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Six Democrats are vying for the nomination to take on Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., on Tuesday.

Campaigns

5 races to watch in Arizona’s primary on Tuesday

Battleground state voters will set matchups for open Senate seat and for key House districts

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted July 26, 2024 at 1:25pm

Balloons drop from the rafters after former President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18.

Campaigns

Base seemed OK that GOP pushed ‘big tent’ appeal at convention

By Briana Reilly
Posted July 26, 2024 at 2:15pm
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Thursday.

Congress

Senators seek answers on dwindling fund for crime victims

By David Lerman
Posted July 26, 2024 at 11:30am
Sens. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., left, and George McGovern, D-S.D., the Democratic nominees for vice president and president, respectively, at the Democratic National Convention in 1972. Eagleton dropped off the ticket less than three weeks later after revealing he had been treated for depression.

Podcasts

Yes things feel crazy, but elections are frequently chaotic, from LBJ to RBG and more

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 26, 2024 at 11:06am
Vice President Kamala Harris’ rise as the expected Democratic presidential nominee — who’s “brat” on social media — highlights this week’s Congressional Hits and Misses.

Video

Brat and scat — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted July 26, 2024 at 3:58pm
House Oversight Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., and ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., listen during a Secret Service oversight hearing Monday on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Photos of the week ending July 26, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 26, 2024 at 9:55am
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., are seen in the Capitol on July 8.

Massive veterans budget gap rips hole in appropriations process

By Aidan Quigley
Posted July 26, 2024 at 9:18am

The Complete AI and ChatGPT How-To Guide For Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 29, 2024 at 5:13pm
Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn, center, join families of victims of online abuse at a news conference Thursday on the childrens' online safety bill that advanced in the Senate.

Senate tees up kids online safety bill for vote next week

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted July 25, 2024 at 5:57pm
Alaska Republican Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski reacted angrily to reports that the U.S. military intercepted Russian and Chinese fighter jets roughly 200 miles off the coast of their state.

Chinese and Russian jets fly near Alaska, perturbing senators

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted July 25, 2024 at 5:52pm
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., left, is seen with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the House floor before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday.

Interior-Environment spending bill passes House in late-night surprise

By Valerie Yurk and David Lerman
Posted July 25, 2024 at 5:33pm

What Constituent Correspondence Reveals About Voter Sentiment

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 28, 2024 at 11:41am
House Republicans finished off their July by adopting a resolution condemning Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of the southern border. Above, Speaker Mike Johnson and Harris are seen in April.

Messaging bills are loud, but do voters hear them?

By Jim Saksa
Posted July 25, 2024 at 4:29pm
National Park Service workers replace one of the American flags outside Union Station on Thursday that had been removed during protests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of Congress.

Capitol Lens | Cleaning up

By Bill Clark
Posted July 25, 2024 at 2:05pm
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses an event with descendants of iconic civil rights leaders to celebrate Black History Month at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 13.

Harris’ Senate portfolio included maternal health, telehealth

By Jessie Hellmann and Ariel Cohen
Posted July 25, 2024 at 7:00am

2024 CQ Election Watch Briefing Series

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted April 22, 2024 at 12:11am
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, addresses the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Vance pick for VP muddies push for rail safety bill

By Valerie Yurk
Posted July 25, 2024 at 7:00am

Capitol Ink | Fist bump with history

By R.J. Matson
Posted July 25, 2024 at 7:00am
A crowd gathers in front of the Supreme Court building on June 26, 2013, ahead of a key ruling that struck down parts of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Gay conservatives were early and important voices in the fight to legalize same-sex marriage, according to a recent book.

How Republicans helped shape gay activism in America

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted July 25, 2024 at 6:15am

FiscalNote Copilot for Policy

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted July 15, 2024 at 8:45pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders is not someone who Wall Street, oil and gas, and pharmaceutical industries want to see on the tax-writing committee.

Sanders may bring his populist brand to powerful Finance panel

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 25, 2024 at 5:00am
President Joe Biden delivers an address Wednesday from the Oval Office of the White House about his decision to not seek reelection.

‘Presidents are not kings’: Biden issues warning as he explains campaign decision

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 24, 2024 at 9:02pm
Chair Gary Peters, D-Mich., helped broker a new version of a bill to ban lawmaker stock trading, which advanced out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

Lawmaker stock-trading ban legislation advances in Senate

By Justin Papp
Posted July 24, 2024 at 6:28pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol. In the back are Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.

Netanyahu defends approach to war in Gaza to GOP cheers

By Rachel Oswald
Posted July 24, 2024 at 5:52pm
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., holds a “guilty of genocide,” sign as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress on Wednesday. Outside, thousands were protesting the speech, including some Hill staffers.

Staffers join thousands in fiery protests of Netanyahu on Capitol Hill

By Justin Papp and Daniela Altimari
Posted July 24, 2024 at 5:42pm
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., right, and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the GOP vice presidential nominee, talk at the Fiserv Forum on July 15 during the Republican National Convention.

Why JD Vance might not carry Trump’s MAGA torch into the future

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 24, 2024 at 2:41pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing for the agency Wednesday.

FBI director tells House panel details about Trump rally shooting

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 24, 2024 at 1:23pm
President Joe Biden walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Feb. 20, 2024.

Republicans should be careful what they wish for on Biden resignation

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 24, 2024 at 1:03pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters after his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday.

House lawmakers to start summer break Thursday morning

By David Lerman and Valerie Yurk
Posted July 24, 2024 at 12:02pm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vice President Kamala Harris shake hands at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 17.

How Kamala Harris could approach foreign conflicts as president

By Caroline Coudriet, John M. Donnelly and Mark Satter
Posted July 24, 2024 at 10:56am
Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar speaks to reporters as she arrives for the Senate Democrats’ lunch in the Capitol.

Klobuchar staying put, not interested in Menendez’s Finance slot

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 23, 2024 at 8:27pm
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, seen in the Capitol on March 13, has expressed concern that the CDC has strayed from its original public health mission and is doing too much.

Four years after COVID-19, CDC’s mission divides Capitol Hill 

By Ariel Cohen
Posted July 23, 2024 at 6:18pm
Several groups have announced plans to protest as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress this week. Above, Netanyahu is pictured in Tel Aviv on Oct. 12, 2023.

Capitol hunkers down ahead of Netanyahu speech

By Justin Papp
Posted July 22, 2024 at 6:42pm, Updated July 23, 2024 at 5:15pm
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez plans to resign after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Facing possible expulsion, Menendez plans to resign from Senate

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted July 23, 2024 at 5:10pm
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, at a campaign rally in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

Harris jabs Trump in campaign trail debut as unexpected race takes shape

By John T. Bennett
Posted July 23, 2024 at 4:23pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last address to a joint meeting of Congress in 2015.

Netanyahu address creates a dilemma for Democrats

By Rachel Oswald
Posted July 23, 2024 at 3:53pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a news conference at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Tuesday.

Schumer, Jeffries back Harris, predict Democratic sweep

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 23, 2024 at 3:08pm
House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, seen here in 2023, this week hailed the fall of Chevron deference as a chance to “rein in the administrative state.”

A bigger, bolder Congress? Panel debates how to respond to end of Chevron deference

By Jim Saksa
Posted July 23, 2024 at 2:59pm

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