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Manu Raju, CNN

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Republican introduces anti-transgender bathroom resolution at Capitol after first transgender woman elected to Congress

A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congress.

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Rep. Adam Schiff calls on Biden to drop out of the race

Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday became the most prominent elected Democrat to publicly call on President Joe Biden to drop out of the race.

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Jeffries and Biden meet but Democratic leader does not offer the president his endorsement

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Joe Biden met Thursday night after the president’s closely watched solo news conference as defections in Biden’s Democratic coalition in Congress continue.

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How Uvalde’s GOP congressman is navigating a tense runoff and plotting to take out right-wing ‘anarchists’

Rep. Tony Gonzales called his GOP opponent in Texas a “neo-Nazi” and an “anarchist” intent on “burning the place down” — and said Republican hardliners seeking to oust him are a bunch of “scumbags” and MAGA wannabes.

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Johnson sounds out key Republicans with speakership and Ukraine aid on line

Days after his speakership was put on notice by a far-right member, Mike Johnson strategized with a key – and perhaps surprising – source: firebrand GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the architect of the last effort to remove a speaker.

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Kyrsten Sinema announces she is retiring from the Senate

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona independent, announced Tuesday she will retire at the end of her term this year, blaming growing partisanship and mudslinging in Washington for driving her decision to not run for reelection.

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Senate Republicans, in key vote, expected to block bipartisan border deal/foreign aid package

Senate Republicans are expected to tank a major bipartisan border deal and foreign aid package with assistance for Ukraine and Israel in a vote on Wednesday amid a torrent of attacks on the bill by former President Donald Trump and top House Republicans.

Speaker Mike Johnson to House GOP: Senate immigration deal ‘absolutely dead,’ members say

Speaker Mike Johnson privately told House Republicans the Senate’s bipartisan immigration deal has “no way forward,” according to lawmakers who attended a closed-door meeting Tuesday – the latest blow to a major national security package intended to unlock critical aid to Ukraine as former President Donald Trump urges Republicans to kill it.

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Key senators give US power to clamp down on border crossings

Senate negotiators have agreed to empower the US to significantly restrict illegal migrant crossings at the southern border, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move aimed at ending the migrant surge that has overrun federal authorities over the past several months.

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Tensions erupt in private Senate Republican lunch over border talks

Republicans engaged in a tense back-and-forth during their conference lunch Tuesday over border talks with some openly questioning Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s strategy and others assailing colleagues for attacking the proposal before it’s even out.