Outside the Beltway

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.

It’s Manchin-approved.

The court wisely deferred to Congress in setting its own rules.

It doesn’t add up.

The octogenarian epidemiologist is tired of the foolishness.

How the host’s off-camera views contradict what he was telling his audience

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

The head of the House investigatory committee seems to think so.

Twenty-three and counting will not run in 2022.

Democrats and Republicans are playing by different rules.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

The erosion of representativeness continues.

Why oh why won’t people stop commenting on the lady Senator’s outfits?

A largely mythical beast may become even more rare.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

Senator Romney and the latest edition of the senatorial pro-filibuster op/ed.

Three days late, $1.2 billion long.