Mitch McConnell says the GOP won’t have a legislative agenda for the 2022 midterms, and it’s no wonder: What few ideas the party has are deeply unpopular.

So that was dumb.

The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.

The question driving Vermont’s lone congressman to run for retiring Senator Patrick Leahy’s seat: “Are we going to defend democracy?”

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

The Build Back Better bill is on its way to the Senate, where Joe Manchin awaits.

With Build Back Better on ice, the upper body is moving forward with its regular round of defense spending.

If you think that Biden’s big social provision bill is dead, think again. And again, and again.

Unfortunately, the televised huckster would be well suited for the campaign trail, if not actually a Senate seat.

Republicans in Washington had hoped the popular New Hampshire governor could be convinced to leave his cool job and join them in the abject misery of their day-to-day existence.

The president has guaranteed the votes will be there for the Build Back Better Act. He’ll have to deliver.

Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema could leave the party—or the Grim Reaper could come calling.

Maine independent Senator Angus King is leading a chorus of voices urging the president to get in the game.

As the party seeks to shave down the price tag of the Biden agenda to appease holdouts, some Americans are going to get left behind.

The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.

Dig, if you will, the reconciliation budget package; the two Joes engaged in a deal.

She loved compromise when it was with Republicans. With Democrats to her left, not so much.

America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.

Manchin says $1.5 trillion. Sanders says $3.5. So split the difference, guys. Here’s one way to do it.

The party can avert fiscal catastrophe without the GOP’s help—but it’s a complicated nightmare.