After Democratic News Today

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

WASHINGTON — After Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal over the weekend to fund the government, the Washington lawmaker who leads the Senate Appropriations Committee …

Adams County Democratic Party vice chair Linda Stepp argued, “it appears, in my opinion, that it is an effort to make a job for a crony. That’s the way it looks to me.”

The DCNF compiled a list of politicians who may be appointed to Dianne Feinstein's seat by Gavin Newsom, in keeping with his pledge to appoint a black woman.

Robin Vos is the longest-serving Assembly Speaker in state history and one of the most influential Republicans in Wisconsin.

After Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the weekend said he would sign a federal abortion ban after 3 months of pregnancy, his campaign said he "misunderstood" the reporter's question in a noisy Iowa hall.

After Democratic lawmaker Christine Trujillo resigned from the New Mexico house of representatives earlier this year, a young Democrat has been assigned to the seat. Billing herself as "the first Gen-Z democrat in the New Mexico State Legislature," Christina Parajon will represent House District 25, centered around San Mateo Boulevard and I-40.

After Democratic nominee Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, Congress changed the law to authorize Secret Service protection for major candidates.

D.C.’s 700,000 residents have no senator to lobby against the bill. We can only plead, like subjects of a colony.

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota was voted out of her committee assignment over previous remarks that were deemed antisemitic.