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WASHINGTON Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.

Check out how Congressman Chuck Edwards and Senators Ted Budd and Thom Tillis voted.

WASHINGTON — Heres a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.

Republican senators joined Democrat colleagues in advancing multiple judicial nominees from a Senate panel after a weekslong pause ...

David Leonhardt: "Biden and other Democrats had hoped for the appointment of judges — both to federal trial courts (known as District Courts) and to appeals courts (known as Circuit Courts) — to be a major accomplishment this year. That plan is now in doubt because Democrats do not have the vote

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has been absent from the Senate since early March, when she was hospitalized with shingles, leaving Democrats unable to advance several of President Joe Biden’s judicial

We look at the costs of Dianne Feinstein’s absence to the Democratic Party’s agenda.

Feinstein’s absence means Democrats no longer hold their slim majority in the Senate, and it slows down the work of the chamber’s Judicial Committee, on which the California Democrat sits.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced seven of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees on a bipartisan vote, as concerns mount over how judges will be confirmed as Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains absent from Washington.

Democrats are raising concerns about the nomination of Michael Delaney to an appeals court over his signature on a legal brief defending a parental notification law for abortions in New Hampshire, marking a rare rebuke of President Joe Bidens federal judicial selections by lawmakers seeking to defend their pro-abortion rights positions.