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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Congress

Senate plots its final week before elections with potential data center electricity vote

College sports bill passage vote set for Monday

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 25, 2026 at 6:02am

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, talks with reporters in the Capitol on Aug. 5. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Congress

Vote on Chinese car imports bill sought as Xi meets with Trump

By Kelly Livingston
Posted September 25, 2026 at 5:00am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune talks with reporters at the Capitol on Thursday. He’s been getting a version of this question a lot: Will you run for leader again?

Congress

‘The assumption is yes,’ Thune says of another leadership run

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted September 24, 2026 at 6:15pm
Independent candidate Dan Osborn of Nebraska attends a news conference outside the Capitol on Thursday.

Campaigns

Who would this independent caucus with? ‘Everybody’

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted September 24, 2026 at 8:03pm
Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, speaks with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for Dr. Heidi Overton, nominee to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Heard on the Hill

Photos of the week | September 19-24, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 25, 2026 at 10:59am

Capitol Ink | Mega MAGA deal

By R.J. Matson
Posted September 25, 2026 at 11:53am
Newly installed fences surround the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Sept. 16. President Donald Trump threatened on Sept. 15 to keep the Kennedy Center closed for good after a judge ruled his name cannot be added onto the famed arts institution's facade.

Appropriators push to protect Kennedy Center from demolition

By Aris Folley
Posted September 24, 2026 at 5:04pm

2026 State Sessions Recap Report

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted September 10, 2026 at 12:07pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a joint news conference in the Capitol on Jan. 8.

Schumer, Jeffries sue to block federal agents at polls in November

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 24, 2026 at 4:36pm
Overton appears at her confirmation hearing on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

FDA nominee evasive on abortion pill but firm on vaccine safety

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 24, 2026 at 4:31pm
Klomp speaks at the White House on Sept. 30, 2025, with, from left, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz and President Donald Trump. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate Finance approves Klomp nomination for HHS deputy

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 24, 2026 at 4:20pm

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
Whitehouse and Schumer conduct a news conference Thursday to highlight GOP connections to the fossil fuel industry. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Permitting bill off until after midterms even as talks close in

By David Jordan and Kelly Livingston
Posted September 24, 2026 at 12:18pm, Updated at 4:05pm

At the Races: Pivot time for Republicans

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 24, 2026 at 4:00pm
China's first lady Peng Liyuan, Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump and U.S. first lady Melania Trump look on during a military review in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Amid surreal scenes, Trump flashes force and ‘friendship’ with China’s Xi

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 24, 2026 at 3:11pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks during a news conference on Wednesday after holding a hearing titled "Standing Up for Women in Sports: Ensuring Opportunity, Fairness and Safety for Female Athletes.” The issue is resonating on the campaign trail — but it looks a little different from 2024.

As GOP revives anti-trans playbook, Dems try to turn the page

By Savannah Behrmann and Daniela Altimari
Posted September 24, 2026 at 1:53pm
The Bad News Babes celebrate their win on Wednesday over Team Congress after the Congressional Women's Softball Game at Audi Field, which pits congresswomen against women journalists.

Journalists get the win in high-scoring Congressional Women’s Softball Game

By Nina Heller
Posted September 23, 2026 at 10:23pm
From left, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., conduct a news conference Wednesday about President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

AI export controls debate rages as Trump, Xi meet

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted September 23, 2026 at 9:54pm
During a belated celebration for her 90th birthday, former Sen. Barbara Mikulski laughs with Rep. Nancy Pelosi at the Capitol on Wednesday.

‘Heroine to us’: Mikulski returns to the Hill to mark 90th birthday

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted September 23, 2026 at 6:57pm
Activists hold signs during a rally outside the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on May 10, 2025.

White House drops executive order for tighter NIH purview

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 23, 2026 at 6:43pm
Chairman Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., conducts a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Permitting deal down to the wire as senators look to the exits

By David Jordan and Kelly Livingston
Posted September 23, 2026 at 6:07pm
Lindsey Isaacs, who was wrongfully arrested in a fatal hit-and-run in Florida, greets Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., at the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Flock and other surveillance technology. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Flock cameras draw bipartisan concerns at Senate hearing

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted September 23, 2026 at 5:53pm

Capitol Lens | Selfie portrait

By Tom Williams
Posted September 23, 2026 at 5:46pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks on Sept. 15 during the Pro-Human Assembly conference on AI legislation in Washington.

AI ‘superintelligence’ ban proposed by Casar, Sanders

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted September 23, 2026 at 4:10pm

Capitol Ink | Trumphal Arch

By R.J. Matson
Posted September 23, 2026 at 7:00am
Sen. John Curtis, seen here at a hearing in April, wants the Judiciary Committee to probe “the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign interests.”

Not a ‘toaster’: GOP senator urges Judiciary panel to probe Don Jr. wedding party

By Savannah Behrmann and Michael Macagnone
Posted September 22, 2026 at 7:56pm
From left: President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on during a meeting with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026.

Trump says administration is weighing diesel export restrictions

By Kelly Livingston and David Jordan
Posted September 22, 2026 at 6:28pm
Bobby Pulido, the Democratic nominee for Texas' 15th District, speaks at a campaign rally in Goliad, Texas, on Sept. 12. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

In South Texas, Bobby Pulido urges voters to see beyond red and blue

By Daniela Altimari
Posted September 22, 2026 at 5:12pm
A sticker of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are seen at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill on Monday, May 5, 2025.

Voters to Republicans: Fix the Biden economy

By David Winston
Posted September 22, 2026 at 4:49pm
Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, holds an ax given to him during a July campaign event in the Bangor area. Inside Elections now rates his race against GOP Sen. Susan Collins as a Toss-up. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rating changes: A dozen more races move toward Democrats

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 22, 2026 at 4:28pm

Capitol Lens | Rain check

By Bill Clark
Posted September 22, 2026 at 3:06pm
Vice President JD Vance conducts the White House briefing on Thursday, Sept. 3.

Vance pushes for health fraud legislation in the Senate

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 22, 2026 at 3:04pm
Voting rights activists stage a protest on the Senate steps of the Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. The protesters were arrested by Capitol Police.

Court rejects Capitol Police rules on demonstrations on Capitol steps

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 22, 2026 at 2:48pm
President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

‘Into hell’: Trump signals aggressive lame-duck foreign policy at UN

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 22, 2026 at 1:20pm
Lori Freshwater, a writer and health researcher in Rhode Island, received a $400,000 settlement from the Department of Justice as compensation for her mother's death, which was attributed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune.

Settlement of Camp Lejeune case shows dilemma facing many victims

By Mike Magner
Posted September 22, 2026 at 5:00am
House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, speaks to the panel in July.

Fiscal commission weighed as tool to fight soaring debt

By Aris Folley
Posted September 21, 2026 at 8:45pm
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