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Grace Segers is a former staff writer for The New Republic. She has also been a reporter for CBS News and City & State New York.

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August 4, 2021

This Is How Infrastructure Week Might Finally End (in the Senate, at Least)

The incredibly true story of how a BIF could become a BIB—which would be a BFD, indeed.

August 3, 2021

The Movements for Eviction Relief and Voting Rights Converge on the Capitol Grounds

Activists and lawmakers rally against congressional inertia.

August 2, 2021

The Congressman Behind the House Infrastructure Bill Is Miffed About the Bipartisan Deal

Peter DeFazio, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is frustrated by the way the Senate has warped his original bill.

July 29, 2021

Masks Are Mandatory Again on Capitol Hill. It’s Not Going Well.

The reimplementation of Covid restrictions in the House chamber has outraged many Republicans—and they’re not shy about letting you know.

July 29, 2021

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Refuses to Die

A group of Democratic and Republican senators struck a $1 trillion deal that passed in a key procedural vote on Wednesday. Is this thing really going to happen?

July 27, 2021

Police Officers Give Congress a Front-Row Seat to the Trauma of Our Politics

On the opening day of testimony, the Capitol’s defenders tried to rescue the January 6 commission from the all-consuming partisan rancor that spawned it.