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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are scraping together a last-minute plan to let Medicare negotiate prices directly with manufacturers for some prescription drugs ahead of the midterm elections, according to a summary of the plan obtained by CQ Roll Call.

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

The House fiscal 2023 spending bills have 4,386 earmarks, for a total of $8.2 billion, a CQ Roll Call analysis found.

“Security is a journey. There’s no destination,” said Walker J. Walker, who took over as House sergeant-at-arms after the Jan. 6 attack.

Incumbents facing each other in Illinois primaries are Republicans Mary Miller and Rodney Davis and Democrats Marie Newman and Sean Casten.

It’s been quite a week: The House Select Jan. 6 panel continued its hearings with major revelations, both chambers of Congress passed major gun safety legislation that now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk, and the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. After finishing their work, lawmakers left town Friday and…

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

CQ Roll Call’s David Lerman and Peter Cohn delve into the bipartisan NDAA bill that upped the ante on defense spending.

As the Jan. 6 committee hearings dominated the news in the Capitol, Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the week's events.

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

The Senate’s gun violence framework expands mental health treatment, but there's little connection between gun violence and mental illness.