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Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, speaks to supporters at a rally in Detroit on Monday. (Jeff Kowalsky/ AFP via Getty Images)

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Progressive Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic Senate primary in Michigan

Thanedar becomes latest House Democrat to fall to democratic socialist challenger

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted August 5, 2026 at 7:25am, Updated at 11:07am

North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards is dropping his reelection bid. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

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Chuck Edwards drops reelection bid after Ethics panel recommends censure

By Nina Heller and Daniela Altimari
Posted August 5, 2026 at 9:04am, Updated at 12:37pm
Lanouer Haboubi, 54, a peer worker who has had hepatitis C, works in a mobile clinic that locates and reconnects people who have fallen out of care.

Policy

Opt-out testing for hepatitis C seen as key to fighting disease

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted August 5, 2026 at 12:15pm
Missouri Rep. Wesley Bell, here with Sen. Eric Schmitt at the Congressional Chess Tournament in Washington in June, comfortably won his primary Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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Rep. Wesley Bell defeats predecessor Cori Bush in high-profile Missouri primary

By Daniela Altimari
Posted August 5, 2026 at 3:57am
535 News Editor in Chief Brody Mullins, left, CQ Roll Call Staff Writer Mark Schoeff Jr., center and Political Theater Podcast host Jason Dick discuss cryptocurrency legislation on the Political Theater/535 collaboration pod.

Podcasts

The Roll Call and 535 deep dive on cryptocurrency

By Jason Dick, Brody Mullins and Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted August 5, 2026 at 11:09am

Capitol Lens | Double impact

By Tom Williams
Posted August 5, 2026 at 5:23pm
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert's seat is on the DCCC's target list.

DCCC adds 12 Republican-held seats to its target list

By Daniela Altimari
Posted August 5, 2026 at 6:45am, Updated at 11:43am

Fly-In Strategy: What Advocacy Experts Say Still Works

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 6, 2026 at 5:56pm
South Dakota Democrat Julian Beaudion is dropping out of the primary. (Courtesy Facebook/Julian Beaudion for U.S. Senate)

South Dakota Democratic nominee exits Senate race, bolstering independent rival

By Daniela Altimari
Posted August 5, 2026 at 3:48am
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche cleared a key committee hurdle Tuesday. Above, he listens during his confirmation hearing July 15.

Blanche’s AG nomination moves ahead after delay

By Valerie Yurk
Posted August 4, 2026 at 12:07pm, Updated at 7:01pm

Capitol Lens | Cloud pleaser

By Bill Clark
Posted August 4, 2026 at 3:45pm

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
National Guard troops patrol the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 22.

Pentagon: National Guard in DC to cost another $1.43 billion

By John M. Donnelly
Posted August 4, 2026 at 3:44pm
The House Ethics Committee this week announced it is reviewing allegations against Rep. Max Miller, seen here in 2023.

Ethics Committee launches probe into Max Miller

By Nina Heller
Posted August 4, 2026 at 2:55pm

At the Races: Left, right and Michigan

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted August 4, 2026 at 5:00am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters on June 23 in the Capitol. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Thune doesn’t guarantee NIL bill votes this week even with SEC, Big Ten backing

By John T. Bennett and Savannah Behrmann
Posted August 3, 2026 at 6:01pm, Updated at 9:49pm
Rep. Max Miller, seen here on Capitol Hill in June, posted a video over the weekend denying domestic violence allegations.

As Max Miller allegations intensify, Republicans keep their distance

By Nina Heller
Posted August 3, 2026 at 6:06pm, Updated at 8:00pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the Capitol on June 16.

Bipartisan stopgap spending bill inches forward in Senate

By Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted August 3, 2026 at 7:25pm
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs a Senate Republican caucus lunch meeting in the Capitol on June 24, flanked, from left, by Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

Trump heads west as Senate eyes pre-midterm recess

By John T. Bennett
Posted August 3, 2026 at 4:10pm
Del. Stacey Plaskett, here at the 2024 Congressional Baseball Game in Washington, is the Democratic nominee for governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Plaskett, Moylan advance in territorial primary elections

By Nick Eskow
Posted August 3, 2026 at 4:02pm
After investigating Rep. Chuck Edwards, the Ethics panel on Monday released its recommendation.

Ethics panel urges censure of Chuck Edwards for ‘beyond inappropriate’ behavior

By Nina Heller and Valerie Yurk
Posted August 3, 2026 at 3:53pm
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to reporters about acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as he boards an elevator in the Capitol on Thursday.

Blanche bid to move ahead with ‘weaponization’ fund ‘dead’

By Valerie Yurk
Posted August 3, 2026 at 11:04am
Senate Republicans hold a news conference defending the legislative filibuster on Jan. 11, 2022, back when some Democrats were threatening to dismantle it to push through a voting rights package.

The not-so-secret filibuster society

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted August 3, 2026 at 5:00am
Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, conducts a House Appropriations Committee markup in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 18, 2023.

Kay Granger, trailblazing Texas congresswoman, dead at 83

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 2, 2026 at 11:55pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., shown here in March, lamented the exclusion of language to restrict “pocket rescissions.”

Senate’s funding patch adds Trump requests but blocks grant rule

By Aris Folley
Posted August 2, 2026 at 11:22pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, arrives for the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting on Wednesday.

Negotiations on Senate stopgap spending bill drag

By Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted July 31, 2026 at 5:35pm
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to a reporter as he boards the Senate subway on July 30, 2026.

‘How do we get out of here?’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted July 31, 2026 at 4:50pm
Troy Jackson, Maine Democratic nominee for Senate, speaks after winning the nomination at the Maine Democrats special nominating convention in Bangor, Maine, on Saturday. Jackson will challenge incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

Photos of the week | July 24-30, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 31, 2026 at 3:40pm
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, center, attends a congressional ceremony for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

Trump defends ‘weaponization’ fund amid Blanche confirmation drama

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted July 31, 2026 at 3:03pm
A work crew vacuums the peak of Alexander Calder’s “Mountains and Clouds” installation in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in 2020. The mobile portion of the sculpture, which has been gone for years, is expected to be reinstalled in August.

It could be a very cloudy month in the Hart atrium

By Nina Heller
Posted July 31, 2026 at 2:40pm
Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., talks with reporters in the Capitol in June. Senate Democrats released the results of their annual diversity survey this week.

Senate Democrats continue staff diversity survey, despite Trump’s anti-DEI trend

By Nina Heller
Posted July 31, 2026 at 8:00am
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., shown speaking May 21 at a rally supporting government action on health care, was the only Democrat to vote Thursday to advance Erica Schwartz's nomination to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

CDC, public health preparedness nominees advance in Senate

By Lia DeGroot
Posted July 30, 2026 at 7:28pm
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said the Iran war has driven up costs for Americans, particularly at the gas pump.

Iran war powers resolution blocked in Senate as conflict heats up

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted July 30, 2026 at 5:30pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was the only Finance Committee member to oppose the modernization bill. She's shown at a hearing on July 22.

IRS modernization bill approved by Senate panel

By Jacob Fulton
Posted July 30, 2026 at 5:26pm

Capitol Lens | Speed dial

By Bill Clark
Posted July 30, 2026 at 4:45pm

At the Races: Republicans on the ropes

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted July 30, 2026 at 3:40pm
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