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Amanda Becker
Amanda Becker is our Washington correspondent. She has covered the U.S. Congress, the White House and elections for more than a decade. Becker previously worked at Reuters and CQ Roll Call. Her work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, The New Republic and Glamour magazine. Her political coverage has also been broadcast on National Public Radio.
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Democrats’ abortion bill fails — again — and they turn to November elections
The Women’s Health Protection Act failed to overcome the Senate filibuster a second time, as all Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin voted against it.
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How the Supreme Court leak immediately reverberated in U.S. Senate races
Democrats in competitive races quickly argued that they need more Senate seats to protect abortion access, while the Republican response was more muted — and sometimes didn’t reflect the reality of proposed legislation.
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Donna Edwards was on a journey. Now, she wants to win her old House seat back.
If the progressive Democrat wins in Maryland’s 4th District, she would again represent an epicenter of Black influence.
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Pennsylvania didn’t have a pipeline for candidates like Summer Lee — so she helped build one
Lee is seen as the front-runner in the Democratic primary to fill an open U.S. House seat near Pittsburgh.
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What Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s questions this week revealed about the GOP, gender and messaging
The Republican senator from Tennessee asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to define ‘woman’ — and showed how the party plans to make the case that it protects women and girls.
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Senate approves bill to ban the sale of crib bumpers for infants
Use of the soft barriers in infants’ cribs can increase the risk of suffocation and SIDS.
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Republicans see schools as 2022 political battleground
From exhausted ‘COVID moms’ to furor over critical race theory, the GOP sees schools as a way to both energize their base and pick up frustrated swing voters.
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House progressives urge Biden to support caregiving workforce and execute other Build Back Better priorities
With negotiations on the bill stalled in the Senate, lawmakers call on the White House to use executive authority ahead of the midterm elections.
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Collins, Murkowski introduce alternative Senate bill to codify abortion rights
The two Republican senators dropped the bill as an amendment to the Women’s Health Protection Act, which failed to pass the Senate Monday.
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Jessica Cisneros takes on the last anti-abortion U.S. House Democrat
The 28-year-old lawyer came close to defeating nine-term incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar in Texas in 2020. This year, Cisneros said she ‘owed it to the folks here to try it one more time.’