Outside the Beltway

A standoff over social issues may derail a $900 billion budget bill.

The 81-year-old Republican leader seems to still suffering from his fall.

A Representative’s slip of the tongue and the ensuing debate.

Some New York Republicans are fighting for their constituents and against the GOP leadership.

A milestone that should never have been approached.

Tommy Tuberville’s stunt is now impacting the highest levels of the military.

Asset forfeiture may finally get reined in.

Every once in a blue moon, a glimpse of humanity can be seen.

Striking the balance between cruel and misleading.

An odd set of Senators have a really bad idea.

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

The inevitable next shoe has dropped.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

Another bill doomed to die.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

The Biden administration has a point.

The infuriating fight to authorize spending already-allocated money is back.

Mostly about the majority party.

After 15 votes and innumerable concessions, Kevin McCarthy is nominally in charge of the House of Representatives.

Some amazing images.

The anti-McCarthy holdouts have no end game.

After two days of futility, a deal is coming together to make futility permanent.

You gotta have the votes.

He is proving the opposite of his argument.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Castrating their party’s Speaker is not smart politics.

“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?