Virtually everyone on Capitol Hill agrees that the Secret Service needs to do a better job. But Democrats and Republicans are at odds over whether to increase the agency’s budget.
Former President Donald J. Trump walking with his Secret Service detail in Harrisburg, Pa., this month. The agency told Congress on Wednesday that it was already providing the highest level of protection for him.
Democrats brought up the measure again to highlight Republican opposition to abortion rights and make the case to voters that the G.O.P. stance threatens access to reproductive health care.
The Democratic senator has long pressed to safeguard the fertility treatment she used to conceive her children, which has now been thrust into the political conversation.
Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, at the Capitol on Monday. “I didn’t mean to become an advocate,” she said in an interview. “I just wanted to not have anybody else go through what I did.”
With Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket and Senate seats open, Democrats could for the first time send two Black women to the chamber.
Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Senate candidate in Delaware, speaking at the Democratic National Convention last month. “To know that you’re going to be in a place and belong” was invaluable, she said on Friday.
He became ambassador after three terms as a senator from Tennessee. In 1999, he was made a virtual prisoner in the embassy in Beijing during a siege by protesters.
After a spate of positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency is investigating why China and other countries are citing contaminated food as an explanation.
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