Senate Democrats should overrule Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough's decision that legislation to raise the federal minimum wage cannot be included as planned as part of President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, according to a chorus from the left.

The Biden administration and its allies continue to fight against worsening odds to keep alive Neera Tanden's nearly moribund nomination to head up the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

A senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has gone national with his support for statehood for the District of Columbia.

Gov. Greg Abbott, and other Republican state leaders of Texas, are more interested in pointing political fingers rather than deal with the key issues in the midst of the ongoing deep freeze and power outage in the Lone Star State.

Rush Limbaugh, the nationally syndicated right-wing radio broadcaster who died Wednesday of advanced lung cancer, was eulogized also for paving the way for the political environment which allowed for Donald Trump's ascension to the White House, according to a variety of political commentators.

Democratic lawmakers in both House and Senate are looking to overcome opposition within their own ranks to push the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Larry Hogan, Maryland's Republican governor and a potential presidential hopeful in 2024, sees a looming battle ahead for the Republican Party.

In a colloquy with author and historian Jon Meacham to put Donald Trump's incitement of the deadly January 6 insurrection into some context, former Republican congressman and Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough compared the former president to Adolf Hitler.

Senate Republicans will help fracture the Republican Party if they acquit Donald Trump of inciting the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, according to a former Trump staffer-turned-critic.

Although all attention in Washington and elsewhere is currently engrossed with his impeachment trial which began this week in the Senate, Donald Trump has bigger legal problems coming his way, according to a prominent former federal prosecutor.