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Ramsey Touchberry

Ramsey Touchberry is a national political reporter based in Washington. He formerly covered Congress for Newsweek.

Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The party of no? Not as much as you might think: GOP is mostly OK with Biden’s picks

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Kevin McCarthy, Roger Wicker and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

After opposing wildly popular stimulus package, GOP hopes to gnaw away at public support

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Marco Rubio and Ed Markey (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

To hell with “spring forward”! Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: Daylight saving time

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Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP’s new reality-warping message: Economic boom will have “nothing” to do with Biden stimulus

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Ranking member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) questions witnesses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of data breaches within several agencies and departments in the U.S. federal government. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Marco Rubio, GOP call massively popular child tax credit “welfare”; Democrats vow to keep it

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) questions President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Defense Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin answers questions during his confirmation before the Senate Armed Services Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Joe Manchin vows (yet again) the filibuster is here to stay — so much for Biden’s agenda

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Hakeem Jeffries and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jim Jordan, GOP fight “cancel culture” (on Capitol’s TV system) while Democrats fight pandemic

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Friday, March 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Watchdog group: Strip Lindsey Graham of Judiciary Committee post over Georgia phone call

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Roy Blunt, Richard Burr and Pat Toomey (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Senate Republicans keep bailing out for 2022, opening the door for more Trumpers

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., arrives in the Capitol for the Senate Republicans lunch on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Tom Cotton, Senate Republicans try to capitalize on stimulus checks going to prisoners

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Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Senate Democrats ditch the $15 wage: Does this spell doom for progressive reforms?

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Roger Marshall, John Thune and Mike Braun (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP senators target abortion access, trans athletes in proposed changes to COVID relief bill

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Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) (ALEXANDER DRAGO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sen. Ron Johnson, worth $40 million, derided as “face of the opposition” to COVID relief

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US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, holds up a "Stop the Steal" mask while speaking with fellow first-term Republican members of Congress on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 4, 2021. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

House Republicans are getting tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s pointless delay tactics

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U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who has announced he is switching from the Democratic to Republican Party, shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on December 19, 2019 in Washington, DC. Van Drew voted against the two articles of impeachment yesterday in the House of Representatives. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Ex-Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew slams bill as “socialism” — but he used to support it

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Army Maj. Gen. William Walker, Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard answers questions during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & Senate Rules and Administration joint hearing to discuss the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee is scheduled to hear testimony about DHS, FBI, National Guard and Department of Defense support and response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

D.C. National Guard commander tells Congress he was “stunned” by three-hour Jan. 6 delay

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Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Misleading GOP messaging forces Democrats to change landmark election reform bill

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FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: the January 6 Insurrection, Domestic Terrorism, and Other Threats, in Hart Building on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Republicans try to keep antifa conspiracy theory alive — FBI chief knocks them down

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U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in the Hyatt Regency on February 28, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. Begun in 1974, CPAC brings together conservative organizations, activists, and world leaders to discuss issues important to them. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Jim Jordan, MTG and other Republicans now falsely blaming Pelosi for Jan. 6 debacle

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Pete Snyder and Amanda Chase (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Pete Snyder Official Campaign)

Virginia GOP candidates woo the Trump base with transphobic hysteria

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