Sean Lengell

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Demonstrators holding a Russian flag stand on the balcony of a regional administrative building after storming it, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

National Security

House proposes financial aid package for Ukraine

Sean Lengell · March 5, 2014 12:00 am

Senate rejects Obama Justice Department nominee

Sean Lengell · March 5, 2014 12:00 am

U.S. Senator John McCain gestures while speaking to Pro-European Union activists gathered during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

John McCain: Vladimir Putin still fighting the Cold War

Sean Lengell · March 4, 2014 12:00 am

Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton press for military aid for Ukraine

Sean Lengell · March 4, 2014 12:00 am

Hill Republicans say Obama partly to blame for Russian action in Ukraine

Sean Lengell · March 3, 2014 12:00 am

President Obama speaks to the media about California's drought situation in Los Banos, Calif. on Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Wally Skalij, Pool)

California farmers run dry as Congress debates drought-relief aid

Sean Lengell · February 28, 2014 5:00 am

A Southwest Airlines aircraft lines up for a landing at Love Field in Dallas on Feb. 3. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Eleanor Holmes Norton to TSA: D.C. residents are U.S. citizens

Sean Lengell · February 28, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called on Congress to set up a special committee to investigate the Obama administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Lindsey Graham wants special panel to investigate Benghazi attack

Sean Lengell · February 28, 2014 5:00 am

"I'm too busy" to retire, Nancy Pelosi said during her weekly Thursday briefing with reporters. (AP Photo)

Nancy Pelosi ‘too busy’ to retire

Sean Lengell · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is no fan of the new reality show "Friday Night Tykes" and has called on the TV show's network to yank the program from its lineup on the grounds that it's exploitive and "glorifies a culture of violent competitiveness."(Thinkstock Image)

Dick Durbin wants lights out for ‘Friday Night Tykes’

Sean Lengell · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Protestors demonstrate outside a McDonald's restaurant in Oakland, Calif., on Dec. 5 as part of push by labor unions, worker advocacy groups and Democrats to raise the federal minimum wage. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

House Democrats push increase in minimum wage despite GOP opposition

Sean Lengell · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said that while he hasn't seen the plan's specifics, "you have to have bipartisan cooperation, you have to have a president engaged and working cooperatively with Congress" before any tax reform bill will become law. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

Steny Hoyer: GOP tax reform effort doomed without Democratic support

Sean Lengell · February 25, 2014 5:00 am