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Congress Archive

Archives for July 2020

Politics
Val Demings’s tenure as Orlando’s police chief complicates her consideration for VPVal Demings’s tenure as Orlando’s police chief complicates her consideration for VP
Politics

Activists raise concerns about Demings’s police past: “Why would you put a cop on the ticket?”

By Li Zhou
Live results for the New Jersey primaries
Politics

The state was a major battleground for House races in 2018 — and is poised to be one again in 2020.

By Li Zhou and Cameron Peters
Politics
The Senate goes home for July Fourth recess as states wait on coronavirus stimulusThe Senate goes home for July Fourth recess as states wait on coronavirus stimulus
Politics

Economists see the uncertainty as devastating for state budgets.

By Li Zhou
Politics
Exclusive: Senate Democrats press AG Barr for answers about poll closures on Native American reservationsExclusive: Senate Democrats press AG Barr for answers about poll closures on Native American reservations
Politics

Senate Democrats are worried coronavirus could bring mass closures of Native American polling places.

By Ella Nilsen
Politics
Jamaal Bowman on how Congress can dismantle institutional racismJamaal Bowman on how Congress can dismantle institutional racism
Politics

Bowman just defeated Rep. Eliot Engel in New York. Here’s what he wants to do next.

By Ella Nilsen

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