Latest from Paul Kane
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Biden’s slow and steady approach on Cabinet choices seems to be working
President Biden remains on track to confirm every initial choice for the 15 traditional Cabinet departments — a feat that was last achieved in 1981 by Ronald Reagan.
- Mar 6, 2021
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As crucial pandemic vote approaches, Democrats guard their slim Senate majority
If one Democrat has a fever, breaks an ankle or takes a bad fall, the legislative process would come to a stop.
- Mar 4, 2021
Murkowski emerges as focus of Biden effort to find GOP support for his agenda
The independent-minded Republican senator says she is focused on securing help for Alaska, which has been hit hard by the pandemic: ‘My state needs relief.’
- Mar 3, 2021
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Most House Republicans voted not to certify some election results. Democrats are still seething.
The votes that followed the siege of the Capitol are a red line upon which new House Democrats are basing their decisions on which Republicans to work with.
- Feb 27, 2021
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After the Jan. 6 ransacking, Congress debates how open the Capitol should be
The push and pull — actual safety versus the importance of symbolic freedom — came to a head at Tuesday’s hearing.
- Feb 24, 2021
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For Raskin and the House managers arguing to convict Trump, less was more
This year’s House team focused on having more succinct presentations with more rotation of speakers.
- Feb 13, 2021
House impeachment managers emphasize the danger to Pence and other top officials in harrowing retelling of Jan. 6 attack
The powerful presentation commanded the full attention of the Senate Chamber, but it remains unclear whether it would sway enough Republicans to convict former president Donald Trump.
- Feb 10, 2021
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Sen. Cassidy’s impeachment trial vote shows he might want to be a bipartisan dealmaker
The Louisiana Republican has been signaling for a few months that he wants to be a more independent force.
- Feb 10, 2021
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Pat Toomey wants free trade and less spending. That’s made him a outlier in his own party.
Toomey’s economic vision was once central to the conservative mission. But not under Trump.
- Feb 6, 2021
After losing committee assignments, Marjorie Taylor Greene says she has been ‘freed’ to push the GOP further right
The House freshman from Georgia addressed reporters a day after every Democrat and 11 Republicans voted to remove her from committees as punishment for extremist rhetoric.
- Feb 5, 2021