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Suzan DelBene
WASHINGTON September 10, 2024
A concise and incisive chat with a pair of Inside Election analysts about the House races that will determine which party wins the gavel.
Joe Manchin is considered a top K Street recruit.
WASHINGTON August 28, 2024
In just a few months, a new crop of elected officials will trade their legislative power for the higher calling of the lobbying industry. Unfortunately, according to my K Street sources, an increasingly weak crop of lawmakers is cycling through the revolving door—unless, say, Tim Walz needs a job...
nancy pelosi
WASHINGTON July 10, 2024
The speaker emerita quickly backpedaled her comments on MSNBC. But Democratic operatives, members, former members, and leadership aides all interpreted her remarks as cloud cover for members to speak their conscience about Biden.
Nancy Pelosi Lloyd Doggett
WASHINGTON July 3, 2024
Support for Biden is plunging on Capitol Hill as members panic about their political futures, raising the prospect that the former Senate fixture’s political career may be undone in the same arena where he first made his name.


joe biden Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
WASHINGTON June 25, 2024
Bed-wetters or altruists, down-ballot Democrats are going out of their way to help the president, and seemingly without asking for anything in return, at least for now.
larry hogan
WASHINGTON June 3, 2024
Larry Hogan, the popular former Maryland governor and Republican Senate candidate, is getting the shiv following his measured call to “respect the verdict and the legal process” in the Trump trial. It’s the latest example of the self-defeating penalty for misalignment with Trump’s G.O.P.
joe biden
WASHINGTON March 11, 2024
News and notes on the latest murmurs, enticements, mood swings, and anxieties in the D.M.V.
Mitch McConnell John Barrasso John Thune John Cornyn
WASHINGTON February 28, 2024
A chaotic Senate leadership fight beckons as McConnell, the long-reigning top Republican, prepares to step down—ushering a three-way succession battle royale.


James Lankford Kyrsten Sinema
WASHINGTON February 5, 2024
News, notes, observations, and horrors surrounding the latest machinations on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON January 12, 2024
News and notes on the congressional swirl: reading between the lines of Mike Rogers’ Trump genuflection, the latest Senate fundraising intrigue, and more.
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