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Republicans lose SCOTUS bid to use new Missouri map

The Supreme Court paused on Thursday an order from a federal trial court requiring Missouri to use a congressional map that favored Republicans. Thursday’s order leaves in place a state Supreme Court ruling that held the map adopted by the Republican-held legislature in 2025 was not legal because of a…

Roll Call · Sep 10

Trump puts himself on midterm ballot during Dallas spectacle

DALLAS and JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — President Donald Trump put himself on the midterm ballot Wednesday but acknowledged it would take more time to end the Iran war and lower gas prices. If some vulnerable Republican candidates were eager to distance themselves from an unpopular president, Trump used the…

Roll Call · Sep 10

Roll Call on the Road: Day One of the Republican midterm convention

Republicans convened Wednesday in Dallas for their first midterm convention, hoping to energize their voters and hone their campaign message heading into the fall elections. Speakers at the American Airlines Center extolled GOP-led achievements and warned against giving Democrats control of Congress next year. President Donald Trump was the night’s…

Roll Call · Sep 10

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Republicans make ‘crazed’ Democrats the focus of their first midterm convention

DALLAS – Joe Biden was the target of a few jabs. So was Kamala Harris. Mentions of Nancy Pelosi drew loud boos. But Republicans gathered here for a first-of-its-kind party convention eight weeks before the midterm elections mostly signaled they were ready to move on from the old guard of Democratic…

Roll Call · Sep 10

Census overhaul proposed by Trump administration could reshape Congress

The Trump administration proposed on Wednesday to exclude undocumented and temporary immigrants from the data used to apportion House seats after the 2030 census, continuing a push from his first term. The changes, coupled with reducing the demographic data collected about Americans, could mean shifts in congressional seats among states…

Roll Call · Sep 9

‘What happens if we do die?’: Congress still stalled on continuity plan after 9/11

Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years. Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’. Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out…

Roll Call · Sep 9

5 things to know about the Republican midterm convention

Republicans are gathering in Dallas this week for an unusual midterm convention. The two-day event, a first for the party, brings hundreds of GOP elected officials, candidates, donors and state and local party leaders to the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas. But unlike a typical party nominating convention, there…

Roll Call · Sep 9

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Pappas and Sununu set up marquee Senate clash in New Hampshire

Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas and Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu won their respective Senate primaries Tuesday in New Hampshire, formalizing a fall matchup for an open seat that both sides have already begun fighting over. With over 80 percent of votes counted, Pappas was leading biochemist Karishma Manzur, 65…

Roll Call · Sep 8

Federal judge orders Missouri to use map targeting Dem House seat

A federal court in Missouri ordered the state to use a GOP-preferred congressional map Tuesday following a state court ruling that would have axed the plan for this fall. The ruling, from Judge Stephen R. Clark for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, came minutes after…

Roll Call · Sep 8

With Bunch set to depart Smithsonian, Democrats urge ‘full history’

As Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch announced he will be leaving his role by the end of the year, Democrats in Congress praised him for trying to show the “full history” of America. Bunch was the first African American and the first historian to be appointed to the role. He has…

Roll Call · Sep 8

Trump heads to Dallas convention ahead of promised 30-day campaign blitz

President Donald Trump on Wednesday will head to a Republican midterm convention that will offer clues about the message he intends to deliver when he hits the campaign trail for a 30-day October blitz before Election Day. The GOP leader is set to address the party faithful Wednesday and Thursday…

Roll Call · Sep 8

Congress punts on big issues

Congress avoided a shutdown fight until December, but passed on several sticky problems it will need to address after Election Day. CQ Roll Editor in Chief Jason Dick and CQ Roll Call Budget Editor David Lerman outline the major fights looming in November in a very special Political Theater and…

Roll Call · Sep 8

NRCC adds 5 more candidates to ‘MAGA Majority’ program

The National Republican Congressional Committee is adding five new candidates to its “MAGA Majority” program for strong challengers, the group shared first Tuesday with CQ Roll Call. The additional candidates, who bring the total number of challengers in the program to 27, hail largely from Florida, which held its primary…

Roll Call · Sep 8

At the Races: Don’t take it for Granite

Welcome to a special edition of At the Races! Throughout the 2026 primary season, watch for these updates from the CQ Roll Call campaign team on what you need to know for Election Day. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Mary Ellen McIntire, Andrew…

Roll Call · Sep 8

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Roll Call · Sep 4

Congress punts on big issues

Congress avoided a shutdown fight until December, but passed on several sticky problems it will need to address after Election Day. CQ Roll Call Editor in Chief Jason Dick and CQ Roll Call Budget Editor David Lerman outline the major fights looming in November in a very special Political Theater…

Roll Call · Sep 4

Pappas keeps focus on November amid signs of tightening Senate primary

PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Chris Pappas has been seen as Democrats’ presumed Senate nominee in New Hampshire since he entered the race more than a year ago. And for most of that time, the four-term congressman has also been viewed as a slight favorite to hold the seat of retiring fellow…

Roll Call · Sep 4

GOP consensus elusive on timing, scope of data centers bill

As anger mounts over the impacts of data centers, Republicans are wrestling with legislation that would address concerns over increased electricity and water demand that many voters associate with higher utility bills. But it’s not yet clear if any solution can move in the now-shortened September work period before House…

Roll Call · Sep 4

Photos of the week | August 28-September 3, 2026

The House returned to Washington for a brief bit of work this week before heading out for another recess. Two new members were sworn in, and the clouds returned to the sculpture in the Hart atrium. Here are photographs of the action captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

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Roll Call · Sep 4

NTIA opens door to new federal broadband grants

More broadband deployment funding could be headed to states to serve locations missed in earlier rounds of a $42 billion federal grant program. The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced Thursday that it plans to accept new proposals from states under the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.…

Roll Call · Sep 4

Social media debate shaken up by Meta settlement

Those who’ve fought on Capitol Hill to rein in social media platforms see last week’s settlement between Meta and state attorneys general not as a final destination, but as a roadmap to what’s possible. Privacy and First Amendment advocates are worried they’re right. The settlement comes as the House and…

Roll Call · Sep 3

Missouri and Maryland high courts hand Democrats a pair of redistricting wins

Democrats received some good news on the redistricting front Thursday, with a pair of favorable rulings from the supreme courts of Missouri and Maryland. In Missouri, the state’s high court blocked the use of a new Republican-drawn congressional map this November, overturning a lower court ruling and setting up a…

Roll Call · Sep 3

Higher Social Security payroll taxes no longer taboo for GOP

Some Republicans are slowly warming to the idea of raising payroll taxes on upper-income households to shore up Social Security. Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker of Pennsylvania, a top candidate to lead House Budget Committee Republicans in the next Congress, said Thursday that raising the cap on income subject to Social…

Roll Call · Sep 3

Former Rep. Charles Hatcher dies at age 87

Former Rep. Charles Hatcher, who championed Georgia’s peanut industry for over a decade until losing his seat in House in 1992, has died at the age of 87. The Georgia Democrat died Tuesday in Alexandria, Va., according to local news reports. The cause of death was not specified. “Georgia lost…

Roll Call · Sep 3

Vance sidesteps endorsing Thune to continue as leader, plays coy on 2028 plans

A day after Donald Trump said flatly that someone else will be president in two-and-a-half years, Vice President JD Vance reignited the 2028 embers Thursday with another turn at the White House briefing room podium, though he played coy about his own plans. Vance sparred with reporters over the conflict…

Roll Call · Sep 3

At the Races: Labor Day reds and blues

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, Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski Organized labor is ramping up for the midterms. In her annual…

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