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Sen. Lankford says a 'popular commentator' threatened to 'do whatever I can to destroy you' if he negotiated a border deal during a presidential election year
Lankford, the top GOP negotiator on the border security deal, has faced blistering criticism from f…
Bryan Metzger
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RESULTS: Oklahoma held congressional, state, and local primary elections
Both of Oklahoma's US Senate seats are up for election this year after Sen. Jim Inhofe announced pl…
Madison Hall
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Live Results: Republican Sen. James Lankford faces off against Democrat Madison Horn in one of two US Senate elections in Oklahoma
Republican incumbent James Lankford is vying for a second term against Democrat Madison Horn, a Che…
Hanna Kang
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Insider talked to 34 lawmakers, journalists, Capitol workers, Trump officials, and others who lived through the January 6 insurrection. Here's what we learned.
A year later, investigations into the January 6 insurrection continue. Survivors and the nation are…
Adam Wren
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GOP senator from Oklahoma apologizes to his Black constituents for casting doubt on the integrity of election results and sparking 'a firestorm of suspicion'
"I deeply regret my blindness to that perception, and for that I am sorry," Sen. James Lankford sai…
Grace Panetta
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These 38 GOP senators just voted against protecting contraception. Here's why.
Republicans complained that Democrats were simply holding a show vote. But they also said they were…
Bryan Metzger
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Trump hates the bipartisan immigration-Ukraine deal so much that he's falsely claiming he didn't endorse the GOP senator who helped write it
Trump is misleading people about his past support for Republican Sen. James Lankford as conservativ…
Brent D. Griffiths
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The Senate has a new plan to ban congressional stock trading. Here's what's in it.
A key Senate committee marked up new legislation that would ban lawmakers from trading stocks. Now …
Bryan Metzger
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GOP senator says some conservatives might scuttle a bipartisan immigration-Ukraine deal to stick it to Biden
"There are some that are saying, 'Hey, we don't want Biden to actually get credit for doing anythin…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Why Congressional Republicans are imploding before our eyes
Trump has clearly worsened the situation, but the rot was there long before him.
Brent D. Griffiths
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Sen. Chris Murphy, who helped broker the failed border security package, says it's 'worrying' that Mitch McConnell couldn't deliver more votes: 'No one is in charge over there'
"I mean, no one is in charge over there right now," Murphy told Politico Magazine of the Senate GOP…
John L. Dorman
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A Democratic senator said he's 'gobsmacked' the GOP turned its back on the immigration bill: 'They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it'
"I've never seen anything like it," Sen. Brian Schatz wrote on X. "They literally demanded specific…
Madison Hall
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Nearly 97,000 Indians held trying to enter US illegally between Oct 2022 to Sept 2023
A record 96,917 Indians were arrested while crossing illegally into the US between October 2022 and…
PTI
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Congressional Republicans want to kill a bipartisan border bill to give Trump an edge in the election
Senate Republicans and Democrats have attempted to negotiate border-related legislation for weeks.
Madison Hall,Brent D. Griffit…
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These 22 GOP senators are already opposed to the bipartisan border security proposal and the bill is already stalling
Less than 24 hours after the bill was announced, nearly half of GOP senators rejected it. And House…
Bryan Metzger
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These 17 GOP senators still haven't endorsed Trump and some of them probably never will
Some seemingly haven't gotten around to it, others say they'll back Trump once he becomes the nomin…
Bryan Metzger
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Members of Congress are so tired of government shutdowns that some want to pass a bill to get rid of them forever
Politico obtained a letter from a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing to permanently end the gove…
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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Here are the 11 Republicans who voted against the PACT Act, which boosts healthcare for veterans exposed to toxins during war
The 11 Republicans voted against the bill a week after 30 of their GOP colleagues had joined them i…
Charles R. Davis
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It's still not clear what the Senate Ethics Committee is doing with a 2-year-old January 6 probe into Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley
A group of senators asked the panel to investigate "improper conduct" by the two Republicans. But t…
Bryan Metzger
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Republican senator who led the push to end mask mandates on planes and public transport tests positive for COVID-19 for the 3rd time in a year
Sen. Roger Wicker, who had COVID in August 2021 and February 2022, previously told Insider that the…