It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.
Billionaires, foreign leaders and celebrities including Mike Tyson and Carrie Underwood will appear at the inauguration. Some prominent Democrats are taking a pass.
The former speaker clashed with Donald Trump throughout his first term, and the acrimony between the two persisted after he left office.
The president-elect and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack — spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom to their ultimate political gain.
There was a first-day-of-school energy on Capitol Hill as members of Congress took their oaths and Speaker Mike Johnson fought for his job.
A recent fall on a marble staircase at a palace in Luxembourg required the former speaker to have emergency hip replacement surgery.
Representative Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, the only Democrat in a leadership position to leave Congress this year, talked about her party, her competitive district, and what the Trump era has in store.
President Biden is upset that Representative Nancy Pelosi worked to get him out of the race. She is losing sleep over it.