“We never thought we’d be recognized. Just never thought — we were just doing the job for the country and earning money on the side.”

6M women flooded the WW2 workforce, filling a crucial labor gap. Today, the “Rosies” received a Congressional Gold Medal: nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

6M women went to work for the nation during WWII. Decades later, some of them, now white-haired and in their 90s, received the Congressional Gold Medal.

“It was a man’s world. They didn’t know how capable us women were, did they?” ⁦Kayla Guo⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

Eclipse watching at the Capitol

My younger self wouldn’t believe the news I have to share with you today.

I’m thrilled and so grateful to join the next The New York Times fellowship class as the Rosenbaum Fellow in Washington. I’ll cover Congress.

Thank you to everyone who helped me get here!

nytco.com/careers/newsro…

“In other words: None of this happened during President Biden’s administration.”

“But that didn’t stop the first-term senator from … using rhetoric that seemed calibrated to inflame public fears about immigration.”

via @NYTimes ⁦Ken Bensinger⁩ nytimes.com/2024/03/09/us/…

Schumer spox:

“Sen. Schumer misinterpreted the question from a reporter. He supports the House passed bipartisan tax bill and will continue to work to get the necessary support to get it to the floor.”

Updated story on Sinema's decision, which caps a tumultuous tenure in the Senate. W/ Kayla Guo nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/…

Kevin Cramer we have good news

Jeffries says he believes “a reasonable number” of Dems would protect Johnson from a MTV if he allowed a vote on Ukraine aid and faced a GOP mutiny. Says Johnson is more of a blank slate than McCarthy and has so far kept his promises. nytimes.com/2024/02/28/wor…

Kevin Cramer on who he’ll support as leader:

“I would not give away that decision in an impulse, because I want to get all the free dinners out of people named John I can get,” he says, mostly joking but not really

McConnell with a mic drop as he ends his speech: 'I still have enough gas in my tank to thoroughly disappoint my critics and I intend to do so with all the enthusiasm with which they've become accustomed'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell will step down as the Senate's Republican leader in November, ending a record run in the powerful post.

Ceasefire and immigration protesters staging a die-in in the Cannon rotunda, as Congress considers national security leg with aid to Ukraine and Israel and some lawmakers call for a border crackdown

Most being shepherded out by USCP, who are arresting the die-in protesters

BREAKING: Tom Suozzi, a former Democratic congressman, won a closely watched special House election in New York, narrowing the Republican majority in Washington and offering his party a potential playbook to run in key suburban swing areas in November.

nytimes.com/2024/02/13/nyr…

The racist discourse by Rs has become so commonplace it slips by w/o any real condemnation from the G.O.P.

Ds call for apologies but no longer expect any response, + those futile denunciations disappear into a morass of polarized content on social media

nytimes.com/2024/02/13/us/…

Longest vote in Senate history:

On March 5, 2021, the Senate held open a vote on a minimum wage amendment for a record 11 hours and 50 minutes.

Murphy with some nice words for his negotiating partner after Lankford excoriated his party on the Senate floor for demanding a border package for months, then rejecting it for the sake of Trump:

Sharp Kayla Guo profile of Sen. James Lankford, the Oklahoma Republican who extracted long-sought GOP concessions on immigration enforcement from the Dem majority -- only to watch his own party blow up his deal in deference to Trump. nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/…

Lankford yesterday was asked if he’d ever helm border/immigration talks for the GOP again:

“I need a nap before I do that. I think that's the equivalent of asking the woman right after delivery ‘let's have another one.’ I'm not interested in that conversation right now'

Border deal post mortem via Sen. James Lankford: Even as his colleagues were calling the compromise dead, he refused to give up. “The Scripture references say you work as long as there’s daylight, so I’m going to keep working until we know it’s got no chance.”nytimes.com/2024/02/07/us/…