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FILE - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, Nov. 29, 2022, about their meeting with President Joe Biden. Congress is moving swiftly to prevent a looming U.S. rail workers strike. Lawmakers are reluctantly intervening in a labor dispute to stop what would surely be a devastating blow to the nation’s economy if the transportation of fuel, food and other...

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House imposes deal to avert rail strike

by Kevin Freking Associated Press, and Josh Funk Associated PressNovember 30, 2022

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters as the Senate works to pass a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government into mid-December, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate passes stopgap budget

by Kevin Freking Associated PressSeptember 29, 2022

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney speaks to supporters at her election night party, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, in New York. Maloney lost to U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District Democratic primary. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

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House panel to get Trump financial records

by Kevin Freking Associated PressSeptember 1, 2022

Activist and entertainer Jon Stewart hugs fellow advocate Susan Zeier of Sandusky, Ohio, just after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., assured veterans and military family members that the Senate will vote on a bill designed to help millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate OKs bill to aid vets exposed to toxic burn pits

by Kevin Freking Associated PressAugust 2, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks virtually during an event at the White House, Monday.

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Senate OKs computer chip legislation

by Kevin Freking Associated PressJuly 27, 2022

The flag-draped casket bearing the remains of Hershel W. "Woody" Williams is carried by joint service members into the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, July 14, 2022 in Washington, to lie in honor. Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died at age 98. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Congress honors Iwo Jima hero

by Kevin Freking Associated PressJuly 14, 2022

FILE - An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

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Senate OKs benefits for vets exposed to burn pits

by Kevin Freking Associated PressJune 16, 2022

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference, Thursday, June 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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House approves ‘red flag’ gun bill unlikely to pass Senate

by Kevin Freking Associated PressJune 9, 2022

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, walks to meet Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Capitol Hill, Monday, April 4, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Murkowski, Romney say they back Jackson, all but assuring confirmation

by Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press, Becky Bohrer Associated Press, and Kevin Freking Associated PressApril 4, 2022

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson shakes hands with Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, as she departs following her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Democrats appear united on Jackson; GOP votes may be elusive

by Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press, and Kevin Freking Associated PressMarch 25, 2022