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NTIA opens door to new federal broadband grants

More broadband deployment funding could be headed to states to serve locations missed in earlier rounds of a $42 billion federal grant program. The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced Thursday that it plans to accept new proposals from states under the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.…

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Social media debate shaken up by Meta settlement

Those who’ve fought on Capitol Hill to rein in social media platforms see last week’s settlement between Meta and state attorneys general not as a final destination, but as a roadmap to what’s possible. Privacy and First Amendment advocates are worried they’re right. The settlement comes as the House and…

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Missouri and Maryland high courts hand Democrats a pair of redistricting wins

Democrats received some good news on the redistricting front Thursday, with a pair of favorable rulings from the supreme courts of Missouri and Maryland. In Missouri, the state’s high court blocked the use of a new Republican-drawn congressional map this November, overturning a lower court ruling and setting up a…

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Higher Social Security payroll taxes no longer taboo for GOP

Some Republicans are slowly warming to the idea of raising payroll taxes on upper-income households to shore up Social Security. Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker of Pennsylvania, a top candidate to lead House Budget Committee Republicans in the next Congress, said Thursday that raising the cap on income subject to Social…

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Former Rep. Charles Hatcher dies at age 87

Former Rep. Charles Hatcher, who championed Georgia’s peanut industry for over a decade until losing his seat in House in 1992, has died at the age of 87. The Georgia Democrat died Tuesday in Alexandria, Va., according to local news reports. The cause of death was not specified. “Georgia lost…

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Vance sidesteps endorsing Thune to continue as leader, plays coy on 2028 plans

A day after Donald Trump said flatly that someone else will be president in two-and-a-half years, Vice President JD Vance reignited the 2028 embers Thursday with another turn at the White House briefing room podium, though he played coy about his own plans. Vance sparred with reporters over the conflict…

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At the Races: Labor Day reds and blues

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Daniela Altimari, Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski Organized labor is ramping up for the midterms. In her annual…

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Second Epstein petition looks for Republican support

For Rep. Thomas Massie, time is running out in his latest effort to extract more files from the Justice Department related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He’s leading a push to sidestep House leaders and bring another bill to the floor, dubbing it the Epstein Files Transparency Act…

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House plans quick September exit

House Republicans are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections. Under the revised schedule announced Thursday, the House will return for votes the evening of Monday, Sept. 14, a week after Labor Day, for what is now expected to be…

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Massachusetts primary results offer hope across the Democratic spectrum

An 80-year-old progressive who’s been in Congress for nearly five decades won a key Senate primary by demanding “Medicare for All” and embracing transgender rights. A pair of septuagenarian House Democrats turned back younger, more liberal challengers by highlighting the benefits of seniority and their skill at bringing federal funding…

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Democratic race for Pappas seat in New Hampshire grows increasingly bitter

MANCHESTER, N.H. – The last competitive Democratic House primary of the year hasn’t been shaped much by the centrist vs. progressive narrative that has dotted intraparty contests around the country this year. What’s more noticeable is how the crowded contest for New Hampshire’s 1st District seat being vacated by Democratic…

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Congress looks to stop horsing around on wild mustangs and burros

Wild horses roaming the untamed West have become a symbol of the American frontier. But through gaps in existing policy, many still find themselves in slaughter pipelines across both the southern and northern borders each year. Advocates are calling on Congress to change that and codify protections for wild mustangs…

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Capitol Lens | Bay Area bonus

Rep. Aisha Wahab, D-Calif., poses with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in the Capitol on Wednesday during her ceremonial swearing in. The California Democrat won the special election on Aug. 18 to replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned on April 14, in the state’s 14th District. She is the first…

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Top Dems, voting groups gear up for potential midterm ‘emergency’

Some congressional Democrats and voting-rights advocates are taking President Donald Trump’s not ruling out a national emergency declaration around November’s midterm elections seriously and literally. Trump raised eyebrows last month during an interview with conservative commentator Wayne Allyn Root, who had suggested to the president that he could simply declare…

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Members renew proxy voting push ahead of next Congress

By the time Brittany Pettersen’s son was 6 months old, he’d taken 24 flights. The Colorado Democrat’s son is no world traveler — his time on planes as an infant was spent with Pettersen flying back and forth to Washington for votes. As the House considers potential rules changes for…

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Shades of 2006 loom large two months out from Election Day

ANALYSIS — Despite adverse political conditions, Republicans still have an opportunity to hold both the House and the Senate this fall. But it’s also possible that the bottom will fall out from under them, leading to heavy GOP losses reminiscent of an election 20 years ago. Back in 2006, there…

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Markey coasts to victory over Moulton in Massachusetts primary

Sen. Edward J. Markey, the 80-year-old progressive stalwart from Massachusetts, sailed to victory in his Democratic primary Tuesday as a pair of septuagenarian House Democrats turned back younger challengers. With their victories, Reps. Stephen F. Lynch and Richard E. Neal avoided joining the seven House Democrats to lose primary challenges…

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‘Socialism in all its forms’ denounced by the House

The House on Tuesday adopted a resolution denouncing “socialism in all its forms,” boosting a Republican messaging push just two months before the midterm elections. It also calls for passage of a GOP-backed voter ID bill — language that further diminished Democratic support for the measure, even among lawmakers who…

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Rep. Chuck Edwards censured by House after harassment probe

House members on Tuesday censured Rep. Chuck Edwards for sexual harassment of two former staffers, even as he insisted that poetry he wrote and gifts he gave were not intended to be romantic. They voted overwhelmingly, 413-2, to censure Edwards and adopt a report from the Ethics Committee detailing “persistent…

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Hawks lament Pentagon ‘churn’ after Army secretary’s resignation

Defense-minded lawmakers are growing concerned about leadership vacuums in the military following the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. “I’m tired of all the churn. I want to see some stability,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., told reporters Tuesday. Pressed on if he’s concerned about a leadership…

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Foes gear up to counter Trump’s possible election moves

President Donald Trump was nonchalant last week when asked about a contested administration rule that would use the U.S. Postal Service to weed out allegedly illegal midterm election ballots. His foes say that’s all part of a broader plan, even as they offered few sure-fire ways to stop it. Trump…

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Funding extension clears House, avoiding shutdown threat

The House easily cleared a stopgap spending bill Tuesday that would keep federal agencies funded through Dec. 11, avoiding the risk of a partial government shutdown this fall. On a lopsided vote of 370-48, the House sent to President Donald Trump’s desk a short-term funding patch despite objections from hard-line…

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House finds Cherfilus-McCormick associates in contempt

Lawmakers voted to hold two associates of former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick in contempt of Congress, accusing them of failing to comply with multiple subpoenas. The House adopted the resolutions by voice vote Tuesday, referring the matter to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution. While the Florida Democrat resigned from…

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Rule for debate on mining, whales, socialism measures squeaks by

House GOP leaders on Tuesday narrowly gathered enough support to adopt a rule allowing their side’s bills to come to the floor, after concerns related to a stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded through the midterm elections nearly derailed the procedural resolution. After resounding passage of the stopgap…

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Panel punts kids’ social media ban for data consent mandate

Legislation that would require parental consent for social media platforms to process data for users under 16 advanced out of a House panel on Tuesday, after it was amended to remove a proposed ban on social media accounts for kids. The bill, as amended, won approval by voice vote in…

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