missing and that points to a systemic issue

The service is taking a big risk but not without much discussion.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

Because of course it was.

A hundred Senators actually didn’t mean to change our clocks.

We may be on the verge half a century after our last experiment.

Do you believe in miracles?

The former President should have known that his claims of election fraud were baseless.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.