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Fox News Poll: Approval of Congress lowest in five years

As the number of Congressional Democrats calling for President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race grows, the latest Fox News national survey finds Congress’ approval rating at its lowest in five years. The poll, released Monday, was conducted after the first presidential debate and before Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald...

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Senate Homeland Security committee to investigate Trump assassination attempt and security failure

The Senate is opening an investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump and the security failures that led to it. Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., will lead the investigation after shots were fired on Saturday night at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving Trump bloodied...

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Top Dem plots tying SCOTUS funding to ‘enforceable' ethics code amid Thomas, Alito controversies

A top Senate appropriator is considering fencing off operational funding for the Supreme Court in the fiscal year 2025 spending bill and forcing the court to enforce an ethics code in order to access it following controversies over Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s wives’ political behavior and gifts the justices have been given by...

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Susan Collins to write in Nikki Haley for president, bucking Trump

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, reiterated to reporters that she still supports former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for president despite Haley no longer being in the race for the Republican nomination. The Maine Republican will write in Haley’s name on her ballot in November rather than former President Trump or President Biden, according to local CBS...

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Congressional bypass: Many Democrats elusive on Biden issue

Republican House and Senate members eluded questions from the Congressional press corps for years when former President Trump said or did something outrageous – or at least just made news. “I don’t read the tweets,” was a famous reply from former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., when a reporter posed a tough question about comments...

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Tester denies tight race, says internal polling has him beating Sheehy: ’Kicking his a–’

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., claimed Thursday he was besting his Republican opponent in Montana in campaign data, pushing back on the widely held understanding that the state’s Senate race is particularly close. The senator further justified missing a crucial Democratic meeting with top Biden advisers, revealing he was going to be busy at a different...