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Lawmakers are spending way more to keep themselves safe. Is it enough?

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 09/18/2023 - 4:00am
The increases came as changes in campaign finance rules made it easier to spend campaign dollars on security, a recognition of the nation’s changing threat outlook.
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House Republicans propose short-term funding deal that Senate likely to reject

Washington Post Elections - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 9:34pm
The short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, would keep the government running until Oct. 31, but is likely to face opposition in the Senate.
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Running gag

Washington Post Elections - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 5:30pm
Second edition of The Trump Trials, a weekly newsletter on developments in Donald Trump’s four criminal trials.
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Nikki Haley is betting on an electability message to win in 2024

Washington Post Elections - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 6:00am
Nikki Haley casts herself as the only Republican who can beat President Biden. But in a party dominated by Donald Trump, that argument may go only so far.
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The scorched-earth activist trying to take down Hunter Biden

Washington Post Elections - Sun, 09/17/2023 - 5:00am
Garrett Ziegler, an often-provocative former Trump White House staffer, seeks to influence House investigations and the public discussion
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Armed man at RFK Jr. event in Los Angeles is arrested

Washington Post Elections - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 4:42pm
The 44-year-old man who was arrested had a loaded gun and a badge impersonating a U.S. marshal, according to police.
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Kevin McCarthy turns impeachment into political score-settling

Washington Post Elections - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 12:59pm
The House speaker directed an impeachment inquiry into President Biden based on “allegations,” making the process a debasement of what was intended to be a constitutional vehicle to remove a president for malfeasance
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Trump keeps distance from impeachment inquiry while assailing Biden

Washington Post Elections - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 10:38am
Trump has shown more interest in lobbying to expunge his own impeachments than in the Biden impeachment inquiry.
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Bashing covid boosters, DeSantis contrasts with Trump and worries experts

Washington Post Elections - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 10:16am
DeSantis’s posture against the shots is at odds with the advice of leading public health officials and experts and shows how he has sought to make his position a 2024 campaign issue.
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Speaker McCarthy steps into the breach as his conference toils

Washington Post Elections - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 7:30am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has less than 2 weeks two get his conference united around a plan to keep the government open.
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Term limits would upend Congress as we know it

Washington Post Elections - Sat, 09/16/2023 - 5:00am
Americans broadly support term limits for Congress. Here’s how the proposal from Republicans Ted Cruz and Ralph Norman would change Capitol Hill.
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Boebert apologizes for vaping and disrupting ‘Beetlejuice’ musical

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:29pm
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said she’s “truly sorry” after she and a companion were booted for singing and “causing a disturbance” during a performance in Denver.
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Special counsel fights Trump bid to oust Judge Chutkan from Jan. 6 case

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 8:26pm
Prosecutors say veteran D.C. judge Tanya Chutkan’s statements in sentencing two Capitol attack defendants do not show she has prejudged Trump.
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Biden administration proposes new rule that would limit Trump purge

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 6:31pm
The measure is an attempt to thwart plans by the former president and his allies to replace career government officials with political loyalists if he’s reelected.
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A who’s who — and who says what — of the IRS-Hunter Biden dispute

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 4:29pm
Newly reported testimony from participants of a 2022 meeting about the Hunter Biden investigation undercuts key claims from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley.
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Lauch Faircloth, senator who battled D.C. during fiscal crisis, dies at 95

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 4:13pm
As federal overseers took over most of District finances in the 1990s, tensions grew between Mr. Faircloth and D.C. Mayor Marion Barry.
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Democrats’ weird answers on Kamala Harris

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 4:05pm
Democrats can pretend otherwise, but comments from Nancy Pelosi, Jamie Raskin and Gavin Newsom about Harris’s political future are conspicuous.
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The small, telling differences in how voters view Trump and Biden

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:55am
The two likely 2024 candidates are viewed as similarly — but not equivalently — corrupt or mentally unfit.
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From bad to much worse for Ron DeSantis

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 11:20am
His deficit has grown but the real story may be the broader distaste he has created among Americans.
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Trumpworld is still figuring out the Hunter Biden indictment conspiracy

Washington Post Elections - Fri, 09/15/2023 - 10:40am
Is it that Democrats want President Biden to step down? Or is it that this is still a way to protect the president? We’ll see!
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