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Photos of the week | August 1-6, 2026

It’s expected to be the final week before full-on August recess (fingers crossed). As the Senate raced to wrap up, a committee voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination moved out of committee. And candidates for the GOP nomination to replace Sen.…

Roll Call · Aug 7

Embattled Rep. Andy Ogles loses Republican primary in Tennessee

Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles lost his primary Thursday, becoming the third House Republican to lose a renomination bid this year. Ogles was trailing former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, 53 percent to 47 percent, when The Associated Press called the race for the 5th District at 10:10 p.m. Thursday. The…

Roll Call · Aug 6

Cassidy’s hepatitis C bill delayed over CBO score

A bipartisan bill aimed at combating hepatitis C is stalled in the Senate due to a high score from the Congressional Budget Office, the bill’s lead sponsor Bill Cassidy, R-La., said on Thursday. The bill, co-sponsored by Sen Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., proposes a national strategy to reduce hepatitis C…

Roll Call · Aug 6

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Farm bill rejected in partisan split over food stamp cost-sharing

The Senate Agriculture Committee rejected a five-year farm bill Thursday at a contentious markup plagued by Republican absences and a Democratic rebellion over plans for imposing food stamp costs on state governments. The 10-11 vote defeating the 983-page bill marked a rare break from the bipartisan support that typically accompanies…

Roll Call · Aug 6

FCC opens door to larger local broadcast ownership groups

Local television ownership groups could grow after the Federal Communications Commission took a controversial vote to remove the national ownership cap. The FCC voted, 2-1, at its August open meeting Thursday to lift the cap, which limited individual broadcasters’ ownership to stations that in aggregate reached no more than 39 percent…

Roll Call · Aug 6

McConnell says he’s left rehab center to ‘continue my recovery at home’

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office said Thursday he was released from a rehabilitation center and is continuing his recovery at home. “On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I’ll continue to engage with my staff and…

Roll Call · Aug 6

At the Races: Crossing lines

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 and Mary Ellen McIntire Poll after poll suggests Americans are deeply split along partisan lines on most…

Roll Call · Aug 6

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Capitol Lens | That’ll do, pig

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina Gov. and Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., is pictured on the steps of the State House on Thursday with pigs to discuss wasteful spending in the federal government. Sanford is running in an Aug. 11 special primary in his state to replace the late Sen. Lindsey…

Roll Call · Aug 6

Don’t underestimate ultraliberal Dems, some GOP senators warn Trump

Several GOP senators warned that Donald Trump should focus his midterm messaging more on how Republicans plan to help voters and less on casting ultraliberal Democratic candidates as communist monsters. The president again on Wednesday, during a stop just off the Las Vegas Strip, described a number of democratic socialist…

Roll Call · Aug 6

Fauci could face criminal contempt charge following panel vote

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on Thursday to hold former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci in criminal contempt of Congress for declining to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a highly charged hearing last week. The Thursday morning…

Roll Call · Aug 6

At Las Vegas campaign stop, Trump slams Michigan winner Abdul El-Sayed

President Donald Trump on Wednesday took his midterm campaign show to a casino a few miles off the Las Vegas strip in Nevada, where Republicans are targeting three light-blue House seats with control of the chamber on the line in November. The head of the Republican Party hit on his…

Roll Call · Aug 5

Maryland voters to weigh in on redrawing state’s congressional map

Maryland voters will weigh in on an amendment to the state constitution this fall that would allow for congressional redistricting before the 2028 elections. Democratic Gov. Wes Moore held a signing ceremony for the proposed amendment Wednesday, a day after the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature approved it in a special session.…

Roll Call · Aug 5

Republicans rush to define El-Sayed as Democrats try to move past bitter primary

Michigan Democrats sought Wednesday to turn the page on a bitter Senate primary, as Republicans made their opening attacks on newly anointed Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed, a former local public health official running on an unabashedly progressive agenda, narrowly defeated the more centrist Rep. Haley Stevens in a divisive…

