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Alaska Rep. Don Young still defends the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere.” The bridge “should have been built,” he said at a Rules subcommittee hearing Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

House Lawmakers Ready to Carve Some Pork

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted January 18, 2018 at 5:00am
Demonstrators with United We Dream and others rally in the atrium of Hart Building on January 16, 2018, to call on congress to pass the Dream Act, that protects young immigrants from deportation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Bipartisan Immigration Bill Greeted by Big GOP Meh

By Joe Williams
Posted January 17, 2018 at 4:28pm
Paul Manafort, then campaign chairman for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on the floor of the Republican National Convention in July in Cleveland. He was indicted for unrelated work on Monday. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

House Judiciary Advances Foreign Lobby Overhaul

By Kate Ackley
Posted January 17, 2018 at 4:05pm
UNITED STATES - JANUARY 17: Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks with reporters in the Senate subway in the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

How John Kennedy Sees Things

By Eric Garcia
Posted January 17, 2018 at 3:52pm
Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama take time for reflecting in the new documentary “The Final Year.” (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The ‘Emotional Space’ Inside High-Stakes Diplomacy

By Jason Dick
Posted January 17, 2018 at 2:29pm
Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., left, and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., have just a couple of days left to round up support to avoid a government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Paul Ryan Caught Between Freedom Caucus, Democrats

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 17, 2018 at 12:29pm
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, was the target of a potential plot on her life last July. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Omaha Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Kill Joni Ernst

By Griffin Connolly
Posted January 17, 2018 at 12:15pm
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake gave a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday in defense of the free press. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Arizona’s Double-Barrel Rejection of President Trump’s ‘Fake News’

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted January 17, 2018 at 11:11am
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, right, and former Massachusetts Sen. Scott P. Brown, now the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, talk after running into each other by chance in the Russell Building on Jan. 11. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Graham’s DACA, Military Plan at Odds With Leadership

By Joe Williams
Posted January 17, 2018 at 10:29am
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., canceled a panel on President Donald Trump’s mental fitness for office due to threats of violence against the event. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Threats Force Raskin to Cancel Panel on How Trump Inspires Violence

By Griffin Connolly
Posted January 17, 2018 at 9:58am