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House Republicans unveiled legislation Wednesday to pair spending cuts and energy and regulatory policies with a debt limit increase.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's attempt to step aside temporarily from a key Senate panel is in doubt

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are more interested in biomedical research than ever, but with limited funds for nondefense spending, experts worry the National Institutes of Health could end up in competition with the new agency the Biden administration wants to build to confront the toughest problems.

The former presidential nominee was also the only Republican to vote to convict the ex-president in both impeachment trials

White House has proposed relatively flat funding for NIH and is seeking $1 billion increase for NIH's newer, flashier cousin, ARPA-H.

WASHINGTON — It seems counterintuitive in a time of intense partisanship and narrowly divided government, but the share of House votes where majorities in the two parties lined up on opposite sides from each other was lower last year than has been in more than a decade.

Only one Democrat voted with the party less than 90 percent of the time on votes where the parties were split last year, CQ Roll Call found.

White House thinks the only way to reach Sinema is to let private equity executives lobby her, Politico reports

WASHINGTON — New Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., knows that returning the chamber’s appropriations process to regular order “won’t be a walk in the park,” as she said during a news conference last week.