Roll Call · Aug 5

They once condemned bad behavior in the House. Now, it’s ‘not my business’

Four months ago, calls denouncing misconduct came swiftly, and all at once. Now, it’s near silence. Allegations surrounding two House Republicans reached a fever pitch this week, as Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina dropped out of his reelection campaign due to a report detailing “inappropriate conduct” toward two female…

Roll Call · Aug 5

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Roll Call · Aug 5

Opt-out testing for hepatitis C seen as key to fighting disease

LONDON — At King’s College Hospital in the south of London, anyone who has blood drawn in the emergency department is automatically tested for hepatitis B and C. Posters throughout the facility inform patients that the screening is routine, part of a new approach helping find and treat thousands of…

Roll Call · Aug 5

The Roll Call and 535 deep dive on cryptocurrency

Roll Call Editor in Chief Jason Dick and 535 Editor in Chief Brody Mullins discuss major cryptocurrency legislation in the 119th Congress with CQ Roll Call financial services staff writer Mark Schoeff Jr. for the Roll Call/535 Policy Podcast Series. Show Notes:

Roll Call · Aug 5

Chuck Edwards drops reelection bid after Ethics panel recommends censure

North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards announced early Wednesday he was dropping his reelection bid, two days after a House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured for engaging in “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two female staffers. The move comes as some Republicans have expressed concern over retaining his 11th…

Roll Call · Aug 5

Progressive Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic Senate primary in Michigan

Former local public health official Abdul El-Sayed has won a high-profile Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, advancing to a general election that will test whether a progressive Democrat can win statewide in a key Midwestern battleground. El-Sayed, a former public health official, was leading Rep. Haley Stevens by…

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Roll Call · Aug 5

DCCC adds 12 Republican-held seats to its target list

House Democrats are zeroing in on 12 additional Republican targets in deep-red districts, nearly all of which President Donald Trump carried by double digits in 2024. The new additions bring the total number of House seats targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to 58. And it reflects the party’s…

Roll Call · Aug 5

Rep. Wesley Bell defeats predecessor Cori Bush in high-profile Missouri primary

Missouri Rep. Wesley Bell crushed a comeback attempt by his predecessor Cori Bush, a democratic socialist and sharp critic of the war in Gaza, in a high-profile Democratic primary Tuesday that drew millions of dollars in ads from pro-Israel groups. With more than 95 percent of votes in, Bell was…

Roll Call · Aug 5

South Dakota Democratic nominee exits Senate race, bolstering independent rival

The Democratic Senate nominee in South Dakota ended his campaign Tuesday following calls from party activists to exit the race and leave independent Brian Bengs as the main competitor against Republican Sen. Mike Rounds. Julian Beaudion, a former state trooper, cited “extraordinary personal challenges,” including a house fire, financial struggles…

Roll Call · Aug 4

Capitol Lens | Cloud pleaser

Caution tape surrounds an area near Alexander Calder’s “Mountains and Clouds” sculpture in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. Reinstallation of the hanging clouds portion of the iconic sculpture, to be hung in the atrium, is expected to be done during the August recess. [It could be a very…

Roll Call · Aug 4

Pentagon: National Guard in DC to cost another $1.43 billion

The Trump administration’s planned deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., through the end of his presidential term will cost $1.43 billion, or $51 million a month, in addition to the amount spent so far, according to a new Pentagon estimate. The new estimate of the costs going forward,…

Roll Call · Aug 4

Ethics Committee launches probe into Max Miller

The House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday it will investigate allegations of domestic violence and abuse and illegal drug use against Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller. The announcement comes after Miller wrote on X that he was asking the panel to look into him and that he has “absolutely nothing to…

Roll Call · Aug 4

Blanche’s AG nomination moves ahead after delay

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday favorably reported Todd Blanche’s bid to be attorney general after some Republican senators delayed the vote over the Trump administration’s controversial “weaponization” fund. Key GOP holdouts on the committee, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted in favor of advancing Blanche’s nomination…

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